Rwanda recently officially launched the One-Laptop-Per-Child initiative that the government in Kigali committed to last year. The ambitious programme is targeting 80 per cent or 2.5 million children in five years' time.

CERN today officially unveiled the massive computer network that will crunch the enormous amount of data coming from CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). CERN expects that the LHC will produce around 15 petabytes of data every year. While the LHC was in

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) on Friday unveiled "the Grid", a computer network allowing scientists to crunch data on its Big Bang experiment.

The National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR), a Bethesda-based leading cancer research charity in the US, and InhibOx, a computational drug discovery company located in Oxford, UK, announced recently that they have joined forces to launch a powerful

Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Perched barefoot at a bamboo desk in his bedroom in the Bahamas, Viktor Kozeny spends 12 hours a day at his computer. He writes to the lawyers who are battling his extradition to the U.S. on charges of bribery, helps map strategy in