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From ACM NewsSandrine Ceurstemont Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 1, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich says his company is investigating and investing in technologies that promise to transcend the computing capabilities of current PCs and...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | February 14, 2017
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Manuel Blum believes online passwords can be made more secure by creating what he calls "human computable" passwords. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | September 2, 2015
Many of the world's top computer science experts met last week to determine how the widespread collection of data about consumers can be prevented from causing...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2015
Researchers at Japan's AIST and the Japan Science and Technology Agency have developed stretchable, tough electronics that could be incorporated into clothing,...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 14, 2015
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
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
Google technology evangelist Vint Cerf recently suggested that increasing bandwidth capacity exponentially could lead to more efficient ways of streaming media...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 30, 2011
Researchers at IBM Research India, India's National Institute of Design, and the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology are investigating...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 15, 2010
China will require that Web filtering software be included with all computers sold in the country, another step up in its efforts to control pornography and other...IDG News Service From ACM News | June 8, 2009
Technology that changes how people give commands to computers could make touch-based PCs more popular and transform the traditional desktop into a "room computer"...IDG News Service From ACM News | April 23, 2009
Research teams from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland and Inverse Path say they have discovered new techniques to read what a person is...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 19, 2009
Sun Microsystems is working with the European Commission-funded open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards (AEGIS) Project to improve...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | December 22, 2008
IBM researchers' list of promising new technologies includes the ability to "talk" to the Web; information collection and retrieval systems that cover us when we...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | December 19, 2008