8 posts and columns on chess

Get Your Zombie-Eaten Brain Ready for Some Big-Think Tech Books

in Media on December 28, 2011 at 7:18 am PT

Time for some reading beyond 140 characters!
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Larry Page Might Be Bill Gates+, But He Wants to Be Steve Jobs

in Mobile on August 16, 2011 at 10:12 am PT

Let’s face it: Everyone in Silicon Valley — one way or another — fashions themselves as the next Steve Jobs.
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This Supercomputer Defeated Human Champions of a TV Game Show in 2011

in Enterprise on January 13, 2011 at 3:19 pm PT

Answer: What is IBM’s Watson? The supercomputer training for an expected TV debut next month on “Jeopardy” won a practice round today.

I'll Take Computer Company PR Stunts for $1,000,000

in Enterprise on December 14, 2010 at 7:06 am PT

This company built the supercomputer that beat the world’s greatest chess player and has now built one that plays on TV game shows. Answer: What is IBM?

New Nook Brings a Little Color to E-Reading

in The Mossberg Solution on November 16, 2010 at 2:44 pm PT

If you love reading and want smart ways to share your books with friends or reading updates with social networks, the Nook Color has you covered.
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Almost Famous: Pat Hanrahan of Tableau

in News on February 26, 2010 at 6:16 pm PT

This week: We dropped by the Gates Computer Science building at Stanford University for an interview with Pat Hanrahan. He isn’t just a professor of computer science and electrical engineering–he’s also the chief technology officer at Tableau, a software start-up that specializes in data visualization for businesses. Why do we think he’s the epitome of geek-chic? Maybe because he’s also a two-time Oscar winner. Seriously.

Microsoft Mugs Yahoo, While Yahoo Dithers: How to Lose to a Bear and Influence Nobody

in News on December 9, 2008 at 8:05 am PT

BoomTown really does hope that in some secret airport hangar right now Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang are meeting, in order to hammer out a fair search deal that will benefit them both. I’d even insist that Yahoo’s noisiest board member, activist shareholder Carl Icahn, be there too, to make sure all sides were copacetic and there would be no last-minute switcheroos and backstabbings. Because, long ago in galaxy far, far away, what is now going on between Microsoft and Yahoo would have seemed inane.