In the early days of the semiconductor industry, integrated circuits were designed by one or two engineers with slide-rules, hand-drawn on paper, and then given to a lithographer to print onto silicon ...

The aerospace and electronics industries have long applied computational models to not only design airplanes and chips, but also to simulate and optimize their performance. There have, until recently, ...

The brainy designers at Nervous System use algorithms to generate organic looking jewelry -- and now you can use them too, via their iPad app. Geekiest Chic: Computer-Generated Jewelry Nervous System ...