8 posts and columns on inventor

More D10 Speakers: Ellison, Meeker, Myhrvold, Along With Pixar and Visa!

in D10 on April 9 at 2:49 pm PT

Speakers? We got your D10 speakers.
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News Byte

Beauty and the Geek: Hedy Lamarr Remembered for Broadcasting Invention

in News on November 28, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

Historian Richard Rhodes wants to make sure Hedy Lamarr stays famous for more than just her looks. His new biography of the actress, out Tuesday, highlights her lesser-known scientific and intellectual side. In 1941, Lamarr was co-inventor of a “spread-spectrum radio” system, designed to better guide World War II torpedos while evading detection by randomly switching frequencies; it wasn’t used at the time, but became a precedent for modern wireless communications. Here’s an interview with Rhodes, from NPR.

Twitter and Square Guru Jack Dorsey on Steve Jobs, China and More: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)

in AsiaD on November 7, 2011 at 1:39 pm PT

The James Franco of the Internet is taking questions.
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Final AsiaD Speakers: Apple’s Phil Schiller and Former VP Al Gore

in News on October 4, 2011 at 5:15 pm PT

AsiaD is now ready for launch, with a little taste of Apple and the Veep.
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Would That the Real Mark Zuckerberg Talked as Much as the Facebook Movie Mark Zuckerberg

in News on October 2, 2010 at 4:01 pm PT

Mark Pincus can sure talk a blue streak. Mark Cuban can easily be classified as a chatterbox, both online and off. And Marc Andreessen certainly knows how to keep up his end of the conversation. In other words, the pantheon of famous digital entrepreneurs is full of blabby Marks. But Mark Zuckerberg, not so much.

Paid Search Inventor Bill Gross Moves to Monetize Tweets With TweetUp–And Without Twitter (Plus Screenshots)

in News on April 11, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

Just as Twitter finally prepares to announce its plans to make money–after what has seemed an eternity–the man responsible for the invention of paid search is beating the microblogging site to the potentially profitable punch, and without its involvement. Armed with $3.5 million in venture funding from a group of leading investors, well-known entrepreneur Bill Gross is launching a public beta of TweetUp, a bidding marketplace akin to Overture/Goto.com, the first paid search system he created a decade ago.

Kara Visits TEDMED (Featuring Synthetic Skin and Heart-Scanning iPhones!)

in News on October 29, 2009 at 2:05 am PT

Can your cellphone check your blood sugar? What does a wireless BandAid do? Is my pill networked? Can a videogame cure cancer? Will a robot care for my mom? Can an iPhone save my life? And, of course, does synthetic skin feel gross? The answer to the last question is yes, but it is also pretty astonishing to touch, as noted in one of the many tech-heavy talks at TEDMED, the medical and health-care conference, which has returned after a five-year hiatus, to Hotel Coronado near San Diego.
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Geek Alert: Babbage Difference Engine at the Computer History Museum!

in News on May 13, 2008 at 5:54 am PT

For those who love a five-ton mechanical computing device, Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum recently installed a Babbage Difference Engine. Designed on paper by English inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage (pictured here with his creation) and built to his specifications, it is on loan for one year from former Microsoft tech guru Nathan Myhrvold.
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