Category: Networking and Communication

Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory A unique collaboration between a U.S. telecommunications equipment provider and a Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national laboratory has helped dramatically improve design

Credit: 20th Century Fox More people have been talking about the trailer for the sci-fi/horror film Morgan than the movie itself. It’s partly because the commercial and critical response to

Credit: Shutterstock Understanding how our brains sustain ‘internal evolution’ – and help us to adapt and learn complex skills such as language – could one day lead to smarter robots.

Clockwork classics. Credit: Lyon and Turnbull The Who’s lead singer Roger Daltrey and his wife Heather are in Edinburgh, Scotland to auction a selection of rare mechanical devices called automata.

Distinguished Professor David Lazer and his colleagues analyzed global-scale databases of news events and found them wanting. Their recommendations for improvements would enable researchers to build models anticipating everything from

Sandia National Laboratories researchers are drawing inspiration from neurons in the brain, such as these green fluorescent protein-labeled neurons in a mouse neocortex, with the aim of developing neuro-inspired computing

Data were transferred from ITER site in France to REC site in Japan. Credit: Hideya Nakanishi The National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), in collaboration with

A Washington State University research team has designed a tiny, wireless data center that someday could be as small as a hand-held device and dramatically reduce the energy needed to

A smartwatch is capable of detecting and distinguishing a variety of taps, flicks and scratches by the hands and fingers, and all that’s required is a software upgrade that repurposes

At Experian DataLabs, a team of scientists is thwarting bad guys with math. A top-five U.S. credit card issuer recently dumped about 6 billion transaction records on the San Diego

The ability to monitor, record, analyze, and integrate information about human biology and health, at scales ranging from molecular interactions to disease prevalence in large populations, is transforming biomedical science

Human unpredictability is a problem in the automated human-machine systems people use every day. Scientists from Nanjing Institute of Technology’s School of Automation in China and the University of California,

In her new book, “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy,” Cathy O’Neil, Ph.D. ’99 argues that the algorithms dictating so many aspects of modern