Computer Science News

Compared with the newest quantum computer from D-Wave Systems of Burnaby, British Columbia, even the world's most powerful supercomputers are ploddingly slow, The New York Times reports.

Heins predicted that computer users would become increasingly dependent on a single computing device, such as a smartphone docked into a workstation, for all their daily tasks.

What do you call a 2013 high school graduate who earned all A's throughout school except for one B+, a perfect 36 on his ACT, won a first-place special award at the International Science and Engineering Fair, and is off to MIT? In the case of 18-year-old Anish Athalye of Shrewsbury, that person would be called a U.S. Presidential Scholar.

In the new techno-thriller "Upload," a young computer scientist with a sketchy past and distrust of society decides to take the ultimate leap forward by scanning his brain and uploading his memories, personality and consciousness into a simulated world of his own making.

I was recently on a review committee for a PhD proposal. The student was brilliant.

It's easy to characterize the cloud computing market as being Amazon Web Services' to lose, but that doesn't tell the whole story.

This week saw the largest known congregation of Google Glass users, those early adopters and chic geeks who have signed up to be the lab rats in a crowd-sourced experiment that will determine the shape and direction of the next big era of personal computing: wearable technology.

In-memory database platform HANA is growing beyond SAP, with 431 startups building on it, SAP executives said at Sapphire 2013.

Lenovo, one of the world's fastest growing PC players has officially announced its foray in Nepal offering its latest innovative computer technologies with an aim to redefine the computing space in a PC+ era and bring best in class features to offer its customers a 360 degree experience.

By adding a large number of fake entries, or "honeywords," to the password database, researchers believe they can better detect attacks.

The keynote speech that opened Google's I/O developer conference in San Francisco on Wednesday did not feature any new phones or tablets, new versions of its Android operating system or any wingsuited skydivers landing on the roof of the Moscone West convention center.

Security researchers from Damballa have found a new variant of the Pushdo malware that's better at hiding its malicious network traffic and is more resilient to coordinated takedown efforts.

Intel Corp's new CEO Brian Krzanich said on Thursday that under his leadership the top chipmaker will be more responsive to customers in an intensified focus on the fast-growing smartphone and tablet market where it lags its rivals.

The National Science Foundation has awarded Clemson University a $5 million grant to launch the Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computing Sciences.

Google is opening a new research lab to see if a quantum computer can solve problems too taxing for traditional computers.

This very exciting bulletin came up simultaneously on two of our favorite feeds: Tyler Cowen and Sebastian Thrun .

A $15m computer that uses "quantum physics" effects to boost its speed is to be installed at a Nasa facility.

It turns out that ant colonies that show similar selectivity when gathering food yield a similar result.

T5 Data Centers has lined up $113 million in debt financing to expand its Dallas data center, pictured above.

Georgia Tech and Udacity are joining forces to offer an MSc in Computer Science to be delivered as a massive open online course with enhanced support services for students enrolled in the degree program.