You’re not really supposed to love an operating system. It’s like your car’s hydraulic system, your digestive system or the global financial system. It’s supposed to do its job — and not get in your ...

Aditya Akella leads the project that aims to boost performance of OSes and help enable assistant robots, autonomous vehicles and smart cities. Research that will use artificial intelligence to boost ...

Dodge7's recent thread about how he expected more from computers given the Amiga, Atari in the 1980's got me thinking about the next, possibly mythical evolutionary step in computing. And as I sit ...

Computer systems produce a lot of heat. Data centers are full of buzzing cooling fans, and even smartphones can heat up with high use. Reducing energy consumption is one of the main challenges in ...

Long before Windows, and even before MS-DOS, Microsoft sold a Unix-based operating system it called Xenix in 1980. It was the first OS made by the company, but it eventually sold it off in 1987. On ...