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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.
Research indicates that engineering does not have a higher dropout rate than other majors and women's persistence in the discipline is equal to men's, according...Purdue niversity News From ACM TechNews | August 10, 2009
Motorola's Consumer Xperience Design (CXD) teams have speculated possible evolutionary paths that communication devices may take during the next 25 years. They...Design World From ACM TechNews | August 10, 2009
Researchers are making major progress on technology that could help the severely disabled. Professor Javier Minguez at Spain's University of Zaragoza is developing...Los Angeles Times From ACM TechNews | August 7, 2009
Application programming interfaces (APIs), software specifications that allow Web sites and services to interact with each other, have been a major factor in the...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 7, 2009
The statistics field's popularity is growing among graduates as they realize that it involves more than number crunching and deals with pressing real-world challenges...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | August 7, 2009
In early August, U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski toured California to build support for the FCC's ongoing effort to create...Wired From ACM TechNews | August 7, 2009
Under the economic stimulus bill and other U.S. federal government proposals, hospitals and doctors' offices that invest in electronic records systems may receive...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | August 7, 2009
New semantics-based software tools that accelerate the speed companies can develop or adjust their processes—while slashing costs—have resulted from a major European... From ICT Results | August 7, 2009
China is investigating the death of a teenager who was allegedly beaten to death in a camp designed to treat Internet addiction, state media said. Deng Senshan,... From ACM News | September 18, 2009
Months of meticulous testing, refining and retesting has paid off for Cornell University's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team. With a flawless 11.5-minute run through...Cornell niversity From ACM News | August 6, 2009
Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated sustained...National Institute of Standards and Technology From ACM News | August 6, 2009
ICANN remains under international pressure to sever ties with the United States government when its current contract expires in September 2009. The pressure comes...GlobalPost From ACM TechNews | August 6, 2009
Two programmers have hacked the World of Warcraft online game environment with a set of programs that automate in-game characters, which game developer Blizzard...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 6, 2009
The Internet Society has honored the designers of an early computer network with its 2009 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award. The University of Wisconsin-Madison's...niversity of Wisconsin-Madison From ACM TechNews | August 6, 2009
Hugely popular online virtual worlds such as World of Warcraft and Second Life offer social scientists unprecedented views of gamers' behavior, and may be used...Graeme Stemp-Morlock From ACM News | August 6, 2009
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has officially launched the Triton Resource, an integrated, data-intensive...niversity of California, San Diego From ACM News | August 6, 2009
ACM's SIGGRAPH 2009 conference will showcase a quintet of innovative interface models. University of Tokyo researchers have created a touchable holographic interface...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 5, 2009
Intel has launched Progress Thru Processors, a new Facebook application that provides users with an interface to donate their unused computer processing time to...TechNewsWorld From ACM TechNews | August 5, 2009
Physicists from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham have demonstrated that electrons in narrow wires can split into two new particles called spinons and...niversity of Cambridge From ACM TechNews | August 5, 2009