University of California, Berkeley professors Maneesh Agrawala and Lin He have been named MacArthur Fellows, which provides them with five-year, $500,000 grants...C Berkeley News From ACM TechNews | September 23, 2009
In his recent address at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, N.Y., U.S. President Barack Obama cited the need for the United States to strengthen its commitment...Computing Research Association From ACM TechNews | September 23, 2009
Three mathematics and science professors called on the U.S. government to support institutional programs that have succeeded in attracting and retaining minority...The Chronicle of Higher Education From ACM TechNews | September 23, 2009
Advocates seek to protect users from potential business practices, but defenders of the status quo say that concerns are overblown.Alan Joch From Communications of the ACM | October 1, 2009
University of Missouri researchers Ashwin Mohan and Sandeep Pendyam, doctoral students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, are utilizing computational...niversity of Missouri News Bureau From ACM News | September 23, 2009
Interactions between humans and machines are evolving to the point where they could include having sexual relations, says David Levy, who won the 2009 Loebner prize...Guardian nlimited (K) From ACM TechNews | September 22, 2009
Netflix, the movie rental company, has decided its million-dollar-prize competition was such a good investment that it is planning another one.
The company’srecommendation...The New York Times From ACM News | September 22, 2009
Two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) sought to determine whether online social network users were unknowingly revealing sensitive details...The Boston Globe From ACM TechNews | September 21, 2009
The United States will lose many skilled workers over the next five years as 100,000 immigrants from India and 100,000 immigrants from China return home, warns...SA Today From ACM News | September 21, 2009
University of Adelaide researchers have developed software that eliminates the need for security personnel at large public venues to search for suspicious activity...niversity of Adelaide From ACM TechNews | September 21, 2009
The European Union-funded Project Indect is developing software that monitors and processes information collected from Web sites, discussion forums, file servers...Telegraph.co.uk From ACM TechNews | September 21, 2009
Cities will be transformed by WiMax, smart grids, social networks, and other emerging technologies, once they are cohesively integrated. WiMax is seen as a critical...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | September 21, 2009
This year's ACM conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Appliances (OOPSLA 2009) will be held in Orlando, Fla., from October 25-29. OOPSLA...ACM From ACM TechNews | September 21, 2009
Computers have helped doctors in the medical community for years. Now, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston are working to see if computers can...Dana-Farber Cancer Institute From ACM News | September 21, 2009
European researchers are making an impressive effort to link up digital repositories to create a vast network of easy to search online data. The DRIVER project... From ICT Results | September 21, 2009
The Singularity University program combines technology, futurism, and corporate support to question well-entrenched perspectives on learning and technology. The...The Chronicle of Higher Education From ACM TechNews | September 18, 2009
The Obama administration has introduced a cloud computing policy that aims to lower infrastructure costs and reduce the environmental impact of government computing...CNet From ACM TechNews | September 18, 2009
Research from Imperial College London scientists indicates that new smartphone software will help epidemiologists and ecologists in the field analyze data remotely...Imperial College London From ACM TechNews | September 18, 2009
Nanomaterials are widely expected to be a foundation of future electronics. A key component of tomorrow's nanoelectronic circuits is stable nanowires that work...niversity of Illinois at Chicago From ACM News | September 18, 2009
Using a new software protocol called the Interoperable Telesurgical Protocol, nine research teams from universities and research institutes around the world recently...niversity of Washington From ACM News | September 18, 2009