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VR game to help burn patients: The Loyola University Medical Center in Illinois will be one of the first hospitals in the U.S. to use a virtual reality game to help burn patients. By using SnowWorld, developed at the University of Washington, patients recovering from severe burns will enter a virtual 'polar landscape of gently falling...; Tags: Game, Patient, Loyola University, University Of Washington, Snowball, SnowWorld, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-03-25
Saving Silicon Valley stories: Silicon Valley is not known for paying much attention to itself. The Computer History Museum aims to change that, and recently it held a fund raiser that also profiled four top technologists. There is a video of that event at the end of this post. It was...; Tags: Silicon Valley, Microprocessor, Computer, Chip, Productivity, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2007-10-21
Cool Codes: Monday of last week was one of those “convergence” days. I’m sure you know the feeling. Besides being my 29th wedding anniversary, it was the first day of the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University. Before my wife and I drove out to Half Moon Bay to celebrate, I was...; Tags: Fig, Hot Chips; Blog posts 2006-09-01
Restoring the popularity of Computer Science: David Patterson, is president of the ACM and respected Computer Science researcher. Among many other things, his research was the foundation for Sun's SPARC processor. As ACM president, he writes a monthly letter in Communications of the ACM. They are usually worth reading, but unfortunately hard to get...; Tags: ACM, computer science; Blog posts 2005-09-20
Why can't Johnny program?: Why can't Johnny program?Johnny is too busy cleaning trojans and worms...Mom, Pop, and all the neighbors ask Johnny to come over to fix their PCs..When Johnny converts them to Linux, he'll be able to program again..LOL..Why can't Johnny program?[i]If David Patterson had his way, the president of the United States...; Tags: Operating systems, research money, Johnny, Johnny Program; Discussion threads 2005-04-19