If you have seen any of the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12rNbGf2Wwo">video</a> of its preliminary bouts on "Jeopardy!" you know that IBM's Watson computer is pretty amazing. One of the main reasons it turns out is that IBM enlisted the intelligence of eight of the country's top universities to make sure Watson has superb question answering ability.
IBM today unwrapped a variety of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/020311-rsa.html">mobile security initiatives</a> to help corporate customers better protect and manage the mass of intelligent devices coming to their networks.
The government's all-encompassing digital federal records keeping system is costing a lot more - perhaps as high as 41% more -- than originally planned and could top <a href="http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d1186.pdf">$1.4 billion</a> if estimates from the Government Accountability Office are correct.
The <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/us-tries-fire-mighty-offshore-wind-energy-pro">U.S. Department of Energy</a> today said it would use IBM's 10-petaflop Blue Gene supercomputer to help researchers design ultra-efficient electric car batteries, understand <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/050410-layer8-energy.html">global climate change</a> and dig up space exploration mysteries.
With the National Football League's <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/020411-super-bowl-ads.html">Super Bowl extravaganza</a> as a background, the government announced what it called a record breaking $3.6 million sting aimed at counterfeit game-related sportswear sellers.
The <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/111610-ftc-privacy-framework.html">Federal Trade Commission</a> today said it will host a forum to gather the latest ideas on how to stop unauthorized charges on phone bills known as cramming.
As the country's electricity grid undergoes a transformation and moves toward a more intelligently networked, automated system, it faces an increasing amount cybersecurity issues.
Millions of dollars were laid out this year for all manner of energy research - from new biofuels and wind projects to better batteries and smartgrid cybersecurity programs.
It seems that <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/092810-space-layer8.html">NASA</a> CIO <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/offices/ocio/about/linda_cureton_bio.html">Linda Cureton</a> has a pretty good sense of humor. On her NASA blog over the weekend she sent a letter to Santa about what she'd like to get for Christmas. While she'd obviously like to get better networking gear, the shower cap wish was little strange.
There's a lot to watch in the nighttime sky -- everything from the International Space Station and meteor showers to planets and stars.
Bringing the next generation of enterprise architects up to speed won't be an easy task. While most experts agree that the job is a critical one, given the corporate emphasis building business infrastructure in the most technically efficient way, training these future experts has proven difficult.
In theory at least, as cars are outfitted with more advanced electronics, safer vehicles should be at least one of the main results.
Late, over budget and lacking critical components were the three main shots the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/66892">leveled at the FBI</a> on the agency's over-arching computer system revamp known as Sentinel.
Three years after the Chinese blew up a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/010510-layer8-nasa-telescope.html?ap1=rcb&ap1=rcb">satellite</a> in space with a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/nasa-identifies-top-ten-space-junk-missions">missile</a> the debris from that explosion continues to grow.
If wind is ever to be a significant part of the energy equation in this country we'll need to take it offshore -- into the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/what-are-biggest-barriers-developing-wind-ene?source=nww_rss">deep oceans</a>. Large offshore wind objects could harness about more than 4,000 GW of electricity according to a massive <a href="http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy10osti/40745.pdf">report</a> on wind energy from the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/66581">U.S. Department of Energy</a>.