It’s a question computer science alum David Shulman ’85, ’87 has been hearing a lot lately. Still only in his late 50s, Shulman retired from Microsoft last May after a 25-year career that featured two ...

It all started with two kids who shared a geeky hobby. Growing up in Seattle, childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen were obsessed with an emerging industry called computing. As teenagers, they ...

Microsoft Corp. is partnering with startup Atom Computing Inc. to launch a quantum computer powered by neutral atom qubits. The tech giant detailed the collaboration today at its annual Ignite ...

A computer that uses light rather than digital switches for calculations could help reduce the energy demands of artificial intelligence (AI), according to a new study. The scientists who invented the ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The quantum computer-ready system is intended to help scientists identify viable molecules in a short amount of time. As advances in ...

Last month Microsoft announced, with fanfare, that it had created a new kind of matter and used it to make a quantum computer architecture that could lead to machines “capable of solving meaningful, ...

Microsoft's chief product officer of experiences and devices says people should keep learning to code. Computer science isn't dead, Aparna Chennapragada said on a podcast, and engineer roles will ...

Microsoft is cutting jobs in its Azure business to pursue AI, while increasing focus on quantum computing, according to internal memo obtained by BI.

Microsoft's most expensive Surface device is about to get even pricier. At a press event on Wednesday, Microsoft is set to unveil several Surface Pro tablets, Surface Laptop models and a Surface ...

Amber Alstead studied a panel of wires as an instructor guided her through how to disconnect and reconnect a computer's hard drive. "So we snap this one or this one?" Alstead asked friends Stephanie ...

Quantum computing is getting there. After years of slow but steady development to create a useful quantum computer that can outperform classical machines, we’re still squarely in the “noisy ...