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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Carnegie Mellon University has received a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to launch a Ph.D. program in usable privacy and security...Carnegie Mellon News From ACM TechNews | August 27, 2009
Like a ghost ship, a rogue software program that glided onto the Internet last November has confounded the efforts of top security experts to eradicate the program...The New York Times From ACM News | August 27, 2009
A Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) study by professor Craig Wills found that the practices of many popular social networking sites can make personal information...Worcester Polytechnic Institute From ACM TechNews | August 26, 2009
Governments in the Middle East and north Africa routinely block and censor Web sites to control political discussions, according to a new report on the region by...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 25, 2009
Scientists share knowledge and seek collaborators at computational sustainability conference.Karen A. Frenkel From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2009
Researchers are addressing the computing challenges of older individuals, whose needs are different — and too often disregarded.Samuel Greengard From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2009
Researchers working in medical nanorobotics are creating technologies that could lead to novel health-care applications, such as new ways of accessing areas of...Kirk L. Kroeker From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2009
The promise of parallel computing has run afoul of the harsh reality of Amdahl's Law, which puts a ceiling on the benefit of converting sequential code to parallel...Gregory Goth From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 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
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
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
Russian hackers stole U.S. identities and software tools for use in a cyberattack against Georgian government Web sites during the war between Russia and Georgia...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | August 17, 2009
A system that fights highly infectious computer viruses by embedding defense mechanisms in key parts of the Internet has been developed by University of North Carolina...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 17, 2009
U.S. Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano recently affirmed that her staff is still weighing options about how best to assimilate the public...CongressDaily From ACM TechNews | August 17, 2009
Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the University of Michigan, and Princeton University have demonstrated that a Sequoia electronic...niversity of California, San Diego From ACM TechNews | August 12, 2009
At the 9th annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, security researchers discussed alternatives to existing systems designed to help Internet users maintain...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 13, 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
University of Washington researchers’ announcement that they had created an encryption scheme called Vanish captured a lot of attention for its elegant simplicity...Marina Krakovsky From ACM News | August 12, 2009
The explosive growth of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia is petering out, while a less welcoming attitude toward new contributors could negatively affect the archive's...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 10, 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