Computer Science News

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.

Researchers at Lancaster University, UK have taken a hint from the way the human lungs and heart constantly communicate with each other, to devise an innovative, highly flexible encryption algorithm that they claim can't be broken using the traditional methods of cyberattack.

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A $10K investment in F5 Networks shares made January 2nd of this year is worth $11,588 as of market close yesterday.

NEWS ANALYSIS: The last remaining OS that predates Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Initiative needs to go, but the danger is no different this week than last week.

A lot of people have wondered over the years why Google has two operating systems, Android and the newer Chrome OS.

You want to use your smartphone while traveling abroad. But choosing an affordable method can seem mind-numbingly complicated.

There's a hole in the Internet where all your passwords could be sucked out at any moment, along with your confidential information and perhaps your bank account.

Users flocking to iOS 7, teenagers ready to spend $350 on an iWatch, US market share continues to rise, paperwork from the patent case, product predictions, Lightroom Mobile, Sir Jony Ive's collection of workers, and Facebook is pushing their Messenger app .