Computers dominate so many people's lives. Who doesn't log hours of screen time every day on their "phone"—a device that, yes, can initiate or receive telephone calls but mostly serves as a ...

A program that speeds delivery of data via the Web, recently developed by computer scientists at Caltech, has piqued the interest of Hollywood studios as a potential breakthrough in the distribution ...

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A quantum hardware engineer works on one of the dilution refrigerators used at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing. Dilution refrigerators have multiple temperature ranges to cool quantum processors ...

Led by CalTech computer science professor Peter Schröder and Wim Sweldens of Bell Labs' Mathematical Sciences Research Center, scientists have developed an algorithm ...

The first half of Richard Doyle’s professional life and this second dream career he works at now may seem worlds apart. Doyle, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spent more than ...

Amazon is officially entering the race to develop a quantum computer, joining U.S. and Chinese rivals in the quest to harness the properties of nature’s tiniest particles into computing power far ...

A pioneer in computer technology and his wife have pledged gifts totaling $600-million to the California Institute of Technology, the largest private donation ever to an institution of higher ...

For more than a century, the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, has been a global beacon of scientific progress and discovery, attracting some of the world’s brightest minds to Pasadena.

As CEO of Cryogenic Industries, Ross Brown gained an appreciation of the work of scientific researchers, prompting him to launch a program giving $2 million awards for mid-career researchers. As CEO ...

Amazon is officially entering the race to develop a quantum computer, joining U.S. and Chinese rivals in the quest to harness the properties of nature’s tiniest particles into computing power far ...