Computer Programming for All: A New Standard of Literacy

17 May 2012, 5:49 pm

Everyone ought to be able to read and write; few people within the global mainstream would argue with that statement. But should everyone be able to program computers? The question is becoming critically important as digital technology plays an ever more central role in daily life. The movement to m... Read More »

How Spam Meat Has Survived Spam E-Mail

17 May 2012, 5:16 pm

At Hormel ( HRL ) corporate headquarters in Austin, Minn., they call it “unwanted e-mail,” never spam. It’s been a sore subject ever since the mid-’90s, when chat-room users first flooded computer screens with the word “spam” to blot out the comments of users they didn’t like.... Read More »

Summer camp guide for 2012

16 May 2012, 10:23 am

Parents, you don’t have to listen to your kids complaining that they’re bored during summer break. Use this guide to find the perfect summer camp to keep your children busy all summer.... Read More »

I'll Second That

14 May 2012, 10:55 pm

A midweek mirage by newcomer Kevin Adamick.... Read More »

NVIDIA Contributes CUDA Compiler to Open Source Community

9 May 2012, 6:00 am

SANTA CLARA, CA-- - NVIDIA today announced that LLVM , one of the industry's most popular open source compilers, now supports NVIDIA GPUs, dramatically expanding the range of researchers, independent software ...... Read More »

Think Complexity

7 May 2012, 6:18 am

Complexity Science and Computational Modeling... Read More »

Top 10 Highly-Desired Skills You Can Teach Yourself [Video]

28 April 2012, 8:11 am

# lifehackertop10 On countless occasions, you've likely said to yourself "I wish I knew how to do ______." Then, of course, life got in the way and you put it off until you could find the time. Maybe you wanted to become fluent in a language, learn a new instrument, start performing your house r... Read More »

Basic instinct: how we used to code

26 April 2012, 11:14 pm

Retro Week In praise of Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code... Read More »

Toronto-based non-profit Ladies Learning Code helps young women get tech savvy

26 April 2012, 11:47 am

TORONTO - Frustrated with a lack of female-targeted resources to help women learn high-tech skills for today's digital world, Heather Payne decided to act.... Read More »

InfiniteSkills - New InfiniteSkills Web Programming with Python Tutorial Harnesses Power of Object Oriented ...

25 April 2012, 2:02 pm

The 51-lesson, 4-hour Python training course introduces key web and database development capabilities without bogging viewers down with extended lessons on theory.(PRWEB) April 25, 2012 Technology training firm InfiniteSkills Inc. last week introduced its Web Programming with Python Tutorial, an int... Read More »