acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

Careers


Featured Job
bg-corner

Researchers Test Microchip for Growing Archival Data Storage DNA
From ACM Careers

Researchers Test Microchip for Growing Archival Data Storage DNA

Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute have developed a microchip for growing DNA strands that could provide high-density 3D archival data storage at...

Merging Antenna and Electronics Boosts Energy and Spectrum Efficiency
From ACM Careers

Merging Antenna and Electronics Boosts Energy and Spectrum Efficiency

Researchers have integrating the design of millimeter wave antennas and electronics to allow the simultaneous optimization of both, creating a new class of millimeter...

Novel Circuit Design Boosts Wearable Thermoelectric Generators
From ACM Careers

Novel Circuit Design Boosts Wearable Thermoelectric Generators

Researchers have demonstrated proof-of-concept wearable thermoelectric generators that can harvest energy from body heat to power simple wearable devices.

Engineered 'sand' May Help Cool Electronic Devices
From ACM Careers

Engineered 'sand' May Help Cool Electronic Devices

A new class of high thermal conductivity materials could allow heat dissipation from power electronics, LEDs, and other applications with high heat fluxes.

Reconfigurable Origami Tubes Could Find Antenna, Microfluidic Uses
From ACM Careers

Reconfigurable Origami Tubes Could Find Antenna, Microfluidic Uses

Origami, or paper folding, may soon provide a foundation for antennas that can be reconfigured to operate at different frequencies, microfluidic devices whose properties...

Scientists Demonstrate Basics of Nucleic Acid Computing Inside Cells
From ACM Careers

Scientists Demonstrate Basics of Nucleic Acid Computing Inside Cells

Using strands of nucleic acid, scientists have demonstrated basic computing operations inside a living mammalian cell.

Disappearing Carbon Circuits on Graphene Could Have Security, Biomedical Uses
From ACM Careers

Disappearing Carbon Circuits on Graphene Could Have Security, Biomedical Uses

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a technique for creating dynamic patterns on graphene surfaces.

Optical Rectenna — Combined Rectifier-Antenna — Converts Light to Dc Current
From ACM Careers

Optical Rectenna — Combined Rectifier-Antenna — Converts Light to Dc Current

Researchers have demonstrated the first optical rectenna, a device that combines the functions of an antenna and a rectifier diode to convert light directly into...

Graphene-Based Nano-Antennas May Enable Networks of Tiny Machines
From ACM Careers

Graphene-Based Nano-Antennas May Enable Networks of Tiny Machines

By taking advantage of the unique electronic properties of graphene, researchers believe they could generate a type of electronic surface wave that would allow...

Scientists Reach Milestone for Quantum Networks
From ACM Careers

Scientists Reach Milestone for Quantum Networks

Researchers at Georgia Tech are reporting a quantum network milestone: they've entangling light with an optical atomic coherence composed of interacting atoms...

Ants Provide Clues on Locomotion of Future Robots Working ­nderground
From ACM Careers

Ants Provide Clues on Locomotion of Future Robots Working ­nderground

Future subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much-despised insect that moves rapidly and with stability through networks...

3-D Cooling Could Improve Heat Dissipation in High-Powered Chips
From ACM Careers

3-D Cooling Could Improve Heat Dissipation in High-Powered Chips

Researchers at Georgia Tech have won a three-year, $2.9 million DARPA contract to develop three-dimensional chip-cooling technology able to handle heat loads...

Micro-Swimmer Robots Could Deliver Cargo & Drugs
From ACM Careers

Micro-Swimmer Robots Could Deliver Cargo & Drugs

Researchers have used complex computational models to design micro-robots that could overcome the challenges of swimming at the micron scale. The autonomous robots...

Nanomaterials Could Help Thwart Nuclear Terrorism
From ACM Careers

Nanomaterials Could Help Thwart Nuclear Terrorism

Georgia Tech researchers have developed a prototype radiation-detection system that uses nanoscale rare-earth elements and other materials. The system could be...

Snakes Improve Search-and-Rescue Robots
From ACM Careers

Snakes Improve Search-and-Rescue Robots

Georgia Tech researchers have studied the movements of snakes to create more efficient search-and-rescue robots.
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account