by Michael Belfiore | Oct 24, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
My book on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is now available in print, electronic, and audio form.The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Shaping Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs is the first mass market book on the...
by Michael Belfiore | Oct 15, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
The Quantum to Cosmos Festival starts today in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It’s ten days of presentations, panel discussions, movies, demos, and a whole lot more sponsored by the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.You can catch most of the events live...
by Michael Belfiore | Oct 9, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
Last night at the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards, Dean Kamen delivered the most eloquent appeal for getting kids interested in science and technology I’ve yet seen.His remarks took the form of his acceptance speech for the Leadership Award. He was...
by Michael Belfiore | Oct 4, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
On this day five years ago, Brian Binnie won the Ansari X PRIZE by hurtling out of the atmosphere faster than a rifle bullet. It was the second time in less than a week that SpaceShipOne made the trip from Mojave Airport, fulfilling the prize requirement for a...
by Michael Belfiore | Oct 3, 2009 | Blog, Uncategorized
I love this town. Last night, just down the road from my office on Tinker Street, in the same studio where I recorded this video, a group of world-class thinkers in applied science fiction came together to talk about what it means to be human. Ray Kurzweil, James J....
