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The article discusses research conducted by computer scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and high technology firm Google that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to translate the extinct language known as Linear B, a predecessor of Greek language.

The article discusses the problems and future for augmented reality. It mentions the difficulties in the technical presentation of images as wells as the questions of human fields of vision and vergence, the constraints on computing power due to the design of small lightweight equipment, and the use of waveguides as a solution to the problem.

FORTY YEARS AGO this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August […]

'We are at risk. Computers are vulnerable to the effects of poor design, insufficient quality control, accident and, perhaps more alarmingly, to deliberate attack. - Computers at Risk, Computer Science […]

'STAIR, PLEASE FETCH the stapler from the lab,' says the man seated at a conference room table. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot, standing nearby, replies in a nasal monotone, 'I […]

IT WOULD be hard to exaggerate the angst that has gripped the U.S. in recent weeks as markets have continued to churn and assets have melted. But the headlines that […]

THE CURRENT economic turmoil obscures a long-term problem that may shape the future of America long after the present crisis is over. By most measures, the U.S. is in a […]

COMPUTER SCIENCE--it's not just about hardware and software anymore. It's about oceans, stars, cancer cells, proteins and networks of friends. Ken Birman, a computer science professor at Cornell University, says […]

THERE'S AN AGE-OLD CHOICE in IT--whether to adopt a 'best of breed' strategy for the power and flexibility it can bring, or go with a single vendor for accountability and […]

SOFTWARE as a service has so delighted CIO Jonathan Earp at Informa PLC that he's positioning his company, and his IT staff, for the next step. That's a move to […]

The Top500 list is always climbing to new heights. CAN WE BELIEVE THE HYPE? EVERY JUNE AND NOVEMBER, with fanfare lacking only in actual drum rolls and trumpet blasts, a […]

IT HAS BEEN JUST over a year since the introduction of Version 3 of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). The update to ITIL, a framework for best practices in IT […]

DURING THE Great Depression, a body of academic work emerged to help people value investments. Economists explained how the concepts of risk, cost of capital and cash flow could be […]

It's likely that the Internet will soon experience a catastrophic failure, a multi-day outage that will cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars. Or may be it isn't likely. In […]

TREND NO. 1 Tightfisted Budgets Loosen a Bit Yet the economy continues to cast a shadow of uncertainty over the best-laid tech spending plans. WHEN Bogdan Butoi-Teodorescu, chief technology officer […]

UNTIL RECENTLY, I thought 'second life' referred to one of those places the Bible says we'll go after we depart this life. Now I know it's a virtual place, a […]

THE MOST influential piece of hardware from the early days of computing may not have been the IBM 360 mainframe or the DEC PDP-1 minicomputer; or the earlier Binac, ENIAC […]

SOMETIMES THINGS GET LOST IN TRANSLATION. For example, type the question, 'Automated language translation--is it an idea whose time has come?' into Google's English-French translator, then enter the result of […]

Minds Wide Open For Fairfax County Public Schools' Cathy Sels, diversity creates opportunity. Fairfax County Public Schools Ranked 5th for diversity * Ranked 10th overall Cathy Sels, 47, was in […]

YOUR COMPANY scans incoming e-mail for viruses and outgoing messages for confidential information. Your spam filter snags most of the garbage, and it gets better as it learns the latest […]

The article discusses methods used to allow artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as artificial neural networks to continuously adapt without having to undergo additional training. Topics include the use of backpropagation to train neural networks by calculating errors at the synaptic output and distributing it back through the network's layers, the application of Hebbian learning or plasticity to artificial neural networks, and the U.S. Department of Defense's efforts to use synaptic plasticity to enable AI systems to learn and improve during tasks.

SHOCKED AND AWED by the industrial might of Japan in the 1980s, U.S. companies got religion--the quality religion. They rushed to improve their business processes by adopting a host of […]

IN JUNE 1978, Intel Corp. introduced a microprocessor known as the 8086. Over the decades that followed, the 8086's underlying architecture, later referred to as x86, would become one of […]

PARSONS CORP., a $3 billion construction and engineering company based in Pasadena, Calif., once had hundreds of fat clients on the desktops of its engineers. That spelled nothing but trouble […]

NOT LONG ago, a major U.S. company embarked on an ambitious Six Sigma program to improve efficiency. The program was a big success, saving the company $250 million. Problem was, […]

PUTTING TWO or more processor cores on a single silicon chip has been one of the most important milestones in computing in recent years. It allows users to continue to […]

ON SEPT. 11, 2001, EvansonBest LLC lost communications between its remote sites and its Manhattan data center, but that was just the beginning of the furniture distributor's woes. Eight months […]

RELATIONAL DATABASE management systems have become all but ubiquitous in enterprise computing since 1970, when they were first devised by E.F. Codd. But as powerful and flexible as those databases […]

EVERY OTHER month in Atlanta, one of the most powerful groups of IT managers anywhere meets over lunch. But you won't find this organization in the telephone book or in […]

IT SEEMED a reasonable approach at the time. Whenever a server went down, the IT operations people at The Procter & Gamble Co. tried to figure out why. They did […]

COMPANIES HAVE USED geographic information for years to help decide which ZIP codes to target in a mailing, which sites to pick for new stores and how to plan delivery […]

MOVING MAGNETIC TAPES in and out of storage would seem to be the most mundane of IT functions. Indeed, companies have traditionally seen the transportation and storage of backup media […]

A NUMBER OF EXISTING trends will accelerate and converge to fundamentally change the way companies procure IT, in essence pushing much of IT out the door. The Computerworld panelists say […]

Sabre Holdings Corp., the air-travel software company, has an ambitious set of objectives for the remake of its 'shopping engine,' a 25-year-old mainframe application with 10 million lines of assembler […]

The article discusses developments in artificial intelligence (AI) research. Topics include the development of artificial neural networks and algorithms, the emergence of predictive learning, and research by the social network firm Facebook Inc. The role of the tool Google Translate in dealing with language is addressed.

MOST CORPORATE IT organizations have steering committees to craft strategies for new technologies, chief technology officers to assess new products, and IT policies and procedures for developing and buying new […]

IT WAS BUDGET TIME at Allied Building. Products Corp., and the CEO wanted to know how the company could increase sales and profits in the corning year. 'How much money […]

STEAL A NOTEBOOK Computer from McKesson Corp. and you may be surprised to find that the data on its hard drive has self-destructed in your hands. 'We have a security […]

Knowledge management tries to resolve a troublesome paradox: Information is becoming ever more important in our economy, and most companies say knowledge can confer competitive advantage. But corporations are already […]

When an information systems group at the state of Washington performed a routine test of its disaster recovery plan two years ago, it decided to take a peek at its […]