Researchers at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Paris unveiled electronic ink displays that can bend as a form of input. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | May 3, 2013
Software developed by a Japanese research institute can determine what people are dreaming about by analyzing their brain waves. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | April 10, 2013
Artificial intelligence in videogames should improve to incorporate more intelligent characters into games. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 27, 2013
The Swiss National Supercomputing Center will upgrade its supercomputer to more accurately predict the weather in the mountains of the Swiss Alps. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 25, 2013
A new toolkit can help guide the selection of the most energy-efficient server to meet specific needs. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 7, 2013
Intergovernmental organizations such as the International Telecommunication Union play a major role in Internet control and regulation, despite some calling for...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | February 5, 2013
Intel is developing thin fiber optics that will use lasers and light as a faster way to move data inside computers. The technology will be implemented at the motherboard...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | January 18, 2013
Women and girls are falling behind men in terms of Internet access in many parts of the world, causing them to miss out on the economic and social benefits of being...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | January 15, 2013
The U.S. Library of Congress expects to finish the initial stage of building a Twitter archive by the end of January. The Library is storing 500 million tweets...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | January 9, 2013
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed integrated circuits that can stick to the skin and in some cases dissolve in water when they...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | December 12, 2012
The Japanese government is sponsoring a project to boost data transmission speeds over optical fiber, with a target of 400-Gbit/second per channel by 2014. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | December 11, 2012
North Carolina State University researchers have developed software that runs in conjunction with the Message Passing Interface, a library for splitting applications...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 26, 2012
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Titan supercomputer system, a Cray XK7, was named the world's fastest supercomputer in the latest edition of the Top500 list. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 15, 2012
Cray's new XC30 supercomputer, known as Aries, features a new interconnect and a new routing topology that together could dramatically improve internal bandwidth...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 8, 2012
Several U.S. federal agencies are embracing the collaborative model of open source software development and are releasing code back to the general public. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | October 25, 2012
Researchers presenting at the recent User Interface Software Technology conference demonstrated projects that took advantage of Synaptics' new pressure-sensitive...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | October 17, 2012
The World Wide Web Consortium recently launched Web Platform Docs, a Web site with tutorials and other documentation that provides information on current Web standards...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | October 11, 2012
The Internet Engineering Task Force is working on the next generation of Hypertext Transfer Protocol, says Mark Nottingham, chairman of the IETF HTTP working group...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | October 10, 2012
Hitachi hopes to bring new storage technology capable of holding data for hundreds of millions of years to market by 2015. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | September 27, 2012