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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.
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
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology Research Institute (GTRI) are developing a programming tool that will enable defense industry engineers to use...Georgia Tech Research Institute From ACM TechNews | August 5, 2009
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have discovered a way to make biomolecular computers fashioned from DNA and other biological molecules more user...Weizmann Institute of Science From ACM TechNews | August 5, 2009
Melissa E. Hathaway, the Obama administration's senior aide on cybersecurity, is stepping down from her role due to delays in the choosing of an administrator to...The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | August 5, 2009
Robots are whirring away in factories all over the world, building cars, phones and cookers. Yet they can do so much more. Robotics for healthcare has been tipped... From ICT Results | August 5, 2009
ACM SIGGRAPH has awarded its 2009 Significant New Researcher Award to Wojciech Matusik for his original contributions to accurately capturing and representing real...ACM From ACM News | August 5, 2009
An international coalition of medical and technology companies called the Continua Health Alliance is encouraging the migration of healthcare to the Web, as remote...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 4, 2009
Reaching the most remote rural customers with high-speed Internet access can be prohibitively expensive. Consider the case of Hill Country Telephone Cooperative...BusinessWeek From ACM News | August 4, 2009
Creating a Second Life avatar, or virtual representation of oneself, that is thin and physically fit may encourage individuals to become healthier and more physically...RTI International From ACM News | August 4, 2009
Quantum computing will give people and institutions an enormous amount of computing power, but it will also make their data vulnerable to attack. For Julia Kempe...American Friends of Tel Aviv niversity From ACM TechNews | August 3, 2009
ACM SIGGRAPH has awarded its 2009 Computer Graphics Achievement Award to Michael Kass, who designed a software program that replicates the movement of clothing...ACM From ACM News | August 4, 2009
Researchers at the Munich-based Cognition for Technical Systems excellence cluster have developed a flight simulator for flies to determine the insect's neural...T Munchen From ACM TechNews | August 3, 2009