Sharpe: Rainmaker

Sharpe: Rainmaker

Lush landscaping takes high-tech monitoring, Elizabeth Sharpe writes for University of Washington Information Technology. In UW-IT Stories, Elizabeth describes how only three people keep the 650-acre campus—including athletic fields—properly irrigated without wasting...
Peeples: Tech Heads

Peeples: Tech Heads

For @NBCNewsMACH, Lynne Peeples reports the astonishing and possibly alarming findings about our portable technology: How many of us own smartphones, how often we interact with them, and what it might be doing to our cognitive and social skills. Don’t despair, though....

Roach: What’s Up at MSFTR

John Roach is churning out great pieces for Microsoft Research these days. Follow @MSFTResearch and @byjohnroach to read about protecting our data in the cloud while keeping it accessible—if we permit—for research or other worthy uses. John also wrote recently about...

Gibbs: Megadata Health, DIY, and Nose Cameras

Wayt Gibbs is taking a break from his ground-breaking, eye-popping, mouth-watering food science work to return to freelance writing. Keep an eye on his Twitter feed @WaytGibbs to get links to his stories on , DIY circuitry, and what happens when you snake a video...