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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
If you drive down highway 880 from Oakland, Calif., take an exit about 30 miles south, and snake past a long line of car dealerships, you’ll find an ordinary...Wired From ACM News | December 23, 2011
Ten thousand years is about the age of civilisation. Archaeologists have a few relics that have spanned this period, mostly stone tools and works of art. But...Technology Review From ACM News | December 22, 2011
Apple reportedly acquired the Israeli flash memory design firm Anobit in a deal that cost the company $500 million.Arstechnica From ACM Opinion | December 22, 2011
Light is one of the most promising carriers of quantum information. It is robust against decoherence because it does not interact with stray electric and magnetic...Technology Review From ACM News | December 22, 2011
Space shuttle Atlantis, which only five months ago flew the final mission of NASA's 30-year shuttle program, is now being prepared for its public display at the...collectSpace From ACM News | December 20, 2011
The San Diego Supercomputer Center's new Gordon supercomputer is designed to help researchers solve the most challenging data-intensive problems, including mapping...UCSD News (CA) From ACM TechNews | December 17, 2011
Researchers at MIT and the University of Utah have developed a technique that they say surpasses the fundamental limits of microchip design and could lead to more...MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 16, 2011
Iran guided the CIA's "lost" stealth drone to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the U.S. military...The Christian Science Monitor From ACM News | December 16, 2011
Soon after the ill-fated Phobos-Grunt spacecraft stalled in Earth orbit, a former Russian official implicated "powerful American radars" in Alaska. Is there a...Scientific American From ACM News | December 15, 2011
University of Bristol researchers have developed an optical chip that generates, manipulates, and measures two quantum phenomena, entanglement and mixture, which...University of Bristol News From ACM TechNews | December 15, 2011
MIT researchers have developed a system that enables hardware designers to specify, in a single programming language, all of the functions they want a device to...MIT News From ACM TechNews | December 14, 2011
Prepare the dissection table. Iran says it’s planning to disassemble its prized acquisition: a CIA-operated drone that apparently crashed in its territory. Its...Wired From ACM News | December 12, 2011
China is outpacing the United States in terms of supercomputer development. In November the Chinese debuted the Tianhe-1A, a supercomputer with five times the...Newsweek From ACM TechNews | December 12, 2011
Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS), novel autonomy software that has been operating on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity since...Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA From ACM News | December 9, 2011
Unmanned aircraft—or drones—are playing a large role in U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, but they're starting to show up the the skies above the U.S....National Public Radio From ACM News | December 9, 2011
The stealth C.I.A. drone that crashed deep inside Iranian territory last week was part of a stepped-up surveillance program that has frequently sent the United...The New York Times From ACM News | December 8, 2011
A few months ago, scientists at Willow Garage, a robotics company in Menlo Park, Calif., invited a few ordinary people into their labs and gave them an assignment...The Daily Beast From ACM News | December 7, 2011
IBM researchers have developed the first prototype of racetrack computer memory, which combines on one chip all of the components needed to read, store, and write...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 7, 2011