Hardware

Computer scientist Yufei Ding receives NSF Early CAREER Award to advance efforts to improve quantum applications The key to the incredible speed of a quantum computer lies in its ability to fabricate and manipulate quantum bits, or qubits,…

A new system devises hardware architectures to hasten robots' response time Contemporary robots can move quickly. "The motors are fast, and they're powerful," says Sabrina Neuman. Yet in complex situations, like interactions with…

Credit: POSTECH Despite the anticounterfeiting devices attached to luxury handbags, marketable securities, and identification cards, counterfeit goods are on the rise. There is a demand for the next-generation anticounterfeiting…

A sensor network powered by an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm developed by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) can accurately detect, in real-time, gas leaks and unwanted water seepage into…

UT Arlington computer scientists use TACC systems to generate synthetic objects for robot trainingCredit: Before he joined the University of Texas at Arlington as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science…

Researchers discovered the thickness of magnetic materials can act as a "knob" for fine-tuning spin dynamics, a key property for developing next-generation electronicsCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Marking a…

Credit: The Biodesign Institute at ASU From a pair of simple principles of evolution--chance mutation and natural selection--nature has constructed an almost unfathomable richness of life around us. Despite our scientific…

International group composed of leaders across all of computing's disciplines ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 95 members ACM Fellows for wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in areas including artificial…

An international team of researchers just introduced a new photonic processorCredit: Christian Fleury (INRS) An international team of researchers, including Professor Roberto Morandotti of the Institut national de la recherche…

A multi-institution team from Australia and Germany simulates turbulence happening on both sides of the so-called "sonic scale," opening the door for more detailed and realistic galaxy formation simulationsCredit: Federrath et al. Nature…

Today's electronics waste energy by using separate chips to process and store data. New algorithms enable energy-efficient hybrids to work together as one mega-chip. Smartwatches and other battery-powered electronics would be even smarter…

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are already an integral part of our everyday lives online. For example, search engines such as Google use intelligent ranking algorithms and video streaming services such as Netflix use machine…

Credit: Swinburne University of Technology An international team of researchers led by Swinburne University of Technology has demonstrated the world's fastest and most powerful optical neuromorphic processor for artificial…

Credit: Yokohama National University The invention of optical fibers has revolutionized not only telecommunications but also sensing technology. Optical fiber sensors can measure strain, temperature, pressure, and many other physical…

Credit: Toshiba Using synchrotron radiation at SPring-8 - a large-scale synchrotron radiation facility - Tohoku University, Toshiba Corporation, and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) have successfully imaged…

Credit: University of Oxford The exponential growth of data traffic in our digital age poses some real challenges on processing power. And with the advent of machine learning and AI in, for example, self-driving vehicles and…

Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsaelm.0c00866 Conductive ink is a great tool for printing flexible electronic circuits on surfaces. But these inks can be costly, they do not work on some…

Credit: Yokohama National University Researchers from Yokohama National University in Japan have developed a prototype microprocessor using superconductor devices that are about 80 times more energy efficient than the…

Credit: Fabio Ansaloni Quantum computer: One of the obstacles for progress in the quest for a working quantum computer has been that the working devices that go into a quantum computer and perform the actual calculations, the qubits,…

By analyzing Fitbit data and self-reported symptoms, researchers from Evidation Health and collaborators analyzed trends in heart rate, step count, and symptom duration between patients with flu and those with COVID-19. While both showed…