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This World War II-era photo provided by the family shows Morton Tuller next to a jeep.

The IT industry is nothing if not a breeding ground for an infinite variety of acronyms and neologisms.

Michael McWhertor recounts Jason Rohrer's extraordinary Game Developers' Conference presentation from last March; Rohrer used a set of genetic algorithms to evolve and play-test a board-game that no human ever played, then he milled it out of a piece of titanium and buried it, along with acid-free rules encased in Pyrex, and buried it in the desert ... (more)

The move into smartphones, tablets, TVs and home entertainment systems is already paying off, as Lenovo reported a 90 per cent jump in quarterly profit.

Google is a company focused on problem solving. It has untold amounts of computing power at its disposal working away to try and solve big problems.

A team of researchers from BYU and Adobe has developed a technique that could one day allow home photographers to edit their 3-D photos and display them as naturally as a normal 2-D digital photograph.

Salesforce.com Inc., the largest maker of online customer-management tools, forecast profit for the fiscal second quarter that missed some analysts' estimates as companies curtail spending on new business software.

Christian is this month's Premier 100 IT Leader, answering questions about the major issues IT should be addressing in the coming year and career paths.

With virtual machine populations running into the millions across geographically dispersed datacenters plus the migration of storage networks to Ethernet, the Forum provides a unique framework for industry stakeholders to collectively develop solutions that address technical challenges such as VLAN scaling, layer 2 performance and resilience across ... (more)

German business software maker SAP said it was revamping its management to sharpen its focus on cloud computing as demand for the service which saves clients money grows.

German business software maker SAP said on Friday that Lars Dalgaard, who had widely been expected to lead its cloud computing business, was leaving.

Amazon Web Services plans to set up an office in Herndon, adding 500 information technology jobs to the local Fairfax County economy, officials announced Wednesday.

Manuel Araoz, a 23-year-old developer in Argentina, has an idea for Bitcoin that doesn't focus on money.

As the hype around wearable technology gathers momentum, and the first working examples of such devices are released to the world, business leaders are beginning to consider the impact that they might have on the enterprise.

APCON unveiled the latest version of TITAN EP, its multi-switch management system for APCON switches and devices.

Thin clients introduced this week by Dell and Hewlett-Packard have faster processor than existing thin clients as well as high-definition graphics capabilities, so they could be alternatives to traditional PCs as computing continues moving to the cloud.

Technion scientists developed and constructed a molecular transducer, which is an advanced computing machine.

According to Oxford Reference the Internet is "[a] global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols." Today the Internet industry is booming, with billions of people logging on read the news, find a recipe, talk with friends, ... (more)

"Cloud has everything to do with what has happened with Big Data," explained Jason Deck, Director of Strategic Alliances at Logicworks, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan.

Google has just rolled out Penguin 2.0 , a large algorithmic update promising to go "deeper" than the 2012 Penguin release , which put a hurting on websites with number of manipulative links in their profile .