Karen A. Frenkel
Science and Technology Writer
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My WorksEcho360 Pushes ‘Lecture Capture’ Tech into Classrooms from Qatar to the U.S.
Universities are capturing faculty presentations--not just talking heads, but their Powerpoint presentations, eWhiteboard notes, and more. OmniGuide Woos Hospitals With Flexible Lasers That Make Surgeries Safer
OmniGuide's carbon dioxide flexible optical fiber laser helps surgeons operate so that cuts are shallower and there is less bleeding, which means patients experience less postoperative pain, heal more quickly, and scar less. How $1.25 Billion Gets Spent In A Day: "Austerity Fatigue" And High Tech
This year spending increased 22%, the largest jump on record. Ten million people bought products online, comScore says, gobbling up $1.25 billion in goods--easily beating the online sales offered on Black Friday. CSi: Crime Scene iPhones Yield Forensic Evidence, Confusion About Data Handling
Smartphone data collection is more complicated that most law enforcement officers think. AirDye Aims to Save Oceans of Water by Retooling Textile Mills
To combate water pollution from dyeing, Air Dye is offering a printing method that saves water. Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Kirk Cameron Cuts Computers' Power Use
Surprised by the electricity usage of supercomputers, the Virginia Tech professor wrote software to cut their power consumption. Now it’s available for PC FastCompany.com
Skype's Huge, New Security Heachache Skype's Huge, New Security Headeaches
A team of international researchers has detected flaws in Skype that puts the privacy of hundreds of millions of users at risk, they say. GreenDriver Uses Traffic Data to Help Cars Steer Clear of Jams
Computer-science-professor-turned-entrepreneur Matt Ginsberg created a smartphone app that uses municipal traffic light data, GPS, and smartphones to trump snarled roads. After a Rocky Start, Semprae’s Female Arousal Oil Gains Traction
A profile of Semprae Laboratories, maker of female sexual arousal oil Zestra. Phononic Devices’s Chips Convert Waste Heat into Electricity
A thermoelectric semiconductor will convert waste heat into electricity, or channel it towards refrigeration. Nobelist Steven Weinberg Calls for Bigger Science, More Taxes
To pay for a new linear accelerator, Weinberg said that—rather than shift money from other important projects, such as maintaining infrastructure, securing the country's ports, and improving Internet access, health care, and conditions in prisons—the United States should raise taxes. A psycholinguist, mathematician, neuroscientist, computer scientist and cosmologist discuss how they got interested in their specialties and the academic climate for female scientists. As Doctors Limit Access, Pharma Taps Viscira for Simulations
Pressed for time, doctors are increasingly less amenable to face-to-face meetings with pharma reps. And academic institutions and the hospitals and medical practices they own have polices restricting access. San Francisco comany Viscira has found a niche with biomedical computer animations and other ways of communicating about medications to tech-savvy MDs. Innovator: Carnegie Mellon's Richard McCullough
Through his startup Plextronics, the professor is working on conductive "ink" that could lay the groundwork for thin, flexible phones and TVs. Tech from Plextronics Could Replace Lightbulbs, ’Do Away With iPads’
A new polymer, an ink, that could advance printable electronics so that you fold your plastic magazine and carry it in your pocket. And it may revolutionize lighting so that you paint light onto your wall. Half-Blind Faith
What I lost and found then and now. Kids Panning for the Environment
High school students around the world are using a robotic, digital camera to shoot panoramics of the environment. Then they zoom in on digital images, explore details, and chat with their peers about how to safeguard the planet. Innovator: Roger Hine's Seagoing Robot
The engineer quit Asyst to found Liquid Robotics and invent the Wave Glider, which trolls the sea and returns undamaged Panning for Science
A new technology for creating and viewing stunningly high-resolution panoramic images is becoming a power research tool. The Wisdom of the Hive
Jaron Lanier rails against the social trends being fostered by the Internet--in particular its power to stifle creativity and grant anonymity as well as encourage groupthink and a lynch-mob mentality. Therapists Use Virtual Worlds to Address Real Problems
Virtual worlds serve as icebreakers for troubled teens reluctant to interact with therapists. In these online environments, which they are accustomed to playing in, they practice ways to cope and engage faster than with face-to-face role-play. Flying on a Wing and an Isotope
Should there be nuclear-powered planes to save the environment? Engineers reconsider a Cold War-era proposal scrapped decades ago Even Better than Personal Best
Why showing up a peer is more satisfying than succeeding alone. How Do Neurons Communicate?
How do vesicles, which carry neurotransmitters, release their cargo? And how quickly can these carriers reconstitute themselves for the next round? Silicon Smackdown
A New Algorithim Could Soon Vanquish Go Pros Your Brain on 9/11
Adults who witnessed the attacks close-up have subtle changes in their brains four years afterwards. Their amygdalae, the center of the brain responsible for certain types of memory, are hyperactive. Children orphaned that day pump out above-normal amounts of cortisol, a symptom of stress. Unwelcome Science
Battling Negative Stereotypes of Scientists and Ivy Expansion Anger, a Principal Gets Experimental CyberTimes Toy Story: Origin of a Species
CyberTimes: The New York Times on the Web January 15, 1996) John Lasseter was a new Disney animator back in 1981 when two friends working on “Tron,” the first feature-length movie to employ computer animation, showed him dailies of a sequence in which motor cycles zoomed around a video game inside a computer. Lasseter was dazzled. NYT and International Herald Tribune
Suppose you manage a mall where visitors merely window-shop and rarely enter stores to make purchases. If your merchants can't survive, you lose, too. That is the phenomenon plaguing many Web retailers and portals today. Book Review/Essay Scientific American
Why Aren't More Women Physicists? A biography of an 18th century Marquise and profiles of 20th century female physicists examine how they pursued their talents. Medical Spare Parts
How implants and other man-made devices are prolonging life and enhancing its quality. Catching the Customer
Experts discuss ways to improve Web sites and exstablish trust so that customers overcome their fears of shopping online for expensive goods. Battling CyberFraud
How online merchants in the diamond and jewelry business can ascertain whether their customer's are who they claim to be, and avoid "transhippers," who re-box gems and export them to crime rings abroad. Computers in Court
Technology Review, April 1982 With some 12,000 computers humming away in various government branches in 1976, Abraham Ribicoff, then a U.S. Senator from Connecticut, sensed a tempting target for data defrauders and instituted an investigation into federal computer security. |
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