Most Americans who worry about cyberwarfare are concerned that it will be directed against the United States. But the truth is that cyber conflict is far more...Scientific American From ACM News | November 21, 2011
This year's Graph500 competition, which measures supercomputers that handle big data scaling problems, featured 50 systems, up from nine last year. The U.S. National...Sandia National Laboratories From ACM TechNews | November 21, 2011
In 2009, to better record crime scenes, the New York City Police Department began using the Panoscan, a camera that creates high-resolution, 360-degree panoramic...The New York Times From ACM News | November 21, 2011
Intel has developed an accelerator chip capable of running at speeds of one teraflops, equal to one trillion calculations per second.BBC News From ACM News | November 18, 2011
A major focus at the SC11 supercomputing conference was plans to develop an exascale computing system, which would be about 1,000 times more powerful than any...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | November 18, 2011
Japan's K Computer retained its title as the world's most powerful supercomputer, ranking first in the most recent edition of the TOP500 List with a speed of 10...HPC Wire From ACM TechNews | November 16, 2011
Supercomputers, once built from handcrafted circuitry, were transformed when companies started assembling them from inexpensive PC-style microprocessors. Researchers...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | November 15, 2011
If you are unfortunate enough to land in court after a serious automobile accident, the star witness against you may not be an eyewitness or even a human being....MSNBC From ACM News | November 15, 2011
Ten years ago, a ranking of the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers included precisely three entries from China. The most powerful of these—a system used to...Wired From ACM News | November 15, 2011
China will rely less on chips made by foreign companies for its supercomputers over the next five years, says the National Supercomputer Center's Pan Jingshan.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 15, 2011
When a set of online teasers for a new camera called the Lytro appeared earlier this year, you could have been forgiven for seeing the invention as just another...The Atlantic From ACM News | November 11, 2011
Cybersecurity, as interpreted by the Pentagon’s premiere researcher, isn’t just about protecting data networks. It’s about making the military’s killer drones...Wired From ACM News | November 10, 2011
Russian space engineers scrambled Wednesday to salvage an ambitious science mission to Mars after the unmanned spacecraft became stranded in Earth orbit. If they...The New York Times From ACM News | November 10, 2011
Starting with the handheld controllers introduced by the Nintendo Wii console in 2006, gamers have been able to control computers by making gestures in the air...Technology Review From ACM News | November 10, 2011
Iranian Energy Minister Majid Namjou has said that the enemies are making every effort to create disruption in software and hardware systems of Iranian governmental...Mehr News Agency From ACM News | November 9, 2011
A number of Supreme Court justices invoked the specter of Big Brother while hearing arguments Tuesday over whether the police may secretly attach GPS devices...Wired From ACM News | November 8, 2011
Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and MIT have launched the Materials Project, which aims to accelerate the process for finding new materials...Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory From ACM TechNews | November 8, 2011
NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. has captured new radar images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth.NASA From ACM News | November 8, 2011
In a case that questions the Constitution's meaning in light of modern surveillance technology, the Supreme Court will consider Tuesday whether police need a...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | November 8, 2011