9 posts and columns on scientists

Exclusive: Seeking Better Search Results, eBay Finds Experts at Bing and Facebook

in Commerce on January 31, 2011 at 1:00 pm PT

EBay has hired two search experts away from Facebook and Microsoft Bing as it prepares to roll out new features on its site, we have learned.

When It Wasn't Stuffing Cars, EMC Was Doing Real Business

in Enterprise on January 19, 2011 at 6:56 pm PT

Aside from producing oddly funny onstage stunts, storage company EMC launched 41 new enterprise products at its New York event yesterday.

NetworkEffect on "Science Friday": Social Networking Identities

in Social on January 18, 2011 at 1:03 am PT

On Friday I was a guest on “Science Friday” to talk about my experience with and observations about the proliferation of online social networking identities and options.

Honey, I Shrunk the E-Book: Amazon Slicing "Singles" for Kindle [UPDATED]

in Media on October 12, 2010 at 6:50 am PT

No reason not to do this: Amazon is carving out room on its digital shelves for “Singles”–essentially, mini e-books for its Kindle platform. Or, if you prefer, you can think of them as very long magazine articles.

“Soggy Pork”: The Other White Meat

in News on December 1, 2009 at 4:00 am PT

“Fifty years hence, we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.” Winston Churchill made that prediction in 1932 and now, some 78 years later, it’s beginning to come true. Scientists in Holland have taken muscle cells from a living pig and cultured them into a “soggy form of pork” in the lab.
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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.

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.

Microsoft Acquires Yahoo…VP of Ops

in News on March 30, 2009 at 12:18 pm PT

Add another name to the list of Yahoo employees defecting to Microsoft. Dayne Sampson, Yahoo’s VP of Operations for Search and Advertising, has fled the company for its former suitor, Microsoft confirmed to Digital Daily.
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