Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. The term “computer lab” might bring to mind a room filled ...

A man who hasn’t been able to move or speak for years imagines picking up a cup and filling it with water. In response to the man’s thoughts, a robotic arm mounted on his wheelchair glides forward, ...

The National Science Foundation has given a $1.99 million grant to a team of researchers looking to develop a computer that integrates silicon hardware with microbes. Microbes communicate using ...

Inside a UNC-Chapel Hill Science lab sits an autonomous robot. Imagine a machine like a Roomba, but with an arm, so it can pick up things like a dirty sock off the floor. A group of researchers from ...

When Bill Dally joined Nvidia’s research lab in 2009, it employed only about a dozen people and was focused on ray tracing, a rendering technique used in computer graphics. That once-small research ...

A “fab lab” is helping students in South Florida focus on their future.Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Jose Dotres and<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...