Distributed systems underpin modern computing environments—from cloud platforms and edge networks to multi-agent grids and software-defined infrastructures. They comprise collections of autonomous ...

Population protocols are a theoretical framework for understanding how vast collections of simple, identical agents with minimal computational power can collectively perform complex tasks through ...

The sheer volume of ‘Big Data’ produced today by various sectors is beginning to overwhelm even the extremely efficient computational techniques developed to sift through all that information. But a ...

Open source has become a critical building block of modern software, and today a new startup is coming out of stealth to capitalise on one of the newer frontiers in open source: using it to build and ...

Neel Somani, a researcher and technologist with a strong foundation in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, focuses on advancements of distributed computing across personal ...

Blockchain and edge computing can be a formidable combination in terms of power, scalability and versatility. Blockchain is sometimes perceived as cryptocurrency in general, but it’s a whole lot more.

The remarkable progress in AI shouldn’t be confused with creating human intelligence in machines. State-of-the-art machine-­learning projects often require massive amounts of data and computational ...

LookSmart is hoping to spin a small acquisition into a big project that will use distributed computing to improve its Web search results. In January, LookSmart quietly bought the assets of Grub, an ...