The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named David Haussler, professor of computer science at UC Santa Cruz and director of UCSC’s Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE), a ...

Using some of the security lingo of the last 12 months, you could say 2004 was the year botnets hijacked machines and created armies of zombie PCs, opening backdoors for spammers, phishers and all ...

Earlier this week, I commented on Google’s being spammed by the MyDoom virus. Today, silicon.com contributor Will Sturgeon writes that 2004 has become the year of computer worms, with the number of ...

Since the introduction of the IBM PC in 1981, desktop computers have become a standard fixture in most workplaces. Through their ubiquity and impact on how work is done, personal computers (PCs) ...

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IBM has claimed unofficial bragging rights as owner of the world's fastest supercomputer. For three years running, the fastest supercomputer has been the Earth Simulator by NEC (NIPNY) in Japan. Earth ...

T-Mobile USA and Hewlett-Packard will introduce the first-ever handheld computer that also works as a cell phone and can tap into the Internet using high-speed wireless hot spots next month, the ...

Herman H. Goldstine, 90, a mathematician who played a key role in early development of the electronic digital computer during World War II, died June 16 at a retirement community in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He ...

A brain-computer interface (BCI) that translates electrical signals detected from the scalp into a user's commands offers comparable precision, speed and accuracy to systems that rely on electrodes ...

More than half of all American workers use a computer at work, and the percentage is growing rapidly. How should American schools prepare students to thrive in workplaces filled with computers? The ...