As the presidential election nears, lawmakers and security experts are raising questions about the security of electronic voting machines used in many parts of the country. The latest concerns focus ...

Running an operating system in your web browser is easier than you might think, and there are a few options you can try right now.

As I look at the hardware/OS system that surrounds our PCs, I find it wanting. What we should do is use virtual machines to isolate the OS from the hardware and allow a level of OS flexibility and ...

I recall teaching a college class in operating systems, when well into the class, thinking I was getting the points across, a few of the students stopped the class and asked “Yes, but what really is ...

I'm not a betting man but I'd put a lot of money on my prediction that the next major wave of server operating systems will be available as virtual machines (VMs), ready to run on your platform of ...

In the machine repair problem we are given m+n identical machines, m operating and n spares. All machines are independent of one another. When an operating machine fails, it is immediately sent to one ...