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Yottabyte 7 Aug 2010 | 07:26 pm
A Yottabyte is a unit of information or computer storage equal to one septillion (one long scale quadrillion or 1024) Bytes (one quadrillion Gigabytes). As of 2010, no system has yet achieved one Yott...
Guilt ridden employees missing out on doctors appointments 24 Oct 2008 | 08:31 am
A recent poll by one of the world's largest health sites, www.ehealthforum.com, shows that almost a third (30.22%) of people surveyed feel guilty about taking the time to attend a doctor's appointment...
Technology Key to Identifying High-Risk Behaviors Among Adolescents 8 Jun 2008 | 07:46 am
According to a new study conducted by researchers at the Center for Innovation in Pediatric Practices in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, technology may be the key to identify...
Google, Virgin to Colonize Mars 1 Apr 2008 | 09:59 pm
Google Inc. and Virgin Group have launched of Virgle Inc., a jointly owned and operated venture dedicated to the establishment of a human settlement on Mars. The Virgle 100 Year Plan's milestones wil...
Reducing Software Piracy 20 Mar 2008 | 03:30 am
According to a new IDC study released by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), reducing software piracy in Asia by 10 percentage points over the next four years could generate 435,000 new jobs, over $...
World's Tiniest Nanophotonic Switch 18 Mar 2008 | 06:25 pm
IBM announced recently that its scientists have built the world's tiniest nanophotonic switch. The switch has a footprint about 100X smaller than the cross section of a human hair. Nanophotonic switc...
BELLE 1 Aug 2007 | 06:12 pm
BELLE, built by Ken Thompson In 1977, was the first computer to use custom design chips to increase its playing strength from 200 positions per second to 160,000 positions per second. The chess comput...
KAISSA (ICL 4/70) 28 Jul 2007 | 06:50 am
In 1974, KAISSA (ICL 4/70), programmed by Donskoy and Arlazarov, and created at the Institute of Control Science, Moscow, won the first world computer chess championship. The second place went to CHES...
CHESS 3.0 23 Jul 2007 | 07:54 pm
In 1970, the first all-computer championship was held in New York and won by CHESS 3.0 (CDC 6400), a program written by Slate, Atkin and Gorlen at Northwestern University. Six programs had entered the...
MacHACK VI 18 Jul 2007 | 07:19 pm
In Spring 1967, MacHACK VI became the first program to beat a human, at the Massachussets State Championship. By the end of the year, it had played in four chess tournaments, winning 3 games, drawing ...
