For people with severe motor impairments, a simple conversation can take minutes instead of seconds. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Dylan Gaines is developing technology to change that, ...

Just as embroiderers, with needle and thread, can transform plain fabric into an intricate pattern, engineers can use lasers and polymers to create flexible, complex structures that could transform ...

From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early ...

Quantum circuits are supposed to gain power as they grow longer, but noise changes the picture. A new study finds that earlier steps in these circuits gradually lose their impact, with only the final ...

MT is a competition that originated at the University of Queensland and has since spread to universities around the world.

Can a handful of atoms outperform a much larger digital neural network on a real-world task? The answer may be yes. In a ...

While I did not use computers, I did purchase an early version of the Apple desktop computer and interfaced it with a printer ...

Thread cutting on a lathe demands steady hands, sharp focus, and careful coordination. Watch as each pass brings the threads closer to a perfect finish. Have you ever tried your hand at lathe ...

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Artificial intelligence can make smart homes smarter, help us manage our days, and even help us plan major life changes. This series looks at the new — and sometimes surprising — ways AI is being used ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

Connecting the dots: For the first time in more than two decades years, computer science enrollment across the University of California system has fallen, a drop some educators see as a reflection of ...