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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.
Data standards will be needed to facilitate traffic flow in the future, and government officials, engineers, and automakers are considering how to implement the...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | June 18, 2014
Aviation experts have cited multiple possible reasons for the problems in the multi-country effort to locate the Malaysia Airlines jetliner that dropped off the...Computerworld From ACM News | March 12, 2014
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
Researchers in Asia say they have created the first three-dimensional flash memory device made with protein. Computerworld From ACM TechNews | October 10, 2013
Despite recent concerns about information collection by the United States, law enforcement agencies in Europe and other nations appear to gather equal or greater...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | August 30, 2013
Self-driving cars will come with a wide range of sensors, creating machine-to-machine data at the rate of 1Gbyte per second, according to BigData-Startups.com founder...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | July 26, 2013
Google chief Internet evangelist and ACM president Vint Cerf worries that much of the data generated since the Internet's beginning will be lost over time. Computerworld From ACM TechNews | June 5, 2013
Over the next eight years more than 40 zettabytes of digital data will be produced, which is equal to 5,200 gigabytes of data for every person on Earth, according...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | December 12, 2012
Many colleges and universities are developing advanced degree programs in analytics to manage big data. Computerworld From ACM TechNews | September 24, 2012
While automated software control systems are increasingly being used in vehicles, safety authorities do not have enough expertise to measure or regulate them, according...Computerworld K From ACM TechNews | January 30, 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
Chip-level advances, including new processors and circuits, could be the building blocks that lead to a new generation of computing products and devices. Computerworld From ACM TechNews | September 16, 2011
The number of servers managing the world's data will grow tenfold over the next 10 years, according to the IDC Digital Universe study. The study also predicts...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | June 29, 2011
University of California, San Diego researchers estimate the world's 27 million business servers processed 9.57 zettabytes of information in 2008, with most of...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | May 11, 2011
IBM is leading a joint research effort with 15 European partners to develop an object-based standardized smart cloud storage architecture. The project is called...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | November 12, 2010
IBM's Almaden Research Center is developing several advanced technologies for storage and data analysis, including Panache, a clustered file system that provides...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | October 14, 2010
Dartmouth College researchers have found that health care data is as easily accessible on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks now as it was before the enactment of a new...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | May 21, 2010
The recent failed bombing attempt in New York City shows the limitations of data-mining technology. Using data mining to search for potential terrorists is similar...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | May 5, 2010