Los Angeles Times (04/05/10) Guynn, Jessica; Horn, John
HP Labs researchers have developed a way to use Twitter to gauge real-time interest in movies and accurately predict how they will perform at the box office on opening weekend. HP Labs’ Sitaram Asur and Bernardo Huberman developed computational formulas that analyze Twitter feeds and use the rate [...]
Computerworld (04/07/10) Vijayan, Jaikumar
Recent cyberattacks originating in China against Google and other tech firms highlight concerns about adversaries’ ability to launch a full-fledged cyberwar against the United States. Many see the hacks as an indication that the United States is already engaged in an undeclared cyberwar–and losing. Such worries are spurring action in the form [...]
LiveScience (03/25/10) Manocha, Dinesh
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill computer scientists and Boeing researchers are developing a new set of hierarchical and multi-resolution algorithms and techniques to simulate digital assemblies of large computer-aided design (CAD) structures such as a Boeing aircraft. The algorithms enabled the researchers to produce real-time programs to ray-trace large [...]
Open–Source movement/ free software movement began in 1983 when Richard Stallman announced the GNU. Idea was to start a freedom of movement for users of computers replacing software with restrictive licensing terms for free software.
These days this is referred as the green revolution of the IT sector, the earlier green revolution of the agricultural sector, [...]
USA Today (03/22/10) P. 1B; Swartz, Jon
Silicon Valley Loses Foreign Talent. Meanwhile, the Silicon Valley Index shows that fewer foreign students are pursuing engineering and science degrees in the region. The annual study found that foreign students received 16.6 percent of all degrees awarded in science and engineering programs from local colleges and universities in 2007, [...]
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