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U.S. colleges retool programming classes
May 27 2007 11:17PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - The lesson plan was called "Artificial Unintelligence," but it was written more like a comic book than a syllabus for a serious computer science class.
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Researchers turn Web blather to books
May 27 2007 5:35PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to register at Web sites or buy things online.
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Researchers turn Web blather to books
May 27 2007 5:35PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to register at Web sites or buy things online.
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Facebook opens site to other companies
May 27 2007 5:35PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Facebook Inc. is encouraging other companies to sell products and create software for use on the popular social networking site, hoping to expand into an all-purpose destination on the Web.
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Facebook opens site to other companies
May 27 2007 5:35PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Facebook Inc. is encouraging other companies to sell products and create software for use on the popular social networking site, hoping to expand into an all-purpose destination on the Web.
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EU probes Google over privacy concerns
May 27 2007 5:34PM (CT)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - An independent European Union panel has launched an investigation into whether Google Inc.'s Internet search engine abides by European privacy rules.
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Infrared fires up backyard barbecues
May 27 2007 5:34PM (CT)
ALBANY, Ga. (AP) - For a quarter century, chefs at pricey steakhouses have been searing meat on burners that cook with infrared energy. Now the high-temperature technology may be coming to a backyard barbecue near you.
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Sony develops film-thin, bending display
May 27 2007 5:33PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - In the race for ever-thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all _ a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-color video.
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Virtual tours offer trips through time
May 27 2007 5:32PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - Kathy Choi touches a kiosk screen, then looks up at a larger wall screen to see digitally created yellowish-brown mounds snaking through bright green grassland dotted with brilliant blue rivers and lakes. The ancient earthworks in the Ohio River Valley now are grass- and tree-covered mounds and walls diminished by development, floods and agriculture. But she's seeing them as they might have looked 2,000 years ago, by way of a computerized fly-over. "It makes it all seem more re
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Back-to-back disasters show cell gaps
May 27 2007 5:19PM (CT)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The response by emergency workers following a tornado that ripped through Greensburg recently shared at least one thing with the reaction to a massive ice storm in January that downed power lines for days in the same region.
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