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The First Computer Musician
In 1957 a 30-year-old engineer named Max Mathews got an I.B.M. 704 mainframe computer at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, to generate 17 seconds...
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I.b.m. Researchers Create High-Speed Graphene Circuits
I.B.M. researchers said Thursday that they had designed high-speed circuits from graphene, an ultra-thin material that has a host of promising applications from...
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Rsa Gets a Security Chief
RSA, the computer security unit of EMC that was hacked, has named Edward Schwartz as chief security officer, promoting him from the same role at NetWitness, a...
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Brain Calisthenics For Abstract Ideas
Like any other high school junior, Wynn Haimer has a few holes in his academic game. Graphs and equations, for instance: He gets the idea, fine—one is a linear...
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A Nielsen Acquisition Focused on Brain Waves
The Nielsen Company has acquired the rest of a company, NeuroFocus, that specializes in the nascent realm of researching whether neuroscience can be applied to...
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Pentagon to Consider Cyberattacks Acts of War
The Pentagon, trying to create a formal strategy to deter cyberattacks on the United States, plans to issue a new strategy soon declaring that a computer attack...
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How Drudge Has Stayed on Top
For most big news Web sites, about 60 percent of the traffic is homegrown, people who come directly to the site by dint of a bookmark or typing in www.latimes...
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Calculating the Potential Return on Your Major
As the cost of college climbs ever higher each year, amid a national economic forecast that remains cloudy, questions about the value of a four-year degree are...
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Study Sees Way to Win Spam Fight
University of California, San Diego researchers recently completed a study aimed at finding a choke point that could reduce the flow of spam emails.
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Divorce Lawyers' New Friend: Social Networks
Discretion and privacy have become antiquated notions on social networks, and the generous revelation of secrets make some people cringe—though not divorce lawyers...
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For Buyers of Web Start-ps, Quest to Corral Young Talent
Sam Lessin sold his Web start-up to Facebook for millions last year, and Facebook promptly shut it down. All Facebook wanted was Mr. Lessin.
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New Ways to Exploit Raw Data May Bring Surge of Innovation, a Study Says
Math majors, rejoice. Businesses are going to need tens of thousands of you in the coming years as companies grapple with a growing mountain of data.
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Google Lobbies Nevada to Allow Self-Driving Cars
Google, a pioneer of self-driving cars, is quietly lobbying for legislation that would make Nevada the first state where they could be legally operated on public...
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Engineers Gather, Asking What Makes the City Tick
It was the last Tuesday of the month, and, like clockwork, the geeks arrived in droves.
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The Class That Built Apps, and Fortunes
All right, class, here’s your homework assignment: Devise an app. Get people to use it. Repeat.
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Intel Increases Transistor Speed by Building pward
Intel announced that by building a key portion of a microprocessor's transistor above the chip's surface, it has found a way to make smaller, faster, lower-power...
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How Credit Card Data Is Stolen and Sold
Last week, after the Sony PlayStation Network was attacked by a group of unknown hackers, Sony's 77 million customers, along with security specialists and government...
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Europe Leads in Pushing For Privacy of User Data
Europe is preparing to the lead the way in establishing new regulations for user data privacy, with plans to propose extending EU-wide rules about privacy breaches...
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Data Privacy, Put to the Test
To the catalog of corporate "bigs" that worry a lot of us little people, add this: Big Data.
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