Computer Science News

It is interesting that critics have nearly universally panned " Transcendence ", considering the last time a human fell in love with a piece of artificial intelligence onscreen it was Joaquin Phoenix in "Her", and they all nearly universally loved it.

With the click of a computer mouse, the potential risks of rising sea levels will soon be searchable - by ZIP code - for all U.S. coastal communities.

Remember 2007? That was before cloud computing became a thing and Microsoft was convinced that every home would have a big computer holding all of our movies, photos and songs.

In a misleading article on CNN.com this week, Americans were said to be "excited" and "upbeat" about the way technology will improve our lives in the future.

Manuel Peitsch, co-founder of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics , will chair a session on high-performance computing in the life sciences at ISC'14 in Leipzig, Germany, in June.

A $10K investment in F5 Networks shares made on January 2nd of this year is worth $12,195 as of market close yesterday.

Karlheinz Meier, professor of experimental physics at Heidelberg University's Kirchhoff Institute of Physics , will deliver a keynote talk at the International Supercomputing Conference 2014 .The theme for this talk will be ' Brain-derived computing beyond Von Neumann - achievements and challenges '.

The last time the IEEE 802.3 Working Group addressed the "Next Rate" of Ethernet was when 10 GbE was Ethernet's fastest rate.

Quantum computing is a technology that promises to revolutionize the IT industry.

Today's hyper competitive environment defined by unreasonable demands for speed and high expectations for quality and usability has forced companies to differentiate based on their technology.

The revolution that happened in the server universe over the past 15 years has resulted in an eco-system that is more open, more democratically innovative and produced better results in technically challenging dimensions like scale.

When it comes to cloud infrastructure, the underlying hardware and applications are only becoming more numerous and far flung.

On Feb. 28, Natalia Sternberg , chair of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department , received an email that delivered the sort of student feedback that gladdens any teacher's heart: "Hi Professor Sternberg, I just wanted to share some good news with you.

Altamira Technologies Corporation is pleased to announce a partnership with George Mason University's Volgenau School of Engineering to develop and support industry-grounded big data and cloud computing expertise.

NEWS ANALYSIS: Red Hat says virtual containers will be an efficient way to distribute applications across the hybrid cloud infrastructures that are favored by enterprises.

Perigon Networks, whose main brands include Managed.com and PowerDNN, has announced that information technology expert Patrick Sutton has joined its corporate leadership team.

Watch a clip from the film "Transcendence." Starring Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, and Morgan Freeman.

Users will have to opt in separately to the feature, called "Nearby Friends," and agree to give Facebook permission to track them at all times, even when not logged into Facebook.

International Business Machines Corp. shares dropped the most in six months after the company said yesterday that first- quarter revenue slid 3.9 percent to $22.5 billion.

I BM Corp reported its lowest quarterly revenue in five years on Wednesday as the company struggles with falling demand for its storage and server products.