Rick Merritt

There are as many ways to define a smart city as there are cities on the road to being smart. From London and Singapore to Seat Pleasant, Maryland, they vary… Read Article

Two chance encounters propelled remote direct memory access from a good but obscure idea for fast networks into the jet fuel for the world’s more powerful supercomputers. The lucky breaks… Read Article

Days after giving an online talk on how GPUs reduce the time to understand diseases, Margaret Linan felt sick, and awoke at 3am gasping for air. “It was quite frightening,”… Read Article

While a panel on AI in financial technology was one of many events canceled in New York this month, it didn’t mute the panelists’ optimism on the topic. A trio… Read Article

The next time a virtual assistant seems particularly thoughtful rescheduling your appointment, you could thank it. Who knows, maybe it was built to learn from compliments. But you might actually… Read Article

The tweet party started on Wednesday, March 25, at 1:55pm. That’s when the research network that Folding@home manages had arguably become the world’s most powerful supercomputer. Its call to help… Read Article

Paul Mahler remembers the day in May 2013 he decided to make the switch. The former economist was waiting at a bus stop in Washington, D.C., reading the New York… Read Article

Now that data is the new oil, AI software startups are sprouting across the tech terrain like pumpjacks in Texas. A whopping $80 billion in venture capital is fueling as… Read Article