Marketplace Tech for Thursday, May 14, 2015
May 14, 2015

Marketplace Tech for Thursday, May 14, 2015

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Airing on Thursday, May 14, 2015: First up on today's show, we talk to Bob McMillan, reporter for the Wall Street Journal, about why we’re running out of new Internet addresses for our connected devices. We'll also speak with George Bibel, Professor of Engineering at the University of North Dakota and author of Train Wreck, the Forensics of Rail Disaster, about safety technology that targets the most common types of rail accidents. And JP Benini, founder of Elemental Path, joins us to talk about building a line of “CogniToys” using IBM’s Watson computing system.


Airing on Thursday, May 14, 2015: First up on today’s show, we talk to Bob McMillan, reporter for the Wall Street Journal, about why we’re running out of new Internet addresses for our connected devices. We’ll also speak with George Bibel, Professor of Engineering at the University of North Dakota and author of Train Wreck, the Forensics of Rail Disaster, about safety technology that targets the most common types of rail accidents. And JP Benini, founder of Elemental Path, joins us to talk about building a line of “CogniToys” using IBM’s Watson computing system.

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