Tag: Computer Science

• 11.5.07

  Audio Files

  For almost a century, sound was recorded using only analog techniques like magnetic tape. Over  the past 20 years, however, digital technology has almost wiped analog recording off the map, and not everyone is happy about it. Analog purists argue th

• 10.31.07

  Transcript: Jeff Hawkins Extended Interview

  Jeff Hawkins got famous for developing the software behind the Palm Pilot and the Treo SmartPhone. They are two of the most important pieces of consumer electronics since -- well, ever. Jeff has since returned to his first love, neuroscience, specificall

• 10.29.07

  X-Raying Ancient History

  Digital Scanner Brings Fossils Into 3-D View - and Exposes Fake Ones When researchers at an advanced computer scanning project at the University of Texas at Austin helped discover a previously unknown type of winged dinosaur recently, it made headlines a

• 10.29.07

  Jeff Hawkins: Computer Scientist

  Rethinking the Way We Think Jeff Hawkins is a man whose inventions are bigger than many people’s imaginations.  Born on the North Shore of Long Island in 1950, he was raised on innovation.  In an interview with Pen Computing Magazine, Haw

• 9.23.07

  Botnets for Rent

  What’s the Cost of a Hijacked Computer? Botnets—networks of "zombie” computers that have been hijacked to perform dirty tasks—aren't just for computer whizzes anymore. Today, people who know how to do little more than check t

• 9.18.07

  Cybertarget: USA?

  How Vulnerable Is America to Online Attack? The online assault that temporarily paralyzed the tiny Baltic nation of Estonia last spring may have been the first real battle inaugurating the era of cyber-warfare. But that attack was a relatively minor nuis

• 9.17.07

  World War 2.0

  Europe's Most Wired Country Under Hacker Attack Call it the first battle in a new era of cyber-warfare. Earlier this year, the entire country of Estonia was hit with a paralyzing attack on its Internet infrastructure that shut down the websites of gover

• 9.17.07

  Photosynth

  Snazzy New Software Gets the Whole Picture There must be millions of amateur snapshots of the Grand Canyon floating around on the Web. What if you could link them all together into a single image of the whole place, one that you could view from any angle

• 9.17.07

  Face Reader

  Children with Asperger’s Syndrome Test Facial-Recognition Software In our everyday communication, we are constantly monitoring other people's facial and body cues to discern whether we are enrapturing them, boring them, or confusing them—such