Georgia Tech researcher Nina Balcan recently received a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship for her work in developing machine learning methods that can be...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 12, 2011
Stanford University professor Jure Leskovec is studying the traces human activity leaves on the Internet and how that data can be used to analyze human behavior...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 11, 2011
New standards under development as part of HTML5 neglect important security issues, according to a European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) report...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 5, 2011
IBM researchers have created a data storage system that can scan 10 billion files in 43 minutes, using flash memory to store the metadata, which the storage system...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | July 26, 2011
The United States and Russia are collaborating to lower the chances of a cybersecurity incident that could potentially harm relations between the two nations, according...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | July 19, 2011
XBRL U.S. has created a competition to encourage the development of better tools that work with the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) standard for financial...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | July 13, 2011
Just a few colleges and universities worldwide offer dedicated degree programs for business intelligence, despite the quickly growing popularity of analytics technology...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 30, 2011
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
Google has released DOM Snitch, an experimental extension for its Chrome browser that enables developers to scan Web applications and flag code that could be exploited...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 28, 2011
A new program from Princeton University stands to give data center administrators far greater control over what end users can and cannot access on a computer. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 24, 2011
Cloud service providers could be doing themselves or their customers a disservice by relying on imprecise metrics for billing, says Carnegie Mellon University researcher...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 23, 2011
By 2018, Silicon Graphics International plans to build supercomputers that are 500 times faster than the most powerful systems today, using Intel's many integrated...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 22, 2011
Microsoft Research India scientists have developed LiteGreen, power-saving technology that can virtualize enterprise desktops in a virtual machine and migrate them...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 8, 2011
Linux has announced an update to the Linux OS kernel, which includes deep changes that will enhance performance, especially for running databases and other programs...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 18, 2011
U.S. and U.K. law enforcement officials are lobbying ICANN to impose more stringent regulations on registrars for generic top-level domains.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 25, 2010
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
The recently announced Open Source Data Center Initiative is looking to apply open source principles to the design and construction of data centers. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 12, 2010
Researchers have incorporated faster software for generating three-dimensional (3D) images into Firefox and plan to release the modified version of the browser...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 5, 2010
Researchers at IBM's laboratories in Zurich have developed a new algorithm that can sort, correlate, and analyze millions of random data sets in minutes. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 1, 2010
SpringSource recently released version 1.7 of Groovy, a dynamically compiled computer language that runs on Sun Microsystems' Java Virtual Machine (JVM). By running...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | January 19, 2010