MIT researchers have developed HR3D, a new method for glasses-free 3D displays. The researchers say their method could double the battery life of devices such...MIT News From ACM TechNews | May 10, 2011
Research and Development Establishment, Engineers, recently held a two-day symposium on robotics and autonomous vehicles, which featured 250 delegates who discussed...Daily News & Analysis (India) From ACM TechNews | May 5, 2011
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Duke University demonstrated that they were able to control a group of microrobots to create complex patterns...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 3, 2011
University of California, San Diego researchers working on the GreenDroid project have developed software that scans the Android operating system and its most popular...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 29, 2011
University of Arizona researchers have patented a process for building microscopic wiring circuits made of copper insulated by proteins known as microtubules. niversity of Arizona From ACM TechNews | April 28, 2011
University of Arkansas physicist Jak Chakhalian is seeking a new miniature building block for quantum computers, using a new class of nanomaterials known as topological...Arkansas Democrat-Gazette From ACM TechNews | April 26, 2011
While current expert-finding methods provided the best expert in six out of 10 searches, a new user-oriented method finds the best one nine times out of 10, according...Neil Savage From ACM News | April 26, 2011
A pair of divergent scientific communities discusses their similarities and differences, and search for common ground.Alex Wright From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2011
Computational metaphysics is helping philosophers answer age-old questions, such as whether God exists.Marina Krakovsky From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2011
Artificial intelligence and machine learning could expand access to health care, improve the quality of education, and respond effectively to natural disasters...Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2011
With recent advances in laser rangefinders, faster algorithms, and open source robotic operating systems, researchers are increasing domestic robots' semantic and...Gregory Goth From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2011
Teaching computers to understand pictures could lead to search engines capable of identifying and organizing large datasets of visual information.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2011
The Accredited Standards Committee X9 has approved NTRUEncrypt, a public-key algorithm that is considered to be faster than both elliptic-curve cryptography and...Network World From ACM TechNews | April 21, 2011
Microsoft researchers have developed RePriv, a browser that analyzes users' online behavior and controls how their personal information is released to sites that...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 21, 2011
The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG), which consists of more than 100 members from European institutions, has issued a draft report illustrating how cloud...HPC in the Cloud From ACM TechNews | April 20, 2011
University of Manchester researchers have shown that electric current can magnetize graphene, a potential breakthrough for spintronics. University of Manchester From ACM TechNews | April 19, 2011
The big spenders on technology are businesses and government agencies. They buy about 75% of the computing goods and services sold worldwide. Yet it is increasingly...The New York Times From ACM News | April 15, 2011
Tech pundits, analysts, and reviewers often speak of "multithreaded" programs, or even "multithreaded processors," without ever defining what, exactly, a "thread"...Arstechnica From ACM News | April 14, 2011
Stanford University researchers recently expanded on an earlier study involving the development of faster nanotube circuits, which could lead to their use in complex...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 12, 2011
Kevin Wright and colleagues at NIST chilled 100,000 sodium atoms then used lasers to shape the blob of atoms into a torus and give it enough energy to circulate...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 12, 2011