As the field of data science grows and expands to new parameters, opening the floor to new disciplines and ideas, so is the Duan Family Center for Computing and Data Sciences at Boston University.

As digital music files become increasingly popular, compact discs are likewise becoming obsolete. There may still be a use for some existing CDs, however, as the gold foil in them could be used in the ...

The Library Of Congress wants your old CDs. The reference material clearinghouse is currently soliciting CDs—both burned and commercially issued—for experiments on how quickly material on the discs ...

As we are all doubtless aware, the word “amateur” comes via the French amateur, which itself comes from the Latin amator, meaning “lover” (derived from the Latin amare, meaning “love”). In its first ...

NEW YORK – It can store the information from a million CDs in a space no bigger than your little finger, and could keep it safe for centuries. Is this some new electronic gadget? Nope. It's DNA. The ...

The Library of Congress, usually in the business of preserving media, is now embarking on a program to destroy optical disks. And if you donate your old CD collection, the institution will wreck all ...