Information and communications technology (ICT) is all about communication but it has never provided the semantic richness offered by the non-verbal cues that typically...ICT Results From ICT Results | April 15, 2009
University of Texas at DallasUniversity of Texas at Dallas researchers are working to improve the results of searches that request multiple pieces of information...The University of Texas at Dallas From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2009
The computers of Tibetan exiles and the U.S. electrical grid were recently breached by hackers, highlighting the growing threat of cyber espionage. The White House...The Associated Press 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
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
Electronic components continue to be made smaller and smaller, which reduces the amount of power that they require but increases signal-to-noise ratios. If electronic...Fraunhofer Institute From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2009
Technologist and entrepreneur Brewster Kahle (pictured) wants to produce a free, online corpus of human knowledge called the Internet Archive that is bigger than...Economist Technology Quarterly From ACM TechNews | April 6, 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 and General Electric (GE) have teamed up on an ambitious project to transform the United States' energy production infrastructure from a model characterized...Conde Nast Portfolio From ACM TechNews | April 7, 2009
What’s faster than the speediest supercomputer? How about a high-speed grid linking 12 world-class supercomputers? That’s what a European research consortium has... From ICT Results | April 6, 2009
Scientist Dr. Russ Miller (pictured) is leading the rollout of "Magic," one of the most powerful computers in New York State, to qualified users worldwide for solving... From ACM News | April 6, 2009
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a mobile application known as Sun Dial, which alerts Muslim users when it's time to perform the...The Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM News | April 6, 2009
University of Pennsylvania computer scientist Michael Kearns is exploring the connections between social networks and human behavior. Such research could revolutionize...The Philadelphia Inquirer From ACM TechNews | April 3, 2009
Researchers at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid's School of Computing are using modular neural networks to model cognitive functions related to awareness and...Universidad Politecnica de Madrid From ACM TechNews | April 3, 2009
Graduate students at the Indiana University School of Informatics have developed WattBot, a residential electricity monitoring and feedback system that will be...Indiana University From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2009
The advantages of cloud computing were dramatically illustrated last week by researchers working on the STAR nuclear physics experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory's...Newswise From ACM News | April 3, 2009
Mobile users want better video calls, streaming television and faster downloads, placing more demands on the limited radio spectrum available to operators. Could...ICT Results From ICT Results | April 2, 2009
Both IBM's Almaden Research Center and Hewlett-Packard Labs are focused on promoting their companies' core businesses and investigating emerging technologies....Investor's Business Daily From ACM TechNews | April 2, 2009
Washington State University professors Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe and Diane Cook have created a smart home laboratory to assess how technology can help senior...The Daily Evergreen (WA) From ACM TechNews | April 2, 2009