Cloud computing has the potential to create irreversible changes in how computers are used around the world, says David Carrera, director of the Cloud Computing...Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya From ACM TechNews | April 20, 2009
A pioneering semantic engineering environment developed by European researchers offers a more flexible, scalable and user-orientated means of managing design data...ICT Results From ICT Results | April 20, 2009
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science have developed a new method for systematically identifying bugs in aircraft collision avoidance...ScienceDaily From ACM News | April 21, 2009
Researchers at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University have developed a programming language for wireless sensor networks that will enable non-computer...University of Michigan News Service From ACM TechNews | April 17, 2009
European researchers have developed a suite of tools to add non-verbal cues to email, phone calls, chats and other channels of electronic communication. Intriguing...ICT Results From ICT Results | April 17, 2009
Humans recognize faces by organizing facial features such as eyebrows, eyes, and lips into horizontal lines of information, say Dr. Steven Dakin of the University...UCL News From ACM TechNews | April 15, 2009
Technology companies are embracing self-healing technology, a computing strategy that could have a major impact on the data center and the desktop. IBM uses self...Kirk L. Kroeker From ACM News | April 14, 2009
Nominations are now being accepted for the 10th Annual Marie R. Pistilli Women in Electronic Design Automation Achievement Award, which is named after the former...Business Wire From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2009
The University of Sunderland's Computerized Analysis of Stocks and Shares for Novelty Detection of Radical Activities (CASSANDRA) project is developing a software...The niversity of Sunderland From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2009
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) theorists have demonstrated that a type of software operation, believed to be a solution to the fundamental...National Institute of Standards and Technology From ACM TechNews | April 10, 2009
The Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition, which is composed of IBM and several utility companies, has passed control of their Smart Grid Maturity Model...Information Week From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2009
European researchers have created new software components called Autonomic Communication Elements (ACEs) which can be combined to create services for any type of...ICT Results From ICT Results | April 13, 2009
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Rice University $16 million to develop a new set of tools that can improve the performance of...Rice University From ACM News | April 9, 2009
At the Fault Tolerance for Extreme Scalability Workshop, co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure's Blue Waters and TeraGrid...HPC Wire From ACM TechNews | April 9, 2009
The new Fujitsu FX1 supercomputer in Japan has a peak performance of 110.6 teraflops, making it the most powerful machine in Japan and the most efficient supercomputer...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2009
The free and open source software community is hotly anticipating a large number of new releases this year, including an upgrade to Mozilla's Firefox browser that...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | April 7, 2009
Google's Gmail Labs is constantly developing new features and applications, and while many of the projects and releases may appear to be casual or random, the Lab's...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | April 6, 2009
Research institutions in Europe have created a uniform methodology for developing embedded systems that lowers costs and improves quality. The methodology includes...VTT Technical Research Center From ACM TechNews | April 6, 2009
David A. Patterson, former ACM President and Director of University of California, Berkeley's Parallel Computing Laboratory and the UC Berkeley Reliable Adaptive...ACM From ACM News | April 6, 2009
Texas A&M University lab's Robin Murphy (pictured) and colleagues have developed RubbleViewer, a tool for modeling a disaster scene that they say is more efficient...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 3, 2009