When the Netflix Prize was awarded last month, it ended three years of intense competition aimed at finding a better algorithm for predicting users'...
Long Bets Monday, April 27th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili The “Long Bets” website describes itself as an arena for “competitive, accountable predictions”...
Imagining the Internet Monday, April 20th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili ”Imagining the Internet” is an Elon University project which aims to provide a peek at tomorrow by allowing...
Swype It, Don't Type It Monday, December 29th, 2008 - Anuradha Menon Cliff Kushler, the inventor of the T9 keyboard technology for numeric keypads, has developed a new alphanumeric entry...
Monday, September 15th, 2008 - 12:02:08 - Ehud Rattner
Scientists at the University of Rochester have shown for the first time that our brains automatically consider many possible words and their meanings...
Future for All Friday, August 15th, 2008 - Noa Rotkop Future for All is a private website about future technology and society. An interesting section deals with future technology...
After more than a century of effort, geophysicists still can’t predict when and where earthquakes will occur. Some have suggested that it may even be...