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Pete Beckman explains how math and supercomputers are accelerating scientific discovery and helping us predict the future. From discovering the secret inner workings of the universe to developing cars that can drive themselves, Pete Beckman will share with you the technology and science fueling a new breed of massive, smart supercomputers that will improve our world.

In the last 10 years, the electronic age has us totally interconnected.

Chicago prepares for the Turn of the Millennium--and a looming electronic meltdown.

The Illinois House wants to bar employers from asking workers and job applicants for access to social media like Facebook.The legislation passed 78-30 Thursday and now goes to the Senate.Some employers, particularly law enforcement, have begun asking for passwords so they can review the online activ

As Americans spend more of their lives online, companies are finding an increasing number of ways to follow our data trails and find out all sorts of things about our spending habits, our likes and our dislikes.The information is being used to determine things like a person’s access to credit, emplo

The great historical turns in the evolution of the city have been agriculture, industrialization, globalization and now, what has been called the “information revolution” in the last thirty years.