AT&T researchers are calling on developers to build more energy-aware apps to conserve battery life in smartphones. Network World From ACM TechNews | June 9, 2011
The media storm over the Stuxnet worm may have passed, but many of the software holes that were used by the worm remain unpatched and leave Siemens customers...Threatpost From ACM News | June 9, 2011
Microsoft Research India scientists have developed LiteGreen, power-saving technology that can virtualize enterprise desktops in a virtual machine and migrate them...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 8, 2011
Air France Flight 447 stalled high over the Atlantic Ocean and plunged into the sea even as the pilots repeatedly tried to pull the nose up—a reaction opposite...Wired From ACM News | June 8, 2011
The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is facing cost overruns and years of delay before it launches, but that hasn't dampened the enthusiasm of scientists...National Public Radio From ACM News | June 8, 2011
A quantum computer is a device—still largely theoretical—that could perform some types of calculations much more rapidly than classical computers. While a bit...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 7, 2011
NASA is no longer sending commands to the Spirit rover on Mars, but the long-silent robot still has a few more chances to phone home. Not that anyone is expecting...MSNBC From ACM News | June 1, 2011
Vint Cerf is one of the most recognized network engineers of all time. He is often referred to as one of the "fathers of the Internet" for his groundbreaking...Network World From ACM News | June 1, 2011
The World Wide Web Consortium recently announced that HTML5 has reached last call status, which opens the standard to industry scrutiny. CNet From ACM TechNews | May 31, 2011
North Carolina State University researchers have developed two techniques that make semiconductor bandwidth allocation and data prefetching more efficient. NCSĀ News From ACM TechNews | May 27, 2011
A paper on an effort to mathematically analyze three commonly-used ranking methods appears this month in the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics From ACM TechNews | May 26, 2011
Personalized news promises to make daily journalism profitable again, but technical and cultural obstacles have slowed the industry's adoption of automated personalization...Marina Krakovsky From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2011
M. Frans Kaashoek discusses systems work, "undo computing," and what he learned from Andrew S. Tanenbaum.Gregory Goth From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2011
Leslie Valiant talks about machine learning; parallel computing, and his quest for simplicity.Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2011
Researchers have developed a new networking algorithm, modeled after the neurological development of the fruit fly, to help distributed networks self-organize more...Kirk L. Kroeker From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2011
Anyone who has spent enough time online has at one point reached a dead end–known in Internet parlance as a 404 page. So what causes them? Web designers are coming...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | May 25, 2011
Computer shoppers are used to considering features such as design, processor speed, memory, battery life, and hard-disk size. But there's something else they...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | May 25, 2011
NASA is ending attempts to regain contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated on March 22, 2010.NASA From ACM News | May 25, 2011
The U.S. National Center for Supercomputing Applications has begun installing Forge, a 153-teraflop hybrid supercomputer that contains both central processing units...NCSA News From ACM TechNews | May 24, 2011