Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Report Calls for Boost in IT Research, Policies

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U.S. President Barack Obama's transition team has received a copy of a National Academy of Sciences report that recommends several strat...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

HP Grants Aim to Redesign College Engineering & Computer Science

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Hewlett-Packard has made more than $2.4 million in cash and equipment available for its "HP Innovations in Education" effort, whic...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

Operation Comfort Warriors

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The American Legion accepts donations for Operation Comfort Warriors, which raises funds to Provide comfort items for wounded U.S. troops re...

What's a Serving?

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I've been trying to cut back on how much I eat. But in a day and age where it is more common to eat out, I'm not very good at judgin...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

Auto Gear-Change Bicycle: Computer Controlled Bicycle Gear Changes Optimize Power, Comfort

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Researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Defense University in Tashi, Taiwan, are developing a computer system fo...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Captivated by R's Power

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The R programming language is being used by a growing number of data analysts as data mining is increasingly being used by organizations to ...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

NSF Looking for Wicked Cool Visual and Data Analysis Algorithms

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) wants to develop highly interpretive mathematical and computational algorithms and techniques to help ...
Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Reply to SciAm Perspective: After the Crash

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In the December 2008 issue of Scientific American, the editors wrote a SciAm Perspectives piece entitled “After the Crash,” that focused on ...
Saturday, August 23, 2008

Bucket List

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Get SCUBA certified:  https://www.diventures.com/scuba/dive-certification-costs Go on an Insight cruise: http://www.insightcruises.com/ ...
Saturday, February 23, 2008

Donald Knuth

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Dr. Dobb's Journal published an Interview with Donald Knuth in April of 1996. It was a very good read. Knuth discusses what distinguis...