Green computing, the study and practice of efficient and eco-friendly computing resources, is now under the attention of not only environmental organizations, but also businesses from other industries. In recent years, companies in the computer industry have come to realize ...

“D-Wave Systems” and Dr. Hartmut Neven – a scientist from Google, will demonstrate an image recognition algorithm running on a quantum computer, at the “Super Computing 2007” (SC07) Conference. The conference will take place in Nevada this week. The device, ...

Scientists from the University of California in San Diego developed an automated troubleshooting system for wireless access networks. The system was initially designed for the UCSD computer science building, but its success resulted in a paper presented by the researchers ...

In quantum computation we use quantum physics to compute. The use of physics in computation raises some deep philosophical problems concerning the relation of math to physics. It concerns the definition of the term ‘computer’ as a physical object. We ...

“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim”, said Edsger Dijkstra, the famous Dutch computer scientist. I hope to convince you that this question is actually quite ...

Digital interactive displays, which respond to human touch, have been evolving rapidly in the last few years. Dr. James Patten who works in the field of industrial design advanced the idea of interactive displays to a new level by developing ...

I want to take you back to 1830, and tell you an amazing story from the time of the industrial revolution.   Charles Babbage A well known British mathematician, named Charles Babbage, came up with the idea of a machine ...

A new computer architecture and program design has made the building of a desktop supercomputer prototype possible. Uzi Vishkin and his University of Maryland colleagues have succeeded in designing a computer with 64 parallel processors, and have defined a suitable ...

After six years of work Microsoft is now preparing to start the commercial launch of a new type of interactive technology called surface computing. The product showcased by Microsoft enables several people to digitally interact and can perform a variety ...

Belkin introduced a new USB Hub which can be connected to any network and allow the sharing of peripheral devices between different computers connected to the network. The new hub supports multiple users which can each device at a time ...