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American schools go on utterly insane hiring spree since 1950. Kids shrug, continue to do poorly on tests

October 25, 2012

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A new study from the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice finds that America’s public schools saw a 96 percent increase in students but increased administrators and other non-teaching staff a staggering 702 percent since 1950. Teaching staff, in comparison, increased 252 percent, Reason reports.

If non-teaching personnel had grown at the same rate as student population, American public schools would have an additional $24.3… read more

Topics: Social Networking/Web | Social/Ethical/Legal

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences Inducts Kurzweil

October 12, 2009

Ray Kurzweil was among those inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 229th class of new members on Saturday, October 10.

The Academy program celebrates
“pioneering research and scholarship, artistic achievement, and exemplary service to society.”

The 212 new Fellows and 19 Foreign Honorary Members are leaders in research, scholarship, business, the arts, and public affairs, and include John Seely Brown (Founder… read more

Topics: Social Networking/Web

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America is fifth in IT rankings

April 15, 2011

The U.S. has placed fifth for the second consecutive year in the World Economic Forum’s annual IT report — behind Singapore, Finland and Switzerland.

The report maintains that “there is no area on the globe that has an inherent advantage” in the digital economy. The rankings are based on those countries it believes are making the best use of new technologies and high-speed networks, and it also… read more

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Internet/Telecom

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AMD Stream Processor First to Break 1 Teraflop Barrier

June 18, 2008

The AMD FireStream 9250 breaks the one teraflop barrier for single-precision processing performance on a PC card.

It occupies a single PCI slot, with consumption of less than 150 watts and up to eight gigaflops per watt.

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI

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AMD Ships Teraflops Line Of Graphics Cards

June 26, 2008

Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday released a line of graphics cards capable of performing a teraflop (a trillion calculations) per second, double the computing power of the company’s previous generation of high-end cards.

Topics: Electronics | Singularity/Futures

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AMD Goes Hollywood With New Graphics Chips

June 18, 2008

Advanced Micro Devices has released new graphics chips and graphics cards that allow moviemakers and game developers to render three-dimensional images in real time.

The new hardware will be an integral part of “Cinema 2.0,” a concept introduced by AMD that will combine hardware and software tools to bring a higher level of realism and interactivity to films and games.

Also see:

Featured videos on AMD’s… read more

Topics: Entertainment/New Media | VR/Augmented Reality/Computer Graphics

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AMD fabricates double-gate transistor for 10-nm designs

September 11, 2002

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. here today announced it has fabricated the world’s smallest double-gate transistors, measuring 10 nanometers.

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI | Nanotech/Materials Science

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Ambulances May Get Virtual Doctors

January 3, 2005

Researchers are developing technology for ambulances to place virtual doctors inside ambulances.

The Navy’s First Responder Emergency Communications-Mobile uses an international maritime satellite and varying frequencies to bridge communication gaps. It has multiple cameras inside and outside a standard ambulance.

A patient’s vital signs and other data are beamed in real time to the closest trauma center, where doctors can instruct paramedics in the field and prep a… read more

Topics: Biomed/Longevity

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Ambiguous words communicate better, not worse

January 23, 2012

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Noam Chomsky was wrong, say MIT cognitive scientists.

Words with multiple meanings (like “mean”) became popular because they were actually more efficient than using unambiguous new words, not as a side effect, they suggest.

Why? Because it’s more complex and time-consuming for a speaker/writer to invent new words (and explain them) than it is for the listener/reader to simply infer the meaning from the context… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience

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Amazon.com now selling more Kindle books than print books

May 22, 2011

Amazon.com is now selling more Kindle e-books than print books, the company has announced.

Amazon began selling hardcover and paperback books in July 1995. Twelve years later in November 2007, Amazon introduced the revolutionary Kindle and began selling Kindle books.

The U.S. Kindle Store now has more than 950,000 books, including New Releases and 109 of 111 New York Times Best Sellers. Over 790,000 of these… read more

Topics: Entertainment/New Media

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Amazon.com launches full-text search for books

October 24, 2003

Amazon.com launched a new service today that lets you search the full text inside the book for more than 120,000 books (33 million pages).

After you search as usual for books containing a word or phrase (such as “biological intelligence”), you can click on the “See more references to ‘biological intelligence’ in this book” link (for participating books) to see excerpts from all the pages where “biological… read more

Topics: Cognitive Science/Neuroscience | Internet/Telecom

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Amazon Unveils a Large-Screen Kindle Aimed at Textbooks and Newspapers

May 7, 2009

Amazon has introduced the 9.7-inch larger-screen (2.5 times) Kindle DX as a new way for people to read textbooks, newspapers and documents, priced at $489.

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI

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Amazon to Take Searches on Web to a New Depth

September 15, 2004

A9.com, a start-up owned by Amazon.com, plans an advanced technology that the company says will take searches beyond mere retrieval of Web pages to let users more fully manage the information they find.

The new A9.com service, launched Tuesday night, offers users the ability to store and edit bookmarks on an A9.com central server computer, keep track of each link clicked on previous visits to a Web… read more

Topics: Internet/Telecom

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Amazon to Sell E-Books for Apple Devices

March 4, 2009

Shaking up the nascent market for electronic books for the second time in two months, Amazon.com will begin selling e-books for reading on Apple’s popular iPhone and iPod Touch.

Topics: Computers/Infotech/UI

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Amazon to Sell Build-Your-Own Search Engine

December 14, 2005

For a fee of as little as $1 a day, Amazon will provide access to an index of 5 billion Web pages plus the Internet-based tools to create new twists to mine the information warehouse and present findings to an audience.

Topics: Internet/Telecom

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