3 posts and columns on Jeremy Singer-Vine

The Surveillance Catalog

in News on November 19, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal open a rare window into a new global market for the off-the-shelf surveillance technology that has arisen in the decade since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Volunteering Computers for Science

in News on October 20, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

The next cure for a major disease is as likely to be discovered on a computer as on a laboratory bench–and scientists are enlisting ordinary citizens to volunteer to help crunch the data. Advances in computer science have enabled medical researchers to test how proteins fold, genes interact and pandemics spread in complex digital simulations of natural environments.