Covidien's birth poses name-recognition challenge
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How do you bring a $10 billion baby into the world? For the new healthcare giant Covidien Ltd. , the answer starts with balloons, T-shirts, more than a hundred parties around the globe, and a Manhattan building draped with the company's logo.
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Editors: Shlomo Reifman and Samantha N. Wong Researchers: Joshua Brandt, Fei Mei Chan,  Andrew T. Gillies, Soo Jeong, Edward Knudsen,  Artie Kwok, John Ray and Jody Yen Programmer: Carl Subick
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Lilian Diaz, an emergency room technician, used to feel apprehensive when a doctor or nurse at her Takoma Park hospital would ask her to interpret for a Spanish-speaking patient. She knew she was chosen because of her Spanish surname, but what if she told someone the wrong thing? Her Spanish was...
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CARTERET, N.J. -- A few weeks back, Linda Singh picked up the registration packet from her local school district. There, at the bottom of the first page, was the question regarding birthplace, followed by: "If not USA, date entered USA."
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Last week's mystery driver was Denny Hulme in his Brabham Repco, and the first correct entry was from G Honey. This week's face belongs to a chicken farmer who was quite good with cars.
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The Prototypes column last Sunday, about Scrybe, a personal information management software program, misspelled the surname of a Scrybe user who said he had adopted it because of its interface and because its calendar did a better job of pulling together data than others. He is David Gerbino, not Gerboni.
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People tend to chose friends who look like them, research suggests.
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Playbill - Vincent Sardi Jr. had something that every stage actor craves: name recognition.
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NAME: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
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Scientists have developed a technique that dramatically improves the success rate of face-recognition computer systems
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Blog: RoboCup's use of Wikipedia for results leave some wondering who the winners are
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Personal identity has taken on a new  meaning in the digital age, where basic facts like your name,  address or age are far less important to some people than the  collected records of what you were looking at online.
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He's now got a human name &#151; Matthew Hiasl Pan &#151; but he's having trouble getting his day in court.
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Cameron Olthuis announced this morning that ACS is launching a new personalized social media search tool, Serph, which will let users find what &#8220;other people are saying on the web right now.&#8221;  Serph, in limited beta testing, seems to be a bit different from Technorati or BlogPulse in terms of total social media coverage. If you&#8217;d [...]
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Years ago, businesses often created names beginning with the letter A to be listed first in the telephone book. In today's high-tech world, they're vying to be noticed first on the Internet.
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Carolus Linnaeus' system for assigning names to Earth's living creatures holds up over time, but in the age of DNA, some scientists hunger for a more modern approach.
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Ordinary Japanese couples find it hard   enough to choose a name for a baby -- there are 2,928 permitted   Chinese characters that can stand alone or be combined with   others for shades of meaning.