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Nonlinear Systems Made Easy
From Communications of the ACM

Nonlinear Systems Made Easy

Pablo Parrilo has discovered a new approach to convex optimization that creates order out of chaos in complex nonlinear systems.

The Top 11 Technologies of the Decade
From ACM News

The Top 11 Technologies of the Decade

The January 2011 issue of IEEE Spectrum reviews the most important innovations that came of age in the past 10 years, based on their influence, usefulness, and...

Maths Research to Improve Internet Reliability
From ACM TechNews

Maths Research to Improve Internet Reliability

The Internet Traffic-Matrix Synthesis project will help make Internet services more reliable and efficient by synthesizing Internet traffic matrices and enabling...

Ibm Xeon-Based Supercomputer to Hit Three Petaflops
From ACM TechNews

Ibm Xeon-Based Supercomputer to Hit Three Petaflops

IBM plans to build an Intel Xeon-based supercomputer that will reach a peak speed of three petaflops and use a hot water-cooling system, which will result in 40...

Elusive Spintronics Success Could Lead to Single Chip For Processing and Memory
From ACM TechNews

Elusive Spintronics Success Could Lead to Single Chip For Processing and Memory

The proactive control of magnetically polarized current has been demonstrated for the first time, raising the possibility of combining computer memory and processing...

From ACM TechNews

Alto Protocol Could Improve Peer-to-Peer Networks

The Internet Engineering Task Force is developing Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO), a peer-to-peer system designed to improve the performance of client...

From ACM TechNews

Light Speed Now a Bottleneck in Fastest Networks

High-frequency trading firms should consider where they locate their data centers, according to researchers studying light propagation delays in fiber-optic based...

Preventing Gridlock: Developing Next Generation Internet Infrastructure
From ACM TechNews

Preventing Gridlock: Developing Next Generation Internet Infrastructure

The MODE-GAP project is working to boost capacity of broadband networks 100 times by developing data-transmission technologies based on special long-haul transmission...

World's Fastest Computer Brings Incalculable Benefits
From ACM News

World's Fastest Computer Brings Incalculable Benefits

Using the fastest supercomputer in the world, researchers in China can significantly shortened the amount of time it takes to process data and analyze solutions...

From ACM TechNews

IBM Chip Breakthrough May Lead to Exascale Supercomputers

IBM's new CMOS Integrated Silicon Nanophotonics technology boosts the data transfer rate between computer chips using pulses of light, and could boost supercomputing...

Jaguar Helps Develop Virtual Nuclear Power Reactor
From ACM News

Jaguar Helps Develop Virtual Nuclear Power Reactor

The Jaguar supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is paving the way toward the development of a new generation of nuclear...

From ACM TechNews

IBM Claims Breakthrough in Laser-Based Chips

IBM recently announced a breakthrough in the development of silicon-based chips that send data using pulses of laser light. IBM says the research sets the stage...

Silicon-Germanium Devices Developed For Use in Space
From ACM News

Silicon-Germanium Devices Developed For Use in Space

A five-year project led by the Georgia Institute of Technology is using silicon germanium technology to develop space electronics, which could change how space...

Top Scientist ­rges 'ambitious' ­.s. Exascale Supercomputer Plan
From ACM TechNews

Top Scientist ­rges 'ambitious' ­.s. Exascale Supercomputer Plan

Peter Beckman, director of the DOE's Exascale Technology and Computing Institute, says the United States needs to make a sizable push to open up funding resources...

A Matter of Privacy
From Communications of the ACM

A Matter of Privacy

Do consumers have enough control over their personal information or is more government regulation needed?

Topic Models vs. Unstructured Data
From Communications of the ACM

Topic Models vs. Unstructured Data

With topic modeling, scientists can explore and understand huge collections of unlabeled information.

The Eyes Have It
From Communications of the ACM

The Eyes Have It

Eye-tracking control for mobile phones might lead to a new era of context-aware user interfaces.

From ACM TechNews

IBM, Intel Question Key Top500 Supercomputer Metric

Researchers at IBM and Intel are questioning the methods by which the supercomputing Top500 list is compiled. "The Top500 . . . doesn't measure about 80 percent...

From ACM TechNews

Hpc Experts Look Past Petaflop to the Exascale

At SC10, the annual supercomputing conference, high-performance computing (HPC) experts debated whether the industry will reach an exaflop by 2020, and if the achievement...

Silicon's Long Good-Bye
From ACM News

Silicon's Long Good-Bye

Researchers make transistors out of a material that's better than silicon.
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