The mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto is often credited with inventing blockchain – the tech behind the recent cryptocurrency and decentralization boom. But long before Nakamoto published his seminal paper ...

Researchers hunt for weaknesses in large node-based systems. U.S. government computer scientists are studying how computer grids react to volatile conditions to understand how events such as virus ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding a proof-of-concept study at Virginia Tech to develop highly connected computer systems that operate in a wireless environment. Small handheld ...

Developing a thorough test plan and benchmarks for a distributed system takes careful planning. Follow this advice on tracking down bottlenecks and analyzing performance results. This is the second in ...

An operating system designed to work in a network. More complex than a centralized or decentralized architecture, each computer in a distributed system operates and scales independently but is part of ...

Leslie Lamport, a Microsoft Research principal, has been named the winner of the 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award, also known as the “Nobel Prize in Computing.” The computer scientist was recognized by the ...