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IBM’s Watson heading to its first university

, Jan 30th 2013 Discuss [0]

IBM's infamous Watson supercomputer is making its way to the classroom after appearing on Jeopardy! a while back. IBM announced today that they'll be building another Watson supercomputer and will be giving it to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to be the first university to receive a Watson supercomputer. Other universities are planned to get one in the future. Read The Full Story

Former Microsoft exec Steven Sinofsky gets teaching job at Harvard

, Dec 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

Shortly after the launch of Windows 8 and Windows RT, Steve Sinofsky left Microsoft after spending six years heading up the company's Windows division. However, he announced today that he's returning to Harvard to teach at the university's business school this spring. Previously, Sinofsky served as a "visiting scholar" there in 1998. Read The Full Story

Seton Hall University freshmen to receive free Lumia 900

, Jun 12th 2012 Discuss [0]

How times have changed. Once upon a time a tote bag filled with university info and offers was shoved into your arms, but now it seems students are given smartphones instead. Freshmen entering Seton Hall University in New Jersey will be handed a Nokia Lumia 900 when they arrive at the institution. It’s an extensive of an exisiting initiative that the university has in place, with laptops being handed out to students since 1997. Read The Full Story

MIT grad student develops internet lie detector using natural language processing

, Nov 22nd 2011 Discuss [0]

According to the Nieman Journalism Lab, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is developing a way to check for lying in political writing on the internet as easily as you check for spelling errors, using novel natural language processing techniques. NLP, for those who aren't familiar with the computer science term, is concerned with the interactions between computers and natural languages, and is essentially a method of human–computer interaction (Apple's Siri on the iPhone 4S is an app utilizing natural language processing). Read The Full Story

University of Minnesota scientists create brain-controlled virtual flight

, Oct 27th 2011 Discuss [1]

In a move that can only be described by Punjab-esque, your Annie (1982) hero's ability to make aircraft fly with his mind is one step closer to reality now that researchers, led by Dr. Bin He of the University of Minnesota, have created an EEG-based interface that allows users to navigate a virtual helicopter with their mind. The interface is a completely noninvasive brain-computer hookup that allows the user to tell the helicopter where to go by willing it to do so. Read The Full Story

IBM / NCSA Petascale Supercomputer “Blue Waters” Project Abandoned

, Aug 8th 2011 Discuss [4]

Both the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and IBM have cited unforeseen costs and greater than expected complexities amongst reasons for abandoning plans to create a petaflop-speed supercomputer this Monday. A petaflop, for those wondering, is a measure of the processing speed of a computer, that being a thousand trillion floating point operations per second - a computer with such speed capabilities being news in and of itself. Having started the project back in 2008, IBM reports today that it has terminated its four-year "Blue Waters" contract estimated at about $208 million USD, previously expected to have been delivered inside 2011. Read The Full Story

Destroy the Planet by Watering a Plant

, May 30th 2011 Discuss [0]

That’s right, the winners of this year’s Rube Goldberg award created a machine that destroyed the world as we know it, just to water a plant. Every year, Geeks and Techies gather to compete in the Rube Goldberg awards, where the winner accomplishes a task using the most steps possible. (They must be applying for a government job). Many people are familiar with the contraptions built in old cartoons to accomplish menial tasks in complex ways, but were not aware that those contraptions are Rube Goldberg machines. This year Purdue broke a Guinness World Record with their contraption. Check out the story and see the video of this amazing machine. Read The Full Story

TSA Body Scans May go Beyond Airlines Soon

, Mar 3rd 2011 Discuss [6]

So the TSA may have plans to use the full body scan technology used at airport checkpoints in mobile scanning units that it can set up at public events and train stations, as well as using mobile x-ray vans to scan pedestrians on city streets. Yeah, you read that right. This is according to some newly uncovered documents published by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) on Wednesday. The documents were obtained from the Department of Homeland Security via a Freedom of Information Act request. Read The Full Story

IBM and Nuance – “Dr. Watson is on his way”

, Feb 17th 2011 Discuss [0]

This week IBM's Watson has been going up against Jeopardy champs in the Jeopardy challenge. Now, IBM has announced that it will collaborate with Nuance to apply Watson's advanced analytics to the healthcare industry. The initiative will combine IBM's Deep Question Answering (QA), Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning capabilities with Nuance's speech recognition technology and Clinical Language Understanding solutions. They hope to assist doctors in making patient diagnoses, by helping them to process large amounts of information more quickly. Read The Full Story

Huge Touchscreen at The University of Groningen

, Feb 8th 2011 Discuss [2]

The University of Groningen, in the Netherlands, has converted a 3D theater into the world's largest touchscreen, used for teaching mathematics and computer science students interactivity. The screen has a curvature of 135 degrees and is transparent. Continue past the break to see the video and find out exactly how large this screen is. Read The Full Story

Disposable E-Paper on the Prototype Tip

, Nov 22nd 2010 Discuss [0]

So you're totally tired of all the old ways. Books? Useless. You're not into the whole "retro" thing, and you want people to know that you're on the cutting edge. The technology edge. So what do you think that heavenly next thing is? How about some disposable e-paper? University of Cincinnati electrical engineering professor Andrew Steckl decided he wanted that too. So what did he do? He demonstrated that electrowetting works on a paper substrate just as well as it does on glass. What's that mean? It means there's going to be some e-paper on paper. Read The Full Story

Google Plans on Building 1Gbps Broadband Network at Stanford University

, Oct 21st 2010 Discuss [1]

Google's aspirations are never small. They aim high, and sometimes they tend to hit the mark. The company's aspirations to create a 1Gbps broadband network seems to have localized on one area of the United States. Word has it that Google is planning on creating a 1Gbps broadband network at Stanford University. As is usual for a Google roll-out, the network is a large experiment, encompassing only a certain amount of area and homes. Read The Full Story
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