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 ICT Results
Cars Get Cooperative
European researchers have developed a groundbreaking middleware platform that could lead to thousands of new applications in a range of industries. Beginning with...
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Human-Like Vision Lets Robots Navigate Naturally
A robotic vision system that mimics key visual functions of the human brain promises to let robots maneuver quickly and safely through cluttered environments, and...
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Radar Will Improve Agents' Tunnel Vision
Of every tunnel ever discovered by U.S. border patrol agents, "all of them have been found by accident or human intelligence," said Ed Turner, a project manager...
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The Bottom Line on Solid State Drives
The majority of an organization's stored data sits untouched. Andrew Leung, a computer science researcher at the University of California, was part of a team that...
From Communications of the ACM
Liskov's Creative Joy
Barbara Liskov muses about the creative process of problem solving, finding the perfect design point, and pursuing a research path.
From Communications of the ACM
Contemporary Approaches to Fault Tolerance
Thanks to computer scientists like Barbara Liskov, researchers are making major progress with cost-efficient fault tolerance for Web-based systems.
From ACM TechNews
Cifellows Status Report
The Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Project has received 526 applications for CIFellowships from 145 distinct colleges and universities. The applications...
From ICT Results
Nanotubes Weigh the Atom
How can you weigh a single atom? European researchers have built an exquisite new device that can do just that. It may ultimately allow scientists to study theCARDEQ...
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nderwater Robots Identify Potential Threats in Murky Waters
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University has received $2 million from the U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research, to continue...
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Reading the Brain Without Poking It
Experimental devices that read brain signals have helped paralyzed people use computers and may let amputees control bionic limbs. But existing devices use tiny...
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Toyota Develops Technology For Brain Waves to Steer Wheelchair
Toyota Motor Corp. says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command...
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Intel's Mukherjee Wins ACM Computer Architecture Award
The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) presented its 2009 Maurice Wilkes Award to Shubu Mukherjee of Intel Corp. for his contributions...
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Nanotechnology Conference Is Full of Big Ideas
From solar panels to electric circuitry, the next big thing may be really tiny. Global leaders in nanotechnology — the science of the very, very small — spent two...
From ICT Results
One-Stop Shop For Grid Computing
From searching for cures for disease to monitoring the Earth's atmosphere, grid computing has become essential to data-intensive research. But accessing limited...
From ACM TechNews
New 'emotional' Robot nveiled in Japan
Scientists at Tokyo's Waseda University recently demonstrated KOBIAN, a robot that is able to express emotion with its entire face and body. KOBIAN can use its...
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sing Video Game Processors For Defense Needs
Researchers in the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering are developing programming tools to...
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Interactive Robot Guided By Sensors, Not Remote Controls
Brown University professor Chad Jenkins and his team have developed a robot capable of holding a conversation, gesturing, and following a human's movement without...
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Managing the Data Deluge
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas recently unveiled the Corral, a central repository for data collections designed to handle...
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Water-Cooled Supercomputer Doubles as Dorm Space Heater
IBM and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology are building the Aquasar, a new supercomputer that will use water to keep the system cool and will recycle some...
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