SUPER, a European research project, has developed software that expedites companies' development or adjustment of their business processes while realizing cost...ICT Results From ACM TechNews | August 12, 2009
The White House is proposing to soften a long-existing prohibition on tracking how users peruse U.S. government Web sites with cookies and other methods, inciting...Washington Post From ACM TechNews | August 12, 2009
At the recent ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 conference, Microsoft Research's Visual Computing Group presented SkyFinder, a search system designed to analyze images of the sky...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 12, 2009
BBC NewsAs robots are increasingly used in warfare, civilian lives will be put at greater and greater risk, according to University of Sheffield professor NoelView...BBC News From ACM TechNews | August 7, 2009
Motorola's Consumer Xperience Design (CXD) teams have speculated possible evolutionary paths that communication devices may take during the next 25 years. They...Design World From ACM TechNews | August 10, 2009
Two programmers have hacked the World of Warcraft online game environment with a set of programs that automate in-game characters, which game developer Blizzard...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 6, 2009
Hugely popular online virtual worlds such as World of Warcraft and Second Life offer social scientists unprecedented views of gamers' behavior, and may be used...Graeme Stemp-Morlock From ACM News | August 6, 2009
Intel has launched Progress Thru Processors, a new Facebook application that provides users with an interface to donate their unused computer processing time to...TechNewsWorld From ACM TechNews | August 5, 2009
ACM SIGGRAPH has awarded its 2009 Significant New Researcher Award to Wojciech Matusik for his original contributions to accurately capturing and representing real...ACM From ACM News | August 5, 2009
Reaching the most remote rural customers with high-speed Internet access can be prohibitively expensive. Consider the case of Hill Country Telephone Cooperative...BusinessWeek From ACM News | August 4, 2009
Creating a Second Life avatar, or virtual representation of oneself, that is thin and physically fit may encourage individuals to become healthier and more physically...RTI International From ACM News | August 4, 2009
Touchscreens are already being implemented in cell phones and are expected to sweep through mobile and desktop computing, but a pair of Silicon Valley companies...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | July 31, 2009
EPUB, an XML format for reflowable text made from three open standards, is on its way to becoming an e-book industry standard. The standard, developed by the International...Computerworld Canada From ACM TechNews | July 30, 2009
First comprehensive census of video game characters finds Latinos nearly invisible; women, other groups underrepresented. Combined with wide reach of video games...niversity of Southern California From ACM News | July 30, 2009
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed Bokodes, a new barcode format that could replace the current barcodes used on retail products...BBC News From ACM TechNews | July 29, 2009
A panel of 25 artificial intelligence (AI) scientists, roboticists, and ethical and legal scholars have spent the past year discussing the risks of developing machines...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 29, 2009
Netflix's $1 million contest to design a better movie preference-matching algorithm ended on July 26th, with two teams in a near tie and the outcome of the contest...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | July 29, 2009
Montana State University (MSU) computer engineering students will soon be able to control laboratory equipment through their home computers. A two-year, $148,000...Montana State niversity From ACM TechNews | July 27, 2009
"I am helping to change the classroom." That's what Mike Dickson told his grandmother during a telephone conversation when she asked what he did for a living. Dickson...Western Illinois niversity From ACM News | July 24, 2009
The whole listening experience in cars, cinemas, theatres, and even during videoconferences, is likely to improve radically thanks to a new set of tools for application... From ICT Results | July 24, 2009