4 posts and columns on Robert Lee Hotz

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When Gaming Is Good for You

in News on March 6 at 8:00 am PT

Videogames can change a person’s brain and, as researchers are finding, often that change is for the better.

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Decoding Our Chatter

in News on October 1, 2011 at 5:52 pm PT

Want to monitor an earthquake, track political activity or predict the ups and downs of the stock market? Researchers have found a bonanza of real-time data in the torrential flow of Twitter feeds.

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Word-Wide Web Launches

in News on December 17, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Language analysts, sifting through two centuries of words in the millions of books in Google Inc.’s growing digital library, found a new way to track the arc of fame, the effect of censorship, the spread of inventions and the explosive growth of new terms in the English-speaking world.

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A Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians

in News on August 28, 2009 at 9:42 am PT

In a vault beneath the British Library here, Jeremy Leighton John grapples with a formidable challenge in digital life. Dr. John, the library’s first curator of eManuscripts, is working on ways to archive the deluge of computer data swamping scientists so that future generations can authenticate today’s discoveries and better understand the people who made them.