Computer scientists have invented a highly effective, yet incredibly simple, algorithm to decide which items to toss from a web cache to make room for new ones. Computer scientists have invented a ...

When a website loads quickly or an operating system runs smoothly, you can thank caching—a widely used computing process for ...

Computer memory capacity has expanded greatly, allowing machines to access data and perform tasks very quickly, but accessing the computer's central processing unit, or CPU, for each task slows the ...

“Computer performance fascinates me,” says Emory graduate student Yazhuo Zhang, co-first author of the discovery, shown on a visit to Switzerland. Set to receive her PhD in May, Zhang accepted a ...