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Photos: Microsoft's OmniTouch - The tech that turns any surface into a touchscreen

...a touchscreen. The prototype technology is on display at UIST 2012, the Association for Computing Machinery's 24th Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology... Read more

18 October, 2011 by Nick Heath
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ACM CACM v1.0

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14 April, 2012
ACM TechNews HD 1.2

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20 July, 2011
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ACM Mid-Southeast 1.0.20

...map to the conference; opens up the conference web site. ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is an international scientific and educational organization dedicated to... Read more

5 March, 2011

PC industry ridiculed by academics and researchers

...engineers told IT workers gathered here this week for the three-day Association for Computing Machinery conference. The event is typically a sort of group... Read more

14 March, 2001 by Rachel Konrad

Taking the helm for the US IT industry

...it doesn't hurt. Stuart Feldman, the newly installed president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), studied astrophysics and applied mathematics en route to... Read more

17 July, 2006 by Charles Cooper

'Wimpy nodes' could cut datacentre power bloat

...Fawn in a paper presented on 12 October [PDF] at the 22nd Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on Operating Systems Principles in Montana. Fawn... Read more

19 October, 2009 by Matthew Broersma
Web-science pioneer is made a dame

Web-science pioneer is made a dame

...world wide web. Hall is the first non-American president of the Association for Computing Machinery and is a member of the prime minister's... Read more

2 January, 2009 by David Meyer

Turing Award goes to error-checking researchers

...awarded the $250,000 (£127,000) prize by IT professional organisation the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in New York for their development of "model... Read more

5 February, 2008 by Adrian Bridgwater

Ethernet inventor welcomed into Hall of Fame

...several awards and honours, including the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1980 and the Alexander Graham Bell Medal... Read more

8 May, 2007 by Marguerite Reardon

Google warns of spiralling energy costs

...designed processors for DEC, said in a September paper published in the Association for Computing Machinery's Queue. "The possibility of computer equipment power consumption... Read more

9 December, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

Can the US maintain its dominance in IT?

...to countries. Indeed, at the recent International Collegiate Programming Contest of the Association for Computing Machinery, four Asian teams finished in the top dozen, including... Read more

12 May, 2005 by Dave Patterson

Is America's IT dominance under threat?

...science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and president of the Association for Computing Machinery, a group that runs a major student coding contest... Read more

20 April, 2005 by Ed Frauenheim

Internet founding fathers win Turing Award

...science and practice of information processing. It is awarded annually by the Association for Computing Machinery since 1966, the list of laureates defines the history... Read more

16 February, 2005 by Rupert Goodwins

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