acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

News


bg-corner

An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.


Using Computers and Sensors to Curb Electricity Use in Buildings
From ACM TechNews

Using Computers and Sensors to Curb Electricity Use in Buildings

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed algorithms and a real-time occupancy sensor network to create a smart heating, ventilation...

From ACM TechNews

Mentorship Key For Women in It, Says Collaborate Panel

A recent panel discussion at the Collaborate 11 Oracle user conference concluded that mentors and sponsors are crucial to helping women advance their careers in...

Aberdeen Researchers to Collaborate With India on Development of Trusted Mobile Technologies For Rural Healthcare
From ACM TechNews

Aberdeen Researchers to Collaborate With India on Development of Trusted Mobile Technologies For Rural Healthcare

University of Aberdeen researchers, in collaboration with Indian institutions, are launching the TRUMP project, a three-year study to explore how mobile technologies...

From ACM News

Robots on the Farm

Commercial farms of the future may be staffed by robots that will identify, spray and pick individual pieces of produce from plants, even when their targets are...

Computational Thinking 'vital For Child's Analytical Ability'
From ACM TechNews

Computational Thinking 'vital For Child's Analytical Ability'

Computational thinking ought to be embedded within educational programs in order to cultivate children's analytical ability, says CMU professor Jeannette M. Wing...

Atlas Gives Scientists New View of the Brain
From ACM News

Atlas Gives Scientists New View of the Brain

Scientists funded by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen unveiled a $55 million computerized atlas of the human brain Tuesday, offering the first interactive...

From ACM TechNews

Internet2 Turns 15. Has It Delivered on Its Promise?

The Internet2, which is reserved for research and education, recently received $100 million in new funding that will upgrade its backbone capacity to 8.8 terabytes...

Reitinger's Quest: Build a Safer Internet
From ACM TechNews

Reitinger's Quest: Build a Safer Internet

U.S. Department of Homeland Security deputy undersecretary Philip Reitinger has established the goal of developing a more secure Internet ecosystem, which he says...

How Google Is Teaching Computers to See
From ACM News

How Google Is Teaching Computers to See

Computers used to be blind, and now they can see.  Thanks to increasingly sophisticated algorithms, computers today can recognize and identify the Eiffel Tower...

IBM Says It Knows How Bad Your Commute Will Be
From ACM News

IBM Says It Knows How Bad Your Commute Will Be

If you're a commuter stuck in traffic, it doesn't help you all that much to know what road conditions are like right now. You already know you're being delayed...

Why Cisco's Flip Flopped in the Camera Business
From ACM News

Why Cisco's Flip Flopped in the Camera Business

Cisco is shutting down a business unit that it bought for over half-a-billion dollars: the Flip camcorder division. That's a shame, considering how high the Flip...

From ACM TechNews

Computer Science Enrollments Rebound, ­p 10% Last Fall

Computer science enrollments increased for the third consecutive year at Ph.D.-granting institutions, are up 10 percent from a year ago, but are still below the...

From ACM TechNews

­.s. Lagging in ­sing Technology, Study Shows

The World Economic Forum's annual study on national computing and communications technology use found that the United States ranked fifth out of 138 countries for...

From ACM TechNews

Robot Could Guide Humans Through Areas of Low Visibility

Sheffield Hallam University researchers are helping to develop a robot that can guide humans in areas of low visibility. The robot, which will be slightly larger...

From ACM News

Ibm's Watson Not As Smart As You Think

As smart as IBM's Watson supercomputer may have seemed while defeating two former Jeopardy champions, it wouldn't be able to hold a conversation with or speak...

From ACM TechNews

Students Turn Cell Phone Into Mobile Microscope

Students at the University of California, Davis, and the University of Central Florida have developed a way to turn smartphones into virtual microscopes that can...

Cameras Read License Plates, Helping City's Police
From ACM News

Cameras Read License Plates, Helping City's Police

When Luis Zeledon was captured by detectives, it was probably safe to say that he had not intended to be found. He was hiding in someone else’s apartment in Queens...

Online Photos: Are They New Digital Fingerprints?
From ACM News

Online Photos: Are They New Digital Fingerprints?

For Mike Smith, Facebook is a fort for communicating freely with friends online. Within the confines of that giant yet access-restricted network, the music-software...

Universities, Industry Clash on Need For Open-Source Fpgas
From ACM News

Universities, Industry Clash on Need For Open-Source Fpgas

Would open-source field-programmable gate arrays simplify academic research on reconfigurable computing? Researchers say yes, but industry disagrees.

Facebook Opens Up Its Hardware Secrets
From ACM TechNews

Facebook Opens Up Its Hardware Secrets

Facebook plans to open the designs and specifications of its new super-efficient data center. The company wants to encourage software-style openness for hardware...
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account