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From ACM NewsDavid Geer Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 23, 2022
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Natural user interface developments, such as Microsoft's Kinect, may indicate the beginning of the end for the mouse.
Gregory Goth From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2011
The field of molecular computing is achieving new levels of control over biochemical processes and fostering sophisticated connections between computer science...Kirk L. Kroeker From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2011
This year's Graph500 competition, which measures supercomputers that handle big data scaling problems, featured 50 systems, up from nine last year. The U.S. National...Sandia National Laboratories From ACM TechNews | November 21, 2011
Google and Microsoft don't share a stage often, being increasingly fierce competitors in areas such as Web search, mobile, and cloud computing. But the rivals...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 18, 2011
Intel has developed an accelerator chip capable of running at speeds of one teraflops, equal to one trillion calculations per second.BBC News From ACM News | November 18, 2011
A major focus at the SC11 supercomputing conference was plans to develop an exascale computing system, which would be about 1,000 times more powerful than any...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | November 18, 2011
Linux as an application development platform has fallen to third place in popularity behind Mac OS and Windows, according to an Evans Data Corp. survey. Computerworld From ACM TechNews | November 16, 2011
Japan's K Computer retained its title as the world's most powerful supercomputer, ranking first in the most recent edition of the TOP500 List with a speed of 10...HPC Wire From ACM TechNews | November 16, 2011
Supercomputers, once built from handcrafted circuitry, were transformed when companies started assembling them from inexpensive PC-style microprocessors. Researchers...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | November 15, 2011
Ten years ago, a ranking of the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers included precisely three entries from China. The most powerful of these—a system used to...Wired From ACM News | November 15, 2011
China will rely less on chips made by foreign companies for its supercomputers over the next five years, says the National Supercomputer Center's Pan Jingshan.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 15, 2011
When a set of online teasers for a new camera called the Lytro appeared earlier this year, you could have been forgiven for seeing the invention as just another...The Atlantic From ACM News | November 11, 2011
Cybersecurity, as interpreted by the Pentagon’s premiere researcher, isn’t just about protecting data networks. It’s about making the military’s killer drones...Wired From ACM News | November 10, 2011
Russian space engineers scrambled Wednesday to salvage an ambitious science mission to Mars after the unmanned spacecraft became stranded in Earth orbit. If they...The New York Times From ACM News | November 10, 2011
Researchers in Britain are about to embark on a 10-year, multimillion-dollar project to build a computer—but their goal is neither dazzling analytical power nor...The New York Times From ACM News | November 8, 2011
A man in Emden, Mo., recently mailed a letter that he had addressed, in a scribble, to somebody in "Shelhjreille, Mo." That's the way his handwriting made it...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | November 7, 2011
Many Google search results will be more timely after Google made a significant change to its search algorithm last week that it said would affect about 35% of...The New York Times From ACM News | November 7, 2011
The semiconductor industry is moving toward three-dimensional (3D) chip design, stacking dies and moving data from one layer to another. Computerworld From ACM TechNews | November 4, 2011
The Japanese have broken the 10 petaflop barrier. On Wednesday, Japanese IT giant Fujitsu and the government-funded RIKEN research lab announced the supercomputer...Wired From ACM News | November 3, 2011