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RSS prizeWin a luxury New Year's Eve package worth £1,000
News To be in with a chance to win this fantastic prize, all you need to do is click here and answer the following question: This competition is now closed. To celebrate Small Business Week, BT Business is offering one lucky... [20 Oct 2009]
Photos: The phones of the future on display
Photo The grand prize winner is called "gesture and was designed by Jin-Gwon Go. The winner of the Fujitsu Mobile Phone Design Award 2009 was announced this week at the IT and electronics trade show Ceatec Japan, where... [06 Oct 2009]
Stephen Wolfram
AS Profile For instance it could tell you how many Nobel Prize winners were born under a full moon without someone having worked it out before. Professor Stephen Wolfram hit the headlines earlier this year by creating a new kind of... [30 Sep 2009]
Google's $10m change-the-world prize: 16 themes chosen
News Google has finally whittled down the more than 150,000 ideas submitted as part of its Project 10^100 to 16 themes that will compete for $10m in funding. It's taken far longer than Google had originally anticipated, but the results of the... [28 Sep 2009]
A world where your every moment is recorded is coming
News Bell, who started his recording effort in 1998, designed seminal computers for Digital Equipment Corp, established a supercomputing prize in his own name, co-founded the Computer History Museum, and joined Microsoft... [21 Sep 2009]
Differentially Private Recommender Systems: Building Privacy Into the Netflix Prize Contenders
White Paper Specifically, the paper considers the Netflix Prize data set, and its leading algorithms, adapted to the framework of differential privacy. The paper finds that several of the leading approaches in the Netflix... [16 Sep 2009]
Singularity University: Where today's tech titans teach the next generation
News After all, they have regular access to superstar teachers like George Smoot, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics; Dan Kammen, co-director of the Berkeley... [21 Aug 2009]
Photos: Underwater robots compete to make the biggest splash
Photo Nessie recently won the Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge - Europe (SAUC-E), organised by the Defence, Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), scooping a £3,000 prize in the process. Meet Nessie, Edinburgh... [20 Jul 2009]
Photos: How edible beetles snatched Microsoft's prize
Photo The team clinched the prize for their application aimed at solving world hunger by facilitating the breeding of beetles for food. Last week saw Microsoft hold the final of its annual Imagine Cup competition, where... [13 Jul 2009]
Take the silicon.com 2009 Skills Survey
News You can also enter our prize draw to win an iPod Touch. How is the UK's IT workforce faring in today's economic climate? silicon.com's annual Skills Survey, now in its 11th year, aims to find out. The survey is intended... [25 Jun 2009]
'The Satyam spending freeze is over'
News Sarma likened the company to a bruised prize-fighter: "By December we will come out with a tight belt around our waist ready to fight again," he said. UK customers are ending their spending freeze with Satyam, the... [01 Jun 2009]
'If Google decided to misbehave there'd be big trouble'
Comment Barbara Liskov I won the prize for my work in developing techniques that.make it easier to build big software systems. Liskov, who heads up the Programming Methodology Group in the Computer Science and Artificial... [08 Apr 2009]
Robot scientist makes gene discovery - without humans
News While it may not win the Nobel Prize for physics just yet, Adam appears to be doing impressively well for a young scientist, carrying out scientific research automatically, without the need for further human intervention. [03 Apr 2009]
Kurzweil and friends launch Silicon Valley university
News The gatherings will be part of what is known as Singularity University, a brand-new academic institution co-founded by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, X Prize chairman and CEO Peter Diamandis, and former Yahoo! [03 Feb 2009]
Gates, open source, Azure and the cloud
News In a fascinating interview, Loebner explained why he's so committed to the prize and what he thinks the future holds for artificial intelligence. There have been some big changes in the software industry over the past... [30 Dec 2008]
