In the old days of public-sector technology, it was known as "paving the cow path." A computer system would be dropped into an agency, turned on and the same number of workers would do the same ...

Say you are a mid-sized insurance company that processes thousands of claims, policy applications, legal notices, invoices, and customer correspondences. For years, your team relied on paper documents ...

At Purdue University, engineers have developed a new technology that can transform sheets of paper from a notebook into a human-machine interface. Purdue's process could also make food packaging ...

While COVID-19 changed every aspect of our daily lives — impacting our families, our businesses and how we work — one area most radically transformed was how our kids learn and the function of K–12 ...

Exterior entrance of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington D.C. (Image Credit: U.S. Chamber of Commerce). The use of manual, paper-based processes costs the federal government $38.7 billion ...

A typical sheet of paper or cardboard is neither waterproof, interactive or able to harvest energy, but an innovative new printing technology developed at Purdue University can make it all of the ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...