Communications of the ACM
NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Candidate Cracked
It took researchers in Belgium just an hour to crack the SIKE cryptographic algorithm.
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The A-Z of Programming Languages: Bourne Shell, or Sh
Steve Bourne, creator of the Bourne shell or sh programming language, says in an interview that the language aimed to remedy the problem of designing the shellView...
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IBM Looks to Secure Internet Banking With Usb Stick
A USB memory stick that can guarantee secure banking transactions even if a PC is tainted by malware has been developed by IBM's Zurich research laboratory.
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Scratch Lowers Resistance to Programming
Scratch, created by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, is a programming environment for creating interactive...
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Bathrooms Become Smarter With Touch Screens
Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems have developed a touch screen mirror that can remind people when to takeView...
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Digital Software Revolutionizes Our Relationship With Music
Sonic Visualiser, developed at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London, is a free program that produces a visual representation of music...
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Supercomputing Seeks Energy Savings
New energy-saving technology from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has established a standard for resource-responsible high-performance computing (HPC) research...
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The Grill: Jeannette M. Wing on the Hot Seat
Carnegie Mellon University professor Jeannette M. Wing is an expert on computational thinking, the discipline of applying computer science's problem-solving methods...
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ACM Turing Award Goes to Creator of Influential Innovations in Computer Software Design
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named Barbara Liskov of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) the winner of the 2008 ACM A.M. Turing...
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Digital Revolutionaries Discuss Past, Future of Technology
Microsoft technical fellow Butler Lampson, Google chief Internet evangelist Vinton Cerf, and Qualcomm chairman Irwin Jacobs discussed the past, present, and potential...
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Geeks May Be Chic, But Negative Nerd Stereotype Still Exists, Professor Says
Despite technology's growing impact on society, academic geeks, or nerds, still suffer from negative stereotypes in popular culture, which may explain why women...
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Swedish Research Can Make Super Mario More Realistic
Thomas Larsson, a researcher at Sweden's Malardalen University, has developed a new approach for calculating collisions involving animated objects in computer games...
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Powernap Plan Could Save 75 Percent of Data Center Energy
The University of Michigan plans to save up to 75 percent of the energy that computer data centers consume by putting servers into sleep mode when they are notView...
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Fight Over Internet Filtering Has a Test Run in Europe
Europe's influence over technology regulation has led U.S. companies to send lobbyists to try and influence European lawmakers as they debate Internet access policy...
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Ireland Announces Major Investment in R&d Centers
The Irish government has decided funding of 45.7 million euros for three 'Center for Science, Engineering and technology.' These research centers are hosted by...
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They're Taking Their Brains and Going Home
The United States has always been the country to which the world's best and brightest have flocked in pursuit of education and to seek their fortunes. But burgeoning...
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Web Cubed The Network of Everything
The future Internet promises to link electronics, clothing, cars and pretty much everything in between. The upshot will be a network that can accompany and support...
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Half of Americans See Another Country Emerging as World's Technological Leader
Half of all U.S. residents expect that another country will become the world leader in addressing technological challenges this century, reveals a new Duke University...
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Virtual Reality Device Simulates All Five Senses
Engineering & Physical Sciences Research CouncilScientists at the University of Warwick and York University are developing virtual reality devices that are capable...
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Researchers Strive to Improve Online Education
ASU NewsArizona State University's (ASU's) New American University project aims to enroll 100,000 students in online courses by 2012, which will require finding...
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