What Is an Operating System? An operating system (OS) is the fundamental software that acts as the brain of your computer. It's the master program that orchestrates all the computer's operations, ...

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 ...

Computer information systems (CIS) managers organize and supervise computer-related activities. Industry experts evaluate the company's needs, suggest computer system upgrades, and oversee network ...

A NeXTcube computer running the NeXTSTEP operating system. Simon Claessen / Flickr Today marks the 35th anniversary of the launch of NeXTSTEP, a computer operating system launched by Steve Jobs during ...

Q: My 10-year-old Samsung laptop had a catastrophic crash. I took it to a local repair shop and the tech/owner said the entire drive and data could not be recovered. He also said the operating system ...