According to Ray Kurzweil, machines will reach human levels of translation quality by the year 2029. In addition to text-based translation, numerous advances have taken place recently.
According to Ray Kurzweil, machines will reach human levels of translation quality by the year 2029. In addition to text-based translation, numerous advances have taken place recently.
It seems fitting that Anthony Weiner's surrealistic meltdown of a press conference came on the same day that Steve Jobs unveiled another path to making our lives more virtual, more convenient, and more risky.
The Chromebook, if it catches on, is pushing us to the clouds in a very new way. Which sheds light on Google's free-love attitude toward intellectual property, copyright protection and data ownership.
I dreamed I died and went to computer heaven. And lo, I had passed to the next realm, and found myself standing before the great and awesome entrance to my celestial reward, and there was a nerd in a business suit with no tie holding a tablet.
Let's be patient with tablets and embrace a lab coat approach to our technology use and experience. Today the consumer and technician are kindred travelers in this dreamlike world of technology, where in short order, we can have that which we imagine.
Several products allow you to access all the documents and data on your home computer system from anywhere in the world, even letting you stream your music and video wherever you are.
At present cloud standards, vendors' contracts appear to offer very little explicit user protection.
The cloud is not only the hottest growth market in online services, but it's also the darling subject of journalists who like to write about a new era of convenience. We've been here before, and I don't want to go back.
The other day, I downloaded a movie app. Then I went about my business, not giving it another thought. It was just another day in a quiet revolution that has taken place in our lives -- we've been so busy, we hardly noticed.
Leila Bowie performs a piece from the Chicago Opera Theater's upcoming performance of Medea, on The Interview Show, hosted by Mark Bazer.
There are some indisputable facts in our glorious world. Men can't give birth. You can't cheat death. And you can't educate your way to creativity.
From the idea that those outside of your company can provide expertise and value, crowdsourcing has exploded as technology has helped create a "flatter" and more interconnected world.
Finding providers and partners that can take some of your energy-using operations to scale, and manage them in a shared capacity, is good for your footprint and your bottom line.
If high skill jobs that require college degrees start getting substantially automated, that will threaten an important aspect of the social contract: the idea that if you work hard to educate yourself, you'll have a better shot at prosperity.
At this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we put a special focus on entrepreneurs in the northwestern part of the United States, and we ha...
As a former Jeopardy contestant myself, I knew Watson was beating them where it hurt, not with superior general knowledge of trivia, but by avoiding typical human logical weaknesses.
Writing good poetry may one day be a final exam of sorts for an artificial intelligence.
Scientists and technicians clearly proved something this week about ingenuity, progress, and communication. What's the big takeaway from this three-day experiment?
IBM's Watson to be a doctor. Well, almost. IBM began eying the medical marketplace more than 45 years ago. Now, IBM is ready to turn that vision into reality.
Now it can be told. The victory of IBM's Watson computer on Jeopardy! over two human opponents is part of Murray Hill Inc.'s master plan to remove the pesky human interface from as much of public life as possible.