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BusinessWeek
April 21, 2011
Douglas MacMillan |
Educational Tech Gets a Second Look Venture funds are spending big on educational tech startups as broadband networks and digital devices reach more students.   |
BusinessWeek
April 21, 2011
Ashlee Vance |
Innovator: Bruce Thomas's Projection Technology Thomas's Wearable Computer Lab at the University of South Australia has figured out how to do projections on 3D surfaces. It could have serious industrial uses. |
The Motley Fool
April 12, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
An Emerging Building Block for Successful Businesses It's no secret that consumers have responded warmly to more environmentally aware businesses in recent years. |
BusinessWeek
April 7, 2011
John Tozzi |
Innovator: Jennifer Pahlka The founder of Code for America is bringing programmers and cash-strapped cities together to give government services a boost. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Anya Kamenetz |
Hedging Bets On Going Green In the face of existential fear, giant companies are pursuing positive changes in how they make, package, ship, and sell products -- changes that will reduce risks, cut energy costs, and build a deep kind of goodwill today. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Fast Talk: Cynthia Breazeal on Teaching Robots The director of MIT's Personal Robots Group uses crowdsourced data to teach robots about human behavior. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
David Ferrucci on Watson, the Jeopardy Supercomputer The principal investigator for IBM's DeepQA/Watson project led the creation of the Jeopardy-playing robot, Watson. The robot is built on data-analysis technology that could have applications in myriad sectors. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Manuela Veloso on Robot Companions The professor of computer science and member of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is turning robots from joystick-operated poles on wheels into "CoBots" -- intelligent companions that can navigate and move. |
The Motley Fool
March 21, 2011
Rich Smith |
Where Have All the Robots Gone? Why are human workers being exposed to radiation to cope with the meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex? We saw how useful robots can be during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and we should prepare to use them at nuclear plants in the future. |
Chemistry World
March 17, 2011
Ned Stafford |
Uncertainty for nuclear power Political fallout from the Japanese disaster has spread to Europe and will no doubt have a lasting impact on nuclear power policy and research funding. |
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