UPCRC Illinois Offers Summer School for Multicore Programming

July 31st, 2009 'Last Lecture' prof's program to be updatedPITTSBURGH — Carnegie Mellon University will release an updated version of the animation-based software developed by late "last lecture" professor Randy Pausch to teach computer programming. Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon computer science professor and pioneer of virtual reality research, was involved with the Alice software project.

July 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Dish Network, a leader in international programming, Thursday introduced TV9 Telugu, a 24-hour news channel focused on enlightening and entertaining the Telugu speaking community, in the US. Dish Network is proud to offer more Telugu programming than any other pay-TV provider," said Chris Kuelling, vice president of International Programming for DISH Network, the only satellite TV provider to carry the channel in the US.

February 13th, 2004 An interesting article on school policy of punishing both the attacker and the defender. I agree with her to a point, but when she goes of in tangent on trying to justify the attack on Iraq because Mr.

March 16th, 2005 A five year old girl failed to bring a plastic bag to school and paid a "heavy price". She is now in a state of shock.

July 21st, 2005 A 30-year study of 1037 children has found that those who watch the most TV are least likely to go to university and get a degree. "Those who watched little television had the best chance of going on to university and earning a degree," said researcher Bob Hancox, deputy director of the Dunedin Research Unit.

April 1st, 2009 robo.in, a venture of Thinklabs, founded by a group of IIT Bombay alumnus, in the field of educational robotics, today announced the launch of RoboCAMP, a summer camp which aims to offer a wholesome robotic learning system which will help kids learn science and technology in more practical and fun manner. The camp will start from April 13 at three venues namely at Cunningham Road, Indira Nagar and Jayanagar.

January 10th, 2009 LONDON - Nearly 30 pupils have been suspended from a London high school for posting 'deeply insulting' comments about a teacher on Facebook, the social networking website. The girls at the Grey Coat Hospital School signed up to a Facebook group named The Hate Society, which contained messages attacking the teacher.

May 14th, 2006 I was watching a TV infomercial which argued in favor of HIV positive children attending schools with other HIV negative students. On the surface it appears the humanly thing to do but is it really logical (and humanly) to allow HIV+ students to attend normal schools? In school children are known to get into fights, bruises from various causes are common.

June 12th, 2009 Sprint Nextel to sell parts of Midwest networkKANSAS CITY, Mo. — Sprint Nextel Corp.

May 15th, 2008 A short survey on your programming language preferences, shouldn't take more than 1 minute of your time. Please participate and let others know too.

June 27th, 2009 Regulators extend review of Oracle's Sun takeoverREDWOOD SHORES, Calif — The Department of Justice wants more information about Oracle Corp.'s planned takeover of computer server maker Sun Microsystems Inc., extending the agency's review of the $7.4 billion deal. Software maker Oracle said in a statement Friday that the Justice Department has extended its initial 30-day review period to seek additional information.

February 20th, 2009 Userful Multiplier has been much talked about for its innovation that could virtually turn 1 ordinary PC into 10. This time the company has joined hands with ThinNetworks to supply 356,800 virtualized desktops to schools in all of Brazil's 5,560 municipalities.

August 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have developed a new operating software for condition monitoring (CM) systems that are used to monitor machines remotely, which can be adapted for use with various types of facility without the need for manual programming. CM systems monitor machines remotely, with sensors mounted on the equipment feeding continuous measurements back to a control box, which records and stores the data, and if an error occurs, the system alerts the operator.

July 27th, 2005 Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine are looking for 400 people with type 1 diabetes to volunteer for a study of an inhaled insulin treatment. The Indiana University School of Medicine is one of 70 sites around the world testing the treatment developed by Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co.

May 6th, 2008 The JavaFX Script Programming Language Tutorial by James Weaver at JavaOne 2008 was rather insipid. In my jet-lagged state, it was enough to put me to peaceful slumber.