Programming in Assembly Is Brutal, Beautiful, and Maybe Even a Path to Better AI

Whether your chip is running a vintage computer game or the latest DeepSeek model, it’ll reward you for speaking its native ...
Semiconductor Engineering

HW/SW Co-Design to Retarget the Compiler For RISC-V Custom Instructions (Tampere Univ.)

A new technical paper titled “Automatically Retargeting Hardware and Code Generation for RISC-V Custom Instructions” was published by researchers at Tampere University. “Custom instruction (CI) set ...
Semiconductor Engineering

KAN Acceleration: Algorithm Hardware Co-Design Approach (Georgia Tech, National Tsing Hua Univ., TSMC)

A new technical paper titled “Hardware Acceleration of Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) in Large-Scale Systems” was published by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, National Tsing Hua ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Researchers Design Algorithm to Improve Wearable Robot for Stroke, ALS Patients

Harvard researchers created an algorithm that allows a wearable robot to adapt to and assist the arm movements of stroke and Lou Gehrig’s disease patients in real-time. The researchers’ machine ...
Electronic Design

Battery-Gauging Algorithm Boosts Accuracy and Avoids Unexpected Shutdowns

Members can download this article in PDF format. Portable and mobile products require sophisticated battery-management circuitry to extend battery life and avoid unexpected shutdowns. A key ...
Diginomica

Ken Thompson's 1984 compiler warning is today's supply chain reality. Here's how capability analysis fights back

Software supply chain attacks are exploiting a dangerous blind spot - the difference between the code developers review and the software that actually runs. At the Open Source Summit, Google’s Eve ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Google makes progress on Chicago headquarters with windows update

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Science Daily

Forget 3D printing—DNA and water now build tiny machines that assemble themselves

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven are doing—constructing intricate 3D nanostructures by harnessing the ...
Fast Company

‘Design thinking’ is on its deathbed (and that’s okay)

Design thinking, the notion that anyone can solve problems like a designer with the right method and mindset, was a mainstay of corporate America from the 2000s into the 2010s. In recent years, though ...
The New York Times

At Jacob’s Pillow, a High-Tech Theater Rises From the Ashes

Performances in N.Y.C. The Doris Duke Theater, which burned down in 2020, has been rebuilt as a hub for dance and technology. “Lamentation: Dancing the Archive,” by Xin Ying in collaboration with Alan ...