Since the introduction of the IBM PC in 1981, desktop computers have become a standard fixture in most workplaces. Through their ubiquity and impact on how work is done, personal computers (PCs) ...

When Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Microsoft set out to make the Windows operating system, they could have had no idea of how popular it would become. Shortly after its launch in 1985, it exploded in use ...

It's hard for most of us to think about what it was like to use computers before the advent of the Internet, but Professor Donald Hillman, of the computer science and engineering department, can't say ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University engineers have new information contradicting the most dire predictions about the imminent demise of Moore's Law, a general rule that is central to the ...

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, we have a conversation that I’ve wanted to have for some time. The topic this week is quantum computers. It is quite a niche topic and finding people who actually ...

Computer scientists are looking to evolutionary biology for inspiration in the search for optimal solutions among astronomically huge sets of possibilities. Creationists love to insist that evolution ...