Neowin News Feed for: Inventor

U.S. Supreme Court refuses to grant patents to AI for "inventions"

Usama Jawad — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 03:32:01 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge against the USPTO by a computer scientist. The latter claims that their patent should attribute their AI system as the inventor. Read more...

PlayStation Inventor Kutaragi Leaves Sony

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:47:40 +0000

As he announced in April, PlayStation inventor Ken Kutaragi has officially left Sony. As planned, Kutaragi retired on June 19 as chairman and group chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment. Kutaragi has already turned over... Read more...

Web inventor gets Queen's honour

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:41:16 +0000

The inventor of the world wide web has been awarded the Order of Merit, one of the UK's most prestigious honours. Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins an elite group who have received the honour from the... Read more...

MP3 Inventor Develops Tool to Fight Piracy

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:35:34 +0000

Fraunhofer Institute has developed prototype technology to help curb the sharp rise in online music piracy, which, ironically, has been enabled through another invention of the renowned German research group: MP3 audio compression. ... Read more...

Integrated circuit inventor dies at 81

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 02:37:11 +0000

Jack Kilby, the inventor of the integrated circuit, died on Monday at age 81 after a brief battle with Cancer. His invention, the integrated circuit, was first demonstrated on Sept. 12, 1958. The invention made... Read more...

Inventor plans 'invisible walls'

Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:37:15 +0000

Susumu Tachis invention the "invisibility" cloak made a lot of headlines when it was first revealed last year. Now the inventor has a new project using this technology. He now wants to develop... Read more...

WWW Inventor Receives Technology Prize

Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:30:27 +0000

The MIT Scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has been awarded the first Millennium Technology Prize. The award, a euro1 million cash prize, equivalent to $1.2 million, is among the largest... Read more...

'CtrlAltDelete' Inventor Restarts Career

Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:26:19 +0000

David Bradley spent five minutes writing the computer code that has bailed out the world's PC users for decades. The result was one of the most well-known key combinations around: CtrlAltDelete. It forces obstinate computers... Read more...

DNS inventor calls for security overhaul

Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 +0000

Web site impersonation could become as great a risk as ID theft, Paul Mockapetris, the co-inventor of DNS warns. Waiting in the wings is a better security standard for the Internet's Domain Name System. It's... Read more...

Laser inventor dies

Fri, 11 Jan 2002 05:43:11 +0000

A leading Russian scientist who helped invent the laser has died, aged 85. The death of Alexander Prokhorov is being described as the end of an era by colleagues and politicians, including President... Read more...