The Challenge: Gathering a Different Kind of Intelligence
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A nne Fischer is the kind of talent the Washington region wants to keep.
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Cutting-edge data mining and other intelligence tools could redefine privacy as we know it. A News.com special report.
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Interactive, detailed maps of the human brain and genome will spur new discoveries.
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An astonishing new technology allows one set of sensory information to substitute for another in the brain.
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Researchers in England and Switzerland use video cameras and virtual-reality goggles to make subjects observe "themself" from elsewhere in the room. They learn: "The brain can trick itself."
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They're not obvious and they're not always cheap.
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When pondering how to help a son with SPD -- his brain can't handle all the sensory input from his body -- a software engineer looks to neuro-tech experts and recalibration. In Bodyhack.
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Applying some of the same brain-scan technology used to understand Alzheimer's and autism, scientists are trying to learn what makes a Republican's mind different from a Democrat's.
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It's not exactly light reading, but there's plenty of good news in a report from the National Academy of Engineering. It's a list of the "Grand Challenges" in engineering this century compiled by an array of experts like the genetics researcher J. Craig Ventner and Google's Larry Page. What's encouraging isn't so much the list [...].
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Intuition is losing ground to data mining, a new book claims.
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Uncovering tomorrow's industry leaders today.
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Techniques designed to make suspects incriminate themselves through calls or texts
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The jury's still out on whether a computer can ever truly be intelligent, but there's no question that it can have multiple personalities. It's just a matter of software.
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Harvard professor Karim Lakhani, a scholar of crowdsourcing and open source, weighs in on how and why it works -- if it does.
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Forget the clicker: A new technology in Japan could let you control electronic devices without lifting a finger simply by reading brain activity.
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TradersÂ quest for a competitive edge has lead some of them to look at the outer frontier of trader: computer programs that use artificial intelligence.
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Some brainy animal species, besides humans, campaign across sophisticated and far-flung social networks