Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and Microsoft Research have developed Somniloquy, a plug-and-play hardware prototype for personal...CSD News From ACM TechNews | April 29, 2009
General Electric (GE) holographic researchers have announced a digital storage breakthrough that will enable standard-sized disks to hold the equivalent of 100...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | April 27, 2009
Google has released O3D, software designed to bring accelerated three-dimensional (3D) graphics to Web browsers. The program is a browser plug-in for Internet...CNet News From ACM TechNews | April 27, 2009
Providing educators with the tools to create interactive TV courses will expand their ability to reach audiences in their homes and help them learn new skills,Enhanced...ICT Results From ICT Results | April 29, 2009
Though the XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is aimed directly at children in developing nations, research by African universities and Computer...The Industry Standard From ACM News | April 27, 2009
Digital sound archives offer enormously rich resources but accessing them is currently difficult. Sound material is often held separately from other materials and...ICT Results From ICT Results | April 22, 2009
Washington University in St. Louis computer engineers have developed an ultrasound device that can be plugged directly into a smartphone's USB port. The device...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 24, 2009
University of Western Australia (UWA) Ph.D. candidate Chris Harris is investigating the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) in radio astronomy data processing...ScienceAlert (Australia) From ACM TechNews | April 24, 2009
A group of pioneers in the security field, whose work in encryption is used to protect Internet data and communications every day, spoke recently about the state...ZDNet Asia From ACM News | April 23, 2009
Technology that changes how people give commands to computers could make touch-based PCs more popular and transform the traditional desktop into a "room computer"...IDG News Service From ACM News | April 23, 2009
Northeastern University researchers say that smartphones will soon be targeted by viruses on a massive scale, but a study by the researchers could provide a way...Northeastern niversity News From ACM TechNews | April 22, 2009
Cloud computing has the potential to create irreversible changes in how computers are used around the world, says David Carrera, director of the Cloud Computing...Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya From ACM TechNews | April 20, 2009
In early April, Adam Wilson posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter — just by thinking about it. Just 23 characters long, his message,...Newswise From ACM News | April 21, 2009
European researchers have developed a suite of tools to add non-verbal cues to email, phone calls, chats and other channels of electronic communication. Intriguing...ICT Results From ICT Results | April 17, 2009
Up to 90 percent of smartphone users say they want computer-like functions, and close to 40 percent of aggregate face time is based on mobile Internet, games, multimedia...Helsinki niversity of Technology From ACM TechNews | 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
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
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
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
The 2009 Computer-Human Interaction conference will feature a display that recalls interfaces from the past, shows the most modern interfaces available today, and...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 7, 2009