Library Exhibit Traces Impact of Isaac Newton
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If you asked people strolling down Fifth Avenue to name a genius, most would probably cite Albert Einstein.     "Ask them to name another one, it would be (Isaac) Newton," said Mordechai Feingold, curator of a new exhibit about the 17th-century English mathematician and physicist who transcended science to become a lasting icon in society...
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Life & style: In pictures: Iconic images feature in a new retrospective photographic exhibition.
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With downloadable books and information portals, the new reading room is anywhere and everywhere.
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The Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi plans to digitize its collection of books and manuscripts, some of them dating to the 16th century, to make them more accessible to researchers.
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Decades have passed since the pocket calculator relegated the trusty slide rule to near obscurity. Now, an exhibit celebrates the lengthy history of the device, featuring the slide rules of celebrity geeks. By Michelle Delio.
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SEARCH ENGINE megagiant Google is to digitise a substantial number of volumes held in the libraries of Harvard and Oxford Universities.
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Scientists at the American Museum of Natural Historyâs Science Bulletins program use data from satellites to generate HD visualizations. Harnessing the advanced graphics and processing power of the Mac, they render 3D animations from their scientific observations to bring the evidence of global change directly to the general public. Join them at Apple Store, San Francisco, and Apple Store, North Michigan Avenue.
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Computer History Museum launches a visual study of how the computer has evolved from its humble punch card origins.
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The renovated New York Hall of Science's new shows include one of the oldest (and best): "Mathematica," a show that continues to inspire wonder and persistent curiosity.
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Susan Wojcicki&#39;s grandmother, a librarian for over 30 years, ran the Slavic department at the Library of Congress. Now Wojcicki is running a project that could revolutionize libraries much as Gutenberg&#39;s printing press transformed publishing.
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In what could be a historic move in the history of the internet, Google has announced arrangements with Harvard University, and a handful of public libraries, to digitize parts of their valuable collections and make them available over the public web.
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The Arthur M. Sackler Galleryâs show glows like a treasury, radiates like a compass and seems as rich with potential information as the World Wide Web.
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Science & environment: William the Conqueror's great census is made available free on the internet
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The newest addition to the Google Book Search Project, which aims to index the world&#8217;s books, is Tokyo&#8217;s Keio University and its library of over 120,000 books, all in Japanese. &#8220;The Google project allows us to make our collections visible worldwide, allowing us to contribute to research and education on a global scale. Our university was [...]
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Book collections from five of the world&#39;s top libraries are to be made available on the internet by Google. The Oxford University library, the New York Public Library and three big US university libraries
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New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in information technology--and what they mean.
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Students take note - endless journeys to the library could become a thing of the past thanks to a new multimillion-pound scheme to make classic texts available at the click of a mouse.