News tagged with computer skills

Can Video Game Testing Spark Interest in Computing Among Black Youth?

Walk into almost any household that includes teenage boys and you'll find one or more video game consoles. Walk into that household past 10PM and you’re likely to find one or more teenage boys playing those ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Is Tetris good for the brain?

Brain imaging shows playing Tetris leads to a thicker cortex and may also increase brain efficiency, according to research published in the open access journal BMC Research Notes. A research team based in ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 21

Physics education improves when students make their own computer models

A current trend in secondary science education is for students to learn by discovering for themselves how things work. Computer modelling is a teaching method that fits in nicely with this trend and also with new learning ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

'Mixed reality' human helps medical students learn to do intimate exams

"What brings you in to see me today?"

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Shift in simulation superiority

Science and engineering are advancing rapidly in part due to ever more powerful computer simulations, yet the most advanced supercomputers require programming skills that all too few U.S. researchers possess. ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Microsoft offers computer training to unemployed

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. announced Monday it would be giving away more than 30,000 vouchers over the next 90 days to help unemployed people in Washington state get new computer skills.

Technology / Other

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A human failure, seen at face value

(PhysOrg.com) -- Humans excel at recognizing faces, but how we do this has been an abiding mystery in neuroscience and psychology. In an effort to explain our success in this area, researchers are taking a ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4


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