The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley Law School filed a lawsuit...InformationWeek From ACM TechNews | December 8, 2009
A cheap way to deliver interactive communications to remote communities has been successfully tested in Brazil and Italy. From ICT Results | December 7, 2009
Thanks to the Internet and online social networks (OSNs) news and gossip now spread seemingly without any order. But according Ryerson University researcher Anthony...Ryerson niversity From ACM News | December 8, 2009
Local governments are trying to make government data more accessible to citizens, and some are turning over data to programmers to make it more usable. One example...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | December 7, 2009
New modeling software called Qlucore is being used by researchers at King's College to study how genes react to toxins. The gene-modeling software can sort through...BBC News From ACM TechNews | December 7, 2009
Computer scientists at University of California, San Diego are creating a network of environmental sensors that will help identify air pollution hot spots. The...niversity of California, San Diego From ACM News | December 7, 2009
A professor at Tufts University will lead a team of international researchers to explore how humanities scholars can use data analysis to track topics about the...Tufts niversity From ACM News | December 7, 2009
Paul S. Otellini, President and Chief Executive Officer of Intel Corp., has accepted the invitation of the Task Force on American Innovation to serve as its new...American Institute of Physics From ACM News | December 7, 2009
At a time when the world is deliberating upon ways to cut carbon emissions, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) has unveiled software especially developed...Press Trust of India From ACM News | December 7, 2009
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced that the MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team won the $40,000 cash prize in the DARPA Network Challenge...DARPA From ACM News | December 7, 2009
ACM and its partners are launching Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) to uncover and remedy the inadequacy of the nation's computer science (CS) education...ACM From ACM News | December 4, 2009
The 2009 EE Times Global Salary & Opinion Survey found that salary increases for engineers in India and China have climbed over the past five years, and the rate...EE Times From ACM TechNews | December 4, 2009
The University of Calgary's Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) program helps young women explore opportunities in underrepresented science and engineering...CanWest News Service From ACM TechNews | December 4, 2009
The Discovery and Innovation in Health IT Workshop, cosponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), attempted to make further progress on productive collaboration...Computing Community Consortium From ACM TechNews | December 4, 2009
For those who are deaf or hard of hearing, cell phone use has largely been limited to text messaging. But technology is catching up: Cornell researchers and colleagues...Cornell niversity From ACM News | December 4, 2009
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission recently held a field hearing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to discuss the role of the communications...CNet From ACM TechNews | December 3, 2009
A joint project between Texas A&M and Stanford universities is developing a rescue robot capable of connecting trapped victims with the outside world. The robot...The Battalion (TX) From ACM TechNews | December 3, 2009
Can economics better predict how banks will react to future credit crunches and their impact on the wider economy? Breakthrough simulation software by European... From ICT Results | December 2, 2009
When a group of engineers at National Instruments Corp. modified a 1988 Oldsmobile so it could be controlled by an iPhone, the company was quick to share the project...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | December 3, 2009
Sites inscribed on the World Heritage List — the Palace of Versailles in France, the historic center of Prague in the Czech Republic and the old town of Cáceres...NESCO From ACM News | December 3, 2009