Forget Moore’s law. The reality is that workstations haven’t changed all that much in 30 years, despite their enormous power and performance gains. Interfacing is still a matter of pressing plastic ...

The IEEE Computer Society’s IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine has named Northwestern Engineering’s Nivedita Arora an "Emerging Rockstar." Launched by editorial board member Lakmal Meegahapola, the ...

Michael Capellas, the chairman and CEO of Compaq Computer, said Monday that the recent slowdown in the economy has made it even more apparent to developers that computing applications must be made to ...

But after a time, the engineering knowledge and efficient processes honed from making leisure electronics leaked into business systems. We’ve come a long way in 20 years, but we’re only part of the ...

How many times have you missed an important phone call because you were in a meeting? Or wasted 15 minutes searching the building for one of your co-workers? Or sent an important job to the printer, ...

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