Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Is Cloud Computing Fast Enough For Science?
The U.S. Department of Energy's Magellan cloud computing testbed has shown that commercially available clouds suffer in performance when operating message passing...
From Communications of the ACM
Visions of the Future
ACM joined forces with the British Computer Society to deliver its first academic research conference in Europe.
From Communications of the ACM
Eric Brewer: Change Agent
Eric Brewer's latest project involves designing and deploying low-cost wireless infrastructure in developing regions.
From Communications of the ACM
Committed to Success
Charles P. Thacker talks about the importance of simplicity, reusable tools, thinking broadly, and his practice of Tom Sawyering.
From Communications of the ACM
Mainstreaming Augmented Reality
Advancements in computer vision, object recognition, and related technologies are leading to new levels of sophistication in augmented-reality applications and...
From Communications of the ACM
Censored!
Countries use Internet censorship to dominate the political dialogue, but also to create favorable conditions for government-controlled businesses.
From Communications of the ACM
Sharing Computational Perspectives
Computer scientists are now making intellectual contributions to a wide range of other disciplines, including evolutionary theory, physics, and economics.
From ACM News
Researchers Develop New Method For Mass-Producing Graphene
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a simple new method for producing large quantities of the promising nanomaterial graphene. The new...
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Diamond-Like Material Shows Superhard, Superconducting Potential
BC5, a diamond-like material with an extremely high boron content, offers exceptional hardness and resistance to fracture, but unlike diamond, it is a superconductor...
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Clouds Add Depth to Computer Landscapes
Nathan Jacobs and colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis have used a single camera to create a depth map, which records the geography of a three-dimensional...
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Group Demonstrates Self-Healing For Electronics
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have applied the concept of self-healing materials to small-scale electronics.
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Nanotubes Give Batteries a Jolt
Lithium-ion batteries with nanotube electrodes could go longer between charges.
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Insects Inspire Robot Design
Oregon State University professor John Schmitt and his colleagues look to cockroaches and guinea hens as locomotion models for future robots that can easily run...
From ICT Results
Tasty New Standards For Systems-on-Chips
European researchers have developed breakthrough standards that will let microchip designers integrate more complex circuits more easily. It will mean a faster...
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Resilient Electric Grid Project Develops the ltimate Surge Protector
The Resilient Electric Grid project is developing a current limiting high-temperature superconductor cable that could be used to link substations and help ensure...
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Researchers Develop Ultra-Simple Method for Creating Nanoscale Gold Coatings
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed an ultra-simple method for making layers of gold that measure only billionths of a meter thick,...
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Imec Set to Take Transistors 'sub-Threshold'
IMEC wants to use silicon transistors in the sub-threshold region as a way to achieve ultra-low power operation, and envisions a future system-on-a-chip for biomedical...
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Microbarbershop Open For Business: To Cut a Single Hair
A pea-sized microbarbershop able to cut a single hair, and the world's smallest chess board, were winners in this year's design contest for microelectromechanical...
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Researchers Move Organic Nanoelectronics a Step Closer
An international team of researchers has overcome a key stumbling block by using metal crystal to order the molecules in the PEDOT, the single most industrially...
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