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"Using an artificial intelligence technique inspired by theories about how the brain recognizes patterns, technology companies are reporting startling gains in fields as diverse as computer vision, speech recognition and the identification of promising new molecules for designing drugs."

"ElectroCity is an online computer game that simulates, in a very simplified way, energy management in New Zealand. ElectroCity allows players to create their own city and explore different approaches to energy and the environment. It is educational and fun."

"Laboratory experiments, computer explorations, and an interactive exhibition for students, educators, and the public."

"Addressing a field that has been dominated by astronomers, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, the contributors to this collection raise questions that may have been overlooked by physical scientists about the ease of establishing meaningful communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence."

A wiki whch has been gradually collecting explanations for all 1162 + n comics and everything xkcd related.

Get involved and offer your interpretations (there are still over 400 comics to catalogue) or comment/discuss. Maybe have your students have a go?

Welcome to "Piled Higher and Deeper", the ongoing chronicle of life (or the lack thereof) in grad school.

Enjoy the humour or be impressed at the animated explanations.

Remember 'Logo?' Now you can write your code and run it in a browser window.

Wouldn't it be great if each line was highlighted as the program ran so you could see visually what each line of code was doing?

"Cryptoy is a fun, free, educational app about cryptography, designed by GCHQ for use by secondary school students and their teachers. The app enables users to understand basic encryption techniques, learn about their history and then have a go at creating their own encoded messages. These can then be shared with friends via social media or more traditional means and the recipients can use the app to try to decipher the messages."

"...regardless of what code you decide to learn, or teach, you will need a code editor with which to compile your code. For me, there are few that have more benefits than the free Editey website editor apps." Blogpost from Jonathan Wylie

Buy Yahoo Accounts Introduction A Yahoo account is a user profile made with the yahoo.com website that offers a variety of services, including email, news, financial data, and more. A Yahoo account can be used to access a number of services. What Is yahoo? Yahoo!, a web services provider with its main office in Sunnyvale, California, was established in 1994. The corporation provides a whole range of online services and tools, but its web portal, search engine, and email services are among its most well-known products. Buy Yahoo Accounts Jerry Yang and David Filo, two Stanford graduate students in computer science, developed Yahoo!. Despite the fact that the name "Yahoo!" is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," the founders claim they genuinely liked the meaning of a yahoo, which is a "rude, unsophisticated, or aggressive person."