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 News
Swarms of Helicopter Robots Could Create Huge 3-D Displays
The Flyfire project at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory is creating tiny LED-equipped helicopters that will move in concert to create dramatic, free-form displays...
From ACM TechNews
Fast, Strong Deltabot Moves Forward in the Robotics Market
A research team at the University of Waterloo has built DeltaBot, a robot that uses cables for arms instead of rigid components and has a cylinder in the middle...
From ACM TechNews
Researchers Give pdate on Road to Parallelism
University of Illinois researchers have taken several small steps toward developing new parallel programming models to tap the many-core processors of the future...
From ACM News
Intel Prototypes Low-Power Circuits
The smaller a silicon transistor becomes, the more electrons it leaks. That can mean unreliable, battery-draining chips. Researchers at Intel have come up with...
From ACM News
Mini Generators Make Energy from Random Ambient Vibrations
Tiny generators developed at the University of Michigan could produce enough electricity from random, ambient vibrations to power a wristwatch, pacemaker or wireless...
From ACM TechNews
New Touch Screen Technology in Works
Carleton University professor Robert Biddle is one of 12 scientists working on the Digital Surface Software Application Network project, which is developing next...
From ICT Results
See-Through Networks
Promising faster, more efficient and cheaper computer networking, transparent networks are the paradigm of the future. But thanks to European researchers, they...
From ACM TechNews
Electronics 'Missing Link' Brings Neural Computing Closer
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Assistant Professor Wei Lu is leading a research effort to make brain-like computers using memristors.
From ACM TechNews
An Express Lane From Camera to Computer
Intel is developing the Light Peak fiber-optic link, cable technology that will transmit 10 gigabits of data per second bidirectionally, and is expected to scale...
From ACM TechNews
Amarsi Project Could See Robots Learn From Co-Workers
The AMARSi project aims to build humanoid robots that can autonomously learn and develop motor skills in open-ended environments just as humans do.
From ACM TechNews
Supercapacitors Boost Efficiency
University of Waikato researchers have developed working prototypes of a supercapacitor that could enable mobile phones and laptop computers to run longer between...
From ACM News
Conquering the Chaos in Modern, Multiprocessor Computers
A group of computer scientists have found a way to tame multiprocessor computers, which behave in wildly unpredictable ways even as they become widespread in the...
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Institute Says It Can Mass-Produce Graphene
Scientists have leaped over a major hurdle in efforts to begin commercial production of graphene, a form of carbon that could rival silicon in its potential for...
From ACM TechNews
Could This Be The Robot Servant Who Will Serve You Breakfast In Bed?
Tokyo University researchers have created Kojiro, a humanoid robot that is learning to mimic how people walk.
From ACM TechNews
Silicon-on-Silk Electronics Developed For Potential Biomedical Applications
University of Illinois researcher John Rogers has collaborated with a team at Tufts University to develop silicon-on-silk electronics, which could one day function...
From ACM News
Quantum Dots Could Lead to Faster Computers
An international team of scientists has developed a new type of semiconductor that could lead to faster and more efficient computers.The new research centers on...
From ACM TechNews
Printable Sensors to Detect Fingers Without Touching
The European Union 3Plast research consortium plans to develop sensors that can be printed onto plastic film and attached to everyday objects. The sensors are...
From ACM TechNews
'micro-Rings' Could Nix Wires For Communications in Homes, Offices
Purdue University researchers have developed a device that uses micro-ring resonators to convert laser pulses into bursts of pulsating radio-frequency signals that...
From ACM News
China's Fastest Supercomputer to Have China-Made Chips
China's fastest super computer "Tianhe-1," is to be equipped this year with China-made central processing unit (CPU) chips, replacing the only part of the computer...
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