Intel and Numonyx recently announced a breakthrough in computer memory research that they say could eventually result in a less expensive and better-performing...Information Week From ACM TechNews | November 2, 2009
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA), a robot that would act as a helpful...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | October 30, 2009
China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) has unveiled the Tianhe supercomputer, the fastest supercomputer in China. Tianhe runs at 563.1 teraflops...Xinhua (China) From ACM TechNews | October 30, 2009
University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers have developed a way to control an electron's spin orientation using only electrical means. Previous methods to develop...niversity of Cincinnati From ACM TechNews | October 29, 2009
Roadrunner, housed at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), recently completed its initial shakedown phase while performing accelerated petascale computer modeling...Los Alamos National Laboratory News From ACM TechNews | October 28, 2009
There’ve been satellites orbiting Earth for half a century. But getting information to and from them is still a pain. Which is why Pentagon research arm Darpa is...Wired.com From ACM News | October 28, 2009
Scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a new, environmentally friendly silicon-air battery capable of supplying non-stop power...American Technion Society From ACM News | October 28, 2009
Embedded computer systems must be fast and efficient. A European consortium has created a new modelling framework that lets designers strike the best balance between... From ICT Results | October 28, 2009
European researchers developed technology that enables a robot to combine data from both sound and vision to create combined, purposeful perception. In the process... From ICT Results | October 26, 2009
In the not-too-distant future, it might be possible to slip on a pair of augmented-reality (AR) goggles instead of fumbling with a manual while trying to repair...Technology Review From ACM News | October 26, 2009
The computer industry had an opportunity to learn about the technical details of Google's infrastructure during LADIS 2009, ACM's recent SIGOPS International Workshop...Data Center Knowledge From ACM TechNews | October 26, 2009
Internet security experts say that worms, spam, viruses and hackers could be well on their way into your smartphone, whose rising popularity makes them sweeter...CNN From ACM News | October 26, 2009
In 1995, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about 100 megahertz. Seven years later, in 2002, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about three gigahertz...MIT News Office From ACM News | October 23, 2009
A new study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) suggests that leading cloud-computing...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 23, 2009
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a new material that would enable a fingernail-sized computer chip to store a terabyte of data. The breakthrough...NCS News From ACM TechNews | October 22, 2009
Bojan Nemec from the Jozef Stefan Institute in Slovenia recently presented his skiing robot at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems...Singularity Hub From ACM News | October 22, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Sangbae Kim is trying to replicate the mechanisms used by animals in robotics. Kim says the animal kingdom provides...Wired News From ACM TechNews | October 21, 2009
Boston University physicists Lev Levitin and Tommaso Toffoli have demonstrated that if processors continue to improve in accordance with Moore's Law, an unbreakable...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | October 21, 2009
The Expeditions in Computing program provides scientists with the funding to work on ambitious, often multidisciplinary research.Gregory Goth From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2009
There's a pieced-together monster shaking up the campus of Stanford University this fall. Named after the legendary, lumbering creature that Halloween nightmares...LinuxInsider From ACM News | October 21, 2009