Computer Science News

RCMP investigators canvass the neighbourhood around the house of Stephen Arthuro Solis-Reyes, 19, in London, Ont., in London, Ontario on Wednesday, April 16, 2014.

Aaron Bailey was fed up with paying about $120 a month for satellite TV service when he heard about Aereo, a start-up company that streams live broadcast stations over the Internet for $8 to $12 a month.

Ashley Lee never really had an interest in computers and engineering while he was a student at Hibriten High School and Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute, focusing more on sports and martial arts.

As Winston Churchill once said, "to improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

First, we had Scarlett Johansson as a human-like operating system. Now, Johnny Depp has been uploaded.

In his new book, Flash Boys, Michael Lewis directs his gleeful analytic spotlight on flash trading.

The TOP500 project was started in 1993 to provide a reliable basis for tracking and detecting trends in high-performance computing.

The study demonstrates that a real-time engagement detection technology that processes facial expressions can perform with accuracy comparable to that of human observers.

Carnegie Mellon University today named Google Vice President Andrew W. Moore as the new dean of its School of Computer Science.

Microsoft Corp needs a "data culture" to thrive in the new computing environment, according to chief executive Satya Nadella, in his third public appearance in three weeks putting his imprint on the software company.

Enterprises put a lot of time and effort into protecting their servers but what happens on the user desktop always presents a potential risk and can be hard to control.

'Computer science' seems to be popularly synonymous with 'programming', rather than taking into account the thoughtful process of solving design, scalability, and interface problems.

CIO - It's hard to resist the sparkly nirvana that big data, leveraged appropriately, promises to those who choose to embrace it.

RED HAT SUMMIT 2014 - ConteXtream Inc. , a leading provider of carrier-grade network virtualization solutions, today announced its collaboration with , Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, to integrate OpenStack orchestration with ConteXtream's software-defined networking and network functions virtualization fabric for ... (more)

This screen shot shows a command prompt from Cortana, Windows phone software's virtual assistant.

After decades of start-and-stop, artificial intelligence is being advanced by major computing firms from Facebook and Google to IBM.

Big data analytics are driving rapid growth for public cloud computing vendors with revenues for the top 50 public cloud providers shooting up 47% in the fourth quarter last year to $6.2 billion, according to Technology Business Review Inc. The New Hampshire-based financial and technical research firm says the broader public cloud market, beyond ... (more)

In a move that experts say could make it harder to spy on Web users, Google is considering giving a boost in its search-engine results to websites that use encryption, the engineer in charge of fighting spam in search results hinted at a recent conference.

What do you get when you combine several hundred serious geeks, two large rooms, five decades' worth of vintage computers, and a weekend in New Jersey? The Vintage Computer Festival East, of course! The ninth running of the VCF East was held April 4-7 at the InfoAge Science Center in Wall Township, New Jersey.

There are things we tend to take for granted in our everyday lives. We have certain expectations that don't even have to be spoken, they're just a given.