Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
From ACM Opinion
A Turbulent End to the Pc Era
The personal computer recently celebrated its 30th birthday. Then last week, Silicon Valley staged the PC's funeral.
From ACM TechNews
'endless Forms' Uses the Web to Breed 3-D Printable Objects
Cornell University researchers are using their new, interactive EndlessForms.com Web site to allow anyone online to guide the evolution of printable, three-dimensional...
From ACM News
Air Force Eyes Micromachine Bugs That Can Spy
At the Wright–Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, some Ph.D. candidates are working on micro air vehicles, or tiny flying machines that are remotely piloted...
From ACM News
Red-Light Cameras Throughout Nyc Are Bringing in $52 Million from Speedy City Drivers
Lights, cameras, cash. New York's driver nanny cams are working, generating more than $52 million in fines last year from unsuspecting motorists who blew through...
From ACM News
Big Silicon Valley Demand For Analog Engineers' 'black Art'
You want a good look at Silicon Valley's bipolar job market? Step into the 11th-floor office of Young Sohn. The CEO of Santa Clara-based Inphi is tearing his...
From ACM News
Robot 'mission Impossible' Wins Video Prize
You could call it Mission Impossible: Robot Library Heist. An army of flying, rolling, and climbing robots have been taught to work together to find and snatch...
From ACM News
New Police Scanner Raises 'facial Profiling' Concerns
Beginning this fall, police officers across the nation will have a new weapon holstered onto their belts: A small attachment that weighs about 12 ounces turns...
From ACM News
The Death of Booting p
Remember "booting up"? It was the first thing you did every morning—you waited two minutes, three minutes, sometimes even longer while your computer ran through...
From ACM News
How Ibm's 5150 Pc Shaped the Computer Industry
Most people in the Western world walk around with a powerful computer in their pocket or purse, otherwise known as a smartphone. It's not unusual to see someone...
From ACM News
Stick-On Tattoos Go Electric
Through a combination of careful theoretical modeling and precise micro-manufacturing, a team of engineers and scientists has developed a new type of ultra-thin...
From ACM TechNews
SDSC Readying 'Gordon' Supercomputer for Pre-Production Trials This Month
The San Diego Supercomputer Center this month will launch the pre-production phase of Gordon, the first supercomputer equipped with large amounts of flash-based...
From ACM News
Intel Hopes Sci-Fi Will Help Future Products
For decades, measuring progress in semiconductors was easy. Every year the chips got faster and the industry moved forward. Speed matters far less these days.
From ACM News
Future of War: Private Robot Armies Fight It Out
If robots are simply computers with wings (and missiles), then expect to see future wars fought by the descendants of flash-trading algorithms, with humans as...
From ACM News
Mobile Computing Giants in Patent Free-For-All
The mobile computing boom has turned into a courthouse war of the titans, as big tech companies are increasingly engaged in high-dollar legal disputes over lucrative...
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NASA Mars Rover Arrives at New Site on Martian Surface
After a journey of almost three years, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet’s Endeavour crater to study rocks never seen before...
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Defcon Opens Its Doors to Pre-Teen and Teen Hackers
DefCon, the conference where hackers and the people who monitor them get together to trade the latest in hacking and tracking data, had some new attendees: children...
From ACM News
Blue Waters pdate
Effective August 6, 2011, IBM terminated its contract with the University of Illinois to provide the supercomputer for the National Center for Supercomputing...
From ACM TechNews
Caltech-Led Engineers Solve Longstanding Problem in Photonic Chip Technology
California Institute of Technology researchers have created a method to isolate light signals on a silicon chip, which they say could lead to the development of...
From ACM News