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  • What Happens if I Put Rocket Fuel in My Gas Tank?
    If your car is a diesel, it will run. Liquid hydrogen, the fuel that powered the space shuttle’s main engines, could work, says Manuel Martinez-Sanchez, an aeronautics and astronautics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • Physics Professor Analyzes Whether No-Name Batteries Are a Better Value Than Duracell, Energizer | Moneyland | TIME.com
    Duracell? Energizer? The cheapie packages of AAs at the dollar store? Tired of dumping money blindly on batteries for Wii remote controllers, flashlights, Nerf guns, and the like, a physicist decides it's time to investigate which batteries truly give the most bang for the buck.
  • Pair Programming Considered Harmful?
    "We have trained, hired, and rewarded people to be cowboys. But it’s pit crews that we need," said Atul Gawande -- a surgeon and Harvard professor who writes for The New Yorker in his copious spare time -- in a recent TED talk. He was talking about doctors, but what tech profession might fit that description as well? Yes, that's right. You there, huddled over the IDEs on your MacBook Pros. Step forward, software developers. Coding has always been seen as lone-ranger work; witness the opening scene in The Social Network. Despite managers' dreams of programmers as fungible units, it's nearl
  • Judea Pearl, a big brain behind AI, wins Turing Award ("Nobel Prize in Computing")
    Judea Pearl, a longtime UCLA professor whose work on artificial intelligence laid the foundation for such inventions as the iPhone's Siri speech recognition technology and Google's driverless cars, has been named the 2011 ACM Turing Award winner.
  • Spanish RIAA Sues Blogging Professor for Defamation
    Spanish music group Promusicae has sued Enrique Dans, professor at the IE Business School and a well-known blogger, after he claimed that the group is a copyright monopoly that violates antitrust laws. In addition to a public apology, the Spanish version of the RIAA is demanding 20,000 euros in damages. The professor, however, is prepared to fight the case until the bitter end and says he's protected by the right to freedom of expression.
  • Can computers have true artificial intelligence?
    Can computer intelligence ever match the skills of the human brain, asks mathematician Professor Marcus du Sautoy.
  • UCLA Professors Claim eHarmony Is Duping Its Customers
    Online dating might be the future of romance, but it still has its fair share of detractors. Including a pair of UCLA professors, who think that eHarmony—a dating site which prides itself on its scientific approach—is duping its users. LA Weekly reports that Benjamin Karney and Thomas...
  • How Technology Helps Keep This 3,000-Student Class Engaged
    At Virginia Tech, a savvy professor teaches thousands of students live and in-person.
  • Netflix frictionless sharing: Do you want to automatically broadcast what you watch?
    Netflix is ready to fight the U.S. Senate on frictionless sharing. Do you want to automatically broadcast what you watch? What happens now shapes the future of what is considered a "reasonable" expectation of privacy, or what a privacy law professor calls "intellectual privacy."
  • If the Interstate System Were Designed by a Slime Mold
    How a brainless, single-celled organism created a startlingly efficient route map for U.S. highways. Andrew Adamatzky is a professor in Unconventional Computing at the University of the West of England, and throughout his career he has indeed taken an unconventional approach to computing. Instead of servers and microchips, he uses a single-celled slime mold. The brainless, seemingly unintelligent organism (Physarum polycephalum) has been harnessed to transfer specific colors between foods dyed with food coloring, move a small boat through a gel medium and even solve mazes.