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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.
A standard for a technology to deliver as much as 7 gigabits per second (Gbps) over an extremely high unlicensed frequency band has been completed by the Wireless...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | December 14, 2009
A Cray supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has regained the title of the world's most powerful supercomputer, overtaking the installation that was ranked...IDG News Service From ACM News | November 16, 2009
Code analysis vendor Coverity reports that the number of defects in open source projects is on the decline. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | September 25, 2009
A new system that could make the cooling of data centers vastly more efficient has been tested by a team of engineers led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | September 14, 2009
Engineering students at National Taiwan University recently demonstrated a robot that is capable of creating two- and three-dimensional maps of an area and then...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2009
Fujitsu is building a 10-petaflop supercomputer based on its upcoming Sparc64 VIIIfx processor. The new processor has eight processor cores, with each running...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 26, 2009
Several companies and researchers have offered predictions for when the supply of IPv4 addresses will be exhausted. Hurricane Electric, for example, recently introduced...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | July 27, 2009
A pair of recently released reports, authored by University of Chicago professor Dennis Carlton, says that introducing new top-level domains (TLDs) will not force...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 16, 2009
A new report from the Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband (SHLB) Coalition says that schools, libraries, and healthcare providers in the United States need...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 15, 2009
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
Researchers at Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) believe that resistive-random access memory (RRAM) could replace dynamic random access memory...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | April 22, 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
The new Fujitsu FX1 supercomputer in Japan has a peak performance of 110.6 teraflops, making it the most powerful machine in Japan and the most efficient supercomputer...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | April 8, 2009
Honda Motor's Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) and Shimadzu have co-developed a brain-machine interface system that enables people...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | April 3, 2009
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton says that technology companies can play a significant role in solving the world's most difficult challenges if they apply their...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 27, 2009
Google has added semantic technology to its Web search engine, which will enable it to identify associations and concepts related to a query, improving the list...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 25, 2009
Increasing the number of processing cores has become the main way of improving the performance of server and PC chips, but any added benefits will be significantly...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 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
Distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks are now being used by governments as another way to counter opposition, warns Arbor Networks senior security researcher...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 17, 2009
Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems have developed a touch screen mirror that can remind people when to takeView...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 11, 2009