Information technology
Graphene key to high-density, energy-efficient memory chips, say Stanford engineers
03 Nov 2015
Engineers are developing memory chips based on new nanomaterials with capabilities that silicon can't match
A basis for all cryptography
03 Nov 2015
A tool that would provide a secure foundation for any cryptographic system may be close at hand
IBM breakthrough paves the way for carbon nanotube electronics
05 Oct 2015
IBM Research has announced a major engineering breakthrough that could accelerate carbon nanotubes replacing silicon transistors to power future computing technologies
Supercomputer predicts death with 95% probability
15 Sep 2015
The system collects data on patients every three minutes, measuring everything from oxygen levels to blood pressure, warning of the impending death of a patient
Using magnetic permeability to store information
11 Sep 2015
Research helping build computers from DNA
19 Aug 2015
Could Computers Reach Light Speed?
28 Jul 2015
Light waves trapped on a metal's surface travel nearly as fast as light through the air and far enough to possibly be useful for ultra-fast electronic circuit interconnects
Cutting cost and power consumption for big data
14 Jul 2015
Elon Musk funds Oxford, Cambridge research on safe and beneficial AI
13 Jul 2015
Tesla Motors and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who fears AI as "summoning the demon", hopes his research would help develop safer Artificial Intelligence
Encryption for everyone
10 Jul 2015
Better memory with faster lasers
08 Jul 2015
Automatic bug repair
By By Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office | 04 Jul 2015
An MIT-designed system fixes bugs by importing functionality from other programs — without access to source code
Encryption for everyone
27 Jun 2015
Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors
By By Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office | 24 Jun 2015
A new ultralow-power circuit doubles the efficiency of energy harvesting to more than 80 per cent, whereas previous ultralow-power converters that used the same approach had efficiencies of only 40 or 50 per cent
Engineers find a simple, yet clever, way to boost chip speeds
23 Jun 2015
Inside each chip are millions of tiny wires to transport data; wrapping them in a protective layer of graphene could boost speeds by 30 per cent
Engineers develop computer that operates on water droplets
10 Jun 2015
Researchers have developed a synchronous computer that operates using the unique physics of moving water droplets with the goal to design a new class of computers that can precisely control and manipulate physical matter
Breakthrough heralds super-efficient light-based computers
30 May 2015
Light can transmit more data while consuming far less power than electricity, and an engineering feat brings optical data transport closer to replacing wires
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