The technologist who has Michael Powell's ear
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Robert Pepper is the FCC's chief of policy development--and that makes him a very influential man in Washington these days.
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Veteran computer scientist Frances Allen looks back on Ptran, "primitive" computing and what it was like making her way in a man's world.
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LOS ANGELES -- He is like that guy who worked in your office once, the shy tech-geek, the temp down in  IT, who typed Ctrl-Alt-Delete on the keypad when your hard drive seized up. Until very recently, that guy was Kerry Conran.
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A veteran forecaster who explores the impact of long-term technological change on society says that understanding the tricks of his trade can help you turn uncertainty into opportunity.
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A person's entire life could one day be recorded by a network of intelligent sensors, according to a senior scientist.
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A computer revolution - or the next Fail? Review Nick Carr's weblog is one of the rarest things on the web: intelligent technology criticism that you'd actually want to read for pleasure. He's an elegant writer with a waspish wit, and I've a special reason for seeing him prosper.â¦
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By Simon Usborne  In 2005, when Nicholas Negroponte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced his vision, experts queued up to say it couldn't be done, and that the professor's plan was little more than a well-intentioned dream.
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With a wave of his hand over a homemade receiver, Georgia Tech professor Joy Laskar shows how easily &#151; and quickly &#151; large data files could someday be transferred from a portable media player to a TV.
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By BRIAN BERGSTEIN MINNEAPOLIS - It must say something about our times that Bruce Schneier, a geeky computer encryption expert turned all-purpose security guru, occasionally gets recognized in public. &quot;My life is just plain surreal,&quot; he says.
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Dave Winer, considered by many to be the father of blogging and a pioneer of RSS feeds, offers his new technologies vision.
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Colin L. Powell's Social Security number is out there. So is Troy Aikman's.
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In an interesting little note from LinuxJournal, there's an interview with a member of the Homeland Security division concerning their usage of LAMP.
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Daphne Koller is pushing the limits of building computer programs that learn efficiently and reason intelligently. Third in a series profiling this year's MacArthur 'genius award' winners. By Kari Lynn Dean.
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Yet another communications-infrastructure player reports promising results.
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The secretary of state often is described as the president's principal foreign policy adviser, but the definition does not always match reality. Certainly not in the case of Colin Powell.
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The founder of the Free Software Foundation comments on free software, Torvalds, Microsoft, and lazy users.
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Niklas Zennstroem, the co-founder of Skype, explains  how the net will shape the emergence of new technologies.