Sun Microsystems Inc. in May will offer a Java-based development kit for sensors that is intended to help researchers invent new uses for the devices. The development kit for Project Sun Small ...

Vice President and Sun Fellow Robert Sproull says the Labs employs 150 and gets 2% of Sun’s roughly $2 billion in R&D money per year. Of all the projects underway, 60% to 70% are software development ...

The company's CEO originally opposed the idea of setting up Sun Labs 10 years ago, but the group has created the very products that have allowed the company to keep its independence. Stephen Shankland ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. last week took an important step toward commercializing an experimental Java performance measurement tool called JFluid, moving the two-year-old project from the Sun Labs ...

A desktop-size supercomputer, new types of computer memory systems, and easier-to-build microprocessors will someday be reality if research being conducted by Sun’s Sun Labs pans out, according to the ...

Medical researchers imagine a day when gene-mapping simulations will take an hour or two to compute instead of a week, on systems that process data up to 100 times faster than they do today. That ...