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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.
The Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition, which is composed of IBM and several utility companies, has passed control of their Smart Grid Maturity Model...Information Week From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2009
European researchers have created new software components called Autonomic Communication Elements (ACEs) which can be combined to create services for any type of...ICT Results From ICT Results | April 13, 2009
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center receives about 3,000 astronomical files every night from automated sky scanning systems from around...Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory From ACM TechNews | April 10, 2009
Yahoo! has expanded its partnerships with top U.S. universities to advance cloud computing research. The University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University...Yahoo! Finance From ACM TechNews | April 10, 2009
Electronic components continue to be made smaller and smaller, which reduces the amount of power that they require but increases signal-to-noise ratios. If electronic...Fraunhofer Institute From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2009
The Computing Research Association recently reported that enrollment in engineering and computer science programs increased by 8 percent over the 2007-2008 school...Elon University From ACM TechNews | April 9, 2009
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Rice University $16 million to develop a new set of tools that can improve the performance of...Rice University From ACM News | April 9, 2009
At the Fault Tolerance for Extreme Scalability Workshop, co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure's Blue Waters and TeraGrid...HPC Wire From ACM TechNews | April 9, 2009
Florida A&M University's Computer Information Sciences (CIS) Program has been awarded a $552,000 National Science Foundation grant to recruit minority women to...BlackEngineer.com From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2009
Touchscreen keyboards could stand some improvement before they become the norm in smartphones and make their way to desktop computers, gaming devices, and even...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2009
Researchers at the National University of Singapore have made computer memory devices using graphene, a flat sheet of hexagonally arranged carbon atoms capable...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2009
ACM's Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) 2009 will feature GameJam!, a new international video game competition and will give...SYS-CON From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2009
The new Fujitsu FX1 supercomputer in Japan has a peak performance of 110.6 teraflops, making it the most powerful machine in Japan and the most efficient supercomputer...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2009
The 2009 High-Performance Computing Adoption Conference will be held May 11-13 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Hotel. The three-day event will define...HPC Wire From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2009
Sherry Randhawa of Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, recently demonstrated some of the school's progress in robotics and computing. A major attraction...The Times of India From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2009
A sudden wave of hiring in East Asia, especially in Hong Kong, could lead to a brain drain of computer science talent away from America. Talented IT professionals...The Chronicle of Higher Education From ACM CareerNews | April 3, 2009
Applications for H-1B visas are down about a third from a year ago, according to the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. The agency began accepting...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | April 10, 2009
Technologist and entrepreneur Brewster Kahle (pictured) wants to produce a free, online corpus of human knowledge called the Internet Archive that is bigger than...Economist Technology Quarterly From ACM TechNews | April 6, 2009
President Barack Obama has already reversed several actions and policies established by President George W. Bush, but has shown little interest in revising a rule...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | April 6, 2009
The free and open source software community is hotly anticipating a large number of new releases this year, including an upgrade to Mozilla's Firefox browser that...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | April 7, 2009