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Someday robots will do more than vacuum your floors. They will train you, advise you and help you remember things as they strive to improve your quality of life.
View ArticleHappy birthday, Sputnik! (Thanks for the Internet)
Quick, what's the most influential piece of hardware from the early days of computing? The IBM 360 mainframe? The DEC PDP-1 minicomputer? Maybe earlier computers such as Binac, ENIAC or Univac? Or,...
View ArticleSecond Life: What is the fuss?
Until recently, I thought "second life" referred to one of those places the Bible says we'll go after we depart this life.
View ArticleIntel CTO: Computing's future in multicore machines
For much of his 34 years at Intel, Justin R. Rattner has been a pioneer in parallel and distributed processing. His early ideas didn't catch on in the market, but the time has come for them now, he...
View ArticleBUSTED: 27 Most Dangerous Gaming Myths
GamePro shatters 27 video game myths in this popular reoccurring series. This article: HD-DVD versus Blu-ray, HDMI versus component, the PS3 as a failure, and more!
View ArticleGive your computer the finger: Touch-screen tech arrives
The WIMP human-computer interface may have an uninspiring name, but Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointing devices have dominated computing for some 15 years. The keyboard, mouse and display screen have...
View ArticleDifferent engines: The return of the mechanical computer
In the 19th century, British mathematician Charles Babbage invented the "difference engine," a mechanical computer that had an enormously complex arrangement of levers, ratchets and gears. Had this...
View ArticleEverything you ever wanted to know about algorithms
"As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity." -Antoine-Nicholas de Condorcet, 1794
View ArticleHappy birthday, x86! An industry standard turns 30
Thirty years ago, on June 8, 1978, Intel introduced its first 16-bit microprocessor, the 8086, with a splashy ad heralding "the dawn of a new era." Overblown? Sure, but also prophetic. While the 8086...
View ArticleIntel's Patrick Gelsinger on the hot seat
Patrick Gelsinger is an electrical engineer. He joined Intel in 1979, worked on the design of the 80286 and 80386 microprocessors, and was the chief architect for the 80486 chip.
View ArticleWhat's next for the x86?
It's impossible to look at the x86 family of microprocessors without wondering if, after three decades of dominance, the architecture might be running out of steam. Intel, naturally, says the x86 still...
View ArticleSupercomputer race: Tricky to boost system speed
Every June and November, with fanfare lacking only in actual drum rolls and trumpet blasts, a new list of the world's fastest supercomputers is revealed. Vendors brag, and the media reach for analogies...
View ArticleUS innovation: On the skids
It would be hard to exaggerate the angst that has gripped the US in recent months as the election nears, markets churn and assets melt. But the headlines that have made us dread picking up the...
View ArticleUnix turns 40: The past, present and future of the OS
Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created.
View ArticleThe touch-screen grows up before our eyes
"The Active Desk," was a touch-screen device developed in 1992 at the University of Toronto.
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