Regina E. Dugan, the new director of the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is visiting universities across the United States in an attempt...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2009
A report from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) concludes that the federal government's role in the underwriting of science and engineering research and...Campus Technology From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2009
Carnegie Mellon NewsCarnegie Mellon University's Ole Mengshoel has received a two-year, $498,000 U.S. National Science Foundation grant to develop new computer... From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2009
There has been some concern that the new agreement between ICANN and the U.S. Department of Commerce will not provide enough accountability. Under the new agreement...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2009
A panel of officials says the United States is far behind in addressing cyber-security threats. "Taking down the grid for months comes as close to a nuclear attack...NPR.org From ACM News | October 7, 2009
Alan Holland, a researcher at the Cork Constraint Computation Centre at University College Cork, Ireland, advocates using an online prediction market to value toxic...Ismini Scouras From ACM News | October 7, 2009
"Cyber war!" flashes on the screen at an Internet security conference. The next world war could take place in cyberspace, the UN telecommunications agency chief...Agence France-Presse From ACM News | October 6, 2009
The mastery of light through technology was the theme of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored breakthroughs in fiber...The New York Times From ACM News | October 6, 2009
Information and communications technology (ICT) needs to play a bigger part in helping reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, says Malcolm Johnson, director of...Total Telecom From ACM TechNews | October 6, 2009
Ben Reis at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School led a research team that developed software that could spot warning signs of domestic abuse. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | October 6, 2009
Radio frequency identification (RFID) systems have found their way into medical environments to track patients, equipment assets and staff members. However, there...Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM News | October 6, 2009
After four decades, the Unix platform is still very important to enterprise information technology and has many years of usefulness left to it, even though Linux...InfoWorld From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2009
People are worried that library catalogs are in danger of marginalization because they present information online in a clunky, non-intuitive way that often frustrates...The Chronicle of Higher Education From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2009
Wesleyan University and Trinity College students have developed Collabbit, software that acts as a virtual emergency response center. Collabbit serves as a central...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2009
Some of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are launching projects along with global universities to offer students and faculty more opportunities for collaborative...Business Standard From ACM Careers | October 5, 2009
Robots are increasingly becoming ubiquitous in education. The Google Lunar X Prize, a $30 million contest to design a robot capable of traveling to the moon, is...EE Times From ACM TechNews | October 2, 2009
Although the iPhone can superimpose navigation routes or reviews on top of real-time images, augmented reality (AR) still has a long way to go. The iPhone's application...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | October 2, 2009
The U.S. National Science Foundation's ADVANCE program has awarded Louisiana Tech University $736,500 for a four-year initiative called "Creating a Culture of Success...Louisiana Tech niversity From ACM TechNews | October 2, 2009
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting computing educators, researchers, and professionals...ACM From ACM TechNews | October 2, 2009
Web scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will use the World Wide Web to compile and share scientific data on an unprecedented scale. Their goal is to... Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute From ACM News | October 2, 2009