Communications of the ACM
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June 2010
From ACM News
Researchers Work to Help Mobile Devices Keep Going and Going . . .
Three researchers have been awarded a $1.2 million, four-year grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop a more energy-efficient processor for mobile embedded systems.
From ACM News
Oak Ridge National Lab to Lead Reactor Simulation Innovation Hub
Oak Ridge National Laboratory was awarded $122 million to establish and operate a new Nuclear Energy Modeling and Simulation Energy Innovation Hub, which will use supercomputers to investigate nuclear reactor design and engineering…
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Teens Getting Creative With Web 2.0 Tools
A pilot study shows that teens were able to use Web 2.0 technological tools in new and innovative ways to connect with each other—ways that the tools' creators had probably never anticipated.
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What Motivates Volunteer Computing Contributors? It Depends
Contributors to "volunteer computing" projects such as Wikipedia and Galaxy Zoo are motivated by enjoyment, the desire to 'do good,' to gain knowledge, or by the project's scientific objective, researchers say.
From ICT Results
Found in Translation: A Global Village
European scientists have developed groundbreaking technology to enable machine translation using statistical analysis. Now linguistic diversity can be found in translation.
From ACM News
Olpc and Marvell to Develop Xo Tablet Computer For Students
One Laptop per Child and Marvell will jointly develop a family of next-generation OLPC XO tablet computers based on the Marvell Moby reference design.
From ACM News
China's Nebulae Supercomputer on Tail of Ornl Jaguar in Newest Top500 List
The newest version of the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers, which is issued twice yearly, was formally presented Monday (May 31) at the ISC'10 Conference in Hamburg, Germany.
From ACM News
Chinese Edge Toward Supercomputer Record
A Chinese supercomputer has been ranked as the world's second-fastest machine, underscoring China's aggressive commitment to science and technology.
From Communications of the ACM
Robin Milner: The Elegant Pragmatist
Remembering a rich legacy in verification, languages, and concurrency.
From Communications of the ACM
Straightening Out Heavy Tails
A better understanding of heavy-tailed probability distributions can improve activities from Internet commerce to the design of server farms.
From Communications of the ACM
Beyond the Smart Grid
The electrical grid isn't the only utility acquiring intelligence, as water and gas meters throughout the U.S. gain radio communication capabilities and…
From Communications of the ACM
Mine Your Business
Researchers are developing new techniques to gauge employee productivity from information flow.
From Communications of the ACM
CS and Technology Leaders Honored
Awards were recently announced by ACM and the American Association for the Advancement of Science honoring leaders in the fields of computer science and technology.