The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding scientist Shane Mueller's efforts to expand upon the Turing test as part of an attempt to...Wired From ACM TechNews | September 15, 2010
University of California, San Diego professor Yuanyuan Zhou recently received several grants for research projects aimed at making computer systems more reliable...California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology From ACM TechNews | September 15, 2010
As industry seeks improved battery power sources, cutting-edge microscopy performed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is providing...Oak Ridge National Laboratory From ACM News | September 15, 2010
Two separate research groups have developed pressure-sensing devices that can match human skin in sensitivity and flexibility. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 13, 2010
Researchers at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground have developed a program that can determine the positional and angular motion of relatively stationary test objects...Yuma Sun From ACM TechNews | September 13, 2010
Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and Brigham Young University have developed an optical device that has the slowest-ever light propagation...niversity of California, Santa Cruz From ACM TechNews | September 10, 2010
Researchers in the United States and Europe have created the first geometric "atlas" of the Internet as part of a project to prevent the world's most ubiquitous...niversity of California, San Diego From ACM News | September 10, 2010
UCLA researchers say they have fabricated the fastest graphene transistors ever using a nanowire as the self-aligned gate. Their fabrication technique enabled...CLA Newsroom From ACM TechNews | September 9, 2010
European roboticists have developed software that enables a modular robot to adapt when one part stops working. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | September 8, 2010
University of Waterloo scientists have developed Multiple Memory Material Technology, a new manufacturing process that they say makes smart materials even smarter...niversity of Waterloo From ACM TechNews | September 8, 2010
University of Southampton researchers have developed a data transmission system that could benefit optical communications networks by eliminating phase noise from...University of Southampton From ACM TechNews | September 8, 2010
A new smartphone chip prototype under development at the University of California, San Diego will improve smartphone efficiency by making use of "dark silicon"—the...niversity of California, San Diego From ACM News | September 2, 2010
University of California, Berkeley researchers have developed a robot that can pair and fold socks. The robot can determine whether a sock is inside out based on...The Daily Californian From ACM TechNews | September 2, 2010
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light have...Norwegian niversity of Science and Technology From ACM TechNews | September 1, 2010
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new class of electronic logic device in which current is switched by an electric field generated...Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM News | September 2, 2010
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded a $10 million, five-year grant to researchers who will explore software-assisted monitoring of system components...University of California, San Diego From ACM News | September 2, 2010
Newly discovered materials called topological insulators could clear the way for blisteringly fast laptops and smartphones that don't warm your lap or singe your...New Scientist From ACM News | September 1, 2010
NEI Corp. and UC San Diego recently won a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer contract from NASA to develop and implement high energy density cathode materials...niversity of California, San Diego From ACM News | August 31, 2010
University of North Carolina researchers are collaborating with the Naval Postgraduate School to develop an intelligent-training system for the military using automatically...The Charlotte Observer From ACM TechNews | August 30, 2010
Physicists at the Naval Research Laboratory and the University of Wisconsin-Madison predict that a family of well-known silicon surfaces, stabilized by chains of...Naval Research Laboratory From ACM TechNews | August 30, 2010