physics in comment and analysis
Stephen Wolfram
AS Profile But Wolfram should not be seen as an overnight success, he is a 50-year-old former particle physics prodigy who has spent his life trying to unlock the potential of computers. Professor Stephen Wolfram hit the headlines... [30 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: 3G Reality bytes
Comment Continually promising to deliver what the limits of physics say can't be done is no way for an industry to operate. For sure you can't run roughshod over the laws of physics, and to get anything like the... [14 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Digital TV too annoying to watch?
Comment Some are natural and unavoidable within the system-design specification and the laws of physics, but for sure, many are down to poor software and ill-conceived architectures that will be with us for a very long time. [11 Aug 2009]
Bill Gates: 'We're going to make the cows that don't fart'
Comment I've always liked physics, but I also want the equivalent lectures to be out there for biology, and computer science, and chemistry. In between trying to eradicate polio, tame malaria, and fix the broken US education... [16 Jul 2009]
David Tidey
CIO Profile Tidey graduated from the University of Exeter in physics and chemistry in 1982 from where he went to work for Greater London Council as a management trainee. David Tidey moved to the Royal Borough of Kensington and... [01 Jun 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: There is no magic tech
Comment For those of you with an engineering or physics background, it is worth looking at the resemblance to an entropy calculation. Compiled in my office over a nice warm coffee while snowed in with roads that are mostly black... [16 Feb 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.01.09
Round-Up The robot can be programmed to move into balancing positions that can teach children how basic physics works. The Round-Up looks back at its school days with a sense of misty nostalgia, tempered by a certain amount of... [23 Jan 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wave of innovation
Comment Today we see a new component in the equation of progress and it is the collapse of the artificial silos of physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics. Written on a train from Bristol to London and dispatched to... [18 Nov 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Tech to the rescue
Comment Personally I am watching developments in new materials, biotech, artificial intelligence, artificial life, distributed computing and man machine interfaces with great interest, not to mention the many developments in robotics,... [29 Oct 2008]
Inbox: Data breaches, tech wages, ePassport woes
Comment What's wrong with training a physics/history/media studies graduate? The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. At the end of last week the... [28 Aug 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.07.08
Round-Up Applications are 18 per cent down on last year making it the subject with the second worst decline after physics. And so, the Round-Up empties its rucksack of festival tat and puts away the tie-dyed t-shirt for another... [04 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Games skills gap, student outsourcing, ID card fears
Comment I know at least six outstanding developers - all with advanced degrees in either physics or math - working for financial institutions. Also attracting plenty of reader comment this week was the revelation that UK... [27 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wireless jelly
Comment For those interested in physics, I think this is a phenomenon we could lay at the feet of Heisenberg. You know how it is: you're in a coffee shop working online and using the free wi-fi service. There are five bars of... [13 Jun 2008]
Matthew Sinclair
CIO Profile Sinclair has a first class honours degree in physics and electrical engineering, lives in Northamptonshire and is married with three children. Matthew Sinclair is European CIO for global insurance broker and risk advisor... [11 Jun 2008]
Gordon Lovell-Read
CIO Profile Relentlessly inquisitive, he has a self-confessed "unhealthy" interest in quantum mechanics and particle physics - driven by a frustration and fascination that we still do not have scientific explanations for a whole... [11 Jun 2008]
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