Chris Edwards
Chris Edwards is a freelance technology writer.
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Wanted: a Rosetta Stone for data, says Cerf
25 June 2012
Changes to intellectual property (IP) law, self-defining data and virtual machines running in the cloud, could be the solutions to information becoming inaccessible over the long term, Vinton Cerf, Internet pioneer and Google’s chief Internet evangelist, explained at the Alan Turing Centenary Conference in Manchester (Saturday 23 June).
Medical career awaits Watson, predicts Ferrucci
25 June 2012
A slimmed-down Watson supercomputer is on its way from quiz show winner to a career in medicine, according to David Ferrucci, who led the IBM team that built the machine.
Mistakes ‘cripple complex codes’: Shamir
25 June 2012
Cryptographers looking for the ultimate security risk building exceedingly complex yet easy to crack ciphers, co-inventor of the RSA technique and Weizmann Institute researcher Adi Shamir told computer scientists at the Alan Turing Centenary Conference in Manchester (Saturday 23 June).
Veloso: robots ‘need to ask for help’
25 June 2012
Some aspects of robotics are proving so difficult to achieve that it is time to stop trying to make them self-contained and reassess how the machines could fit into society, a leading researcher has claimed.
Chip debugging technique points way to cancer treatments
25 June 2012
Techniques similar to those used by Intel to debug the floating-point unit in its processors are now being applied to models of human cells in an attempt to better understand how they work. The approach has already led to the development of a safer heart defibrillation technique that slashes the energy needed by a factor of ten.
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