New Software Could Smooth Supercomputing Speed Bumps
Researchers turn to the Open Computing Language as a way to get graphics and general-purpose computer processors on the same page for more powerful number crunching
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The 2009 Nobel Prizes
Explore the advances that earned this year's crop of Nobelists one of the world's most famous prizes--and in some cases, read about the prizewinning discoveries as chronicled by the researchers themselves in Scientific American ...
Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to Pioneer in Fiber Optics and Inventors of Digital Image Sensor [Update]
The three researchers paved the way for broadband telecommunications and the proliferation of digital photography
New Computer Graphics Systems Give Reality a Convincing Makeover
Augmented-reality technology mashes computer-generated images with real-world sights and sounds
Privacy and the Quantum Internet
Courtesy of some of the weirdest laws of physics, we may someday be able to search and surf the Web without anyone collecting our data
Melting memory chips in mass production
Phase-change memory's 40-year journey from bright idea to mobile phone.
Remembering the Day the World Wide Web Was Born
What drove Tim Berners-Lee to imagine this game-changing model for information sharing, and will its openness be its undoing?
The Mind Behind the Web
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and continues to shape its frantic evolution. He's neither rich nor famous, which is fine by him
Black Hole Computers
In keeping with the spirit of the age, researchers can think of the laws of physics as computer programs and the universe as a computer
Video: Debating the Surveillance State
Live from the 2014 World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland
Why Car Hacking Is Nearly Impossible
Despite recent claims, your car is not about to get crashed by hackers
Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality
The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending
Model Citizens
How digital drug dealers and virtual users are providing clues to help stop the U.S. opioid epidemic
