Intel Sees Mature Markets Embracing Low-cost PCs
News The Atom processors will be based on a new architecture targeted at low-power devices, and are claimed by the chipmaker to be its "smallest and lowest-power processor yet". Intel's new Atom will bring the company into head-to-head competition with...
[March 10, 2008, 8:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Called the Atom Project, it will run for thirty years and cost around ten billion quid -- thus ensuring a long life for the old AI joke about it being easier and quicker to do the job with unskilled labour.
[August 29, 2003, 19:05]
Japanese Scientists Want To Build Robot Child
News The quest, which has been named the Atom Project, will span 30 years, and will require almost $500m (£318m) annually from the government. Researchers proposing the project believe that the Atom Project -- inspired by late cartoonist Osamu Tezuka's...
[August 26, 2003, 10:05]
A Year Ago: British-led Scientists Map Human DNA
News The international scientific community has heralded the achievement as significant as splitting the atom and landing on the moon. The Wellcome Trust and Cambridge's Sanger Institute held its press conference Monday to announce that the Human Genome...
[June 25, 2001, 6:07]
British-led Scientists Map Human DNA
News The international scientific community has heralded the achievement as significant as splitting the atom and landing on the moon. The Wellcome Trust and Cambridge's Sanger Institute held its press conference Monday to announce that the Human Genome...
[June 26, 2000, 11:48]
Animated Capers On A Desktop Near You
News The animated classics form part of a project from entertainment Web site Atom Films and animation company Aardman. Aardman is one of Britain's most successful animation houses and intends to bring the cream of British animation to a worldwide...
[January 13, 2000, 14:47]
A Year Ago: Animated Capers On A Desktop Near You
News The animated classics form part of a project from entertainment Web site Atom Films and animation company Aardman. Aardman is one of Britain's most successful animation houses and intends to bring the cream of British animation to a worldwide...
[January 13, 2001, 6:06]
IBM Focuses On Microscopic Advances
News The two companies have created an electron microscope that can accurately depict structures measuring less than an angstrom -- that is, one ten-billionth of a meter, or less than the width of a hydrogen atom, according to Philip Batson, the...
[August 8, 2002, 7:57]
Windows Live Program Manager Quits 'paralysed' Division
News His role was to use syndication technologies such as RSS, RDF and Atom to build a platform capable of delivering services to many millions of Internet users. In a posting on his blog, Kennedy explained that his work on the Windows Live project had...
[August 10, 2006, 13:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It started off as Computer Concepts, a two-man outfit flogging software for the Acorn Atom -- the forerunner of the Acorn Proton, better known now as the BBC Micro. I nearly ended up working on a project for them, back in the heady days before the...
[July 28, 2006, 18:50]
