Recent articles by Bob Brown
April 26, 2012
Luis von Ahn, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University best known for his work in protecting websites via crowdsourcing, has been named winner of the 2011 Grace Murray Hopper Award.
April 25, 2012
Apple WWDC, the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, sold out in just 2 hours Wednesday morning, smashing last year's record 10-hour sellout.
April 24, 2012
AT&T Labs and Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a vibrating steering wheel that they say can help drivers keep their eyes on the road and off of distracting GPS screens.
April 23, 2012
Thirty-plus Internet pioneers, innovators and "global connectors" -- yes, even including Al Gore -- have been inducted into the first class of the Internet Hall of Fame.
April 20, 2012
AT&T Labs says its Watson speech recognition technologies have been around for more than 20 years, and come this June, it will put APIs and SDKs in the hands of developers who want to give users a way to interact with smartphones, TVs and other devices using their voices.
April 17, 2012
Apple has turned to a couple of celebrities -- singer/actress Zooey Deschanel and actor/children's book narrator Samuel L. Jackson -- to demo its iPhone 4S Siri voice recognition technology in a couple of new video advertisements.
April 10, 2012
Cisco, Juniper, HP and nine other technology companies have joined forces with two leading universities to form a research center focused on software-defined networking (SDN).
April 09, 2012
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) later this month will host the three-day National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition for the seventh consecutive year.
April 03, 2012
Firefighters in China lowered an iPhone into a 40-foot deep dry well to aid them in rescuing a 2-year-old boy who fell in, according to a report from the U.K.'s ITN.
April 02, 2012
IETF pranksters this weekend revealed their latest April Fools' Day requests for comments, including one that outlines use of Hide-and-Go-Seek techniques to encourage network privacy.