Excerpt: Science Defines Future of War ...Wired News: 0 views since Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 12:31 AMThe future of war is filled with poison gas, germ warfare and nuclear weapons. Each technological change shapes the risk calculations of our primate brains.
About the IEEE Computer Society ...IEEE Computer Society: 0 views since Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 06:21 PMWith nearly 100,000 members (40% of whom reside outside of the United States), the IEEE Computer Society ( www.computer.org ) is the world's leading organization of computer professionals.
About the IEEE Computer Society ...IEEE Computer Society: 1 views since Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 07:06 PMWith nearly 100,000 members (40% of whom reside outside of the United States), the IEEE Computer Society ( www.computer.org ) is the world's leading organization of computer professionals.
UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News ...UPI: 0 views since Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 05:56 PMStem cells used in trachea transplant ... Ginkgo won't delay dementia, survey shows ... Study takes on mammoth genome sequencing ... Googling helps track flu season activity ... Health/Science news from UPI.
Researchers Aim to Attract and Keep Women and Minority Students in Computer...Newswise: 0 views since Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 05:27 PMWith a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation, computer science professors at the University of Virginia have formulated a program to attract and keep students from diverse backgrounds. This is important because colleges aren't graduating enough computer science majors.
Quantum Computing Advances a Qubit Closer to Reality ...Scientific American: 0 views since Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 05:01 PMQuantum computers are a sort of holy grail of information science. Their inherent computational advantage comes from their fundamental computational unit, the quantum bit ("qubit"). Unlike a digital bit in a classical computer, which can take the form of either 0 or 1, a qubit can be both zero and one simultaneously, throwing open the door to vastly more powerful computation. And although a ...
Computer intelligence ...Helena Independent Record: 0 views since Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 02:43 AMHelena High School students Stephen Dighans, Talon Daniels, Jake Schwartz, and Colton Hash put their heads together and took first place earlier this month at the sixth annual Rocky Mountain College computer programming competition.
Taylor U. teams compete ...Marion Chronicle-Tribune: 0 views since Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 01:30 AMTeams from the Taylor University Computer Science and Engineering Department earned high finishes in the recent 2008 ACM-ICPC East Central North America Regional Programming Contest in Ann Arbor, Mich.
What's driving women out of computer science? ...ZDNet: 0 views since Monday, November 17, 2008 at 12:40 PMWhen it comes to higher education, women have achieved parity with men in almost every technical pursuit...except computer science. With all science and engineering fields considered, the percentage of bachelor?s degree recipients who are women has improved to 51 percent in 2004-5 from 39 percent in 1984-85, according to National Science Foundation surveys. But when one looks only at computer ...
What has driven women out of computer science? ...Greater Baton Rouge Business Report: 0 views since Monday, November 17, 2008 at 10:22 AM(From The New York Times ) Ellen Spertus, a graduate student at M.I.T., wondered why the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergraduates at M.I.T. female? She published a 124-page paper, ?Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists??, that catalogued different cultural biases that discouraged girls ...
Convey Computer Corporation Announces First Customer: University of California,...Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance: 0 views since Monday, November 17, 2008 at 09:00 AMAUSTIN, Texas----Convey Computer Corporation today announced it will ship the world?s first hybrid-core computer, the Convey HC-1, to the University of California, San Diego as part of the university?s ?Project GreenLight? energy efficiency initiative.
Convey Computer Corporation Launches Worlds First Hybrid-Core Computer at SC08...Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance: 1 views since Monday, November 17, 2008 at 09:00 AMAUSTIN, Texas----A revolutionary solution to the high-performance computing industry?s expensive power, performance and programmability barriers launched today at SC08 in the form of the world?s first hybrid-core computer from new company Convey Computer Corporation.
Ask the Experts: The Go Between ...Gamasutra: 0 views since Monday, November 17, 2008 at 08:44 AMIn the latest advice column from GameCareerGuide, a reader asks whether to study programming in addition to 3D animation at the university level. Is an added background in computer science always helpful to game industry artists and animators? Jill Duffy, editor of GameCareerGuide, gives a conditional yes, naming the reasons the student might actually choose to stick with just one major. ...
Professors, Entrepreneurs Seek Synergies ...Washington Post: 0 views since Monday, November 17, 2008 at 12:08 AMThe McLean Hilton became home to a science fair for grown-ups Friday with George Mason University's Mid-Atlantic Innovation Showcase.
Win Igor movie passes ...The New Straits Times: 2 views since Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 07:16 PMIGOR, a computer-animated comedy, tells the tale of Igor (featuring the voice talent of John Cusack) a gifted but lowly, deformed lab assistant working for mad scientist Dr Glickenstein (John Cleese).
Energy, economic growth ...Abilene Reporter-News: 0 views since Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 11:35 PMWind Energy. Biotechnology. Computer science and software engineering.
Complex systems and Mars missions help understand how life began ...SpaceRef: 0 views since Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 09:27 PMUnderstanding how life started remains a major challenge for science. At a European Science Foundation (ESF) and COST 'Frontiers of Science' conference in Sicily in October, scientists discussed two new approaches to the problem.