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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Apple's new Snow Leopard operating system features the Open Computing Language (OpenCL), new parallel programming technology that Apple hopes will become a standard...CNet From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2009
As federal agencies continue to brainstorm ways to effectively oversee cybersecurity, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is increasing its foothold...Information Week From ACM TechNews | September 1, 2009
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech professor Jean Peccoud has been awarded a three-year, $1.42 million grant from the National Science Foundation...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute From ACM TechNews | September 1, 2009
A $30 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation will enable the University of Chicago to expand and extend until 2011 the operation of TeraGrid, a...niversity of Chicago From ACM News | September 1, 2009
Engineering students at National Taiwan University recently demonstrated a robot that is capable of creating two- and three-dimensional maps of an area and then...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2009
IBM researchers have imaged the inner structure of a molecule, an achievement they say could lead to smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient processors and memory...InformationWeek From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2009
University of Cambridge professor Jon Crowcroft is leading a research effort to change how cell phones send information by creating peer-to-peer mobile device networks...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2009
The Masterworks program at ACM's SC09 conference, which takes place Nov. 14-20 in Portland, Ore., will address how high performance computing (HPC) is being used...Business Wire From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2009
Modern hospitals provide a glimpse into how people will interact with machines in the future, according to a new Gartner report on the future of human-computer...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2009
A new study on the use of radio-frequency identification tags on individual retail items shows that inventory accuracy decreases or diminishes over time with conventional...niversity of Arkansas, Fayetteville From ACM News | August 31, 2009
SmartSynch Inc., a smart grid infrastructure company using Internet protocol via public wireless networks, is partnering with the University of Mississippi to reduce...niversity of Mississippi From ACM News | August 31, 2009
The British Library's Jeremy Leighton John is working to find ways of archiving the massive amounts of data being generated and studied by scientists so future...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | August 28, 2009
Ohio State University's David Woods and Texas A&M's Robin Murphy have proposed three new laws of robotics that can be applied to robots available today. The new...EDN From ACM TechNews | August 28, 2009
Independent inventor Le Trung recently demonstrated the newest version of his robot-controlling software called Bio Robot Artificial Intelligence Neural System...PhysOrg.com From ACM TechNews | August 28, 2009
Indiana University (IU) Bloomington researchers have received a five-year, $3.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop and deploy new...Indiana niversity From ACM TechNews | August 28, 2009
The Anita Borg Institute (ABI) for Women and Technology has announced that Cisco, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems will be among the sponsors for the Grace Hopper...Business Wire From ACM TechNews | August 28, 2009
Yale computer scientists recently demonstrated HadoopDB, their new open source system for managing huge amounts of data, at the VLDB conference in Lyon, France....Yale niversity From ACM TechNews | August 28, 2009
Innovative software developed in Europe that makes it easier to organize, search and navigate collections of digital images will soon be available to media agencies... From ICT Results | August 27, 2009
Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory have received a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. National Science... niversity of Illinois at Chicago From ACM News | August 28, 2009
New and experienced orthopedic surgeons can improve their surgical skills with an innovative software surveillance system that tracks their instruments during surgery...Methodist Hospital, Houston From ACM News | August 28, 2009