Archive for the ‘New Technology’ Category

Happy 60th Birthday to the Transistor

Monday, December 17th, 2007

December 16, 1947 is not a date in history that most of us celebrate, but perhaps we should.  On that date, three Bell Laboratories physicists invented the transistor.  The was an ugly affair made out of a paperclip and a couple of small pieces of metal, but it changed history. Without ...

New NCIS Computer System and the NCIS Effect

Friday, December 7th, 2007

The National Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) unveiled a new crime-fighting computer system last week, according the Btown Monitoring Post blog.  The Law Enforcement Information Exchange (LInX) will allow state and local agencies in the Washington D.C. area to exchange mug shots and crime reports.  Prior to the implementation of new system, ...