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
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
Ohio State University's David Woods and Texas A&M's Robin Murphy have proposed three new laws of robotics that can be applied to robots available today. The new...EDN From ACM TechNews | August 28, 2009
Independent inventor Le Trung recently demonstrated the newest version of his robot-controlling software called Bio Robot Artificial Intelligence Neural System...PhysOrg.com From ACM TechNews | August 28, 2009
Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory have received a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. National Science... niversity of Illinois at Chicago From ACM News | August 28, 2009
Scientists at the Universidade Nova De Lisboa, in Portugal, and the Universitas Indonesia, in Indonesia, are researching artificial intelligence and the application...AlphaGalileo From ACM TechNews | August 26, 2009
Researchers at UC Irvine are using sensor technology to test how water pipes are damaged in an earthquake, and the results could be used to build a public alert...Orange County Register (CA) From ACM TechNews | August 27, 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
Robots that lend a very human-like helping hand to healthy elderly people with limited mobility may be on the horizon, thanks to three University of Illinois at...niversity of Illinois at Chicago From ACM News | August 27, 2009
The sandwich recipe recently concocted by scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may prove tasty for computer chip designers...National Institute of Standards and Technology From ACM News | August 27, 2009
Fujitsu is building a 10-petaflop supercomputer based on its upcoming Sparc64 VIIIfx processor. The new processor has eight processor cores, with each running...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 26, 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
The promise of parallel computing has run afoul of the harsh reality of Amdahl's Law, which puts a ceiling on the benefit of converting sequential code to parallel...Gregory Goth From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2009
The European Union-funded GridEcon project has developed a platform for trading computing resources and buying and selling standardized computing resources. GridEcon's...ICT Results From ACM TechNews | August 24, 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
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor John Rogers has led the development of a new technique for manufacturing tiny inorganic light-emitting diodes...BBC News From ACM TechNews | August 24, 2009
Robots programmed to find food concealed their performance from other robots by the 50th generation in a research project at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 21, 2009
Scientists at Purdue University and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are adapting the same methods used in fusion-energy research toView...Purdue niversity News From ACM TechNews | August 21, 2009
The continuance of Moore's Law—the axiom that the number of devices that can be economically installed on a processor chip doubles every other year—will mainly...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | August 19, 2009
How do you handle the tiny components needed for constructing nanoscale devices? A European consortium has built two microrobotic demonstrators that can automatically...ICT Results From ICT Results | August 19, 2009