Opinions expressed on the Internet can determine the eventual success or failure of a product, and tools stemming from the emergent field of sentiment analysis...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | August 24, 2009
A new generation of Internet privacy tools is being developed to prevent governments from gathering data, such as where users access the Internet from. One tool...Reuters From ACM TechNews | August 24, 2009
The Scala programming language, which runs on the Java Virtual Machine, could become the preferred language of the modern Web 2.0 startup, according to a Twitter...Computerworld Australia From ACM TechNews | August 24, 2009
U.S. government, industry, and academia are using cybersecurity competitions to interest high school and college students about the career opportunities in cybersecurity...Paul Hyman From ACM News | August 24, 2009
Students' performance in online education settings tended to trounce that of those receiving face-to-face instruction, according to a study SRI International carried...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | August 24, 2009
Robots programmed to find food concealed their performance from other robots by the 50th generation in a research project at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 21, 2009
Scientists at Purdue University and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are adapting the same methods used in fusion-energy research toView...Purdue niversity News From ACM TechNews | August 21, 2009
A proposed plan to reorganize the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST's) IT Laboratory would close the Computer Security Division and distribute...Government Computer News From ACM TechNews | August 20, 2009
The transition from analog to digital broadcasts has opened up radio spectrum that could be used to deliver long-range, low-cost wireless Internet service using...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 20, 2009
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) researchers have developed software designed to enable data centers to function as single, scalable, plug-and-play networks...CSD News From ACM TechNews | August 19, 2009
The continuance of Moore's Law—the axiom that the number of devices that can be economically installed on a processor chip doubles every other year—will mainly...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | August 19, 2009
How do you handle the tiny components needed for constructing nanoscale devices? A European consortium has built two microrobotic demonstrators that can automatically...ICT Results From ICT Results | August 19, 2009
Yahoo! researchers are testing a scheme in which users pay one cent for each email message they send, with the money going to charity, in an effort to cut back...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 19, 2009
A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that friendships can be inferred with 95% accuracy by studying cellphone call records...BBC News From ACM TechNews | August 18, 2009
Google developed a new approach to mobile phone security with its open source Android operating system. Android developer Rich Cannings says there must be a balance...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 18, 2009
The advent of the Internet era is shrinking the role of corporate research and development laboratories in the innovation process, according to experts. Michael...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | August 18, 2009
Researchers at Germany's Leipzig Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging in London have developed...Max Planck Society From ACM TechNews | August 18, 2009
The U.S. National Science Foundation's Expeditions in Computing program has awarded the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Henry Samueli School of Engineering...CLA News From ACM TechNews | August 18, 2009
A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Carnegie Mellon University, and Akamai indicates an Internet-routing algorithm that tracks electricity...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 17, 2009
A Harvard University-led, multidisciplinary team of computer scientists, engineers, and biologists have received a $10 million U.S. National Science Foundation...Harvard niversity From ACM TechNews | August 17, 2009