Computer Science and Technology News

The Pentagon is trying to find out if chip makers are building electronic trapdoors in key military hardware.

A computer system that can carry on a discussion with a human being by reacting to signals such as tone of voice and facial expression is being developed by an international team including Queen's University Belfast.

Imagine you’re stuck in an airport during a delay, and you don’t have an Internet connection. Thanks to a new Facebook application, you’d still be able to use your laptop computer – without being connected to the Internet.

UC San Diego computer scientists have created a fog and smoke machine for computer graphics that cuts the computational cost of making realistic smoky and foggy 3-D images, such as beams of light from a lighthouse piercing thick fog.

The largest road safety research project ever launched in Europe will usher in a series of powerful road-safety systems for European cars. But, in the long term, its basic, experimental research could lead to a car that is virtually uncrashable.

University of Utah engineers took an early step toward building super-fast computers that run on far-infrared light instead of electricity.

Terahertz waves, which until now have barely found their way out of the laboratory, could soon be in use as a versatile tool. Researchers have mobilized the transmitting and receiving devices so that they can be used anywhere with ease.

"Beauty," goes the old saying, "is in the eye of the beholder." But does the beholder have to be human?

Three engineering professors at Georgia Tech have created a computer ranking system, called LRMC, that consistently predicts NCAA basketball rankings more accurately than polls, formulas, other computer models and even the tournament seeds themselves.

Engineers have created the first "active matrix" display using a new class of transparent transistors and circuits, a step toward realizing applications such as e-paper, flexible color monitors and "heads-up" displays in car windshields.