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12/15/2011 | Innovator Of The Year
In building and programming the world's most capable natural language processing computer, David Ferrucci, and IBM Research's DeepQA Team are shooting far higher than a million-dollar payday on "Jeopardy!".
9/28/2011 | News
Since 2000, R&D Magazine has annually honored an individual whose research has greatly contributed to the advance of high technology, and whose achievements have helped change society. In 2011, for the first time, the editors recognize the teamwork involved in making possible the most advanced computer-supported intelligence system yet: Watson.
12/10/2010 | Innovator Of The Year
The discovery of superconductors transformed the life of a young
materials scientist. Now, R&D Magazine’s Innovator of the
Year hopes his work will do the same for the rest of us.
12/10/2010 | Innovator Of The Year
R&D Magazine’s 2010 Young Innovator of the Year, Eric
Dauler, PhD, knows best that collaboration is the key to innovation.
12/10/2010 | Featured Articles
If you have been in enough offices, or thumbed through enough airline
magazines, you’ve seen them: motivational posters with high quality,
dramatic images from nature or sports depicting themes such as
“Teamwork”, “Attitude”, “Excellence”, and similar concepts. Enterprising
individuals have been inspired to create knock-offs that lampoon the
posters.
11/9/2010 | Innovator Of The Year
Amit Goyal, R&D Magazine’s 11th Innovator of the Year, is
best known for his contributions to the practical use of
high-temperature superconductors and his successful efforts in the
development and fabrication of wires that allow HTS to be adopted in the
commercial marketplace.
11/9/2010 | Innovator Of The Year
At age 30, Eric Dauler, PhD, has made significant contributions to the
development of single-photon detectors, detector speeds, array sizes,
multi-photon detection, and detector efficiency.
10/11/2010 | News
Carried
aloft by its mothership to an altitude of 45,000 feet and released over
the Mojave Desert, Virgin Galactic's space tourism rocket SpaceShipTwo
achieved its first solo glide flight Sunday. The entire test flight
lasted about 25 minutes and the separation was performed without
difficulty.
4/15/2010 | RDBlog
For years, R&D
Magazine has been honoring the scientists and researchers behind
some of
the greatest innovations and discoveries in science with the Innovator
of the
Year and Scientist of the Year Awards. This year is no exception; R&D
Magazine is again turning to the
R&D community to help us identify the best minds in research and
development by nominating candidates for our Scientist of the Year,
Innovator
of the Year, and Young Innovator of Year awards.
4/13/2010 | Featured Articles
The best way to find out what someone wants is to ask. In surveys, we
asked readers about the tools they use in their research, what they
like, what they don’t like, and improvements they would like to see.
Then, we asked the companies that develop these tools to describe what
they offer, and what they are doing to meet market demands.
