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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.
One of five finalists will be awarded ACM's Gordon Bell Prize today at the SC14 high-performance computing conference in New Orleans. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 20, 2014
IBM is developing a new supercomputing architecture to boost data processing at the storage, memory, and input/output levels. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 17, 2014
On Monday, the Mozilla Foundation will launch a version of its Firefox browser that will enable developers to build Web pages and applications. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 6, 2014
Scientists are no closer to achieving an overall general artificial intelligence, in the sense that a computer can behave like a human.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | October 22, 2014
In the future, intelligent machines will increasingly replace knowledge workers, according to a group of artificial intelligence experts. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | October 9, 2014
The Wi-Fi Alliance has unveiled four sets of mechanisms for carrying out certain tasks over Wi-Fi Direct. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | September 16, 2014
Many Android applications fail to take basic precautions to protect user data, putting the privacy of upwards of 1 billion people at risk.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | September 12, 2014
A recent survey gauging the popularity of statistical software programs found the R programming language is rapidly gaining on traditional statistics packages. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 26, 2014
Harvard University researchers have developed a method enabling thousands of robots to coordinate their actions so they can complete a single task. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 15, 2014
Low-power wearable devices may soon stop using batteries and start drawing energy generated by body heat and movement, as well as ambient energy from the environment...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 13, 2014
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding research at institutions working on desktop and mobile authentication technologies. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 12, 2014
Google says its big-data architecture, Mesa, can store petabytes of data, update millions of rows of data per second, and field trillions of queries daily across...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 11, 2014
IBM plans to spend $3 billion over the next five years to research and develop new fundamental computing technologies, focusing specifically on the possibilities...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | July 11, 2014
Python has surpassed Java as the top language used to introduce U.S. students to programming and computer science, according to a survey published by ACM. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | July 9, 2014
Google company engineers say Web Components, a World Wide Web Consortium standard designed to help organize complex Web pages, will "change everything." IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | July 3, 2014
A new study suggests Internet congestion can be a problem, but it is often intermittent and temporary. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 26, 2014
PHP core developer Dmitry Stogov recently started a new branch of the language called PHP Next Generation.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 3, 2014
Researchers have developed a system that can give a satellite orbiting the moon faster Internet access than many U.S. homes get. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | May 27, 2014
Researchers at IBM and Fujifilm are developing a magnetic tape prototype that can store 85.9 billion bits of data per square inch.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | May 21, 2014