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Patient, Heal Thyself
From Communications of the ACM

Patient, Heal Thyself

New handheld medical diagnostic tools promise more efficient, lower-cost healthcare — but at what price?

Chips That Mimic the Brain
From ACM TechNews

Chips That Mimic the Brain

A breakthrough in the effort to build an artificial brain involves using neuromorphic chips to incorporate complex cognitive abilities into electronic systems. 

Taiwan a 'Testing Ground' for Chinese Cyber Army
From ACM News

Taiwan a 'Testing Ground' for Chinese Cyber Army

Taiwan is the frontline in an emerging global battle for cyberspace, according to elite hackers in the island's IT industry, who say it has become a rehearsal area...

Graphene Promises Cooler, Greener Computing
From ACM TechNews

Graphene Promises Cooler, Greener Computing

New research on graphene could lead to more energy-efficient and longer-lasting computers. 

What Is Graphene? Here's What You Need to Know About a Material that Could Be the Next Silicon
From ACM News

What Is Graphene? Here's What You Need to Know About a Material that Could Be the Next Silicon

Graphene, an emerging material that could change the way electronic components are made and help computing performance continue to grow, is everywhere in the research...

The End of Digital Tyranny: Why the Future of Computing Is Analog
From ACM Opinion

The End of Digital Tyranny: Why the Future of Computing Is Analog

Our world is ruled by 1s and 0s.

Researchers Find Bug Bounty Programs Pay Economic Rewards
From ACM News

Researchers Find Bug Bounty Programs Pay Economic Rewards

Bug bounty programs can be as much as 100 times more cost-effective for finding security vulnerabilities than hiring full-time security researchers to do the same...

Graphene May Give US Cooler, Longer-Lasting Computers
From ACM News

Graphene May Give US Cooler, Longer-Lasting Computers

Cooling is an important and tricky part of modern computing—you don't want those ever-more-functional processors overheating, but you also don't want the cooling...

Toward Tinier Transistors
From ACM TechNews

Toward Tinier Transistors

Researchers are studying how to make the next generation of transistors smaller. 

Powerful Animal Tracking System Helps Research Take Flight
From ACM TechNews

Powerful Animal Tracking System Helps Research Take Flight

The new Environmental-Data Automated Track Annotation system enables users to take a big data approach to tracking birds. 

Cern's Hadron Collider Research Fueled By Openstack
From ACM TechNews

Cern's Hadron Collider Research Fueled By Openstack

CERN is rebuilding its Large Hadron Collider and re-architecting its data center infrastructure based on OpenStack Grizzly. 

Supercomputers: Battle of the Speed Machines
From ACM TechNews

Supercomputers: Battle of the Speed Machines

China is surging ahead of the United States in the race to build the world's fastest computers. 

Researchers Build an All-Optical Transistor
From ACM TechNews

Researchers Build an All-Optical Transistor

Researchers have created an optical switch that’s controlled by a single photon.

Science Team Outlines Goals for NASA's 2020 Mars Rover
From ACM News

Science Team Outlines Goals for NASA's 2020 Mars Rover

The rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 should look for signs of past life, collect samples for possible future return to Earth, and demonstrate technology for...

Birmingham Amps Up Research With New Linux Supercomputer
From ACM TechNews

Birmingham Amps Up Research With New Linux Supercomputer

University of Birmingham researchers are ready to launch the second generation of Linux supercomputer BlueBEAR.

A Quantum Conundrum
From ACM News

A Quantum Conundrum

D-Wave has helped bring quantum computing into the spotlight, but critics continue to question the company's performance claims.

Computer Models Figure Out Sickle Cell Crisis
From ACM TechNews

Computer Models Figure Out Sickle Cell Crisis

Researchers have used computing models to show how different types of red blood cells interact to cause sickle cell crisis. 

Indiana ­niversity Launches Data Capacitor Ii
From ACM News

Indiana ­niversity Launches Data Capacitor Ii

Indiana University's new five-petabyte Data Capacitor "will accommodate our storage requirements for a while." 

Investors Buy Into Software-Defined Networks, Will Customers Follow?
From ACM News

Investors Buy Into Software-Defined Networks, Will Customers Follow?

As Superstorm Sandy bore down on the East coast last year, companies with data centers in its path needed another location fast. But moving computer servers is...

The Tao of Facebook: 'Social Graph' Takes New Path
From ACM TechNews

The Tao of Facebook: 'Social Graph' Takes New Path

Facebook has developed a system called The Association of Objects (TAO) that facilitates the balance between data stored in MySQL and more frequently accessed data...
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