Technology

Why The Future Of E-business Is R-business

I make the case for replacing business executives with robots.*† This is no smart-ass slur on the intellects of executives. A transformation of business soon will be upon us. In the transformed enterprises, robots will take on more and more business decisi ...

Article - Fred Phillips - May 7 2012 - 10:19am

Pentamode Metamaterials- Metafluids For Transformation Acoustics

Pentamodes, proposed in 1995 by Graeme Milton and Andrej Cherkaev, have been purely theoretical but three-dimensional transformation acoustics ideas, for example inaudibility cloaks, acoustic prisms or new loudspeakers, could become reality in the near fut ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2012 - 5:30am

Largest Ever Open Access Journal Program Launches- And Publication Is Free Too

Academic publisher Versita announced today the launch of a new program of Open Access journals. 100 Emerging Science Journals are being launched in 2012. The program's focus is on young and rapidly developing fields of science, which have not yet bee ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - May 10 2012 - 8:48am

University Of Luxembourg Jumps Into Open Access

The University of Luxembourg has agreed to actively participate in the Open Access initiative.  Defined in the Budapest (2002), Bethesda (2003) and Berlin (2003) declarations on Open Access, it is an effort to make scholarly publications freely available ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2012 - 1:33pm

VoiceSee: Hands-Free And Even Eyes-Free Web Navigation

YiZRi LLC has unveiled VoiceSee, the world's first hands-free, eyes-free web navigation platform that uses mobile apps to read aloud recipes, digital newspapers and Wikipedia entries for the Android smartphone. VoiceSee's flagship beta applicati ...

Article - News Staff - May 22 2012 - 5:14pm

Social Media- The New Favorite Breeding Ground Of Terrorists

 'Challenging Extremists', a report by Student Rights and the Henry Jackson Society, says individuals invited to address students on U.K. university campuses have promoted fear of a Western war against Islam, support for paramilitary violence in ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - May 28 2012 - 11:13am

Naturality: If We Fight The Power Laws, Who Will Win?

I have set out to write about "Naturality" for this column three times since the beginning of 2012 and each time I have abandoned the article.  It's a complex topic that easily gets away from me.  I have been measuring Naturality in search e ...

Article - Michael Martinez - May 31 2012 - 3:01pm

Chimera Molecular Modeling System

At my kid's graduation party on Sunday I had a chance to meet Tom Goddard who, it turns out, works on a tool used to look at the spatial organization of chromosomes in the cell nucleus and protein structures determined by electron cryo-microscopy. The ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 6 2012 - 11:38am

Technology’s Invasion, it’s Role in “1984” and the Haunting Similarities to our World

“1984” is a novel by George Orwell, set in dystopian Londonunder the rule of the totalitarian government named simply “The Party” and takes place after a cataclysmic nuclear war that decimated the planet. The Party creates a terrifying living environment ...

Blog Post - Ryan Hope - Jun 6 2012 - 12:04pm

Genetic Technology Provides An Improved Approach To Controlling Cotton Pest Moth

Oxitec's novel genetic fluorescent marking technology can substantially improve control of the cotton pest moth, pink bollworm, according to findings of a new study.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2012 - 10:08am