There probably are just two times when you think about a traffic light.
When one just turned yellow. ("Can I make it?")
When one has been red for too long. ("Come...The Washington Post From ACM News | January 7, 2010
LAS VEGAS — To the dismay of safety advocates already worried about driver distraction, automakers and high-tech companies have found a new place to put sophisticated...The New York Times From ACM News | January 7, 2010
Today's stock market has become a world of automated transactions executed at lightning speed. This high-frequency trading could make the financial system more...Technology Review From ACM News | December 23, 2009
Nearly seven months after highlighting the vulnerability of banking, energy and communications systems to Internet attacks, the White House on Tuesday is expected...The New York Times From ACM News | December 22, 2009
Humanities researchers involved in the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Department of Energy's high-performance computing competition provided updates...Chronicle of Higher Education From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2009
Nanyang Technological University and Singapore's Economic Development Board (EDB) have launched the Integrated Circuit (IC) Design Center of Excellence. The center...Nanyang Technological niversity (Singapore) From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2009
A new digital system developed by the University of Illinois and the University of California, Berkeley enables people in different locations to interact in real...Futurity.org From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2009
Several studies have recently been conducted to determine how humans and robots interact and how to improve the human-robot relationship. For example, a Carnegie...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2009
Stanford University researchers have developed the first three-dimensional (3D) carbon nanotube circuits. Three-dimensional nanotube circuits could be a major...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2009
The National Science Foundation's meeting on Internet architectures focused on designs related to emerging social and economic realities. The four-day, invitation...Kirk L. Kroeker From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2010
Researchers and some government agencies are using Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles to process data using the game machine's powerful Cell processor. For example...The San Francisco Chronicle From ACM TechNews | December 18, 2009
European researchers engaged in the NODE project have devised a cutting-edge technology for "growing" nanowires in a vertical configuration, which could lead to...ICT Results From ACM TechNews | December 17, 2009
The roving, walking robotic soldiers of the "Terminator" films are becoming less sci-fi and more certain future every day. Now, a team of robotics researchers from...Virginia Tech From ACM News | December 18, 2009
Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | December 17, 2009
Google has developed new search technology that recognizes images significantly faster than the computers currently used in its data centers. The image search...PhysOrg.com From ACM TechNews | December 17, 2009
Various technologies are under development in labs worldwide to dramatically enhance computer memory capacity beyond that of flash memory. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 16, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab researchers have devised a way to turn liquid crystal displays (LCDs) into lens-less cameras through the use of...MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 16, 2009
In a speech given just a few weeks before he was lost at sea off the California coast in January 2007, Jim Gray, a database software pioneer and a Microsoft researcher...The New York Times From ACM News | December 15, 2009
The Welsh Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) has announced HPC Wales, a new high-performance computing (HPC) institute that will provide the industrial...Computing From ACM TechNews | December 15, 2009