Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the U.S. federal government should invest in green technology and a national computer infrastructure to help create jobs and foster...Nextgov.com From ACM TechNews | November 24, 2008
Demand for Internet bandwidth will exceed the Internet's capacity by 2012, predicts a new Nemertes Research report. Nemertes originally projected that Internet...Network World From ACM TechNews | November 24, 2008
The Mobile Millennium trial, a real-time wireless traffic network for San Francisco, launched this month and will link together GSM-based cell phones equipped with...PCmag.com From ACM TechNews | November 21, 2008
IBM Research has been working on a project to give computers the same processing capabilities as the human brain. The goal is to integrate brain-related senses...PC World From ACM TechNews | November 21, 2008
New statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor show that the IT profession may be stronger than the rest of the job market. Although 240,000 jobs were lost nationwide...Network World From ACM TechNews | November 21, 2008
Do-it-yourself applications development is on the rise as business users increasingly turn to codeless programming tools to create applications. "We also haveView...Infoworld From ACM TechNews | November 21, 2008
IT security and cyberforensics are two areas with a critical need for more workers, writes Purdue University professor Eugene Spafford, chair of ACM's US Public...CSOonline.com From ACM TechNews | November 21, 2008
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) engineers have successfully tested the first deep space communications network based on the Internet, using the Disruption-Tolerant...Jet Propulsion Laboratory From ACM TechNews | November 21, 2008
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid School of Computing researchers have developed a prototype metropolitan quantum-key distribution network that will be ready for...niversidad Politecnica de Madrid From ACM TechNews | November 19, 2008
In 1991, Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student Ellen Spertus published the paper, "Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?" Nearly 20...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | November 19, 2008
The surpassing of petaflop speeds by a new breed of supercomputers could facilitate a profound scientific transformation by bringing simulation to the cutting edge...Wired From ACM TechNews | November 19, 2008
Stanford University professor Sebastian Thrun says the U.S. auto industry's best hope for long-term survival is to take a leadership role in developing self-driving...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | November 19, 2008
IT will have to assume a major workload increase to satisfy new government regulations expected to emerge next year in response to the current financial turmoil...InfoWorld From ACM TechNews | November 14, 2008
Salaries for information technology (IT) professionals have essentially stalled, reveals Computerworld's 22nd annual Salary Survey. The survey, based on responses...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | November 14, 2008
Computational complexity and intractability may help scientists better understand how humans process information and make decisions.David Lindley From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2008
Social network analysis explains why some sites succeed and others fail, how physical and online social networks differ and are alike, and attempts to predict how...Bill Howard From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2008
The U.S. patent system is overdue for reform, but what needs fixing, and how, is a matter of some dispute.Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2008
To date, services provided for mobile users are still hard to build. Two main challenges need to be considered. The first...Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Zakaria Maamar From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2008
The debate on the future of VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) is not new. For some time now this technological innovation has been considered one of main drivers...Claudio Feijóo, José Luis Gómez-Barroso, David Rojo-Alonso From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2008
The college preparatory computer science education curriculum must be improved, beginning with the earliest phases of the process.Joanna Goode From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2008