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...Computerworld Australia From ACM TechNews | March 12, 2009
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. InfoWorld From ACM TechNews | March 12, 2009
Scratch, created by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, is a programming environment for creating interactive...Wired News From ACM TechNews | March 12, 2009
Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems have developed a touch screen mirror that can remind people when to takeView...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 11, 2009
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...Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council From ACM TechNews | March 10, 2009
New energy-saving technology from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has established a standard for resource-responsible high-performance computing (HPC) research...HPC Wire From ACM TechNews | March 10, 2009
Carnegie Mellon University professor Jeannette M. Wing is an expert on computational thinking, the discipline of applying computer science's problem-solving methods...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | March 10, 2009
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...PR Newswire From ACM News | March 10, 2009
Microsoft technical fellow Butler Lampson, Google chief Internet evangelist Vinton Cerf, and Qualcomm chairman Irwin Jacobs discussed the past, present, and potential...Stanford Report (CA) From ACM TechNews | March 9, 2009
Despite technology's growing impact on society, academic geeks, or nerds, still suffer from negative stereotypes in popular culture, which may explain why women...The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign From ACM TechNews | March 9, 2009
Thomas Larsson, a researcher at Sweden's Malardalen University, has developed a new approach for calculating collisions involving animated objects in computer games...Malardalen University (Sweden) From ACM TechNews | March 9, 2009
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...The niversity of Michigan News Service From ACM TechNews | March 9, 2009
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...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | March 9, 2009
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...Everyday Science From ACM News | March 9, 2009
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...The Washington Post From ACM News | March 9, 2009
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...ICT Results From ICT Results | March 9, 2009
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...Duke niversity News & Communications From ACM TechNews | March 6, 2009
Engineering & Physical Sciences Research CouncilScientists at the University of Warwick and York University are developing virtual reality devices that are capable...Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council From ACM TechNews | March 6, 2009
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...AS News From ACM TechNews | March 6, 2009
Fraunhofer-GesellschaftThe Fraunhofer Institute's THESEUS Project aims to improve the use and exploitation of digital knowledge through the use of semantic technologies...Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft From ACM TechNews | March 6, 2009