If HTML5 is the hot, fresh technology grab bag for Web applications, it pays for operating system makers to optimize their platforms to not only run HTML5-based apps, but run them with speed and efficiency.
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Nearly five years after the inception of the Blue Waters petascale computing project, the first part of the supercomputer is up and running this week as computer scientists begin to refine the initial system.
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The pitch for the online course sounds like a late-night television ad, or maybe a subway poster: “Learn programming in seven weeks starting Feb. 20. We’ll teach you enough about computer science that you can build a Web search engine like Google or Yahoo.”
But this course, Building a Search Engine, is taught by two prominent computer scientists, Sebastian Thrun, a Stanford research professor and Google fellow, and David Evans, a professor on leave from the University of Virginia.
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As social media become nearly inescapable on college campuses, a pair of recently published studies supports what many professors already have concluded: Students using Facebook or text messaging during a lecture tend to do worse when quizzed later.
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