US wants portable, rugged atomic clocks

The US military is looking for advanced portable atomic clocks it says will help bolster secure data routing, build communication systems that are insensitive to jamming and provide more reliable and robust global positioning than current time-keeping systems. Read more

Fed Faces: Inventing A Clock That Will Lose Just One Second In Three Billion Years

Till Rosenband Physicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Best known for: Working at a NIST laboratory in Colorado, Rosenband applied a radical idea in quantum physics to invent the world's most precise timekeeping device. This new atomic clock is considered 30 times better... Shopping - Clock - Windows - Shareware - Personal Information Managers

Inventing The World's Most Precise Timekeeping Device

Government physicist Till Rosenband is a young man who is very far ahead of his time. Business - Business Services - Recreation - Technology - Global Positioning System

Many clocks tick as Israel, Palestinians open talks

Many clocks will be ticking during the next year when Washington hopes an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal can be hammered out.

The Golden Age of IBM Advertising

Big Blue's classic midcentury campaigns for "card-programmed calculating machines," newfangled typewriters, and other miracles of technology. Typewriter - IBM - Arts - Hardware - Recreation