Computer Science

Researchers at IBM have developed a reconfigurable parallel processing system called the IBM Neural Computer.

Microsoft's Azure cloud-hosted quantum-computing services are drawing new customers.

Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette,  and Wiley accused the nonprofit of piracy for making over 1 million books free online.

ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients, Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan, overcame industry indifference to found Pixar and put their computer graphics expertise to work. ...

Deep learning looks for better pretexts.

Artificial intelligence makes sense of radio signals to understand what someone in another room is doing.

Companies increasingly are looking to hire people who are on the autism spectrum to fill IT roles.

New Zealand software firm Rocos announced a partnership with Boston Dynamics to repurpose the latter's four-legged robotic dog for sheep herding.

Police departments in several U.S. cities are using updated software from Ford Motor that the automaker claims can kill the coronavirus.

Researchers have developed prototype multifunctional e-glasses equipped with flexible electrodes near the ears and eyes.

Researchers have created an algorithm to produce random numbers with the best mix of speed, accuracy, and low memory currently available.

Some employers are building virtual reproductions of their offices as online simulations for workers in lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic.

Some improvements to artificial intelligence may come from tweaks rather than core innovations, and some of those gains may not exist at all.

Algorithms that scan everything from terror watch lists to eviction records spit out flawed tenant screening reports. And almost nobody is watching.

The U.S. National Security Agency last week accused Russian hackers of exploiting a software vulnerability in Linux computers.

Cash-strapped state and local governments are looking to Congress for funds to improve cybersecurity.

Arizona has filed a lawsuit against Google for allegedly monitoring the locations of Android smartphone users even when such features purportedly were disabled,...

A survey of developers found that that TypeScript has overtaken Python as the second most-preferred programming language.

Gap Inc. is deploying warehouse robots more quickly amid the coronavirus pandemic.

David Ferrucci built a computer that mastered Jeopardy!  Since then, he's been attacking a more challenging task.

Researchers in Colorado used cellphone data to estimate how much Colorado residents have changed their behavior since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Microsoft plans to launch a version of its cloud-based software to meet the needs of healthcare organizations.

An international team of engineers and researchers created a framework to assess and document the clinical usefulness of wearable computing devices.

Dispatchers and first responders are using technology like live video streams, text messaging, and crowdsourced data to help 911 centers during the COVID-19 pandemic...

Artificial intelligence has ushered in a new golden age of semiconductor innovation.

With the disease there mostly under control, officials are looking for new uses for the government software that's now on many phones.

Researchers developed a new wearable sensor that monitors vitamin C levels in perspiration.

Researchers at Tel Aviv University and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya discovered a previously unknown Distributed Denial of Service exploit.

New software allows medical staff to obtain a patient’s hemoglobin count in real time by capturing an image of the patient's inner eyelid with a smartphone.

Computer scientists have determined that nearly half of all Twitter accounts spreading messages about the Covid-19 pandemic are likely bots.