WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Two Purdue University industrial designers won a grand prize at an international competition co-sponsored by Microsoft Corp. for a new personal computer design that may change ...

Don’t get me wrong. Like most people, there’s nothing I enjoy more than solving a long, involved math problem by hand. But, sometimes, a few pages of algebraic scratches on paper is just a means to an ...

The prolific industrial designer Richard Sapper had already designed for everyone from Alessi to Knoll to FIAT when he received a call from his friend Paul Rand asking if he wanted to be chief ...

Contour Crafting, a computerized construction method that rapidly 3D prints large-scale structures directly from architectural CAD models, has been awarded the grand prize of $20,000 in the 2014 ...

Computer vision is one of the hottest markets in electronic design today. Digital processing of images and video with complex algorithms in order to interpret meaning has almost as many applications ...

When chips are usually designed, scientists and engineers work with patterns and templates that are well-known. A new study published in Nature Communications tried a different approach: a ...

How can magnetic resonance deliver power wirelessly? What does Powercast’s implementation look like? Alan Neves, Director of ...

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is the industry that commercializes the tools, methodologies and flows associated with the fabrication of electronic systems. The electronic design automation (EDA) ...

Rethinking conventional computer designs, which are decades old, the U.S. Department of Energy has set its sights on creating systems that could supplant today’s PCs and servers. The Los Alamos ...

Ideo Computer DesignsLisa talks with Tom Kelley, author of the book, The Art of lnnovation, about how innovation happens. Kelley is the general manager of IDEO, a California based design firm that ...

Scientists from Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford say that a group of nonexperts, who worked via an online interface and received feedback from lab experiments, has produced designs for RNA ...