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Q and A: Irish Artist John Gerrard
Artist John Gerrard uses 360-degree photography and 3-D gaming software to create a virtual reality
February 2010 |
By Jeff Campagna
Can Computers Decipher a 5,000-Year-Old Language?
A computer scientist is helping to uncover the secrets of the inscribed symbols of the Indus
July 20, 2009 |
By David Zax
Robot Babies
Can scientists build a machine that learns as it goes and plays well with others?
July 2009 |
By Abigail Tucker
Booting Up a Computer Pioneer’s 200-Year-Old Design
Charles Babbage, the grandfather of the computer, envisioned a calculating machine that was never built, until now
April 02, 2009 |
By Aleta George
The Journey to Elsewhere, U.S.A.
A professor explains how new technology drastically altered the modern American family unit
January 29, 2009 |
By Abigail Tucker
Shepard Fairey: The Artist Behind the Obama Portrait
A portrait created by a graphic designer ended up becoming the icon for the Obama campaign and an international phenomenon
January 14, 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
The End of the Game, a Mystery in Four Parts
In a first-hand account of participating in an alternative reality game, one player gets caught up in the challenge
December 22, 2008 |
By Anika Gupta
The Player
Luis von Ahn's secret for making computers smarter? Get thousands of people to take part in his cunning online games
October 2007 |
By Polly Shulman
Site Seer
Faced with the Internet's overwhelming clutter, Joshua Schachter invented a deceptively simple tool that helps us all cut to the chase
October 2007 |
By Adam Rogers
Net Worker
Where are your friends in cyberspace? Closer than you might think, says Internet researcher Jon Kleinberg
October 2007 |
By Matt Dellinger
I, Lender
Software engineer Matt Flannery pioneers Internet microloans to the world's poor
October 2007 |
By Amy Crawford
Reboot
A photojournalist enchanted by computers takes another look at the soul of some old machines
July 2007 |
By Katy June-Friesen
Digital Attic
Dag Spicer, senior curator at the Computer History Museum, discusses 1950s mainframes, an original Apple One and Steve Wozniak's baby shoes
July 01, 2007 |
By Haley Crum
Rome Reborn
Archaeologists unveil a 3-D model of the great city circa A.D. 400
July 01, 2007 |
By Andrew Curry
What Camera?
Look what photographer Robert Creamer can do with a flatbed scanner
May 2007 |
By Marian Smith Holmes
Digitizing the Hanging Court
Cutpurses! Blackguards! Fallen women! The Proceedings of the Old Bailey is an epic chronicle of crime and vice in early London. Now anyone with a computer can search all 52 million words
April 2007 |
By Guy Gugliotta
