Tim Berners-Lee, the computer scientist known for inventing the world wide web, remembered Swartz as someone who wanted to change the world to make public data open to the public.
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Vint Cerf - the computer scientist who co-designed some of the internet's core underlying protocols and who now acts as Google's chief internet evangelist - has been even more vocal, penning a series of op-ed columns.
Today, Katz works at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is the principal research scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Hamish Wallace, a paediatric oncologist at the University of Edinburgh, and Thomas Kelsey, a computer scientist at the University of St Andrews, both in Scotland, may be able to help.
Mr Cerf looks back to the seventies when, with another computer scientist Bob Kahn, he was developing some of the key technologies that led to the birth of the Internet.
At the TED conference in Los Angeles, architect and computer scientist Skylar Tibbits showed how the process allows objects to self-assemble.
Noel Sharkey, a computer scientist at the University of Sheffield, observes that overly rigid regulations might stifle innovation.
Dr James Marshall, a computer scientist at the University of Sheffield co-ordinating the project, said simulating a brain was one of the "major challenges" of artificial intelligence.
Working with David Liddle, who ran Xerox's office systems division, Mr Metcalfe convinced Gordon Bell, a brilliant computer scientist from the now defunct Digital Equipment Corporation, to back the Ethernet protocol.
Glasberg said a television network had obtained a copy of a novel Hatfill was writing -- about biological warfare -- that could have only come from the scientist's computer, which federal authorities have confiscated.
For a project we had in the apparel sector, I assigned the project team to include a computer scientist, a financial analyst and a poet whose last projects had been, respectively, in consumer electronics, chemicals and online games.
Apple also called to the stand Ravin Balakrishnan, a computer scientist and professor, to discuss Apple's "bounce-back" patent, which covers when a contact list, photo or Web page bounces back into position after being dragged past their edge on the screen.
"People can have this next level, " said Adrian Clark, a computer scientist who worked on the application.
Lanier said the new research facility, named for computer scientist Jim Gray, would start with just a few researchers.
Back in 1987, before the PalmPilot was even a distant glimmer on the horizon, Kaplan, then a computer scientist working for Lotus Corp.
Computer scientist Ohta Masataka says the solution makes as little sense as giving the letters in the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets the same codes.
Among the luminaries who waltzed on stage for conversation were artificial intelligence godfather Marvin Minsky, Boston Scientific founder and billionaire John Abele, Oxbridgian longevity messiah Aubrey De Grey (who's got 536 friends on Facebook), Tesla Motors founder Martin Eberhard, sculptor Chuck Hoberman, Sims creator Will Wright, genomics pundit Juan Enriquez and computer scientist Sandy Pentland from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Among the luminaries who waltzed on stage for conversation were artificial intelligence godfather Marvin Minsky, Boston Scientific (nyse: BSX - news - people ) founder and billionaire John Abele, Oxbridgian longevity messiah Aubrey De Grey (who's got 536 friends on Facebook), Tesla Motors founder Martin Eberhard, sculptor Chuck Hoberman, Sims creator Will Wright, genomics pundit Juan Enriquez and computer scientist Sandy Pentland from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The most recent attempt, by a Japanese computer scientist in 2002, found 1.24 trillion digits of pi.
Ambras, 50, is a computer scientist who was one of the first executives at Zip2, which provided online publishing software to news organizations.
One fascinating recent development in the realm of experimental science is the work of Ross King, a biologist and computer scientist at Aberystwyth University in Wales.
Last year , at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, computer scientist Andrei Costin discussed weaknesses he said he found in a new U.S. air-traffic security system set to roll out next year.
In 1981, a computer scientist from Stanford University named Doug Lenat entered the Traveller Trillion Credit Squadron tournament, in San Mateo, California.
Autonomy was founded as Cambridge Neurodynamics in 1991 by Michael Lynch, a Cambridge-educated computer scientist, according to this flattering profile by the Guardian after he left H-P in May.
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Recognising that a number of climate models were predicting sea level rises of tens of centimetres by 2100, the scientist said some of the assumptions that underpinned the computer work and the global warming hypothesis in general would almost certainly need to be reviewed.
There were myriad breakfast talks between Ballmer and Kroes at the EU headquarters in Brussels to discuss general antitrust issues, and in which Kroes informed Ballmer that she had appointed a British computer scientist to make sure company was complying with the order to publish "interoperability" documentation.
Computer scientist Maja Mataric, whose research was used in the Sojourner robot that went to Mars in 1997, confesses that what she really wanted to do was design shoes.
By turning their problem into a game, the scientists have harnessed thousands of human brains without specialist knowledge to work on protein-folding, says Adrien Treuille, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University who helped to develop the program.
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Research published in New Scientist magazine last year by Leysia Palen, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Colorado, revealed that social networking sites, including Twitter, were more effective than government emergency services when it came to distributing information during emergencies such as the Virginia Tech shooting of April 2007.
Ahead of election day, University of Pennsylvania computer scientist Matt Blaze warned that New Jersey officials were likely failing to take into account the size of the problem of dealing with tens or hundreds of thousands of email-based votes.
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