Technology and the Internet
As its technology grows more pervasive and valuable, the computer industry--which once largely spurned patents--is racing to the warrens of the U.S.
Jan. 9, 1994
Business
Innovation: Feedback is key, creative thinkers say. They’re always onto something, such as a mess-free bug zapper, better toilet.
Sept. 17, 2002
John Warnock wrote one of the shortest PhD dissertations in history, then changed the world of publishing and printing as co-founder of Adobe.
Aug. 23, 2023
Archives
The obituaries for movie actress Hedy Lamarr, who died at her home in Florida on Jan. 19 at age 86, all mentioned the fact that she co-invented an important technology for radio communications called “frequency hopping.”
Jan. 31, 2000
California
Officials expand effort begun in 2004 to nurture ideas that will benefit all sectors of society, rather than just focusing on engineering.
March 29, 2007
If American consumers are having an anxiety attack, does that mean that the recession is all in their minds?
March 1, 1992
They used to make movies about great American inventors--Thomas Alva Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright Brothers.
June 14, 1990
World & Nation
When Mexican physicist Victor Castano came up with a novel way of extracting a substance from crude oil so strong it may end up replacing steel in car manufacturing, he notified the country’s energy secretary.
Dec. 4, 2003
Books
They Made America From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators Harold Evans with Gail Buckland and David Lefer Little, Brown: 496 pp., $40
March 6, 2005
A quarter of a century ago, when audio buffs were still fawning over vinyl and videocassettes were but a twinkle in a movie mogul’s eye, David Gregg left his engineering job to work on a futuristic vision: a plastic disc that could hold both sound and video, to be read not by a needle or a magnet, but by a beam of light.
Sept. 7, 1994