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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Humans recognize faces by organizing facial features such as eyebrows, eyes, and lips into horizontal lines of information, say Dr. Steven Dakin of the University...UCL News From ACM TechNews | April 15, 2009
ACM's CHI 2009, the 27th Computer-Human Interaction Conference, spotlighted many new inventions and concepts, some of which were decidedly unusual. These included...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 15, 2009
Technology companies are embracing self-healing technology, a computing strategy that could have a major impact on the data center and the desktop. IBM uses self...Kirk L. Kroeker From ACM News | April 14, 2009
Cooling a supercomputer consumes more electricity than is required to run the machine, even machines as powerful as the IBM Blue Gene/P — called Intrepid — at the...Newswise From ACM News | April 15, 2009
When an older person is injured in a fall, the cost is significant, both in quality of life and medical expense. being developed by
Researchers at the University...Newswise From ACM News | April 15, 2009
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D. student Ian Li (pictured) has developed Grafitter, a Twitter-based program that lets...Carnegie Mellon News From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2009
Pedro Carpena, a physicist at the University of Malaga in Spain, has used a mathematical technique for studying disorder in quantum systems to extract keywords...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 14, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab researcher Hiroshi Ishii is developing tactile user interfaces that are designed to integrate computer use...MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 14, 2009
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has initiated the process for developing standards that governments could employ to tap Web 2.0 and social networking technologies...Government Computer News From ACM TechNews | April 14, 2009
Information and communications technology (ICT) is all about communication but it has never provided the semantic richness offered by the non-verbal cues that typically...ICT Results From ICT Results | April 15, 2009
University of Texas at DallasUniversity of Texas at Dallas researchers are working to improve the results of searches that request multiple pieces of information...The University of Texas at Dallas From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2009
Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal has signed a bill to contribute approximately $40 million to the National Center for Atmospheric Research's new supercomputer project...Wyoming Business Report From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2009
Nominations are now being accepted for the 10th Annual Marie R. Pistilli Women in Electronic Design Automation Achievement Award, which is named after the former...Business Wire From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2009
The computers of Tibetan exiles and the U.S. electrical grid were recently breached by hackers, highlighting the growing threat of cyber espionage. The White House...The Associated Press From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2009
The University of Sunderland's Computerized Analysis of Stocks and Shares for Novelty Detection of Radical Activities (CASSANDRA) project is developing a software...The niversity of Sunderland From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2009
A class of undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a set of robots that can water, harvest and pollinate cherry tomato plants. The...U.S. News and World Report From ACM News | April 14, 2009
A cybernetic bodysuit developed by Cyberdyne Corp. and Daiwa House of Japan augments body movement and increases user strength by up to tenfold. The HAL (Hybrid...H+ Magazine From ACM News | April 13, 2009
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientists have trained computers to automatically analyze aggression and courtship in fruit flies, allowing researchers...California Institute of Technology From ACM TechNews | April 10, 2009
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Materials Science Division researchers have made a major advancement in spintronics by controlling the spin states of highly...Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory From ACM TechNews | April 10, 2009
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) theorists have demonstrated that a type of software operation, believed to be a solution to the fundamental...National Institute of Standards and Technology From ACM TechNews | April 10, 2009