BUSINESS
By Gus G. Sentementes | gus.sentementes@baltsun.com | January 6, 2010
Chris Ashworth had studied computer science but never written an entire piece of software when a North Carolina theater production company asked for his help. What he came up with would be a huge hit with creative professionals who design elaborate stage productions across the world. The theater company needed software that could help manage sound effects for a play while running on an Apple computer. Ashworth was a computer science graduate student in North Carolina, and he and a friend built one for them in a little over a month.
NEWS
By FRANK ROYLANCE and FRANK ROYLANCE,frank.roylance@baltsun.com | June 5, 2009
F rances Bowman of Perryville asks: "What kind of education does a meteorologist need?" It's no cakewalk. The National Weather Service wants a bachelor's degree in meteorology or atmospheric science. Course work must include thermodynamics, analysis and prediction, remote sensing, physics and calculus. Then choose three: hydrology, statistics, chemistry, oceanography, climatology, aeronomy or computer science.
NEWS
By kate.shatzkin@baltsun.com | October 13, 2008
A reader wrote in an e-mail that her third-grade daughter is already saying girls just aren't good at math. "Where in the heck did she get that?" the reader wrote. "Are there any resources for parents who want their girls to not fall into that trap?" I sent the question to Penny Rheingans, associate professor of computer science and interim director of the Center for Women and Information Technology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Rheingans wrote that this is largely a problem of perception, and that girls actually perform as well as boys at math at least through high school.
NEWS
June 22, 2008
Cecil to offer classes for 'Kollege' kids Cecil College's Kids in "Kollege" summer program, offering a variety of classes for children ages 7 to 12, will be held for four consecutive weeks starting July 7 on the North East campus. Children and their parents can select from 60 classes in science fiction, sports, art, music, dance, writing, science and history. Campers may select up to four classes each week, and can participate in one, two, three or all four weeks. Sessions are from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. weekdays and include field trips, guest speakers and demonstrations.
BUSINESS
By San Jose Mercury News | October 4, 2007
Growing up on the water in Annapolis, Diane Greene loved to sail her dinghy. She mastered windsurfing when the sport was new. She studied naval architecture and, as a young woman, lived in Hawaii designing windsurfing gear. Today, Greene, at 52, is best known for navigating VMware Inc., a company that might best be likened to a nuclear submarine. For years VMware operated in the obscure depths of computer science, gradually developing the know-how and market for its esoteric "virtualization" software.
NEWS
By Dennis O'Brien and Dennis O'Brien,Sun reporter | July 20, 2007
You wouldn't think checkers could get so complicated. After working for six years with a network of up to 200 computers, Jonathan Schaeffer says he has developed a program that can never lose at checkers. At best, a human (or computer) opponent can achieve a draw. The program was designed with help from some of the world's top checkers players, but the computers did what no player could ever do: analyze 64 million positions on the board each second. "We've taken things to beyond what humans can do," said Schaeffer, chairman of the computer science department at the University of Alberta in Canada.