Thank you, God, for not smiting my Mac

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on July 29, 2008

UCLA’s new hospital takes technology to new frontiers

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner
Published on June 26, 2008

During a procedure, surgeons can use a touch-screen panel or voice commands to display and control images, adjust room lighting, or phone a colleague. They can access patient histories, X-rays and lab results, and use their fingers on the console to draw -- just like a football commentator -- on images displayed on a screen.

Israeli invention could pave way for hydrogen cars

By David Shamah
Published on April 24, 2008

Everyone's heard that old story about the scientist who invents a "magic pill" that turns water into gasoline -- with the invention eventually getting into the hands of the oil companies that bury it, fearing they will be driven out of business when word gets out about their competition

Should laptops be allowed in class?

By Emma Lipner
Published on April 3, 2008

Laptop use involves a lot of controversy, from students who believe they should be used to their maximum potential to those who don't want to see laptops at all.

Have laptop, will prosper

By Rob Eshman
Published on November 22, 2007

Last Shabbat at Sinai Temple Rabbi David Wolpe stood at the bimah to deliver his sermon -- and brought out a small, colorful laptop to push his congregants to participate in a remarkable, world-changing program called One Laptop per Child. One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is the name of a USA-based nonprofit launched in 2005 by Nicholas Negroponte and faculty members of the MIT Media Lab, with the goal of bringing computer technology to the children of the developing world.

Joyce Rabinowitz: A Type Like No Other

By Jane Ulman
Published on January 5, 2006

Joyce Rabinowitz, 76, is a volunteer Braille transcriber. She takes the printed word and, using a special computer program called Braille 2000, transforms it letter by letter into a prescribed set of dots that she saves to disk and gives to the Braille Institute. Each disk, with the help of an embossing machine, is used to produce a book written in raised dot text that a blind person can read with his or her fingers.

Spectator - The Holy Land of Progress

By Chanan Tigay
Published on October 6, 2005

The Israeli firm, M-Systems, developed flash technology that allows huge amounts of computer data to be stored on a key chain.

‘On_Line’ Takes Byte Out of Cyberspace

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on June 19, 2003

"I got hooked peering into the lives of strangers," said Jed Weintrob, a self-described Jewish "techno geek." "It was both calming and mind-blowing to log on and see Jenni on Jennicam.org who was also awake at 4:30 a.m., but in the end it was also kind of alienating.... You're watching this person do the most intimate things, yet you're never going to know them or touch them."