Month: December 2010

Maker Pioneers: Ben Dubin-Thaler and BioBus

Here is the latest in our Make: Shorts video series, covering “Maker Pioneers,” inventors, entrepreneurs, makers, who are dreaming up clever solutions to today’s energy and environmental problems. In this episode, we climb aboard the BioBus, with its creator, Ben Dubin-Thaler. The “Cell Motion BioBus” is a self-powered mobile microscopy lab that brings hands-on science […]

IBM supercomputer ‘”Watson” to challenge “Jeopardy” stars

I.B.M. Supercomputer ‘Watson’ to Challenge ‘Jeopardy’ Stars @ NYTimes.com… An I.B.M. supercomputer system named after the company’s founder, Thomas J. Watson Sr., is almost ready for a televised test: a bout of questioning on the quiz show “Jeopardy.” I.B.M. and the producers of “Jeopardy” will announce on Tuesday that the computer, “Watson,” will face the […]