Aki Ross was the computer-generated heroine of the 2001 film “Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.” The reaction at the time presaged today’s debate over A.I.

A RIKEN-led project is developing essential software that will seamlessly connect quantum computers with supercomputers, hugely amplifying the abilities of both ...

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the John Lasseter film Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated feature film, we’re taking a look at early CGI milestones in the days before Toy Story. But ...

The Pixar Era kicked off 30 years ago with the first installment of the popular franchise. It’s given us countless hits, but something has also been lost. By Maya Phillips There are so many ways of ...

Student filmmakers have claimed all top honors at the upcoming 2025 SIGGRAPH 2025 Computer Animation Festival (August 10-14), marking what organizers call a “historic milestone” for the computer ...

Figure 1. Ultra-high parallel optical computing integrated chip - "Liuxing-I". High-detail view of an ultra-high parallelism optical computing integrated chip – “Liuxing-I”, showcasing the packaged ...

HAMBURG, Germany, June 12, 2025 – As the ISC 2025 main program comes to a close today, the conference organization announced that Rosa M. Badia, a prominent European scientist specializing in parallel ...

The brain’s rules seem simple: Fire together, wire together. When groups of neurons activate, they become interconnected. This networking is how we learn, reason, form memories, and adapt to our world ...

Over the decades there have been many denominations coined to classify computer systems, usually when they got used in different fields or technological improvements caused significant shifts. While ...

Explains the principles of transistor switching circuits, highlighting their role in electronic computers. It contrasts transistors with vacuum tubes, emphasizing that transistors function as ...

TikTok is about as far from enterprise computing as it gets, but who isn’t watching what its fate will be in coming days? The Chinese-owned social app’s future in the U.S. still hangs in the balance.

IBM is planning to build the largest quantum computer so far, by linking together smaller machines to create one with a recording-breaking number of quantum bits, or qubits. The firm’s first steps on ...