Research funded by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research could lead to advancements in data encryption and wide-area, high-resolution photography. The...Air Force Office of Scientific Research From ACM TechNews | July 15, 2009
The lack of a rigorous mathematical foundation for electronics impelled engineer Leon Chua to develop one, which led to the formulation of the memristor — a theoretical...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 13, 2009
Physicists at the University of Bonn say they have demonstrated for the first time the "quantum walk" effect in an experiment with cesium. At the microscopic level...Bonn niversity From ACM TechNews | July 13, 2009
Scientists have theorized that many technologies would function better if they were aware of their users' emotional states, and progress in this field includes...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 10, 2009
Quantum technologies have become the Holy Grail of the IT industry with research projects springing up throughout Europe and all over the world. Now a major European... From ICT Results | July 10, 2009
Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have developed an optical transistor that uses one laser beam to control another, potentially forming...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 9, 2009
The EvoGrid envisioned by Bruce Damer and a group of international advisers is a simulation of the primordial soup that they intend to use to gain insights about...Space.com From ACM TechNews | July 8, 2009
The Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) School of Computing's Ontology Engineering Group has developed an ontology-based semantic search engine for government...niversidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain) From ACM TechNews | July 8, 2009
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have overcome a hurdle in quantum computer development, having devised a viable way to manipulate...National Institute of Standards and Technology From ACM News | July 8, 2009
Yale University researchers have led a research effort to develop the first rudimentary solid-state quantum processor, a major step toward the creation of a quantum...Yale niversity From ACM TechNews | July 1, 2009
Researchers in Germany believe organic computing has the potential to solve the problems of urban traffic systems, which rely on sensors and controllers. Using...Inderscience Publishers From ACM TechNews | July 1, 2009
Australian National University (ANU) researchers have discovered a more efficient way to use light to convey information. The approach to generating quantum entanglement...AN News From ACM TechNews | June 29, 2009
Barbara Liskov muses about the creative process of problem solving, finding the perfect design point, and pursuing a research path.Karen A. Frenkel From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2009
Several software projects are narrowing the performance gap between browser-based applications and their desktop counterparts. In the process, they're creating...Kirk L. Kroeker From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2009
Thanks to computer scientists like Barbara Liskov, researchers are making major progress with cost-efficient fault tolerance for Web-based systems.Alex Wright From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2009
How can you weigh a single atom? European researchers have built an exquisite new device that can do just that. It may ultimately allow scientists to study theCARDEQ... From ICT Results | June 29, 2009
The Netflix Prize, a computing challenge that's been compared to scaling Mount Everest and flummoxed programmers for more than three years, has been summited. Two...Wired.com From ACM News | June 29, 2009
From solar panels to electric circuitry, the next big thing may be really tiny. Global leaders in nanotechnology — the science of the very, very small — spent two...Nanotechwire.com From ACM News | June 26, 2009
IBM and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology are building the Aquasar, a new supercomputer that will use water to keep the system cool and will recycle some...Wired News From ACM TechNews | June 23, 2009
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) computer scientists Amin Vahdat and Geoffrey Voelker are two of the 60 professors that will receive awards as part of...CSD News From ACM TechNews | June 23, 2009