In a world where semiconductor designers can't keep up with the demand for their services, Hewlett-Packard researchers are working on letting computers design themselves. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

In the early days of the semiconductor industry, integrated circuits were designed by one or two engineers with slide-rules, hand-drawn on paper, and then given to a lithographer to print onto silicon ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--In a world where semiconductor designers can't keep up with the demand for their services, Hewlett-Packard researchers are working on letting computers design themselves. The ...

The sheer scale of the challenge is like nothing we've faced before. But it's not as if the high-tech industry is looking up at a rock wall like El Capitan or the famed North Face of Mount Everest.

Quantum computers promise the ability to tackle complex problems, such as decoding encrypted communications and developing new pharmaceutical drugs, much faster than conventional machines can. But to ...

Kathryn Cunningham discussed her work applying human-computer interaction methods to support the needs and goals of computing students at the undergraduate level. An emerging trend within computer ...

It is not always easy to tell a book by its cover, and Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computer Design by Wayne Wolf fits into this category. The title alludes to a component-based ...

A quantum computer has been used to design an improved qubit that could power the next generation of smaller, higher-performance and more reliable quantum computers. Exploiting the ability of quantum ...

Electrophysiological devices are widely used in basic neuroscience research to measure the activity of a population of neurons (using electroencephalography and electrocorticography) or individual ...