C. Gordon Bell, a true visionary in the world of computing who helped design some of the first minicomputers in the 1960s, died May 17 at the age of 89, according to a new report from the New York Times. Bell died in Coronado, California from pneumonia according to the Times, which cites an unnamed …
David Greelish’s love for what we now think of as retro computers began when the machines were quite new: In a 1975 trip to the University of North Florida computer lab, when he was in the fifth grade. He remembers the mainframe computer wasn’t visible to the students, but there were all those teletype printer …
Belhaven University is the first college in Mississippi to pair with Amazon to offer a new data science curriculum. The university announced Tuesday morning that it will work with Amazon Web Services Academy to create the curriculum, which will center around cloud computing. The curriculum aims to shape the next generation of the growing tech …
Frankfurt and Darmstadt, April 2024 A research team from the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE led by Prof. Dr. Haya Schulmann has uncovered 18 vulnerabilities in crucial software components of Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI). RPKI is an Internet standard meant to protect Internet traffic from being hijacked by hackers. By now, all …
As artificial intelligence continues to advance its grasp on humans, humans are following suit. Starting this fall, students at the University of Pennsylvania can major in AI. In a news release this week, the school unveiled plans to become the first of the Ivy League universities to offer an undergraduate degree focused on AI. The …
Quantum computing surpasses classical computing in both speed and memory usage. It opens a way to make predictions of physical phenomena which were previously impossible. Quantum computing is often seen as a paradigm shift from classical or conventional computing. Conventional computers use bits (0 or 1) to process information. On the other side, quantum computers …
Cambricon Technologies, a company ambitiously striving to become China’s Nvidia and once hailed as the pioneer of artificial intelligence (AI) chip development in the country, is anticipating a net loss ranging from 756 million to 924 million yuan for 2023. This marks the seventh consecutive year of losses for the company. After undergoing multiple rounds …
“Nvidia has history on its side.” You couldn’t take 10 steps at CES, the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, without hearing about AI. All the key players in the AI PC race were present last week in force, including Intel INTC, -0.13%, AMD AMD, +8.31%, Qualcomm QCOM, +0.66% and Microsoft MSFT, +0.46%. Intel …
Introducing the Knox News 40 Under 40 class of 2023 Knox News is proud to reveal the 40 Under 40 class of 2023, presented by the Lincoln Memorial University School of Business. Verónica G. Melesse Vergara, 37, Group Leader, System Acceptance & User Environment, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Verónica Melesse Vergara leads a team that …
A viral photo of a classic home computer setup from the early 2000s has sparked a wave of nostalgia from millennials. The photo shows the quintessential computer station at the beginning of the millennium complete with an enormous box-like monitor, bulky CD-ROM hard drive, printer, speakers with small twiddly knobs, cd rack filled with computer …