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5/7/2007
University of Texas computer science professors and graduate students have produced a prototype high-performance processor capable of scaling to trillions of calculations per second.
5/7/2007
Stanford is taking steps to retain "the extremely low number of female computer scientists on campus," the Stanford Daily reported. Thirteen percent of Stanford CS undergrads are female, the paper noted, down from 24 percent in the 1999/2000 school year.
5/2/2007
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is partnering with graphics processor developer Nvidia to offer a course in parallel computing--a course that will be taught by both the chair of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the chief scientist at Nvidia, David Kirk.
4/24/2007
MIT last week completed what claims is the first course in the United States devoted to the capabilities of the Cell Broadband Engine or Cell/B.E., the chip that powers the Sony PlayStation3 entertainment platform.
4/17/2007
Iowa State University will unveil next week "C6," a newly upgraded six-sided virtual reality room. The 3-meter by 3 meter C6, part of ISU's Virtual Reality Applications Center, will be able to immerse users in VR experiences enhanced by 100 million pixels of computer-generated imagery and eight channels of high-definition audio.
4/11/2007
National Instruments announced the expansion of its academic site license for higher education to include a student install option and new circuit design and simulation option. The student install option will allow licensed graphical system design software to be used on students' personal computers.
4/3/2007
University of Southern California president Steven Sample outlined a strategic plan for USC's new Stevens Institute for Innovation designed to consolidate all is innovation transfer and development operations under a single hub, as well as to extend those operations across as many disciplines as possible--arts as well as sciences.
3/29/2007
The University of Strathclyde in Scotland has launched a three-way alliance with British Energy and Baltimore, MD-based GSE Systems for energy research and development.
3/27/2007
John W. Backus, the IBM computer scientist who developed the FORTRAN programming language in the 1950s, died at age 82 March 17 in Ashland, OR. FORTRAN was the first successful high-level programming language.
3/26/2007
Sun Microsystems has expanded its "Campus Ambassador Program," an initiative whereby the software giant offers free training in Sun-based technologies to 170 universities in 30 countries.
3/22/2007
The University of Kentucky's Center for Computational Sciences has employed a Grid Backbone from Billerica, MA-based Voltaire to accelerate a new IBM supercomputer that will be used for scientific research in the areas of physics, chemistry, engineering, and computational pharmacy.
3/22/2007
National Instruments recently announced the availability of NI LabVIEW, a version of LabVIEW graphical programming environment for The Infinity Project. The LabVIEW program is designed to aid The Infinity Project in providing curricula for high school and early college engineering education.
3/20/2007
Top researchers at Microsoft Corp. are lamenting that the number of students pursuing computer science is on the decline just as the demand for solutions to big computing challenges is rising, according to a report in Electronic Engineering Times.
3/13/2007
The University of Cambridge in the U.K. and Nokia Research announced a long-term agreement to work together on nanotechnology projects. As part of the deal, the telecom giant will build a research facility at the University's West Cambridge site to collaborate with its nanoscience and electrical engineering departments.
3/13/2007
Stanford University will enter a robotic Volkswagen Passat in this fall’s DARPA Urban Challenge. The contest is designed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to encourage ideas that "that will keep warfighters off the battlefield and out of harm’s way," according to DARPA.
3/13/2007
A Stanford doctoral student is testing a system that enables computer users control a mouse pointer via eye-movement, MIT’s Technology Review reported. Although the capability has been available for people with disabilities for several years, the inventor, Manu Kumar, wants to make the eyeball mouse as simple as possible for everyday use.
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