Speaker's Corner columns, published every third Wednesday at The Inquirer:
2007
- My XP-powered driverless car never crashed: Mark Campbell, Cornell (12/12/07) - the faculty advisor to Cornell's team in the DARPA Urban Challenge talks about teaching an automated car to merge lanes.
- If man is from Mars, computers are from outer space: Donald A. Norman (11/21/07) - The guru of usability looks into the future.
- Cirrus man sees the logic of sound: Jason Rhode, CEO of Cirrus Logic (10/31/07) - Why is a Kawasaki motorcycle like a mixing desk?
- Cryptographer swaps algorithms for the freezing crypt: Ralph Merkle (10/11/07) - Solving the whole-body frostbite problem.
- Man who wanted to change the world built virtual ones instead: Richard Bartle, MUD-maker, University of Essex (9/19/07) - Self-discovery through creative typing.
- There's a pattern we recognise in Donna Dubinsky's career (8/29/07) - Palm, Handspring, Numenta...Jeff Hawkins!
- Finding the right lock for cryptographic keys: Nicko van Someren, nCipher (7/18/07) - And you thought managing passwords was bad.
- Backstage at the beeb: Michael Cashmore and Ian Forrester (6/27/07) - Is an open API the future of broadcasting?
- Google man proclaims "Summer of Code": Chris di Bona (6/6/07) - Get those students spending their summers flipping bits instead of burgers.
- Microsoft man seeks to re-engineer the Web: Kim Cameron (5/16/07) - ...and reinvent identity.
- RFID virus buster builds wireless firewall: Melanie Rieback (4/25/07) - Stop people from stealing your spy chips.
- Never trust a web site: Marc Hedlund, Wesabe (4/4/07) - Why *not* share your financial data with the world?
- Man who helped invent brain of computer apologises profusely: Stan Mazor (2/21/07) - Is building a chateau in Oregon out of styrofoam adequate penance?
- Getting to the root of open source: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (1/31/07) - Altruism, schmaltruism.
- Father of OS/2, Citrix, is Flying High: Ed Iacobucci (1/10/07) - Why a very light jet is a software service..
2006
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