Paul Dempsey
Paul Dempsey is E&T's Washington Correspondent.
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Star Trek: real-world holodeck technology today
With a new Star Trek film due out this Summer, get ready for the regular slew of tenuous associations, philosophical and technological. Given that, let’s say upfront that the likely arrival of this concept, as just floated by chipmaker AMD, is years away.
With China offering lucrative incentives to engineering graduates, what can the United States of America do to keep the world's top talent focused on Silicon Valley?
The Hobbit: an uncharted journey
The first part of director Peter Jackson’s new Tolkien film trilogy is also the first attempt to double an 80-year-old film industry standard: the rate at which images pass before your eyes.
US President Barack Obama: how he got re-elected
The issues and demographic shifts that gave President Barack Obama four more years are being widely debated. Less attention is going to how his campaign harnessed them to secure victory. Was this the first major election where, “It was tech wot won it”?
Paul Dempsey picks some highlights from IBC2012 - the International Broadcasting Convention for media content providers in Amsterdam.
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