Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed algorithms and a real-time occupancy sensor network to create a smart heating, ventilation...University of California, San Diego News From ACM TechNews | April 18, 2011
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...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | April 18, 2011
University of Aberdeen researchers, in collaboration with Indian institutions, are launching the TRUMP project, a three-year study to explore how mobile technologies...University of Aberdeen From ACM TechNews | April 18, 2011
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...ABC News From ACM News | April 18, 2011
Computational thinking ought to be embedded within educational programs in order to cultivate children's analytical ability, says CMU professor Jeannette M. Wing...Gulf Times (Qatar) From ACM TechNews | April 15, 2011
Scientists funded by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen unveiled a $55 million computerized atlas of the human brain Tuesday, offering the first interactive...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | April 14, 2011
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...Network World From ACM TechNews | April 14, 2011
U.S. Department of Homeland Security deputy undersecretary Philip Reitinger has established the goal of developing a more secure Internet ecosystem, which he says...GovInfoSecurity.com From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2011
Computers used to be blind, and now they can see. Thanks to increasingly sophisticated algorithms, computers today can recognize and identify the Eiffel Tower...CNN From ACM News | April 14, 2011
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...CNET From ACM News | April 14, 2011
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...Wired From ACM News | April 13, 2011
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...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2011
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...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2011
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...The Engineer From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2011
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...Computerworld From ACM News | April 12, 2011
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...University of Central Florida From ACM TechNews | April 11, 2011
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...The New York Times From ACM News | April 12, 2011
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...CNN From ACM News | April 12, 2011
Would open-source field-programmable gate arrays simplify academic research on reconfigurable computing? Researchers say yes, but industry disagrees.Paul Hyman From ACM News | April 12, 2011
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...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 11, 2011