News tagged with future computer

Researchers produce world's first programmable nanoprocessor

Engineers and scientists collaborating at Harvard University and the MITRE Corporation have developed and demonstrated the world's first programmable nanoprocessor.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (36) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

New 'FeTRAM' is promising computer memory technology

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are developing a new type of computer memory that could be faster than the existing commercial memory and use far less power than flash memory devices.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Powered by seaweed: Polymer from algae may improve battery performance

(PhysOrg.com) -- By looking to Mother Nature for solutions, researchers have identified a promising new binder material for lithium-ion battery electrodes that not only could boost energy storage, but also ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Magnetic memory and logic could achieve ultimate energy efficiency

Future computers may rely on magnetic microprocessors that consume the least amount of energy allowed by the laws of physics, according to an analysis by University of California, Berkeley, electrical engineers.

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 01, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Futuristic 48-Core Intel Chip Could Reshape How Computers are Built (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or "single-chip cloud computer," that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (32) | comments 19

Scientists Track Heat in Tiny Rolls of Carbon Atoms

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM Research scientists today announced a landmark study in the field of nanoelectronics; the development and demonstration of novel techniques to measure the distribution of energy and heat in powered carbon ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

'Metamaterials,' quantum dots show promise for new technologies

(Phys.org) -- Researchers are edging toward the creation of new optical technologies using "nanostructured metamaterials" capable of ultra-efficient transmission of light, with potential applications including ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop one of the world's smallest electronic circuits

A team of scientists, led by Guillaume Gervais from McGill's Physics Department and Mike Lilly from Sandia National Laboratories, has engineered one of the world's smallest electronic circuits. It is formed ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Data may not compute: Program stores older Web research files, left at risk by technological leaps

Modern scholars are wrestling with a problem that ancient monks and early authors managed to master: how to keep their work accessible to future generations.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

How the Internet architecture got its hourglass shape and what that means for the future

In the natural world, species that share the same ecosystem often compete for resources, resulting in the extinction of weaker competitors. A new computer model that describes the evolution of the Internet's ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Smarter computing systems make society better

Smarter computing systems can help give our lives a big boost - in education, healthcare, transportation, security and even the environment. But these computing systems need to be adjusted constantly, to help ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Coming to a device near you: A safer, faster Internet

Like an aging bridge, the Internet is groaning under the weight of traffic that is growing by leaps and bounds and changing form under constant innovation.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 16, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0