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Google Releases DIY Android App Inventor (w/video)

Google Releases DIY Android App Inventor (w/ Video)

Technology / Software

created Jul 12, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 12 | with audio podcast weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google has announced a new software development program that lets anyone develop an application for Android devices; it’s called the App Inventor for Android. Google says the software is intended ...


Machines that learn better

Machines that learn better

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 18, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the last 20 years or so, many of the key advances in artificial-intelligence research have come courtesy of machine learning, in which computers learn how to make predictions by looking ...


3 Questions: Mitchel Resnick

3 Questions: Mitchel Resnick, Creator of Scratch programming language

Technology / Software

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The free, open-source Scratch programming language, developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab by a team led by Mitchel Resnick, has found great popularity around the world as a way ...


Stanford parallel programming course available online for free

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Through a new course posted online for free, the Stanford School of Engineering and NVIDIA Corp. will give a big boost to programmers who want to take advantage of the substantial processing power of the graphics processing ...


JooJoo

JooJoo not ready to challenge iPad

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

You may not have heard about it amid all the iPad hype, but another take on the tablet has also started to reach consumers' hands: the JooJoo.


Carnegie Mellon releases ROBOTC2.0 programming language for educational robots

Technology / Software

created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Academy announces the release of ROBOTC2.0®, a programming language for robots and an accompanying suite of training tools that are easy enough for elementary students to use, but powerful ...


Conquering the chaos in modern, multiprocessor computers

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computers should not play dice. That, to paraphrase Einstein, is the feeling of a University of Washington computer scientist with a simple manifesto: If you enter the same computer command, you should get ...


No catastrophes please, it's software modelling

Technology / Software

created Jan 29, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a development platform that will enable applications to tackle the enormous and increasing complexity of modern computer science. It promises better quality at a lower price.


Oracle completes acquisition of Sun Microsystems

Technology / Business

created Jan 27, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Oracle says its $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems has been completed.


Easy-build wireless networks

Easy-build wireless networks

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Networks that monitor life-threatening situations or improve environmental efficiencies will be easier and cheaper to develop and operate, following the creation of a single middleware solution ...


Researchers developing techniques to strengthen the security of information systems

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 05, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

As computers increasingly transfer patient medical records and other sensitive information, a group of computer scientists at Kansas State University is doing basic research that will help designers keep such information ...


Cars drive towards the Oracle world headquarters in Redwood Shores, California

Brussels welcomes Oracle's concessions in Sun bid

Technology / Business

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The EU's competition watchdog on Monday welcomed concessions made by US business software giant Oracle over its bid for Sun Microsystems, saying the deal is now likely to be approved.


Google Go

Google Go gets going (w/ Video)

Technology / Software

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 7 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google has introduced its new experimental programming language Go, which aims to combine speedy application development through simplified coding with high-speed program execution.


White House opens Web site programming to public

Technology / Internet

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 5

(AP) -- A programming overhaul of the White House's Web site has set the tech world abuzz. For low-techies, it's a snooze - you won't notice a thing.


'Last Lecture' prof's program to be updated

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Carnegie Mellon University will release an updated version of the animation-based software developed by late "last lecture" professor Randy Pausch to teach computer programming.