University of Granada researchers have developed EDLUT, an event-driven, lookup-table-based simulator that can reproduce any part of the human body's nervous system...Universidad de Granada From ACM TechNews | May 15, 2009
The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2020, the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Act of 2009 by a voice vote on Tuesday (May...House Committee on Science and Technology From ACM News | May 15, 2009
Constantinos Daskalakis has won the 2008 Doctoral Dissertation Award from ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) for his work on behavior in complex networks...ACM From ACM News | May 15, 2009
As the expiration of ICANN's agreement with the U.S. Commerce Department approaches, stakeholders are weighing in on the fate of the organization. European Union...InternetNews.com From ACM TechNews | May 13, 2009
Researchers from around the world are meeting at a conference in Kobe, Japan, to discuss recent advancements in robotics. Among those on display will be RiSE, a...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 13, 2009
Office workers who make time to chat face to face with colleagues may be far more productive than those who rely on e-mail, the phone, or Facebook, suggests a study...Technology Review From ACM News | May 14, 2009
Light switches, TV remote controls and even house keys could become a thing of the past thanks to brain-computer interface (BCI) technology being developed in Europe...ICT Results From ACM News | May 13, 2009
While Americans may worry about having to give up their beloved flat screen TVs, computers and other high-tech devices in the home and workplace in an energy-constrained...American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy From ACM News | May 13, 2009
Many innovative technologies funded by the European Commission (EC) were spotlighted at the Science Beyond Fiction conference in Prague. The EC announced in April...BBC News From ACM TechNews | May 12, 2009
Yale University researchers Eugenio Culurciello and Andreas Savvides are developing smart camera technology to help monitor older adults who live alone. "Approximately...Yale University From ACM TechNews | May 11, 2009
The University of California, Berkeley, began notifying students, alumni and others on Friday (May 8) that their personal information may have been stolen after...niversity of California, Berkeley From ACM News | May 11, 2009
Stanford University's 100-year tradition of entrepreneurialism, which has spawned such tech giants as Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Google, Sun, and Yahoo!, has been...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | May 11, 2009
Inderscience PublishersSocial Design Group's Yoshiharu Maeno and University of Tokyo professor Yukio Ohsawa have developed a new approach to analyzing social networks...ScienceDaily From ACM TechNews | May 8, 2009
A team from the Interactive Robots and Media Lab at the United Arab Emirates University has created a robot with its own Facebook page in an effort to enable the...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 8, 2009
Teams of computer scientists, conservationists, and scholars are rushing to digitally save and preserve the world's literary treasures. Advanced technology is...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | May 8, 2009
Researchers in the European Union-funded Presenccia project are conducting experiments to understand why humans interpret and respond to virtual stimuli and to...ICT Results From ACM TechNews | May 8, 2009
A panel of women developers at the recent RailsConf 2009 conference in Las Vegas held a session entitled "Women in Rails" to discuss the issues that cause software...InfoWorld From ACM TechNews | May 8, 2009
Researchers have completed a three-year project to create the first comprehensive, three-dimensional (3D) image of the Catacombs in Rome. The project used laser...BBC News From ACM TechNews | May 8, 2009
University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) researchers temporarily commandeered an infamous botnet known for stealing financial data and found that the threat...Dark Reading From ACM TechNews | May 8, 2009
Sometimes a technology comes along and crystallizes a cultural moment. Not since the automobile and the American in the 1950s, perhaps, have a technology and a...The New York Times From ACM News | May 8, 2009