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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
By allowing for occasional errors, prototype “inexact” computer chips are more efficient than today’s technology, improving power and resource efficiency. Researchers have unveiled an “inexact”…
Advances in brain-computer interfaces, restorative neurotechnology, and assistive robot technology have led to a new study that reports, while using the BrainGate neural interface system,…
In a two-part paper, a team of scientists from MIT, Caltech, and University of Technology in Munich examined network coding and ways to both minimize…
Customizing spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel is continuing to get easier and more efficient. Developed by an MIT graduate student and Microsoft researcher, a new system…
Personal computers and corporate computers have long been susceptible to hackers, but now savvy hackers are using cloud technology to their advantage to steal a…
Quantum computers are getting closer to reality as scientists created the ion crystal that will allow this quantum simulator to perform calculations that eclipse the…
As the demand for faster computers continues to rise, so does the demand for microchips that will power those computers. While the idea of adding…
The world’s largest telescope will be the Square Kilometer Array, and when it starts peering into radio waves emanating from the skies, it will generate…