As part of the America Competes Reauthorization Act of 2010, the U.S. National Institutes of Standards and Technology has been instructed to expand cooperation...Network World From ACM TechNews | January 12, 2011
Intel researchers are working with football helmet manufacturers and several universities to develop technology that can monitor brain damage in real time and build...Network World From ACM TechNews | November 17, 2010
John Holdren, the White House's top science and technology adviser, says the FCC's national broadband plan would lead to an improvement in the productivity of science...Network World From ACM TechNews | November 2, 2010
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich's Dirk Helbing and Dresden University of Technology's Stefan Lammer have proposed using a combination of sensing technology...Network World From ACM TechNews | October 6, 2010
Five U.S. agencies recently announced plans to fund innovative research and development of robotic technologies with the goal of enriching human lives. DARPA seeks...Network World From ACM TechNews | September 30, 2010
The U.S. military wants more authority to protect the nation's cyberinfrastructure because it depends on power grids, transportation networks, and financial systems...Network World From ACM TechNews | August 27, 2010
Broadband adoption in the United States is slowing, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. The number of U.S. residents with broadband Internet service...Network World From ACM TechNews | August 17, 2010
Java/J2EE has become the most difficult skill set and position to fill, according to a new Dice.com survey. Java development has supplanted IT security and virtualization...Network World From ACM TechNews | July 13, 2010
British historians have launched a project to digitize messages intercepted from Germany's Enigma machine during World War II. The encrypted messages were decoded...Network World From ACM TechNews | June 9, 2010
The U.S. Commerce Department and various government agencies are creating an Internet Policy Task Force to examine policy frameworks and ways in which the "challenges...Network World From ACM TechNews | April 29, 2010
U.S. employment rose for three high-tech job categories in 2010's first quarter, according to IEEE-USA, citing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Network World From ACM TechNews | April 28, 2010
U.S. government efforts to enforce H-1B visa rules could reduce the demand for the 65,000 available visas for fiscal year 2011, for which applicants could petition...Network World From ACM TechNews | April 6, 2010
A new Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology report suggests that technically oriented women may face gender discrimination in their jobs at high-tech firms...Network World From ACM TechNews | March 24, 2010
Howard Schmidt, U.S. President Obama's choice for cybersecurity czar, has previously worked in both the public and private security sectors and also has written...Network World From ACM TechNews | December 23, 2009
Countries that want to disrupt other nations' government, banking, and media resources can simply hire cybercriminals to launch botnet attacks, according to new...Network World From ACM TechNews | November 20, 2009
Harvard University researchers have received a $10 million U.S. National Science Foundation grant to create a colony of flying robotic bees called RoboBees. The...Network World From ACM TechNews | October 15, 2009
Heath care technology researchers are taking advantage of faster wireless networks and developing new "telehealth" sensors and devices as part of a booming new...Network World From ACM TechNews | September 16, 2009
Domain name abuse continues to be a serious problem, which is too often proliferated by some registrars who are willing to overlook phony registration information...Network World From ACM TechNews | September 15, 2009
Enigma@home is attempting to break one of three original messages generated by the Enigma machine, which was intercepted by the Allies in 1942. The Enigma M4 machine...Network World From ACM TechNews | September 4, 2009