Computer Science

Language barrier

A Purdue University assistant professor of computer science leads a group effort to find new and better ways to generate… Read More

November 29, 2017

A Spark in the dark

Most of the universe is dark, with dark matter and dark energy comprising more than 95 percent of its mass-energy.… Read More

October 25, 2017

Quantum wave

The Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is taking an early plunge into a kind of computer so… Read More

October 11, 2017

Digital autodidact

In an age when cars park themselves and computers talk at their human users, Mallikarjun (Arjun) Shankar of the Department… Read More

August 25, 2017

Brain-like computing

As Stephen Hawking once said, “the brain is essentially a computer.” No other thinking machine gets mentioned more as the… Read More

May 24, 2017

Have stencil, will lift

When he became a University of Washington assistant professor in 2015, Alvin Cheung vowed in a summary of his CV… Read More

September 7, 2016

Packaging a wallop

From climate-change predictions to models of the expanding universe, simulations help scientists understand complex physical phenomena. But simulations aren’t easy… Read More

August 24, 2016

High-performing hybrid

Jarrod McClean and his Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory colleagues want to simulate and predict the chemistry and properties of advanced… Read More

June 1, 2016

Ghost writer

Processor cores in a giant supercomputer want data delivery that’s fast and efficient. It’s a difficult goal to achieve in… Read More

March 17, 2016

Moving target

When thinking about the Analysis in Motion (AIM) program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), it helps to compare it… Read More

February 29, 2016