The fifth edition of the European Computer Science Summit (ECSS) will take place in Paris on October 8-9, 2009, with a special workshop for new (and not so new)...ACM From ACM TechNews | September 2, 2009
An international team of researchers has designed a new graphite-based, magnetic nano-material that acts as a semiconductor and could help material scientists create...Virginia Commonwealth University From ACM News | September 2, 2009
Gaze into the electron microscope display in Frances Ross’s laboratory here and it is possible to persuade yourself that Dr. Ross, a 21st-century materials scientist...The New York Times From ACM News | September 1, 2009
IBM researchers have imaged the inner structure of a molecule, an achievement they say could lead to smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient processors and memory...InformationWeek From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2009
Scientists at the Universidade Nova De Lisboa, in Portugal, and the Universitas Indonesia, in Indonesia, are researching artificial intelligence and the application...AlphaGalileo From ACM TechNews | August 26, 2009
The sandwich recipe recently concocted by scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may prove tasty for computer chip designers...National Institute of Standards and Technology From ACM News | August 27, 2009
Researchers are addressing the computing challenges of older individuals, whose needs are different — and too often disregarded.Samuel Greengard From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2009
The promise of parallel computing has run afoul of the harsh reality of Amdahl's Law, which puts a ceiling on the benefit of converting sequential code to parallel...Gregory Goth From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2009
The explosive growth of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia is petering out, while a less welcoming attitude toward new contributors could negatively affect the archive's...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 10, 2009
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physicists have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically charged...National Institute of Standards and Technology From ACM TechNews | August 10, 2009
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
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 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
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
Recent research into the properties of graphene nanoribbons provides two new reasons for using the material as interconnects in future computer chips. In widths...Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM News | July 30, 2009
A well-established physical law formulated by Max Planck describes the transfer of heat between two objects, but some physicists have long predicted that the law...MIT News From ACM News | July 30, 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
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
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have spurred a group of computer scientists to consider whether research that might lead to a loss of human control over...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | July 27, 2009
Engineers in the United Kingdom and China are working to find alternative ways of creating the microelectronic components of the future. Surrey University physicists...The Engineer Online From ACM TechNews | July 23, 2009