Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers receive $2.3 million NIH grant to develop and validate virtual reality hardware, software for training and certifying...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute From ACM News | July 16, 2010
UTHealth has reached an agreement with other institutions that will allow it to take the next step in commercially developing an innovative medical imaging system...University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston From ACM News | July 16, 2010
U.S. computer scientists have demonstrated that by using information from Internet images and videos it is possible to determine the addresses and locations of...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 15, 2010
Darpa’s leading advocate for crowdsourcing and other ways of tapping new talent is leaving to join Microsoft—after only a year at the Defense Department’s top R&D...Wired From ACM News | July 15, 2010
Researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the National Energy Technology Laboratory and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have formed a partnership...Pacific Northwest National Laboratory From ACM News | July 15, 2010
The Website Wikileaks publishes secret documents submitted by anonymous sources and makes them available to the public. The site, which went public in January 2007...Fresh Air from WHYY From ACM News | July 15, 2010
China's Green Dam software-filtering project has been staying afloat without government funds for the past year, but the project may now be in danger of collapse...CNet From ACM News | July 15, 2010
To remain competitive in the growing clean energy race, the United States must implement a new public investment strategy with the overarching goal of making...The Breakthrough Institute From ACM News | July 15, 2010
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' quarterly current population survey report shows that IT employment rose an estimated 5 percent during the second quarter,...Information Week From ACM TechNews | July 14, 2010
The University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) recently became the United Kingdom's first university department to release all...niversity of Southampton From ACM TechNews | July 14, 2010
More than $2 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy will strengthen nuclear research and education, and help develop the next generation of nuclear...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute From ACM News | July 14, 2010
A leading Chinese Internet regulator has vowed to reduce anonymity in China's portion of cyberspace, calling for requirements that people use their real names when...Associated Press From ACM News | July 14, 2010
Green Dam, the company behind the controversial mandate to install filtering software on every computer in China, has closed its Beijing office and is running...Information Week From ACM News | July 14, 2010
A breakthrough in remote wave sensing by a team from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute opens the way for detecting hidden explosives, chemical or biological agents...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute From ACM News | July 13, 2010
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today issued the final guidelines that will determine how doctors, hospitals and other medical care facilities...Computerworld From ACM News | July 13, 2010
Java/J2EE has become the most difficult skill set and position to fill, according to a new Dice.com survey. Java development has supplanted IT security and virtualization...Network World From ACM TechNews | July 13, 2010
In a prelude to overhauling its regulatory oversight of genetic diagnostic testing, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will convene a public meeting next week...Technology Review From ACM News | July 13, 2010
Studsat, a tiny satellite that was built by 35 students belonging to four engineering colleges in Bangalore and three in Hyderabad, was put in orbit on Monday...The Hindu From ACM News | July 13, 2010