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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
The Internet will face several milestones this year as it undergoes a major technical upgrade, moving from IPv4 to IPv6. This transition could result in major...Network World From ACM TechNews | January 5, 2012
There is a shortage of information technology (IT) workers in 18 states and Washington, DC, according to Dice.com. The shortage will probably drive entry-level...Network World From ACM TechNews | December 17, 2011
Password less authentication is an experimental two-factor authentication method designed to ensure the security of online transactions made via cell phones.Network World From ACM TechNews | December 9, 2011
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity announced that it is looking for new ideas that may become the basis of cutting-edge machine-learning...Network World From ACM TechNews | December 8, 2011
If you had to pick 10 technology-related trends that will affect your enterprise infrastructure in the coming year, Gartner says you'd do well to start with virtualization...Network World From ACM News | November 1, 2011
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced the $50,000 Shredder Challenge, which asks participants to devise new methods or techniques for piecing...Network World From ACM TechNews | October 31, 2011
What is Duqu? Duqu (pronounced dyu kyu) is primarily a remote-access Trojan targeted at a limited number of organizations in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East...Network World From ACM News | October 21, 2011
At the recent Biometric Consortium Conference, researchers unveiled several prototypes of advanced camera-based systems that could be used to remotely capture...Network World From ACM TechNews | September 30, 2011
University of Wisconsin, Madison researchers have developed Airshark, software that enables wireless access points to automatically detect radio-frequency interference...Network World From ACM TechNews | September 26, 2011
Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin says in an interview that the desktop platform's relevance is diminishing as technologies such as smartphones, connected...Network World From ACM TechNews | September 13, 2011
The Linux Foundation and FOSSBazaar have released the Software Package Data Exchange, a data exchange specification that tracks license information in a standardized...Network World From ACM TechNews | August 26, 2011
Big data analytics technology is not meeting enterprise needs, according to 97% of data scientists polled by Revolution Analytics at the recent Joint Statistical...Network World From ACM TechNews | August 17, 2011
Institute of Science and Technology Austria professor Krishnendu Chatterjee recently was awarded grants from the European Research Council and Microsoft to support...Network World From ACM TechNews | August 15, 2011
Law enforcement may be interested to see if anyone actually shows up to this year to accept the annual Pwnie Award for Epic Ownage at Black Hat, since all the nominees...Network World From ACM News | July 26, 2011
The U.S. Department of Transportation plans to launch a program over the next few months to test new wireless auto safety systems in the real world. Network World From ACM TechNews | July 19, 2011
Cisco chief futurist Dave Evans recently outlined what he believes will be the top 10 technologies that will change the world in the next 10 years.Network World From ACM TechNews | July 18, 2011
China recently launched its newest supercomputer, known as the Tianhe-1 system, using the same technology that it used to build the Tianhe-1A system. Network World From ACM TechNews | July 11, 2011
Microsoft researchers are studying how to differentiate spammer email accounts from legitimate users' accounts, and have found that attacker accounts do not have...Network World From ACM TechNews | July 5, 2011