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 ...

Operating systems are the backbone of modern computing and play a crucial role in managing the resources of a computer. The design and implementation of an operating system involve a wide range of ...

Linux turns 35 years this year, and the operating system remains the backbone of most supercomputers. Here's why the world's ...

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Google has surprised the tech world with an announcement that it will launch its own operating system, aimed initially at the cheap, portable computers known as netbooks. It's the first-time Google ...

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 ...

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 ...

Looking for non-Linux open-source options? From ghosts of past operating systems to fascinating works in progress, here are ...