Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Tokyo Tech Announces Plans For 2.4 Petaflop Supercomputer
The Tokyo Institute of Technology announced that the TSUBAME 2.0 supercomputer, a green, cloud-based supercomputer system with a top speed of 2.4 petaflops, will...
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Advances Made in Walking, Running Robots
Oregon State University researchers say they have made a fundamental advance in robotics that could lead to robots that use little energy to walk and run effectively...
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China's Fastest Computer Developed in Tianjin
A supercomputer that runs at more than one quadrillion calculations per second in practical use has been developed in Tianjin, making it the fastest one in China...
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Fujitsu Supercomputer Achieves World Record in Computational Quantum Chemistry
Researchers in Japan used Fujitsu's T2K Open Supercomputer to successfully compute with high precision an optimization problem to reveal the molecular behavior...
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Japan's Ipad Frenzy Signals a Sea Change
The debut of Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet computer in Japan is generating a level of hype and excitement rarely seen these days for a new electronics product in the...
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Despite Green Diet, Data Centers Still Gobble Power
Despite U.S. government warnings on exploding energy consumption, data centers are not getting more power-efficient.
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CS and Technology Leaders Honored
Awards were recently announced by ACM and the American Association for the Advancement of Science honoring leaders in...
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Robin Milner: The Elegant Pragmatist
Remembering a rich legacy in verification, languages, and concurrency.
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Mine Your Business
Researchers are developing new techniques to gauge employee productivity from information flow.
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Beyond the Smart Grid
The electrical grid isn't the only utility acquiring intelligence, as water and gas meters throughout the U...
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Straightening Out Heavy Tails
A better understanding of heavy-tailed probability distributions can improve activities from Internet commerce to the design of server farms.
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Submissions Invited For Green500 Supercomputer Ranking
The next submission deadline for the Green500 List, which ranks the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world, will be June 7.
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Mistakes in Silicon Chips to Help Boost Computer Power
Silicon chips that are allowed to make mistakes could help ensure computers continue to get more powerful, say US researchers.
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Paper Supercapacitor Could Power Future Paper Electronics
Stanford University researchers have developed an onboard power source for paper transistors and paper displays.
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Seven Atom Transistor Sets the Pace For Future Pcs
A working transistor that contains only seven atoms has been built by a team in Australia. The researchers, led by University of New South Wales professor Michelle...
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Breaking the Logjam: Improving Data Download From Outer Space
Space satellites face a data logjam because their increasingly powerful sensors produce more information than their bandwidth can easily transmit. Experiments indicate...
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Giving New Meaning to 'smart Car'
McMaster University computer and software engineers are studying how one IBM multicore processor can be used to connect a vehicle's automotive systems.
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Nanotech Microlens Could Lead to Better Infrared Satellite Imaging Technology
Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a nanotech "microlens" that uses gold to boost the strength of infrared imaging and could lead...
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Junior, the Robotic Car, Learns to Slide Park
The autonomous car that the Stanford Racing Team developed for the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007 is now capable of parking itself from an accelerated, reverse position...
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