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…
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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…
“Inexact” Computer Chip, 15 Times More Efficient than Today’s Technology
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”…
BrainGate Neural Interface System Allows People with Paralysis to Control Robotic Arms
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,…
Calculating the Total Capacity of a Data Network
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…
New System Simplifies Excel Programming
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…
Thwarting Side-Channel Attacks and Increasing Computer Security
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…
Ion Crystal Set to Power Quantum Simulator
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…
Chips As Mini Internets: CPU Cores Communicate by Networks Instead of Bus
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…
Radio Telescope Square Kilometer Array Will be Powered by $43-Million IBM Supercomputer
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…
Software Simulator Can Provide “Cycle-Accurate” Simulation of a Chip with 1,000 Cores
As manufacturers continue to increase their chip performance by increasing the number of cores they contain, the risk of failure and faulty design issues also…
Optical Computer Memory Chips Could Ease Internet Traffic
All-optical routers managing Internet traffic would be much more energy efficient than what we have today, but their development has been hindered by the lack…
Quantum Computers to Arrive with Single-Atom-Sized Transistors
Physicists at Purdue University and the University of New South Wales have constructed a transistor from single atom of phosphorus placed precisely on a bed…
Yale Physicists Take Significant Step in the Development of Quantum Computing
Quantum computing has taken another step forward as physicists at Yale University demonstrate the most basic form of quantum error correction — a way to…
Researchers Use Psychological Model of Human Patterns to Increase Computer IQ Score
A research group at University of Gothenburg implemented a psychological model of human patterns in their computer program to enhance the program’s number sequence ability….
DARPA’s HACMS Program Seeks to Create New Technology
DARPA’s High-Assurance Cyber Military Systems program seeks to improve the security of embedded computer systems. To do this, researchers are looking to create new technology…
The Bolshoi Simulation: Boxing the Universe
The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe. Larger simulations, including the BigBolshoi and…
