Innovation

Lessons from California for Asian entrepreneurs and start-ups In the fast-paced world of technology, innovation need not be limited to one side of the Pacific Ocean. Advances are clearly happening all around the Pacific Rim. But Asia...

When it achieved independence 50 years ago, Singapore was an unexceptional place, other than for its challenges. With few natural resources, weak infrastructure and year-round tropical heat, there was little reason to believe in the...

To maintain its leadership in innovation, California must provide a competitive business environment in which prospective and existing companies can conduct research. For this report, Milken Institute researchers conducted one of the most...

Today, most people’s interactions with the health-care system are reactive, driven by crisis and disease. Some of us have the resources to engage in routine checkups or regular physical exams, but most of us only go to the doctor when...

Experts at McGraw Hill define artificial intelligence (AI) as the study of how to make computers do things that, at the moment, people do better. A number of AI techniques have transformed various enterprises over the last decade...

FasterCures wants President-elect Donald Trump to be ready to address biomedical innovation on day one. Biomedical innovation is vital to America's health and economic well-being. However, these benefits, and U.S. leadership in the life...

Big changes are underway in Taiwan. Its first female elected president, Tsai Ing-Wen, was inaugurated in May, heralding a break with the past in politics and public administration. In addition to the thorny entanglements between Taiwan and...

You’ve probably heard of Watson, the IBM supercomputer that famously beat Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in a 2011 exhibition match. Watson deserves credit for stoking the recent artificial in telligence frenzy , but one...

C all it my aha moment if you will—the other day, I watched in amazement as my two-and-a-half-year-old grandson keyed in the passcode to unlock the iPad. His finger swiped over the screen and for a moment, I thought he was going to skip the...

As a computer scientist in the early eighties, I dreamt of automatons similar to those of the 18th century: a realistic sculpture representing an aesthetic human with the ability to sing, write and, for example, play a piano, which can be...