Professor G. Anthony Gorry of Rice University's Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning is concerned that our empathy toward other people — and our ability...The Chronicle of Higher Education From ACM TechNews | September 8, 2009
University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) researchers have received a five-year, $5 million National Science Foundation grant to establish the Simulation, Visualization...niversity of Texas at San Antonio From ACM TechNews | September 3, 2009
Tel Aviv University professor Eran Halperin and researchers from the University of California, Berkeley have developed a mathematical formula that can be used to...American Friends of Tel Aviv niversity From ACM TechNews | September 2, 2009
A team of engineers at Johns Hopkins University have devised innovative computer software that can sift through hundreds of genetic mutations and highlight the...Johns Hopkins niversity From ACM News | September 2, 2009
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech professor Jean Peccoud has been awarded a three-year, $1.42 million grant from the National Science Foundation...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute From ACM TechNews | September 1, 2009
The Masterworks program at ACM's SC09 conference, which takes place Nov. 14-20 in Portland, Ore., will address how high performance computing (HPC) is being used...Business Wire From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2009
Modern hospitals provide a glimpse into how people will interact with machines in the future, according to a new Gartner report on the future of human-computer...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2009
SmartSynch Inc., a smart grid infrastructure company using Internet protocol via public wireless networks, is partnering with the University of Mississippi to reduce...niversity of Mississippi From ACM News | August 31, 2009
Innovative software developed in Europe that makes it easier to organize, search and navigate collections of digital images will soon be available to media agencies... From ICT Results | August 27, 2009
New and experienced orthopedic surgeons can improve their surgical skills with an innovative software surveillance system that tracks their instruments during surgery...Methodist Hospital, Houston From ACM News | August 28, 2009
Like a ghost ship, a rogue software program that glided onto the Internet last November has confounded the efforts of top security experts to eradicate the program...The New York Times From ACM News | August 27, 2009
Researchers working in medical nanorobotics are creating technologies that could lead to novel health-care applications, such as new ways of accessing areas of...Kirk L. Kroeker From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2009
Canadian researchers have developed a robot capable of detecting tumor tissue in half the time it takes a human surgeon and with 40 percent greater accuracy while...EurekAlert From ACM TechNews | August 25, 2009
The U.S. National Science Foundation's Expeditions in Computing program has awarded the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Henry Samueli School of Engineering...CLA News From ACM TechNews | August 18, 2009
National ICT Australia has developed AutoMap, a Linux-based system designed to make personal navigation systems more accurate. AutoMap uses machine-vision techniques...Computerworld Australia From ACM TechNews | August 17, 2009
A group of "spiderbots" released inside Mount St. Helens in Washington is the first network of volcano sensors capable of automatically communicating with each...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 13, 2009
Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the University of Michigan, and Princeton University have demonstrated that a Sequoia electronic...niversity of California, San Diego From ACM TechNews | August 12, 2009
SUPER, a European research project, has developed software that expedites companies' development or adjustment of their business processes while realizing cost...ICT Results From ACM TechNews | August 12, 2009
Robots are limited by the fact that they are often designed and built in isolation for specific functions, and roboticists have started to consider what aspects...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 12, 2009
Purdue University researchers are developing a new class of microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices called resonators that contain vibrating, hair-thin structures...Purdue niversity News From ACM TechNews | August 12, 2009