acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

News


Latest News News Archive Refine your search:
subjectPersonal Computing
authorScientific American
bg-corner

An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.


Panoramic Tool Lets ­sers Observe Dynamic Imagery
From ACM News

Panoramic Tool Lets ­sers Observe Dynamic Imagery

New imagery available through Carnegie Mellon's GigaPan Time Machine lets users move in space and time to explore the sun, a beehive, or the chlorophyll content...

Online 24/7: "life Logging" Pioneer Clarifies the Future of Cloud Computing
From ACM Opinion

Online 24/7: "life Logging" Pioneer Clarifies the Future of Cloud Computing

Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell, paperless for more than a decade, envisions data centers saturated with information and services readily available via the...

From ACM News

Being John Malkovich: Personal Control of Individual Brain Cells

In philosophy of mind, a "cerebroscope" is a fictitious device, a brain-computer interface in today's language, which reads out the content of somebody's brain...

Researchers Inventory a World of Information
From ACM News

Researchers Inventory a World of Information

Data is the common currency that unites all fields of science.

Hackers Harness Microsoft's Kinect For Business and Pleasure
From ACM News

Hackers Harness Microsoft's Kinect For Business and Pleasure

Gamers and hackers could control the office as well as games with Microsoft's Kinect.

Braille Displays Promise to Deliver the Web to the Blind
From ACM News

Braille Displays Promise to Deliver the Web to the Blind

The Web's wealth of information would lose some of its luster if you read it only one line at a time. Yet this is exactly how blind and other vision-impaired...

From ACM News

De-Worming Software More Effective at Detecting Infected Network Computers Before Contagion Can Spread

More than a year after being launched by hackers on a campaign to infect computers running Microsoft Windows, the Conficker worm's effects are still being felt....

Binary Body Double: Microsoft Reveals the Science Behind Project Natal for Xbox 360
From ACM News

Binary Body Double: Microsoft Reveals the Science Behind Project Natal for Xbox 360

When Nintendo's Wii game console debuted in November 2006, its motion-sensing handheld "Wiimotes" got players off the couch and onto their feet. Now Microsoft...
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account