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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.
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
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
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
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
Five information technology and equipment firms launched the Industrial Internet Consortium Thursday to guide standards for the Internet of Things. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 28, 2014
The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium has proposed a faster and more power-efficient specification for its emerging Hybrid Memory Cube memory technology. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | February 26, 2014
Neural networks modeled on the human brain have advanced over the past 20 years and are now making their way into mainstream computing.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | December 20, 2013
The AllSeen Alliance has developed an open source framework to enable systems to discover, connect, and interact with each other, regardless of manufacturer or...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | December 13, 2013
Researchers have tested the feasibility of creating a covert acoustical mesh network between multiple laptops to exchange data using near-ultrasonic frequencies...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | December 6, 2013
Intel's proposed new optical interconnect, MXC, could be a key step in standardizing optical technology and bringing it to servers faster.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 20, 2013
Facebook says it has developed a virtual machine that can run the PHP Web programming language nine times as fast as PHP natively on large systems. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | July 31, 2013
China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer has overtaken the U.S.'s Titan system as the world's most powerful computer, according to the latest Top500 List, a twice-yearly...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 17, 2013
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
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
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