Computer Science

World Color Survey color naming reveals universal motifs and their within-language diversity...

aDepartment of Psychology, Ohio State University, Mansfield, OH 44908; and Communicated by Paul Kay, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, October 3, 2009 (received for review April 7, 2008) Abstract We...

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Simple cellular and network control principles govern complex patterns of motor behavior...

aSchool of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova University Center, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden; and bNobel Institute for Neurophysiology, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet,...

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Nigeria: Lagos Begins Computerisation of Public Schools

Lagos State government has commenced a comprehensive computer literacy programme involving teachers and counselors in all primary and secondary schools as part of its effort aimed at improving learning and teaching techniques.

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Researcher seeks new treatments in old drugs: It avoids slow, costly process of development

Nov 25, 2009 (Houston Chronicle - But there's another, underappreciated piece of the puzzle, said Wong, director of the Center for Biotechnology and Informatics at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute: Scientists may be...

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Secretary Chu to tour Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu will tour environmental molecular science facilities and a power grid test bed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on Monday during a visit to Washington state. While at PNNL, Chu will...

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PNNL scientist garners early career presidential award

A computational mathematician at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been recognized with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The award honors his research on...

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De-Mystifying Models

Many ad networks and ad technology providers claim to build "predictive models" that are used in the course of buying ad space for a campaign and/or figuring out which ad to show to a given impression. Somewhere along the way,...

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Researcher looks for new treatments in old drugs

Researcher seeks new treatments in old drugs It avoids slow, costly process of development By ERIC BERGER HOUSTON CHRONICLE From his outsider's vantage point, computer scientist Stephen Wong sees a big problem with drug...

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Computer Games and Traditional CS Courses

Schools are working to put real-world relevance into computer science education by integrating video game development into traditional CS courses. Quoting: ‘Many CS educators recognized and took advantage of younger...

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Settled Science?

Forwarded with comments by Seth Watkins November 23, 2009 You may not have seen this, but the Washington Post and NY Times - as well as other media outlets - reported yesterday (and before) that a hacker hacked into a major...

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