The World Community Grid, a new project started by the IBM Corporation, in Armonk, N.Y., aims to solve big social problems using relatively small amounts of donated computer power from millions of ...

During the past decade, IT migrated largely to client/server computing, putting many small servers at distributed sites. Now the trend is toward consolidation, replacing those hundreds or thousands of ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) In the field of computing, the electronic transistor has long been the dominant technology. Since its invention in 1947, this tiny device has become the foundation of modern ...

Researchers from St. Olaf College and Syracuse University in the US have unveiled a computer that functions entirely through ...