IDC predicts that by 2013, jobs in information technology (IT) will expand by 5.8 million worldwide, and that 75,000 new businesses will be created during that...eWeek From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2009
Internet security experts have discovered that many phishers are using a trick called a flux, which allows a fake Web site to rapidly change its URL, making it... From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2009
The University of Science and Technology of China recently demonstrated a metropolitan quantum cryptography network (QCN) for use by the government in Wuhu, China...Science in China Press From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2009
Tom Igoe is a co-developer of the Arduino programming language, which he says was created out of a desire to provide a tool for teaching physical computing to artists...Computerworld Australia From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2009
At the recent International Conference on Applied Modeling and Information Security Systems, high-performance computing researchers cautioned that worldwide computer...niversity of Alabama at Birmingham From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2009
University of California, Santa Barbara professor Jeff Dozier has received Microsoft Research's second annual Jim Gray eScience Award. The award was created to...niversity of California, Santa Barbara From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2009
Groundbreaking research by a team of European scientists working in the EU-funded POLYCOM project has helped put plastic optical fiber (POF) on track for use in... From ICT Results | October 19, 2009
Scientists at Georgia Tech have tested people's ability to interpret a robot's "emotion" by reading its expression to see if there were any differences between...Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM News | October 19, 2009
Microsoft and researchers from the University of Konstanz in Germany are collaborating to create Videomap, navigation software that incorporates videos of driving...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2009
This year, 15 teams from Brazil, Canada, the United States, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Spain, among others, participated in the BotPrize contest, which...Carlos III niversity of Madrid (Spain) From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2009
During ACM's recent Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh won the best paper award for...Carnegie Mellon News From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2009
The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) says the 2010 NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing will include affiliate award programs in Texas...National Center for Women & Information Technology From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2009
As part of the European Union TENCompetence project, the Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies' Hendrik Drachsler searched for the most suitable way to...Centre for Learning Sciences and Technology From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Antonio Torralba and students from the school's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) say...MIT News From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2009
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) plans to build a large cloud computing test bed in an effort to determine whether cloud computing can help meet scientists'...Network World From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2009
Intel Labs researcher Rob Ennals has developed Dispute Finder, software that highlights inaccurate online information in pink with a link pointing toward a reliable...The Christian Science Monitor From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2009
Northeastern University is launching an online graduate degree program in information assurance (IA). The program, which will train students to tackle identity...Northeastern niversity From ACM News | October 16, 2009
Researchers at Ohio State University have discovered a way to make quantum devices using technology common to the chip-making industry today. This work might one... From ACM News | October 16, 2009
A typical evening at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, CA, sometimes looks like chaos — two friends cobbling together a robot out of chips, circuit boards and servo...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | October 16, 2009
A team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications... From ICT Results | October 16, 2009