Researchers in the University of Ulster's New Dynamics of Ageing Program are exploring the use of technology-enhanced clothing to improve the lives of older citizens...BBC News From ACM TechNews | June 3, 2009
A three-year project is exploring how people react and behave when information on their energy use and activity levels are presented to them through mobile phones...BBC News From ACM TechNews | May 27, 2009
Building the pieces of future ultra-fast broadband networks is the focus of a new initiative of the U.K. government. Local firms have received approximately 1...BBC News From ACM TechNews | May 21, 2009
Many innovative technologies funded by the European Commission (EC) were spotlighted at the Science Beyond Fiction conference in Prague. The EC announced in April...BBC News From ACM TechNews | May 12, 2009
Researchers have completed a three-year project to create the first comprehensive, three-dimensional (3D) image of the Catacombs in Rome. The project used laser...BBC News From ACM TechNews | May 8, 2009
Amazon's launch of its first dedicated e-reader for newspapers, magazines, and textbooks points to a future when digital and analog publishing begins to merge....BBC News From ACM News | May 8, 2009
Physicist Stephen Wolfram says the goal of his free Wolfram Alpha program, which will be available to the public starting in the middle of May, is to "make expert...BBC News From ACM TechNews | May 4, 2009
The Blue Brain project is focused on reverse-engineering mammal brains from laboratory data and to develop a computer model down to the level of the molecules that...BBC News From ACM TechNews | April 24, 2009
Web pioneer and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee says more protection is needed to prevent Internet snooping and ensure that...BBC News From ACM TechNews | March 13, 2009
Oxford University physiologist Peter Kohl believes surgeons will be using virtual reality to simulate alternative operations within 10 years. Computer models will...BBC News From ACM TechNews | January 14, 2009