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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.


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Robotic Arms

Barrett Technologies is working with the U.S. National Science Foundation's Small Business Innovation Research program to develop a Whole Arm Manipulator and a...

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U.s. Supercomputer Experts Assess Radiation Risks Amid Crisis at Japanese Nuclear Facility

The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration has enlisted a team of supercomputer experts to measure the radiation risks caused by the Japanese nuclear crisis...

A Small Quantum Leap
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A Small Quantum Leap

Northwestern University researchers say they have developed a switching device that could help lead to the creation of a quantum network.

Tv's Next Wave: Tuning In to You
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Tv's Next Wave: Tuning In to You

The television is channeling you. Data-gathering firms and technology companies are aggressively matching people's TV-viewing behavior with other personal data—in...

The Quantum Singularity
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The Quantum Singularity

MIT professor Scott Aaronson and grad student Alex Arkhipov will present a paper at ACM's 43rd Symposium on Theory of Computing that describes an experiment, which...

Retooling Algorithms
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Retooling Algorithms

Charles Leiserson and his team are experts at designing parallel algorithms—including one for a chess-playing program that outperformed IBM’s Deep Blue.

Hyperlocal Forecasting
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Hyperlocal Forecasting

Masao Kanamitsu is using the Texas Advanced Computing Center's Ranger supercomputer to conduct downscaling experiments, which involves taking the output from the...

World's Smallest Computer Watches You
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World's Smallest Computer Watches You

Researchers recently unveiled the first complete millimeter-scale computing system that is about the size of the letter "N" on the back of a penny (or about the...

Memristors: Pass or Fail?
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Memristors: Pass or Fail?

The device may revolutionize data storage, replacing flash memory and perhaps even disks. Whether they can be reliably and cheaply manufactured, though, is an open...

Evaluating Government Funding
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Evaluating Government Funding

A presidential report asserts the value of U.S. government investments in the cross-agency Networking and Information Technology Research...

Grid Computing's Future
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Grid Computing's Future

Outreach programs and usability improvements are drawing many researchers to grid computing from disciplines that have not traditionally used such resources.

Heading Into the Bonus Round
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Heading Into the Bonus Round

A bonus round is something one usually associates with the likes of a TV game show, not a pioneering deep space mission. "We are definitely in the bonus round...

Cloud Computing at Nist: Two New Draft Documents and a Wiki
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Cloud Computing at Nist: Two New Draft Documents and a Wiki

NIST has issued two new draft documents on cloud computing for public comment and set up a new NIST Cloud Computing Collaboration site to enable two-way communication...

'radical Redesign' ­rged For Future Computers
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'radical Redesign' ­rged For Future Computers

University of Maryland professor Uzi Vishkin believes that computer architecture needs to be redesigned in order to effectively use multicore processors. 

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Stanford and Intel Test the Boundaries of Visual Computing

Researchers from Intel and Stanford University are collaborating on a five-year, $10 million project to advance the field of visual computing. Intel is funding...

Maurice Wilkes: The Last Pioneer
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Maurice Wilkes: The Last Pioneer

Computer science has lost not only a great scientist, but an important link to the electronic computing revolution that took place in the 1940s.

Information Theory After Shannon
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Information Theory After Shannon

Purdue University's Science of Information Center seeks new principles to answer the question 'What is information?'

Chipping Away at Greenhouse Gases
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Chipping Away at Greenhouse Gases

Power-saving processor algorithms have the potential to create significant energy and cost savings.

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Grin Plasmonics: A Practical Path to Superfast Computing

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley researchers have completed the first experimental demonstration of gradient index (GRIN) plasmonics, a technology...

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The Fantastical Promise of Reversible Computing

University of South Florida researchers are studying computation that takes place in steps that are time reversible, known as reversible computing, as a way to...
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