As artificial intelligence grows more powerful, so does its appetite for speed and energy. The quest for faster, smarter ...

Most computers in the world tend to do one thing and then move on to the next thing, a series of sequential tasks. For decades, computer scientists have struggled to get machines to do multiple things ...

E. O. Nestvold IBM Houston C. B. Su IBM Dallas J. L. Black Landmark Graphics Denver I. G. Jack BP Exploration London Two-way travel time surface of top reservoir event, Kuparuk field, Alaska. Data ...

A new study by a University of Warwick researcher has demonstrated that researchers trying to model a range of processes could use the power and capabilities of a particular XBox chip as a much ...

A new study has demonstrated that researchers trying to model a range of processes could use the power and capabilities of a particular XBox chip as a much cheaper alternative to other forms of ...

The dream of building self-regulating computer systems using parallel processing was not new in the 1960s when "2001: A Space Odyssey" acquainted millions of us with HAL. Computer makers have been ...

Back in 1965, Intel cofounder Gordon Moore predicted that the semiconductor industry could double the number of transistors on a chip every 12 months (he later amended it to 24 months) for about the ...

Danny Hillis thinks about machines that change the way people think about machines THERE are probably a few dozen people alive today who can claim to have designed a machine that, for a few weeks or ...