Researchers from the Interactive Digital Television Laboratory at Spain's University of Vigo have developed queveo.tv, a Web 2.0 application that filters the programming...Plataforma SINC From ACM TechNews | May 28, 2009
The European Union-funded Sealife project has developed a Web browser capable of understanding the technical terms used in life sciences and automatically finding...ICT Results From ACM TechNews | May 20, 2009
Google has revealed an array of new search tools--Search Options, Wonder Wheel, Rich Snippets, and Google Squared--that enable users to combine options for displaying...TechNewsWorld From ACM TechNews | May 14, 2009
Fewer items on the results page of a Web search might be more appropriate for certain situations and users, according to a new study from researchers at the Helsinki...Helsinki Institute for Information Technology From ACM TechNews | May 14, 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
ACM announced Tuesday (April 28) that Jon Kleinberg, a professor at Cornell University, is the recipient of the 2008 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing...PR Newswire From ACM News | April 28, 2009
IBM is developing software designed to compete against human "Jeopardy!" contestants, which, if successful, could mark a major advancement in artificial intelligence...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | April 27, 2009
Scientists at the Know-Center, a technology research center in Austria, are developing software capable of quickly determining if a Web site is a credible source...Agence France Presse From ACM TechNews | April 27, 2009
Digital sound archives offer enormously rich resources but accessing them is currently difficult. Sound material is often held separately from other materials and...ICT Results From ICT Results | April 22, 2009
Pedro Carpena, a physicist at the University of Malaga in Spain, has used a mathematical technique for studying disorder in quantum systems to extract keywords...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 14, 2009
University of Texas at DallasUniversity of Texas at Dallas researchers are working to improve the results of searches that request multiple pieces of information...The University of Texas at Dallas From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2009
A 34-year-old student and part-time tech geek at Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies tried everything to track down a piece of malicious software that...Simple Thoughts From ACM News | March 31, 2009
One day in the not-too-distant future, you'll be able to type a query into an online search engine and have it deliver not Web pages that may contain an answer,...Newswise From ACM News | March 26, 2009
Khronos wants to develop a public version of a royalty-free specification for accelerated three-dimensional (3D) graphics on the Web within 12 months. The consortium...CNet From ACM TechNews | March 25, 2009
Europe is leading the way in developing standards for next-generation Web technology. The European Commission (EC) last fall released a study outlining the steps...Investor's Business Daily From ACM TechNews | March 26, 2009
Google has added semantic technology to its Web search engine, which will enable it to identify associations and concepts related to a query, improving the list...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 25, 2009
Scientists at the research library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a map of knowledge that better reflects the actual use of information by...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | March 19, 2009
World Wide Web Consortium director Sir Tim Berners-Lee says the Semantic Web will improve online privacy protection by allowing Internet users to control who can...ZDNet K From ACM TechNews | March 16, 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
Fraunhofer-GesellschaftThe Fraunhofer Institute's THESEUS Project aims to improve the use and exploitation of digital knowledge through the use of semantic technologies...Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft From ACM TechNews | March 6, 2009