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A teacher in Virginia uses a micro-controller to connect a computer to a keyboard, allowing kindergarten students to play notes—and close a circuit—when they high-five their classmates. In Colorado, a ...

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could soon outperform classical computers on some complex computational problems. These computers rely on ...

In the early 2000s, the idea that you could write programs on microcontrollers that did things in the physical world, like run motors or light up LEDs, was kind of new. At the time, most people ...

Computer Science Education Week (CS Ed Week) is a time where educators around the world will host an Hour of Code to get their students learning the important engineering, coding and computer science ...

Sasha Harris-Cronin has been working for BBI Engineering since 2002 and as of 2019 is a principal and owner. She specializes in exhibits and experiences that fall in the realm of physical computing.

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The cyber and physical realms are becoming increasingly intertwined — something I call ...

Artificial intelligence is colliding with a hard physical limit: the energy and heat of conventional chips. As models scale ...

[Tinkermax] has been reading about the Internet of Things and wearable computing and decided it was time for him to have a go at building a device that turned computing physical. The result is a ...

We've been hearing a lot about cloud-based physical security solutions lately, and as with any emerging area, there are lots of different perspectives on what makes something a "cloud" solution, or a ...