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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
The heads of five of the U.S.'s largest computing research organizations are refuting political attacks on research on what makes ideas go viral, particularly on...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | November 5, 2014
Researchers have created nanowires 1/1,000th the width of the microscopic wires used today to connect transistors in integrated computer chips. Computerworld From ACM TechNews | May 5, 2014
Quantum computers are rewriting the rules of how computing works, but even the people developing them say they cannot explain how they work. Computerworld From ACM TechNews | March 25, 2014
At a wine bar in San Francisco on Wednesday, Broadcom Chairman and CTO Henry Samueli delivered some sobering news: Moore's Law isn't making chips cheaper anymore...Computerworld From ACM Opinion | December 6, 2013
In the global race to build the next generation of supercomputers—exascale—there is no guarantee the U.S. will finish first.Computerworld From ACM News | November 25, 2013
University of New South Wales professor Andrew Dzurak predicts that commercially available quantum computing will in arrive two decades, while demonstrations of...Computerworld Australia From ACM TechNews | December 17, 2012
Table salt could be used to increase the capacity of hard drives from as much as 4 Tbytes today to more than 21 Tbytes, according to researchers at the Institute...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | October 18, 2011
U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned Monday whether they should side with Microsoft and weaken the legal standard needed to invalidate a patent, with some justices...Computerworld From ACM News | April 19, 2011
As smart as IBM's Watson supercomputer may have seemed while defeating two former Jeopardy champions, it wouldn't be able to hold a conversation with or speak...Computerworld From ACM News | April 12, 2011
Duke University scientists have developed a method to make large quantities of copper nanowires, which could be used to create bendable, foldable tablet computers...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | June 14, 2010
IBM researchers have demonstrated a patterning technique capable of creating structures as small as 15 nanometers, and say the technology is a simpler and less...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | April 23, 2010
University of Queensland (UQ) and Harvard University researchers have completed an experiment that could have massive ramifications for science through the application...Computerworld Australia From ACM TechNews | January 13, 2010
Researchers at Intel and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) say distributed computing and robotics could be used to make shape-shifting electronics a reality in the...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | November 16, 2009