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RSS science professorBletchley Park future under colossal threat
News Among the scientists to put their name to the letter are professor Bill Roscoe, director of Oxford University's computing laboratory, professor Jean Bacon at the University of Cambridge computer laboratory and professor Ian Sommerville, professor... [24 Jul 2008]
Berners-Lee and friends promote web science study
News Speaking to silicon.com, WSRI co-director, professor Nigel Shadbolt, said: "We announced the WSRI at MIT in November 2006 and this created a huge amount of interest. The study of web science is being promoted by a group of top academics to lay the... [14 Jul 2008]
"Boring" school IT curriculum slammed
News Professor Lachlan MacKinnon, head of the school of computing and creative technologies at the University of Abertay, Dundee, has called for a radical overhauling of the curriculum in secondary schools as "boring" ICT classes which focus on Word... [17 Jun 2008]
Who sat in judgement...
Comment Cochrane has also held a number of prominent academic positions including the UK's first professor for the public understanding of science and technology. silicon.com has drawn on the knowledge of an international panel to sift through a long list... [03 Jun 2008]
Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
Photo Historian professor Peter Hennessy said the exhibition of post-war tech embodied public opinion of technology at the time, torn between optimism and terror. The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and... [01 May 2008]
Legal Issues Surrounding Monitoring During Network Research (Invited Paper)
White Paper This work was motivated by a discussion that two of the coauthors (computer science professors) had with the other coauthor (a law professor and a former computer crime Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice), in which it was pointed out... [03 Mar 2008]
Photos: Power-generating leg brace goes for a walk
Photo Here, Max Donelan, assistant professor of kinesiology, watches a demonstration of the Biomechanical Energy Harvester he developed with a team of researchers. The device is featured in this week's issue of the journal Science. [11 Feb 2008]
UK-India grad school get networking virtually…
News Professor Gerard Parr, the IU-ATC's UK academic lead, said the project sought to "establish, for the first time, the support infrastructure and creative sponsorship opportunities that will enable successful collaboration between Britain and India... [04 Dec 2007]
Luis von Ahn
AS Profile The assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University helped develop this Captcha technology back in 2000. Described as a "real guy to watch" by one of the panel, Luis Von Ahn is one of the people to blame for... [12 Oct 2007]
Tomorrow's robots - our invisible friends?
News BCS president Professor Nigel Shadbolt predicts that while artificial intelligence will be a large part of the future of computer science, it will not develop in the way most people may think and - instead of the killer robots - it will result in... [11 Sep 2007]
Mega-projects research centre unveiled
News Professor Colin Mayer, dean of the Saïd Business School, said there is a professional need for high level research and education in programme management which is not currently being served by any global business school. [13 Mar 2007]
Negative image hinders Russian IT outsourcing
News Boris Berezin, professor and vice-dean of the faculty, said the quality of the graduates means they are in high demand. One of Russia's strengths, however, is the mathematical, engineering and science graduates turned out by the country's... [15 Feb 2007]
Grid boosts efforts to fight malaria
News Professor Tony Doyle, GridPP project leader, said in a statement: "Although our grid was built to analyse particle physics data, when we have spare capacity we're able to share it with other scientists worldwide. [15 Feb 2007]
Outlawed experiments get a second chance online
News Professor Mel Slater of the UCL department of computer science, who led the study, said the experiment opens the door to the use of virtual environments to study situations that - whether for practical or ethical reasons - are otherwise impossible... [20 Dec 2006]
Photos: Vintage arcade games... revealed
Photo Research by Professor Mark Griffiths of Nottingham Trent University has shown that computer game technology can be useful for training and education purposes. Professor Griffiths' research shows that the mental stimulation of games can help improve... [28 Nov 2006]
