Approximately 11,000 researchers, scientists, engineers, and computing experts from around the world are expected to attend SCO9 high-performance computing (HPC)...Business Wire From ACM TechNews | September 14, 2009
Microsoft developer Catherine Eibner recently hosted a Women in IT workshop at the annual Microsoft Tech Ed IT Forum in Queensland, Australia. It was the first...Computerworld Australia From ACM TechNews | September 14, 2009
Purdue University has received a Hewlett-Packard grant to develop and test a new teaching approach designed to improve the academic success of underrepresented...Purdue niversity News From ACM TechNews | September 14, 2009
BlindAid, developed by Tel Aviv University's Orly Lahav, is a new program that helps the blind navigate through unfamiliar locations. BlindAid digitally maps real...American Friends of Tel Aviv niversity From ACM TechNews | September 14, 2009
British prime minister Gordon Brown apologized for the way the government treated Alan Mathison Turing after convicting the computer pioneer of gross indecency...BBC News From ACM TechNews | September 14, 2009
New York-based Organic Motion Inc.'s motion-capture system that doesn't require bodysuits or markers won the computing-systems category of The Wall Street Journal... From ACM News | September 14, 2009
ACM's Web platform for its flagship publication Communications of the ACM (http://cacm.acm.org) garnered the top award for best new Web site by Media Business magazine...ACM From ACM News | September 14, 2009
A European research project works out how to keep car-to-car data transmissions private and secure from malicious hackers. From ICT Results | September 14, 2009
Mayo Clinic researchers say that "teachable software" designed to mimic the human brain may help them diagnose cardiac infections without an invasive exam. The...Mayo Clinic From ACM News | September 10, 2009
Betsy DiSalvo with Georgia Tech's College of Computing is betting that young African American males' interest in video games can be tapped to generate a greater...Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM TechNews | September 11, 2009
A new scheduling algorithm developed by researchers at the University of Sydney promises to cut the energy consumption of processors in data centers by more than...Computerworld Australia From ACM TechNews | September 11, 2009
Three University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) engineers and a Rush University nursing specialist have been awarded a three-year, $989,000 National Science Foundation...IC News From ACM TechNews | September 11, 2009
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will fund a project designed to protect the privacy and security of business information systems and data centers...Penn State Live From ACM TechNews | September 11, 2009
More than 70 demonstrations of interactive technologies that use sensors for a wide range of applications were showcased at the Human Computer Interaction conference's...BBC News From ACM TechNews | September 11, 2009
The U.S. National Science Foundation awarded $105 million to a Purdue-led team to spearhead a center that will serve as headquarters for the operations of the George...Purdue niversity News From ACM News | September 11, 2009
New York University researchers have proposed Epothecary, a system that uses cell phones to authenticate and track drugs distributed in the developing world. The...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 10, 2009
Encouraged by the success of grid computing in Europe, scientists there set out to help their Latin American colleagues develop grid capability. The result today... From ICT Results | September 10, 2009
Most Internet-based estimates show that IPv4 addresses are scheduled to run out by July 22, 2011. However, researcher Stephan Lagerholm has come up with an earlier...iTWire From ACM TechNews | September 10, 2009
University of Delaware National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) scientists have received a $1,064,500 grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct...niversity of Delaware From ACM TechNews | September 10, 2009
The Open Invention Network (OIN), which includes major corporate supporters of open source software, is close to an agreement to purchase 22 patents involving Linux...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | September 10, 2009