Thursday, 27 September 2012

computational thinking


Example of computational thinking ?

internet minute


the number of networked devices is equal to the global population. By 2015, the number of networked devices will be twice the global population

Monday, 24 September 2012

Virtuoso cartoon pianist plays just like the real thing


Watch a professional pianist play and you'll be struck at how effortlessly their hands skip across the keys.
Making an animated character do the same is much harder, so researchers from the University of California, Davis, have built an algorithm designed to make computer-generated hands tickle the ivories far more realistically.

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Cyborg cockroaches


Researchers say they've figured out a way to create cyborg, remote-controlled cockroaches, hoping one day the resilient creatures could be steered into disaster zones to gather information and look for survivors.

Friday, 21 September 2012

what the Internet is really made of


When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, journalist Andrew Blum started wondering what the Internet was really made of. So he set out to go see it -- the underwater cables, secret switches and other physical bits that make up the net.


 

Robots join the fight against cancer

FLL challenge

Thursday, 20 September 2012

Wednesday, 19 September 2012

What's the safest 4 digit pin?



The safest 4-digit PIN is '8068' — or at least it was, until researchers at Data Genetics told everyone this week. The researchers there went through a set of 3.4 million four-digit personal identification numbers and found "8068" came up only 25 times.

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