Egypt’s Hidden Hero
You’ve probably read something about Egypt in the newspapers over the course of the last two weeks, unless you’ve been on Mars (in which case I’m totally jealous). There’s been a lot of great...
View ArticleOur New Computer Overlords
So I’m sure all my readers are familiar with the exploits of Watson by now (for those of you living on a cave in Mars, Watson is a mechanical Jeopardy champion built by IBM). I’m not going to rehash...
View ArticleInto the Sunset
Columbia. Challenger. Discovery. Atlantis. Endeavour. This Thursday marked the 39th and final launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery, and there’s some rather unique footage of the launch, taken...
View ArticleRobot Roundup
In 1997, Deep Blue played a series of chess games against Gary Kasparov, the world champion at the time. Fourteen years later, Watson competed on three episodes of Jeopardy against the two best human...
View ArticleCell Phones and Cancer
One of the goals when I started this blog was to start conversations, and to get people to think about things from perspectives that don’t fit with the narratives spun by most sources of commentary and...
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