The United States is engaged in an international race to develop both cyberweapons and cyberdefenses. Thousands of daily attacks on federal and private computer systems in the United States, some malicious and some testing for weak points in the U.S.’s firewalls, have prompted the Obama administration to review the nation’s strategy. Efforts include developing a [...]

The U.S. government is exploring ways to combat and deter cyberattacks from abroad. After a recent Pentagon simulated cyberattack, it became clear that the enemy had all the advantages–stealth, anonymity, and unpredictability. The situation has led some in the government to compare it to that of the Cold War era, and there is intense debate [...]

ACM announced that it is providing institutional library customers with advanced electronic archiving services to help preserve their electronic resources. The services, which will be provided by Portico and CLOCKSS, address the scholarly community’s need for long-term solutions for reliable, secure, and deliverable access to their growing collections of digital content. ACM is providing these [...]

A deluge of digital information exists thanks to rapid technological improvements, and the next generation of computer scientists has to think in terms of what could be described as Internet scale. IBM and Google are helping by making their vast computing resources accessible to university students. The computers have been equipped with software that Internet [...]

The Vanish security system has been broken by a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, Princeton University, and the University of Michigan. Developed by scientists at the University of Washington, Vanish is designed to protect a computer user’s data by restricting the availability of the encryption key used to access it [...]

Researchers at Tokyo’s Keio University in Japan have developed what is being called the Digital Rosetta Stone, a sealed permanent memory bank that is designed to store data for more than a 1,000 years. The researchers, led by professor Tadahiro Kuroda, have proposed storing data on memory chips made of silicon, which Kuroda says is [...]

Minneapolis College of Art & Design professor Roman Verostko and University of California, Davis professor Lynn Hershman Leeson are the winners of the first ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Awards for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art. ACM’s Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques created the award to honor digital artists who have made significant [...]

The game of baseball could be significantly affected by a new camera and software system capable of recording the precise speed and location of the ball and every player on the field, which will generate statistics that will grade players with greater accuracy. The data gathered by this method, which is in final testing, will [...]

The United States is engaged in an international race to develop both cyberweapons and cyberdefenses. Thousands of daily attacks on federal and private computer systems in the United States, some malicious and some testing for weak points in the U.S.’s firewalls, have prompted the Obama administration to review the nation’s strategy. Efforts include developing a [...]

Researchers from the University of Southampton, the University of Warwick, and the Herculaneum Conservation Project are using the latest imaging techniques to digitally restore a 2,000-year-old Roman statue. They are using Polynomial Texture Mapping (PTM) to determine the texture and color of the painted surfaces of the statue, which was found in the ruins of [...]