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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Blind musicians have had restricted access to scores due to the scarcity and limitations of Braille transcriptions. A new European system makes music for the blind... From ICT Results | January 21, 2010
Is there a recipe a scientist might follow to spur creativity and cook up new discoveries? Cyber security expert Kevin Fu of the University of Massachusetts Amherst...niversity of Massachusetts Amherst From ACM News | January 21, 2010
The U.S. plans to make unrestricted access to the Internet a top foreign-policy priority, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to announce Thursday (January...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | January 21, 2010
The crown jewels of Google, Cisco Systems or any other technology company are the millions of lines of programming instructions, known as source code, that make...The New York Times From ACM News | January 20, 2010
The United States remains the world's leader in science and technology, based on factors such as gross dollars spent, relative spending on research, research articles...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | January 20, 2010
University of Gothenburg professor Aarne Ranta is leading an effort to create a reliable translation tool that covers most of the European Union languages. The...EurekAlert From ACM TechNews | January 20, 2010
The prospect of a future that includes robot maids took an incremental step forward to reality. Korean scientists have created a domestic robot that cleans, dumps...ZDNet From ACM News | January 20, 2010
The earthquake in Haiti has motivated many people to make contributions to help. "Unfortunately, these events also bring out the con artists and scammers who are...Purdue University News From ACM News | January 19, 2010
"A fleet of fighter planes is not necessary to attack a power station; a keyboard is sufficient. And if you don't have the skills, there are enough mercenary hackers...University of Haifa From ACM News | January 19, 2010
Sure, we’re all plugged in and online 24/7. But fewer American kids are growing up to be bona fide computer geeks. And that poses a serious security risk for the...Wired From ACM News | January 15, 2010
European researchers, coordinated by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, have developed a cognitive computational system that uses video cameras and computer...AB Barcelona From ACM TechNews | January 15, 2010
A seminar hosted by Science|Business focused on what needs to be done to make information technology (IT) more environmentally friendly. The cross-pollination...Science|Business From ACM TechNews | January 15, 2010
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering aggressive moves to claim its authority over consumer access to the Internet as part of the Obama...The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | January 15, 2010
Swarm intelligence is a branch of artificial intelligence that attempts to get computers and robots to mimic the highly efficient behavior of colony insects such...Scientific American From ACM News | January 13, 2010
To deliver useful search returns from the so-called real-time Web--such as seconds-old Twitter "tweets" reporting traffic jams--Google has adapted its page-ranking...Technology Review From ACM News | January 13, 2010
Yahoo Labs is hiring social scientists, including cognitive psychologists, economists, and ethnographers, to help it understand what motivates users to click and...The San Francisco Chronicle From ACM TechNews | January 13, 2010
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Communications, Information Processing, and Ergonomics have developed Hazardous Material Localization and Person Tracking...The Engineer (United Kingdom) From ACM TechNews | January 13, 2010
For the second straight year, foreign companies collectively captured a slight majority of new U.S. patents awarded to corporations by the U.S. Patent and Trademark...IFI Patent Intelligence From ACM News | January 13, 2010
Washington and Lee University Associate Professor Claudette Artwick sees evidence of a 'digital divide' in recent social media campaigns to locate missing persons...Washington and Lee niversity From ACM News | January 13, 2010
Alcatel-Lucent's research division, Bell Labs, spearheaded the launch of a global consortium of academics, operators and vendors on Monday (January 11), tasked...Telecoms.com From ACM News | January 13, 2010