Researchers at a recent conference on 'Quantum Information' argue that the binary 0-or-1 model for computers will have to give way to the new understandings about quantum physics for computers to be able to solve the complex equations of the future.

This week marks the launching of a new supercomputer that brings everything from clusters of galaxies to complex molecules within computational reach.
The Terascale Computing System (TCS) at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is the second most powerful computer in the world, after ASCI White at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Researchers at the University of Texas are working on grafting a microelectronic circuit directly onto a human brain cell which would allow bioelectronic devices from brain implants, therapies and prosthetics to neural computers.

A recent symposium at NYU addressed the issue of whether weapons of mass destruction, particularly those in the former Soviet Union, could fall into the hands of terrorists.

The more likely threat from collisions with asteroids and comets comes not from chunks of space rock the size of Texas, as in the movie Armageddon, but rather from objects mere tenths of a mile across, which are harder to find and track.

Two new papers present new frameworks for quantum information storage and large-scale quantum computation -- involving hundreds of thousands of potential quantum bits (qubits). Both tasks are essential to making a quantum computer, and both entail challenges for the engineer as well as the theorist.