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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
ACM's SIGGRAPH 2009 conference will showcase a quintet of innovative interface models. University of Tokyo researchers have created a touchable holographic interface...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 5, 2009
Physicists from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham have demonstrated that electrons in narrow wires can split into two new particles called spinons and...niversity of Cambridge From ACM TechNews | August 5, 2009
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology Research Institute (GTRI) are developing a programming tool that will enable defense industry engineers to use...Georgia Tech Research Institute From ACM TechNews | August 5, 2009
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have discovered a way to make biomolecular computers fashioned from DNA and other biological molecules more user...Weizmann Institute of Science From ACM TechNews | August 5, 2009
Robots are whirring away in factories all over the world, building cars, phones and cookers. Yet they can do so much more. Robotics for healthcare has been tipped... From ICT Results | August 5, 2009
Reaching the most remote rural customers with high-speed Internet access can be prohibitively expensive. Consider the case of Hill Country Telephone Cooperative...BusinessWeek From ACM News | August 4, 2009
Quantum computing will give people and institutions an enormous amount of computing power, but it will also make their data vulnerable to attack. For Julia Kempe...American Friends of Tel Aviv niversity From ACM TechNews | August 3, 2009
Researchers at the Munich-based Cognition for Technical Systems excellence cluster have developed a flight simulator for flies to determine the insect's neural...T Munchen From ACM TechNews | August 3, 2009
Mk Haley, a juror for the Emerging Technologies area of SIGGRAPH 2009, says an ear-tugging navigator is the type of exhibit that will get people thinking and talking...The Associated Press From ACM TechNews | August 3, 2009
The fifth edition of Virginia Tech's Green500 List shows that supercomputers continue to use less power even as their capacity soars. Computers raking in top spots...Virginia Tech From ACM News | August 3, 2009
ACM SIGGRAPH will present its 2009 Steven Anson Coons Outstanding Service Award on Monday (August 3, 2009) to Rob Cook for his pioneering technical contributions...ACM From ACM News | August 3, 2009
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory are using a method called software-based parallel volume rendering to accelerate...Argonne National Laboratory From ACM TechNews | July 31, 2009
Recent research into the properties of graphene nanoribbons provides two new reasons for using the material as interconnects in future computer chips. In widths...Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM News | July 30, 2009
A well-established physical law formulated by Max Planck describes the transfer of heat between two objects, but some physicists have long predicted that the law...MIT News From ACM News | July 30, 2009
Several petascale computers are up and running, and others are sure to follow. All of them face many unique challenges in trying to harness a petaflop.Graeme Stemp-Morlock From ACM News | July 29, 2009
A new computer game prototype combines work and play to help solve a fundamental problem underlying many computer hardware design tasks. The online logic puzzle...niversity of Michigan From ACM News | July 29, 2009
Solid-state lighting won't supplant the lightbulb until it can overcome the mysterious malady known as "droop."IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | July 29, 2009
Powerful new radio technologies that promise blisteringly fast WiFi have been given a boost by a team of European researchers’ cutting-edge work on miniscule microchips... From ICT Results | July 29, 2009
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has partnered with Jardine OneSolution, IBM, and Red Hat to install a green supercomputer at its new High Performance Computing...Nanyang Technological niversity From ACM TechNews | July 28, 2009
A new satellite, planned for launch in 2012, will contain a flight computer built with field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that can be completely reconfigured...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 28, 2009