Constantly Connected: Unique Residential Lab Studies How Technology Interacts With And Affects Domestic Lifestyle (May 2, 2000) -- A residential laboratory that will be constantly connected via broadband communications has opened to study how technology interacts with and affects domestic lifestyle. The Georgia Institute of ... > full story

Computers Everywhere: Embedded Software Made Simpler Yet More Powerful (May 22, 2006) -- The current decade will probably be known as the dawn of pervasive computing, when PCs were dethroned by technology to embed computers in almost everything. The hardware already exists to add ... > full story

Paper Discusses Circuitry For Quantum Computing (October 24, 2002) -- The next radically different means of information processing will be quantum computing, which researchers say will use the principles of quantum mechanics to perform complex calculations in a ... > full story

University Of Ulster Research Pushing Back The Frontiers Of Space (December 2, 2004) -- Cutting edge research at the University of Ulster into how to make complex computers and communications systems manage themselves could power the next generation of US space ... > full story

NIST Tackles Tough Problems With Reliable Computer Grids (August 4, 2004) -- By connecting hundreds or even thousands of computers together to work on a single project, computer scientists are more frequently using a technique called grid computing to do previously ... > full story

New Protocol Speeds Up Internet Resource Sharing (January 30, 2003) -- A Penn State researcher has developed a faster method for more efficient sharing of widely distributed Internet resources such as Web services, databases and high performance ... > full story

'Not So Fast, Supercomputers,' Say Software Programmers (May 26, 2007) -- The fastest of the fastest computers - supercomputers used at national research centers, research universities and major corporations - will soon gain even more performance by taking advantage of ... > full story

A New Computing Paradigm: Chaos-Based System That "Evolves" Answers May Be Alternative To Current Computers (September 4, 1998) -- A revolutionary new computing technique that uses a network of chaotic elements to "evolve" its answers could provide an alternative to the digital computing systems widely used today. Described for ... > full story

The Next Big Speed Boost: Parallel Computing With High-Speed Networks (December 11, 1997) -- The University of Florida's High-performance Computing and Simulation Research Lab is developing parallel computing with high-performance networks, which researchers say will make computers thousands ... > full story

Engineer Creates First Academic Playstation 3 Computing Cluster (March 20, 2007) -- The Sony Playstation 3 (PS3), Xbox and Nintendo Wii have captivated a generation of computer gamers with bold graphics and rapid-fire animation. But these high-tech toys can do a lot more than just ... > full story

12-qubits Reached In Quantum Information Quest (May 8, 2006) -- In the drive to understand and harness quantum effects as they relate to information processing, scientists in Waterloo and Massachusetts have benchmarked quantum control methods on a 12-Qubit ... > full story

Computing power everywhere -- Ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) integrates computation into the environment, rather than having computers which are distinct objects. Other terms for ubiquitous computing include pervasive computing, ... > full article

Computing -- Originally, the word computing was synonymous with counting and calculating, and a science that deals with the original sense of computing mathematical ... > full article

Computer software -- Software is a program that enables a computer to perform a specific task, as opposed to the physical components of the system (hardware). This includes application software such as a word processor, ... > full article

Grid computing -- Grid computing is an emerging computing model that provides the ability to perform higher throughput computing by taking advantage of many networked computers to model a virtual computer architecture ... > full article

Computer -- A computer is a machine for manipulating data according to a list of instructions - a program. Computers can be extremely versatile. In fact, they are universal information processing machines. ... > full article

Security engineering -- Security engineering is the field of engineering dealing with the security and integrity of real-world systems. It is similar to systems engineering in that its motivation is to make a system meet ... > full article

Graphical user interface -- A graphical user interface (or GUI, often pronounced "gooey"), is a particular case of user interface for interacting with a computer which employs graphical images and widgets in addition to text to ... > full article

Quantum computer --

A quantum computer is any device for computation that makes direct use of distinctively quantum mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform operations on data. In a ... > full article

Computer vision -- Computer vision is the science and technology of machines that see. As a scientific discipline, computer vision is concerned with the theory and technology for building artificial systems that obtain ... > full article

Machine -- A machine is any mechanical or organic device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of tasks. It normally requires some energy source and accomplishes some sort of ... > full article