New Shaw Prize computer science category honours more innovators who benefit society

Expansion of prestigious annual award recognises field of study’s growing role in changing the way the world communicates.
Hackaday

Implementing 3D Graphics Basics

Plenty of our childhoods had at least one math teacher who made the (ultimately erroneous) claim that we needed to learn to do math because we wouldn’t always have a calculator in our ...
Tech Xplore

AI learns to perform analog layout design

Researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) have developed an artificial intelligence approach that addresses a key bottleneck in analog semiconductor layout design, a process ...

Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78

On February 1, Robert Tinney, the illustrator whose airbrushed cover paintings defined the look and feel of pioneering ...
IEEE

Optimization Design Method for Ultrasonic Transducers Based on Top Basic Skeleton Method and Sound Pressure Distribution in the Sound Field

Abstract: Ultrasound is widely used in engineering and biology for applications such as ultrasonic cleaning, cutting, and cancer treatment. Piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers are widely used to ...

Not Quantum, Not Classical: This Light-Based Computer Is Something Else Entirely

While it's no replacement for either computer, the new device is a powerful alternative for addressing some very practical ...
IEEE

Design and Implementation of Basic and Universal Logic Gates Using Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (QCA)

Abstract: Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) represents a promising nanotechnology poised to revolutionize future logic design. Compared to traditional semiconductor-based transistors, QCA offers ...