Friendster is a social network that was founded in 2002, a year before Myspace and two years before Facebook.Technology Review From ACM Careers | February 28, 2013
A beige office block in Shanghai's suburbs belonging to the Chinese army became world famous on Tuesday after Mandiant, a Washington-based computer security company...Technology Review From ACM News | February 21, 2013
A new method for compressing output data without losing its essential features in exascale computing is based on a Hollywood special effects technique. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | February 13, 2013
Researchers have created software that predicts when and where disease outbreaks might occur based on two decades of New York Times articles and other online data...Technology Review From ACM News | February 4, 2013
At this year's Consumer Electronics Show, chipmaker Intel demoed its latest big idea: "perceptual computing."Technology Review From ACM News | January 28, 2013
The next time you go shopping for a smartphone, you might see some unfamiliar software on the screens lining store shelves.Technology Review From ACM News | January 22, 2013
Both Ford and General Motors announded at the 2013 International CES event that they want software developers to create apps for their cars, and that they will...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 14, 2013
The amount of time and money needed to sequence genomes continued to fall in 2012, perhaps to no one’s surprise.Technology Review From ACM News | January 8, 2013
Microsoft has developed and publicly demonstrated nearly instantaneous Chinese-to-English spoken word translation software capable of preserving the distinctive...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2012
A decade and a half into the Web revolution, we do much of our banking and shopping online. So why can't we vote over the Internet? The answer is that voting presents...Technology Review From ACM News | November 5, 2012
While most of the headlines about Microsoft this fall will concern its new operating system, Windows 8, and its new Surface tablet, the company is also working...Technology Review From ACM News | October 23, 2012
The U.S. government's retaliatory capability in response to cyberattacks on critical infrastructure is limited by a dearth of technology. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 23, 2012
Computerized hospital equipment is increasingly vulnerable to malware infections, according to participants in a recent government panel. These infections can clog...Technology Review From ACM News | October 18, 2012
Two high-profile entrepreneurs say they want to put a DNA sequencing machine on the surface of Mars in a bid to prove the existence of extraterrestrial life.Technology Review From ACM Careers | October 18, 2012
In a few short years, the technologies found in today's mobile devices—touch screens, gyroscopes, and voice-control software, to name a few—have radically transformed...Technology Review From ACM News | October 11, 2012
One of modern physics' most cherished ideas is quantum chromodynamics, the theory that describes the strong nuclear force, how it binds quarks and gluons into protons...Technology Review From ACM News | October 10, 2012
University of Rochester researchers have developed Chorus, an approach to virtual personal assistants that creates a smart artificial chat partner from small contributions...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 10, 2012