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From ACM NewsKaren Emslie Commissioned by CACM Staff| March 2, 2021
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
A surveillance system for monitoring whether cars and pedestrians are acting normally at crosswalks has been developed by researchers at Spain's University of Castilla...Plataforma SINC From ACM TechNews | September 28, 2009
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed the first full-star simulation of the conditions inside a...Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory From ACM TechNews | September 28, 2009
Physicists at UC San Diego have successfully created speedy integrated circuits with particles called "excitons" that operate at commercially cold temperatures,...C San Diego News Center From ACM News | September 28, 2009
The creation of a cyborg insect army has just taken a step closer to reality.
A research team at the University of California Berkeley recently announced thatFrontiers...Wired News From ACM News | September 24, 2009
The secret to the success of BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos and The Ensemble, first- and second-place winners of the Netflix Prize, was teamwork.
The Netflix Prize...Wired News From ACM TechNews | September 23, 2009
The Long Tail theory suggests that the Internet drives demand away from popular products with mass appeal and directs it to more obscure niche offerings as it eases...Knowledge@Wharton From ACM TechNews | September 23, 2009
To create shape-shifting robotic ensembles, researchers need to teach micro-machines to work together.Tom Geller From Communications of the ACM | October 1, 2009
Researchers are working on "self-healing" electronic materials that could lead in time to computer components that can fix themselves when they break.Bob Violino From ACM News | September 22, 2009
WHATEVER happened to quantum computers? A few years ago, it seemed, it was just a case of a tweak here, a fiddle there, and some kind of number-crunching Godzilla...New Scientist From ACM News | September 21, 2009
Three years ago, theoretical work of a University of Nebraska-Lincoln research group predicted a new effect that could revolutionize the field of microelectronics...niversity of Nebraska-Lincoln From ACM News | September 21, 2009
Computers need to automatically focus on key changes in an area in order to accurately predict air, road traffic, and water flow with computer simulations, according...Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research From ACM TechNews | September 16, 2009
Memristors were identified by Hewlett-Packard (HP) as the missing link of electronics 18 months ago, and since then the same team of HP researchers has upgraded...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | September 16, 2009
The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) is supporting University of Michigan (UM) physicists' development of components for quantum computers that...Air Force Print News (DC) From ACM TechNews | September 16, 2009
Rice University researcher James Tour and postdoctoral associate Alexander Sinitskii used industry-standard lithographic techniques to place 10-nanometer strips...Rice niversity From ACM TechNews | September 16, 2009
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) researchers are developing a material that could enable a computer circuit to repair itself. The researchers have...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 14, 2009
Can a computer fool expert gamers into believing it's one of them? That was the question posed at the second annual BotPrize, a three-month contest that concluded...Ethiopian Review From ACM News | September 10, 2009
Eight European universities, including the Technical University of Madrid, are participating in the European DynaLearn Project, which is designed to increase student...niversidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain) From ACM TechNews | September 9, 2009
If manmade devices could be combined with biological machines, laptops and other electronic devices could get a boost in operating efficiency. Lawrence Livermore...Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory From ACM News | September 8, 2009
A silicon chip about the size of a penny that uses photons to run Shor's algorithm has been developed by a team of researchers at the University of Bristol in the...BBC News From ACM TechNews | September 4, 2009
University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) researchers have received a five-year, $5 million National Science Foundation grant to establish the Simulation, Visualization...niversity of Texas at San Antonio From ACM TechNews | September 3, 2009