Computer Science News

New information on the data breach at Iowa State University. We're finding out why University officials are just responding to the hacking now -- even though they knew about it more than a month ago.... KCCI's Vanessa Peng joins us live from the Ames Livelink.

It's probably hard for any man to resist posting a picture of the apple of his eye .

Their lives swirl in technology, but the nation's high school students spend little time studying the computer science that is the basis of it all.

They're busy, demanding and very rich. What is it like to work for billionaire bosses? A lot of employees would risk their livelihoods and reputations to share stories about bad ones, but we do hear stories of some pretty stellar, ultra-wealthy bosses once in a while.

When Wally Pfister won an Oscar for Inception , his sixth film with Christopher Nolan , he went home and put the statuette on his mantel.

As modern computer systems become more powerful, utilizing as many as millions of processor cores in parallel, Intel is looking for new ways to efficiently use these high performance computing systems to accelerate scientific discovery.

By Joe Shlabotnik from Forest Hills, Queens, USA [CC-BY-2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons By Joe Shlabotnik from Forest Hills, Queens, USA [CC-BY-2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons America is becoming less religious and it looks as though the Internet is to blame.

When I started to work on performance tools for parallel computers 25 years ago, I wasn't sure how long I would be able to work in this interesting and exciting area of high performance computing.

Chinese conglomerate Fosun International is raising its profile as an international investor, establishing a venture-capital operation in Silicon Valley.

Amazon dedicated instances take some of the "shared" out of shared cloud infrastructure.

Police detectives in Portland, Ore., say a man fatally shot by an officer last month had been stalking young women in a van containing ropes, zip ties and pornographic magazines featuring teenage girls.

In this July 7, 2010 file photo, media billionaire Barry Diller attends the annual Allen & Co.

Today, Eleven formally launched a new per-minute billing option for its flagship guest computing solution, ElevenGC for the Mac.

Imagine having a pair of Google glasses at a party, turning over to look at an attractive woman, and because of facial recognition technology be able to get to know her on Facebook and ask her on a date on Tinder.

Some of the most impressive were those of the expert witnesses, who were asked to disclose how much they were being paid for their work.

Google researchers have developed technology that nearly perfectly deciphers the distorted combinations of numbers and letters commonly used on the internet to test whether or not someone is human.

Microsoft argues Chrome OS and Android contain its patented technology, and has struck licensing deals with Dell, HTC, Samsung and others Microsoft has extended its controversial yet successful crusade to extract licensing fees from vendors that use Google's Android and Chrome operating systems, adding Motorola Solutions to the list of vendors ... (more)

All parties agree on one thing: No matter what the court decides, it's likely to be a landmark copyright case with implications far beyond the company's future _ from the way you pay for television to whether your use of Google Drive will be affected.

Solution providers are looking for answers on what steps the company is taking after an Easter morning fire at a Samsung datacenter in Gwacheon, South Korea rendered Samsung smartphone and tablets unusable for several hours.

IBM is continuing its cloud push by launching a series of initiatives aimed at business partners of SoftLayer .