STANFORD, Calif. — Scientists at Stanford University and the J. Craig Venter Institute have developed the first software simulation of an entire organism, a humble single-cell bacterium that lives in the human genital and respiratory tracts. The scientists and other experts said the work was a giant step toward developing computerized laboratories that could carry out many thousands of experiments
PALO ALTO, Calif. — London, Singapore, Stockholm and a few other cities around the world battle heavy traffic with a “congestion charge,” a stiff fee for driving in crowded areas at peak hours. But drivers generally hate the idea, and efforts to impose it in this country have failed. Balaji Prabhakar, a professor of computer science at Stanford University, thinks he has a better way. A few years a
Patrons at Hartigan’s Irish Pub in Charlotte, N.C., watched as President Obama discussed same-sex marriage on ABC.Credit...John W. Adkisson for The New York Times WASHINGTON — Before President Obama left the White House on Tuesday morning to fly to an event in Albany, several aides intercepted him in the Oval Office. Within minutes it was decided: the president would endorse same-sex marriage on W
Since November, conductors on a few Amtrak routes have been learning to use modified iPhones as electronic ticket scanners.Credit...Craig Dilger for The New York Times Old-school train conductors are finally ready to give up their hole punchers to try something new: the iPhone. Amtrak, the government-owned corporation that oversees the nation’s railroad train services, has been training conductors
SAN FRANCISCO — An interactive online learning system created by two Stanford computer scientists plans to announce Wednesday that it has secured $16 million in venture capital and partnerships with four major universities. The scientists, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, taught free Web-based courses through Stanford last year that reached more than 100,000 students. Now they have formed a company, C
FACEBOOK makes sharing easy — too easy, some would say. Because one’s social network often consists not only of actual friends but also relatives and sort-of friends, along with sort-of friends of their sort-of friends, you need to be careful about what you post. Yes, the site does allow you to define smaller circles of friends, but that requires constantly monitoring what should — and should not
At the Facebook Cafe in Baghdad, customers use the Internet. Fewer than 3 percent of Iraqi households are online.Credit...Michael Kamber for The New York Times PARIS — Iraq, cut off from decades of technological progress because of dictatorship, sanctions and wars, recently took a big step out of isolation and into the digital world when its telecommunications system was linked to a vast new under
In 1989, as communism was beginning to crumble across Eastern Europe, just a few months before protesters started pecking away at the Berlin Wall, the Japanese game-making giant Nintendo reached across the world to unleash upon America its own version of freedom. The new product was the Game Boy — a hand-held, battery-powered plastic slab that promised to set gamers loose, after all those decades
Gilad Elbaz, the founder of Factual and an investor in 30 other start-ups, may be the most influential inventor in the booming business of data collection and analysis.Credit...J. Emilio Flores for The New York Times BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. AT 7 years old, Gilad Elbaz wrote, “I want to be a rich mathematician and very smart.” That, he figured, would help him “discover things like time machines, robo
The Kindle Single is not a promising name. It sounds like a new kind of prefabricated fire log, or a type of person you might meet on the dating service eHarmony — perhaps a lonely independent bookstore owner put out of business by Amazon.com. Here’s what Kindle Singles actually are: probably the best reason to buy an e-reader in the first place. They’re works of long-form journalism that seek out
Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn’t want us to know, can you do that? ” Pole has a master’s degree in statistics and another in economics, and has been obsessed with the intersection of data an
GOOD with numbers? Fascinated by data? The sound you hear is opportunity knocking. Mo Zhou was snapped up by I.B.M. last summer, as a freshly minted Yale M.B.A., to join the technology company’s fast-growing ranks of data consultants. They help businesses make sense of an explosion of data — Web traffic and social network comments, as well as software and sensors that monitor shipments, suppliers
REALTIMEWWII TWEETS FROM NOV. 8, 1939: Left: 8 p.m. Hitler beginning a speech in a beer hall, Munich. In the pillar behind him is a concealed bomb. Center: The bomb was planted 3 nights ago by Georg Elser, a German communist. It is timed to go off in 1 hour, at 9 p.m. Right: 9:20 p.m. The bomb has exploded! Pillar that concealed it has collapsed, bringing balcony crashing down.Credit...Photographs
The world is even smaller than you thought. Adding a new chapter to the research that cemented the phrase “six degrees of separation” into the language, scientists at Facebook and the University of Milan reported on Monday that the average number of acquaintances separating any two people in the world was not six but 4.74. The original “six degrees” finding, published in 1967 by the psychologist S
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