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The Weekly Round-Up: 07.08.09
Round-Up Five security-themed movies, based on genres from science fiction to rom-com, were created for a Barclays campaign to help educate the bank's staff about information security. When T.S. Eliot wrote... [07 Aug 2009]
Photos: Barclays turns to Hollywood to sell security
Photo Five security-themed movies, based on genres from science fiction to rom com, were created for a Barclays campaign to help educate the bank's 140,000 staff about information security. Think of a great... [03 Aug 2009]
Think Tank Prototypes Ambient Intelligence on HP Technology
White Paper It's not science fiction; it's the cutting edge in aerospace, nautical, automotive and even entertainment research. Ambient Intelligence as a computing and sensory model in which a given environment is... [30 May 2009]
Unis rack up £1.6m saving with Google Apps switch
News Science fiction novelist and inventor of the word 'cyberspace' stopped in with silicon.com for a chat… click here for the full Q&A. Two UK universities have saved hundreds of thousands of pounds by... [02 Mar 2009]
Government plans law to up data-sharing
News Science fiction novelist and inventor of the word 'cyberspace' stopped in with silicon.com for a chat… click here for the full Q&A. The government has announced it is to seek greater powers for the... [27 Nov 2008]
Legal Eye: Privacy perils of social networking
Comment Before you know it, the concept of digital ads being tailored to whoever is walking by may no longer be the stuff of science fiction, but could soon become a fact of life for the next generation. But,... [12 Nov 2008]
Ray Kurzweil
AS Profile Once only the stuff of science fiction, he demoed a prototype running on a mobile phone earlier this year. Ray Kurzweil bills himself as an inventor and futurist. He is also clearly a thinker of near... [07 Oct 2008]
Speech Processing With VRIO and Linux
White Paper Previously, this tendency has been supported by science fiction authors, who describe the wonderful perspectives of speech processing for the user. Speech processing is often anticipated as the future... [30 Sep 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.09.08
Round-Up Student Jonathan Chase, who has undergraduate degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Science and Science Fiction, performs the rap using the name Oort Kuiper. In an attempt to make... [26 Sep 2008]
White paper: IBM Software for SOA and Business Flexibility
White Paper The future of business is not the stuff of science fiction; it's the extrapolation of shifts that are beginning to take place right now before your eyes. The future of business: it's a dynamic, global,... [02 Sep 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Science friction
Comment I needed something to encourage me to learn to read and science fiction was it. I can't remember the moment or place when my interest in science fiction was first... [28 Aug 2008]
Photos: Robots, lasers, action
Photo You know the future has arrived when scientists bring together two staples of science fiction: lasers and robots. But rather than 50-tonne behemoths dealing death with a massive light cannon, the El-E... [10 Apr 2008]
Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war
Photo Holographic quantum technology and acoustic sniper sensors may sound like the stuff of science fiction films - but they are actually new defence technologies destined for the battlefield. The Future... [26 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: ID cards - cock-up and conspiracy...
Comment The BBC publicity for the series describes it as "predictive, rather than science fiction", a look at how misused technology can threaten human relationships and destroy trust. That really does take us... [20 Feb 2008]
Stories of the year
News Q&A: William Gibson, science fiction novelist The comments were made after Frank Abagnale, the one-time confidence trickster turned security expert (who also inspired the film Catch Me If You Can), said... [14 Dec 2007]
