Building a Computer With a Single Atom
New studies broaden the perspectives on what constitutes a “computer” and how small a computational unit can be. When we define a “computer” as any…
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20 Times More Intense: New Material Will Help Improve Phone and Television Displays
Researchers have created fluorophores between 2.4 and 20 times more intense than analogs. Scientists have created, synthesized, and analyzed a new class of fluorophores, which…
10 Key Questions of Intelligent Computing
10 fundamental scientific questions on intelligent computing. “Can machines think?” In his ground-breaking paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” published in 1950, Alan Turing raised this…
Be Careful of Blue Light – Damage Increases With Age
According to an Oregon State University study, the harm of blue light exposure rises with age. According to a recent study from Oregon State University,…
Atomic Layer Etching Could Lead to Ever-More Powerful Microchips and Supercomputers
Over the course of almost 60 years, the information age has given the world the internet, smart phones, and lightning-fast computers. This has been made…
Ions in the Machine: Performing Complex Calculations Using Simple Liquids Like Water
Researchers led by Osaka University reveal the excellent information processing abilities of physical reservoirs based on electrochemical reactions in Faradic current and present a simple…
New Extremely Energy-Efficient Optical “Transistor” Speeds Up Computation Up to 1,000 Times
An international research team led by Skoltech and IBM has created an extremely energy-efficient optical switch that could replace electronic transistors in a new generation…
Next Generation Reservoir Computing: A New Way To Solve the “Hardest of the Hard” Computer Problems
A relatively new type of computing that mimics the way the human brain works was already transforming how scientists could tackle some of the most…
MIT Magnetic Wave Circuit Step Toward Highly Efficient Spintronic Computers
Circuit design offers a path to “spintronic” devices that use little electricity and generate practically no heat. MIT researchers have devised a novel circuit design…
New Manufacturing Method Enables Ultra-Efficient Atomic Computers That Use 100x Less Power
As computers continue to infiltrate almost every aspect of modern life, their negative impact on the environment grows. According to recent estimates, the electricity required…
Bypassing Moore’s Law With High-Speed Photonic Computers
PAXEL, a new type of photonic integrated circuit device that uses a novel computing architecture, shows promise for high-speed, energy-efficient computing. A group of researchers…
Phone and Computer Performance Boosted by Powerful New Memory Compacting System
UMass Amherst researchers develop powerful new memory-compacting system: Introducing ‘mesh,’ memory-saving plug-in to boost phone and computer performance. Applications like web browsers or smartphone apps…
New Technique Could Enable Chips with Thousands of Cores
More efficient memory-management scheme could help enable chips with thousands of cores. Researchers from MIT have unveiled the first fundamentally new approach to cache coherence…
New Network Design Exploits Power-Efficient Flash Memory
Engineers from MIT have developed a new system that, for several common big-data applications, should make servers using flash memory as efficient as those using…
“Silicon Nanophotonics” Integrates Optical Components With Electrical Circuits
IBM announced an advance in the ability to use light instead of electrical signals for information transmission in future computing applications. “Silicon nanophotonics” allows the…
Verifying Identity With Patterns Could Make Computers More Secure
If there’s one thing that should be learned by everyone with the most recent hacking fiasco of Wired’s Mat Honan, passwords aren’t secure. A team…
3D Self-Assembling Polymer Materials Could Lead to New Microchips
As computer chips continue to shrink, developers are reaching the limits on how small they can make patterns for wires. A team of researchers at…
Cataract Master Aims to Make Cataract Surgery Safer
Co-developed by Harvard Medical School researchers and colleagues, a new computer-based simulation tool, the Cataract Master, aims to minimize clinical risk while providing residents and…
