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Thought Experiment: Build a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain
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Thought Experiment: Build a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain

Henry Markram believes his Human Brain Project can simulate all 86 billion neurons in the human brain as well as the 100 trillion connections among them. 

Why Even Google Will Embrace Cellphone Chips in the Data Center
From ACM News

Why Even Google Will Embrace Cellphone Chips in the Data Center

Jason Mars is a rarity. He's an outsider with regular access to Google's data centers.

Google's Chief Internet Evangelist on Creating the Interplanetary Internet
From ACM Opinion

Google's Chief Internet Evangelist on Creating the Interplanetary Internet

When some future Mars colonist is able to open his browser and watch a cat in a shark suit chasing a duck while riding a roomba, they will have Vint Cerf to thank...

'chinese Google' Opens Artificial-Intelligence Lab in Silicon Valley
From ACM News

'chinese Google' Opens Artificial-Intelligence Lab in Silicon Valley

It doesn't look like much.

Tech Titans Plot to Reprogram Internet of the Future
From ACM TechNews

Tech Titans Plot to Reprogram Internet of the Future

 Many tech firms are  collaborating to develop an open source software-defined networking project known as OpenDaylight. 

This Material Will Power the Future--If Somebody Can Profit From It
From ACM TechNews

This Material Will Power the Future--If Somebody Can Profit From It

Researchers are working to prove that graphene will enable significant advances in material science, although skeptics question its commercial potential.

Hong Kong Looks to Build ­nderground Datacentre Caves
From ACM News

Hong Kong Looks to Build ­nderground Datacentre Caves

With more than seven million people squeezed in to around 1,100sq km of land space, and property prices regularly ranking among the highest in the world, Hong Kong...

Stuxnet Missing Link Found, Resolves Some Mysteries Around the Cyberweapon
From ACM News

Stuxnet Missing Link Found, Resolves Some Mysteries Around the Cyberweapon

As Iran met in Kazakhstan this week with members of the UN Security Council to discuss its nuclear program, researchers announced that a new variant of the sophisticated...

Three Radical New Brain-Mapping Tools Scientists Want Obama to Deliver
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Three Radical New Brain-Mapping Tools Scientists Want Obama to Deliver

The Obama administration wants to make a huge investment in mapping the human brain,according to The New York Times. How can they get the most bang for their buck...

DARPA Wants Teeny-Tiny Fluids to Cool Down Next-Gen Microchips
From ACM TechNews

DARPA Wants Teeny-Tiny Fluids to Cool Down Next-Gen Microchips

DARPA researchers want to embed stacked microchips with tiny fluid channels to circulate small drops of water as microfluidic cooling systems.

 DARPA Wants Teeny-Tiny Fluids to Cool Down Next-Gen Microchips
From ACM News

DARPA Wants Teeny-Tiny Fluids to Cool Down Next-Gen Microchips

The Pentagon's mad scientists have concocted a plan to keep the miniature, stacked brains of tomorrow's advanced computers cool enough to power next-gen technological...

Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook
From ACM Opinion

Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook

Jay Parikh sits at a desk inside Building 16 at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and his administrative assistant, Genie Samuel, sits next to...

The Future of Search
From ACM TechNews

The Future of Search

Google fellow Amit Singhal and colleagues are working on improving Web search so that Google will understand terms as things with an Internet life and a history...

7 Secret Ways America's Stealth Armada Stays Off the Radar
From ACM News

7 Secret Ways America's Stealth Armada Stays Off the Radar

It's no secret how America's stealth warplanes primarily evade enemy radars.

Why the Frontiers of Biology Might Be Inside a Computer Chip
From ACM News

Why the Frontiers of Biology Might Be Inside a Computer Chip

When David Harel started the experiment, the petri dish of mouse cells looked just like any other.

With Millions Paid in Hacker Bug Bounties, Is the Internet Any Safer?
From ACM Careers

With Millions Paid in Hacker Bug Bounties, Is the Internet Any Safer?

The night before the end of Google's Pwnium contest at the CanSecWest security conference this year in Vancouver, a tall teen dressed in khaki shorts, tube socks...

Intel Wants to Put a Supercomputer in Your Pocket
From ACM News

Intel Wants to Put a Supercomputer in Your Pocket

Five years from now, says Intel, your phone could double as a supercomputer. That's the goal of Intel's experimental Single-chip Cloud Computer project, or SCC.

Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center
From ACM News

Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center

If you're looking for the beating heart of the digital age—a physical location where the scope, grandeur, and geekiness of the kingdom of bits become manifest—you...

Remembering Jon Postel—and the Day He Hijacked the Internet
From ACM News

Remembering Jon Postel—and the Day He Hijacked the Internet

One January day in 1998, Jon Postel emailed eight of the 12 organizations that handled the address books for the entire internet.

Paging Dr. Watson: Artificial Intelligence As a Prescription For Health Care
From ACM News

Paging Dr. Watson: Artificial Intelligence As a Prescription For Health Care

Everyone agrees health care in the United States is a colossal mess, and IBM is betting that artificially intelligent supercomputers are just what the doctor ordered...
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