Ancient Roman computer was used to chart the skies (Addict 3D)
Some of the mystery surrounding the Antikythera Mechanism, a mechanical computer recovered from a 2100-year-old Roman shipwreck near Britain has been unravelled.
Do-good-deed computer is donated to school (Deseret Morning News)
Parkside Elementary received a new computer for its library Tuesday, thanks to the Clinton Youth City Council, which won the computer in a do-a-good-deed contest, making it one of the few cases where no one will cry foul at regifting.
Catching waves: New SU super computer allows for black hole, gravity research (Daily Orange)
A new supercomputer being built by professors at Syracuse University’s Department of Physics may help researchers detect gravitational waves created by the collision of black holes. The computer, called SUGAR, short for Syracuse University Gravitation and Relativity Cluster, will be used to interpret data sent by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).
The perfect kid: part computer, part robot (New Kerala)
New York, Feb 19 : Here’s one kid who lives up to the dictum that children must be seen and not heard. Meet Wizkid. Part computer, part robot, this Swiss machine is as endearing as any child, but unlike most kids, it doesn’t walk or talk, and it pays perfect attention.
HealthSouth lawsuit challenges Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford’s first computer charity (Birmingham News)
A charity Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford created more than seven years ago to give every child a computer faces scrutiny from a donor and federal prosecutors over its use of more than $1 million in taxpayer money, including payments on personal credit card bills, expenses for "elaborate" trips and checks written to a star of gay-porn films.
New computer software might help build a winning baseball team (New Kerala)
Washington, Feb 18 : Sophisticated techniques using computer modeling might help baseball scouts to select players who have the potential to perform well during a match, thus building a winning team.
Tech Data U.S. Again Named Top Distributor By Fujitsu Computer Products Of America (EnterpriseContentManagementConnection-ECM)
For the eighth consecutive year, Tech Data Corporation has been recognized as Distributor of the Year, Product & Service by Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. The leading IT products distributor received the honor during the Fujitsu annual One Capture Alliance Premier Partner Conference.
Women offered free training in computer skills (Times of Malta)
Some of those who attended yesterday’s launch of the Smart Women programme. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier. Women are to be given the opportunity to learn basic computer skills or enhance their digital literacy in a new government scheme launched yesterday.
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar expanded its CS4Qatar computer science workshop to high school students (AME Info)
Dedicated to a mission of exposing young people in Qatar to the opportunities and prospects in the field of computer science, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar offered its unique CS4Qatar program to high school students on February 15 and 16.