CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

The computing industry was founded with mainframes intended for the few. Bringing computers to the masses was the work of generations, such as the trailblazers we honor in this story. Whether they ...

Microsoft engineers have devised a new way to keep data centers cool — and it might help prevent the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) hardware from cooking itself to death. The ...

As modern technologies such as artificial intelligence grab today’s headlines, it’s worth remembering that their foundations were being laid more than half a century ago by computer scientists, ...

More than a quarter of all computer programming jobs have vanished in the past two years, the worst downturn that industry has ever seen. Things are sufficiently abysmal that computer programming ...

Microsoft has announced the end of one of computing’s most recognizable and emotionally resonant features, marking the conclusion of a four-decade era that has shaped the Windows user experience for ...