Project Exergy wants to combine the largest energy consuming end use in our country, heating and cooling, with the fastest growing consumer of energy today, computation. Our goal is to eventually ...

Our nation’s economy, security, and the health and safety of our citizens depend on the reliable delivery of electricity. The power system in the United States consists of more than 7,300 power plants ...

Everyone at some level is exploring or considering public cloud options for a range of functions -- from automating IT functions to enhancing business processes. However, these efforts have yet to be ...

“Cloud computing” takes hold as 69% of all internet users have either stored data online or used a web-based software application Some 69% of online Americans use webmail services, store data online, ...

Next week’s HotCloud conference on cloud computing will boast a slew of fresh research into this hottest of IT topics. Here’s a glimpse at the work to be showcased. Next week’s HotCloud conference on ...

Gentlemen, you can’t place data in here. This is the Cloud! Or so was the attitude of many drug companies a couple of years ago, when C&EN published a story about the information technology (IT) ...

On a recent trip to the Bay Area, I took a few hours to pay a visit to Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR). Professor Ken Goldberg walked me around the lab and introduced me to a ...