The prolific industrial designer Richard Sapper had already designed for everyone from Alessi to Knoll to FIAT when he received a call from his friend Paul Rand asking if he wanted to be chief ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Two Purdue University industrial designers won a grand prize at an international competition co-sponsored by Microsoft Corp. for a new personal computer design that may change ...

As artificial intelligence platforms like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot go mainstream, power bills from their usage are exploding. In response, researchers are racing to build hardware that ...

The trend for computing, and for technology in general, really consists of just one word: Smaller. Previously, technology that could fit on your desk was the rage. Then it became tech that fit in your ...

There's always been something rather cold about computer design. From the boxy, beige machines that characterized the early PC era to the sleek but antiseptic scheme of modern Apple products, few ...

At a small local chapter meeting of a professional society, Gordon Moore's talk laid out the rudiments of what would become ...

Quantum computers promise the ability to tackle complex problems, such as decoding encrypted communications and developing new pharmaceutical drugs, much faster than conventional machines can. But to ...

Exterior view of the new Computer Design, Research, and Learning Center at UIC. Located at a unique, prominent site on campus, the structure celebrates the natural setting and organic form of the ...

A researcher from the University of Tokyo and a U.S.-based structural engineer developed a new computational form-finding ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Atom Computing and PsiQuantum to demonstrate concepts for designing quantum machines. The three companies were ...