In a world where semiconductor designers can't keep up with the demand for their services, Hewlett-Packard researchers are working on letting computers design themselves. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

How do you find novel materials with very specific properties - for example, special electronic properties which are needed for quantum computers? This is usually a very complicated task: various ...

I'd like build my own computer. I'm not talking about ordering parts from Newegg and such and slapping them together, I mean ordering a CPU, LCD screen, flash RAM, etc, and soldering it all together.

Fifth-year applied physics Ph.D. candidate Ben Bartlett, postdoctoral scholar Avik Dutt and electrical engineering professor Shanhui Fan proposed a new computer hardware design in November that could, ...