The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is creating the Open Web Education Alliance (OWEA), a new body designed to help ensure that educational institutions around...Computerworld Australia From ACM TechNews | September 30, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a microchip that could be used with wireless technology and eyeglasses equipped with a camera...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | September 29, 2009
ICANN has reached a new agreement with the U.S. government that will allow the organization to operate more independently, just before the expiration of the joint...The Economist From ACM TechNews | September 29, 2009
A surveillance system for monitoring whether cars and pedestrians are acting normally at crosswalks has been developed by researchers at Spain's University of Castilla...Plataforma SINC From ACM TechNews | September 28, 2009
Researchers say that custom data centers being built for cloud computing systems are very energy efficient. "There are issues with property rights and confidentiality...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 28, 2009
Google's Project 10
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— a contest celebrating the company's 10th anniversary — asked participants in September 2008 to submit ideas that could help change the...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | September 28, 2009
Carmaker Toyota has teamed up with the Riken Brain Science Institute to create a computer the reads the brainwaves of a person seated in a wheelchair to control...New Tang Dynasty Television From ACM News | September 28, 2009
Scientists from six European countries have designed a new automatic driving assistance program called DRIVSCO. The program studies the car owner's driving pattern...ScienceDaily From ACM TechNews | September 25, 2009
The Smart Cane is a prototype device developed by Central Michigan University (CMU) engineering students to help visually-impaired people navigate and avoid obstacles...RFID Journal From ACM TechNews | September 25, 2009
In his first State of Education Address Thursday (Sept 24), Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers touched on budget cuts and problems... From ACM News | September 25, 2009
European researchers are creating new technology that could, ultimately, make accessible the sum of humankind’s knowledge. Hundreds of organisations and millions... From ICT Results | September 25, 2009
The creation of a cyborg insect army has just taken a step closer to reality.
A research team at the University of California Berkeley recently announced thatFrontiers...Wired News From ACM News | September 24, 2009
The U.S. Commerce Department's Joint Project Agreement (JPA) with ICANN is set to expire on Sept. 30. As that date approaches, Commerce is under increasing pressure...Investor's Business Daily From ACM TechNews | September 24, 2009
Information, the very thing that makes it possible to be an engineer, a doctor, a lawyer, or any other kind of information worker, is threatening our ability to...IEEE Spectrum Magazine From ACM News | September 24, 2009
RFID technology has led to better safety handling of raw materials and finished products in the food industry, which is also using the technology to speed up the...The Institute of Food Technologists From ACM News | September 24, 2009
The secret to the success of BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos and The Ensemble, first- and second-place winners of the Netflix Prize, was teamwork.
The Netflix Prize...Wired News From ACM TechNews | September 23, 2009
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