Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
From ACM News
Outmaneuvered at Their Own Game, Antivirus Makers Struggle to Adapt
The antivirus industry has a dirty little secret: its products are often not very good at stopping viruses.
From ACM Opinion
Marking the Birth of the Modern-Day Internet
A long time ago, my colleagues and I became part of a great adventure, teamed with a small band of scientists and technologists in the U.S. and elsewhere.
From ACM Careers
Ftc Offers $50,000 Reward to Help Stop Robocalls
Unwanted telemarketing calls, trademarked for interrupting dinners across the nation, have become such a nuisance over the years that the Federal Trade Commission...
From ACM Opinion
How To Charge Your Laptop
Whether they're in our computers, cell phones, or cars, the only time we think about batteries is when they're almost dead and we need to find some place to charge...
From ACM News
Privacy by the Numbers: A New Approach to Safeguarding Data
In 1997, when Massachusetts began making health records of state employees available to medical researchers, the government removed patients' names, addresses,...
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Scientists Construct First Map of How the Brain Organizes Everything We See
Our eyes may be our window to the world, but how do we make sense of the thousands of images that flood our retinas each day?
From ACM News
niversity Wins Record $1.17 Billion Verdict Against Marvell Semiconductor
A Pittsburgh jury found that hard drive control chips made by Marvell Semiconductor infringe two patents owned by Carnegie Mellon University.
From ACM News
Classical Computing Embraces Quantum Ideas
Someday, quantum computers may be able to solve complex optimization problems, quickly mine huge data sets, simulate the kind of physics experiments that currently...
From ACM Opinion
Ford Engineers Have 3D Printers on Their Desks. When Will You Get One?
Ford has caught the DIY revolution and now puts 3D printers at workstations for its engineers.
From ACM TechNews
Engineers Working to Prevent Heat Buildup Within 3-D Integrated Circuits
University of Texas Arlington researchers are working to minimize the heat generated by silicon chips, and will then develop nano-windows that allow the heat to...
From ACM TechNews
Simulating the Future of Fuel
University of Texas at Austin researchers are using first-principles-based, atomic-level computer simulations to improve the efficiency of fuel cells.
From ACM TechNews
Cloud-Powered Gps Chip Slashes Smartphone Power Consumption
Microsoft researchers have developed CLEO, a cloud-based global positioning system that collects only a few milliseconds of the most important information from...
From ACM TechNews
All Systems Go For Highest Altitude Supercomputer
The U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory has installed and tested in Chile the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, the most elaborate ground-based...
From ACM News
Real and Virtual Firearms Nurture a Marketing Link
As Electronic Arts prepared to market Medal of Honor Warfighter, the latest version of its top-selling video game released in October, it created a Web site that...
From ACM Opinion
Why Everybody Wants a Slice of Raspberry Pi
In a world where computers are increasingly powerful and are concealed within ever more glossy slabs of aluminum, the Raspberry Pi offers surprising proof for the...
From ACM Opinion
Why China's Homemade Microchips Will Struggle to Displace Western Giants
If China's ultimate aim in the sphere of technology is to become completely self-sufficient, it is well on the way to achieving this ambitious goal.
From ACM News
Iran Repels New .s. Cyber Attack
Iran announced that it has thwarted a second cyber attack on one of its Culture Ministry institutes.
From ACM Opinion
Forget Yolo: Why 'big Data' Should Be the Word of the Year
"Big Data" hasn't made any of the words-of-the-year lists I've seen so far. That's probably because it didn't get the wide public exposure given to items like "...
From ACM News