Computer Science and Technology News

A new EU project, coordinated by the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, is to develop a new computer-aided holistic solution for the early phase of aircraft design.

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have developed nanowires capable of storing computer data for 100,000 years and retrieving that data a thousand times faster than existing portable memory devices such as Flash memory and micro-drives

Residents of Italy's capital will glimpse the future of urban mapmaking with the launch of "Wiki City Rome," a project developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that uses data from cellphones and other wireless technology.

A new technique which enables us to identify faces more accurately could make security systems more reliable.

The "Great Firewall of China," used by the government of the People's Republic of China to block users from reaching content it finds objectionable, is actually a "panopticon" that encourages self-censorship through the perception that users are being wat

IBM researchers in collaboration with scientists from the ETH Zurich have demonstrated a new, efficient and precise technique to print� at the nanoscale.

Is the navigation system too complex? Does it distract the driver's attention from the traffic? To test electronic assistants, their developers have to build numerous prototypes an expensive and time-consuming business. Tests in a virtual world make

For the first time, a CSIRO radio telescope has been linked to others in China and Europe in real-time, demonstrating the power of high-speed global networks and effectively creating a telescope almost as big as the Earth.

Supercomputers keep growing ever faster, racing along at the blazing speed of nearly one petaflops 10 to the fifteenth, or one thousand trillion calculations per second equivalent to around 250 thousand of today's laptops.

IBM has announced two major scientific achievements in the field of nanotechnology that could one day lead to new kinds of devices and structures built from a few atoms or molecules.