Computer Science and Technology News

Engineers at Ohio State University are developing a technique for mass producing computer chips made from the same material found in pencils.

Video games that involve high levels of action, such as first-person-shooter games, increase a player's real-world vision, according to research in Nature Neuroscience March 29.

Physicists in Sweden have now developed a new and simple method for producing cheap electronic components.

By reversing a process that converts electrical signals into sounds heard out of a cell phone, researchers may have a new tool to enhance the way computer chips, LEDs and transistors are built.

New 3-D Lab at University of Southern California explores application of 3-D technology in the home.

The ASTRA project, standing for Ancient instruments Sound/Timbre Reconstruction Application, has revived an instrument that hasn’t been played or heard in centuries.

A team of scientists, led by the University of Exeter, has used game theory to explain the bizarre behaviour of a group of ravens.

Tiny light-emitting diodes with optical microsystems that can produce all the colors of the rainbow, a new method for producing printed circuit boards – Fraunhofer researchers are showing innovative developments at the nano tech 2009 exhibition in Japan.

"In the not-too-distant future, we will have personal robots just like we have personal computers today,"

Middleware is the software glue that could connect a wide array of personal devices – from mobile devices to the on-board navigation systems of automobiles – to various networks.