Furman University will use a $340,000 grant for a new installation of solar panels that are expected to quadruple the solar energy output on campus.Furman niversity From ACM News | July 9, 2010
At about 4 a.m. Wednesday, NATO warplanes dropped precision-guided munitions on a band of Afghans who seemed like militants in the provincial district of Andor....Wired From ACM News | July 8, 2010
Physicists at NIST have demonstrated an ion trap with a built-in optical fiber that collects light emitted by single ions, allowing quantum information stored in...National Institute of Standards and Technology From ACM News | July 8, 2010
Device drivers account for most crashes and even introduce security problems; a new testing tool could provide an early warning.Technology Review From ACM News | July 6, 2010
University of Washington engineers have built an insect-like robot with hundreds of tiny legs. The UW model can carry more than seven times its own weight and move...University of Washington From ACM News | July 6, 2010
Research led by Ph.D. student Sachin Kadloor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are investigating how much information can be exchanged via molecular...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 1, 2010
Intel engineers have created computer processors with circuits capable of random behavior, a development that could lead to secure cryptography keys.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 30, 2010
Integrated circuits are constantly being made smaller, faster, and cheaper, but circuit scaling is perpetually in danger of hitting a wall that must be maneuvered...American Institute of Physics From ACM News | June 30, 2010
More than half a million Sony Vaio F and C series laptops sold this year contain a software bug that could lead them to overheat, the company said. A bug in the...Computerworld From ACM News | June 30, 2010
DARPA announced an initiative to realize a quintillion calculations/second computer to "meet the relentlessly increasing demands for greater performance, higher...Network World From ACM TechNews | June 29, 2010
The Tokyo Institute of Technology will build Japan's first 2.4-petaflop supercomputer, the TSUBAME 2.0, a world-class research tool for users in both the industrial...MarketWatch From ACM News | June 29, 2010
University of Illinois at Chicago assistant professor Craig Foster received a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to create computer models that analyze physical...niversity of Illinois at Chicago From ACM News | June 29, 2010
After the math department at the University of Texas noticed some of its Dell computers failing, Dell examined the machines. The company came up with an unusual...The New York Times From ACM News | June 29, 2010
Inspired by the sandfish lizard, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are collaborating with Northwestern University's Paul Umbanhowar to develop...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 28, 2010
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday (June 28) will sign a memorandum that makes 500 megahertz of wireless spectrum, currently controlled by the federal government...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | June 28, 2010
A new system developed by researchers at Australian National University uses quantum memory for light more efficiently than similar storage devices. ANU News From ACM TechNews | June 28, 2010
The emerging field of magnonics is attracting researchers because of its possible role in the development of transistorless logic circuits, and researchers are...PhysOrg.com From ACM TechNews | June 28, 2010
Bacteria communicate with molecules, and now computer scientists want to copy them. Their first task: to derive a mathematical theory of molecular communication...Technology Review From ACM News | June 28, 2010
The behavioral laws of insects have the potential to give robots a greater complexity of movement without the need for high computational power, says the Ecole...Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne From ACM TechNews | June 25, 2010
A study finds problems, but also offers software fixes that could help cell phones last significantly longer between charges. Technology Review From ACM News | June 25, 2010