To track the spread of botnets, Sandia National Laboratories computer security specialists Rob Minnich and Don Rudish have converted a Dell Thunderbird supercomputer...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | July 29, 2009
Minneapolis College of Art & Design professor Roman Verostko and University of California, Davis professor Lynn Hershman Leeson are the winners of the first ACM...ACM From ACM TechNews | July 29, 2009
The University of Washington's (UW's) Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing, funded by the National Science Foundation, aims to diversity...The Seattle Times From ACM TechNews | July 29, 2009
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed Bokodes, a new barcode format that could replace the current barcodes used on retail products...BBC News From ACM TechNews | July 29, 2009
A panel of 25 artificial intelligence (AI) scientists, roboticists, and ethical and legal scholars have spent the past year discussing the risks of developing machines...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 29, 2009
Netflix's $1 million contest to design a better movie preference-matching algorithm ended on July 26th, with two teams in a near tie and the outcome of the contest...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | July 29, 2009
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.2 million grant to five research institutions to develop a computer program for detecting weak areas in cryptographic...Watertown Daily Times (NY) From ACM TechNews | July 29, 2009
Several petascale computers are up and running, and others are sure to follow. All of them face many unique challenges in trying to harness a petaflop.Graeme Stemp-Morlock From ACM News | July 29, 2009
A new computer game prototype combines work and play to help solve a fundamental problem underlying many computer hardware design tasks. The online logic puzzle...niversity of Michigan From ACM News | July 29, 2009
A $5 million National Science Foundation grant awarded to five Chicago area universities and the Chicago Public Schools will train high school teacher leaders on...niversity of Illinois at Chicago From ACM News | July 29, 2009
Solid-state lighting won't supplant the lightbulb until it can overcome the mysterious malady known as "droop."IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | July 29, 2009
Powerful new radio technologies that promise blisteringly fast WiFi have been given a boost by a team of European researchers’ cutting-edge work on miniscule microchips... From ICT Results | July 29, 2009
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has partnered with Jardine OneSolution, IBM, and Red Hat to install a green supercomputer at its new High Performance Computing...Nanyang Technological niversity From ACM TechNews | July 28, 2009
Montana State University (MSU) computer engineering students will soon be able to control laboratory equipment through their home computers. A two-year, $148,000...Montana State niversity From ACM TechNews | July 27, 2009
A new satellite, planned for launch in 2012, will contain a flight computer built with field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that can be completely reconfigured...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 28, 2009
Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab and Information Networking Institute (INI) are hosting several faculty members for the annual Information Assurance Capacity...Carnegie Mellon News From ACM TechNews | July 28, 2009
In the year since security researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered a vulnerability in the domain name system (DNS), which could allow hackers to redirect traffic from...Network World From ACM TechNews | July 28, 2009
Software development is a complex and sophisticated process that can take entire teams years to develop a program. Building, testing and releasing software consumes... From ICT Results | July 28, 2009
Researchers from Rice University and North Carolina State University say that Moore's Law could be prolonged by attaching molecules to the surface of silicon....Rice niversity From ACM TechNews | July 24, 2009
Several companies and researchers have offered predictions for when the supply of IPv4 addresses will be exhausted. Hurricane Electric, for example, recently introduced...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | July 27, 2009