Computer Science News

Hybrids are all the rage these days. No, I'm not talking about laptops that transmogrify into tablets, or portable all-in-ones that can be lugged around like supersized slates.

Science teacher goes on McDonald's-only diet to prove it's not where you eat, but what you eat (and... Tim Berners-Lee speaks during an interview at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., June 2008.

Supercomputing speed is typically boosted by adding more processors, but two new systems funded by the National Science Foundation due to go live next January will take an unconventional approach to speed up calculations and data analysis.

Computer simulations of structure formation in network forming materials are challenging.

D-Link , a world renowned brand of connectivity solutions for home, enterprise and service providers, in collaboration with Direct Beam , a global supplier of advanced wireless software and technology, today announced the availability of new innovative low-cost, high performance, fixed LTE wireless routers.

Social-media startup Banjo Inc. has raised $16 million in Series B funding to become something like a TiVo for interesting social-media conversations and content around the world, founder and Chief Executive Damien Patton told VentureWire.

Web browser or Office suite? Microsoft's and Google's office productivity and collaboration clouds pit rich and complex against simple and lean more A recent IDG Market Pulse survey found that IT organizations are questioning their long-term viability as a professional computing tool, citing limitations around functionality, durability and ... (more)

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European equity investors are placing more orders via computers than through flesh-and-blood traders for the first time as new market rules drive more money managers to go high-tech and low cost.

Soft robots-which don't just have soft exteriors, but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels-have become a sufficiently popular research topic that they now have their own journal, Soft Robotics .

Lynch brings to Adaptive Media more than a decade of experience with cutting-edge technology in the digital advertising space.

The World Wide Web is celebrating a birthday today. On March 12, 1989, the British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee launched the web.

The interactions of the gut microbiota in children with typical diabetes autoantibodies differ from that in healthy children.

As the World Wide Web celebrates its 25th year Wednesday, top techies are looking ahead over the next 25 years, to a future when the Web will be woven more deeply, and seamlessly, into our lives.

The way we secure digital transactions could soon change. An international team has demonstrated a form of quantum cryptography that can protect people doing business with others they may not know or trust - a situation encountered often on the internet and in everyday life, for example at a bank's ATM.

On July 1, UBC computer science professor Arvind Gupta will succeed current president Stephen Toope, who is leaving after eight years at the helm.

In addition, the company announced the availability of demand and supply-side APIs to enable third-party buying and selling software to tap directly into Jelli's ad platform.

Since joining Google, Kurzweil has laid out some ambitious plans for search, in which Google would actually be conscious and know who you are.

At Big Data Expo, Michael Gendron to discuss the inter-relationships & the combined effect of mobile, cloud and Big Data Technology is integrated into the DNA of business and of society itself.

The inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, called on Wednesday for bill of rights to protect freedom of speech on the Internet and users' rights after leaks about government surveillance of online activity.