Computer People

Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems.(Editorial)
Journal of Advanced Transportation; 12/22/2009; 1926 words; ...Many methodological tools, decision making algorithms and computer--based systems have been designed and constructed within...city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil, inhabited by 2.24 million people. The results of computational experiments, focused on calculating...

Cactus: publishing tools.(Calculator And Computer Technology User Service)
Australian Mathematics Teacher; 12/22/2009; 2503 words; ...relating to software choice. Many computer software packages have been...be used with Windows. Some people mistake PowerPoint for desktop...platform and therefore most people use Microsoft Word as their...fancy bits thrown in. Few people are aware of the many features...

Reading is fundamental.(2009 Literacy Grants Recipients)
Phi Kappa Phi Forum; 12/22/2009; 2388 words; ...rate here and the lives of people in this area," Pagliero said...make it a strong area where people will thrive and have a better...imperative to impress upon young people the benefits of reading and...come from reading, math, and computers, among other fields. Fourteen...

Machine dreams.(The Straggler)(Singularitarianism and human nature)(Essay)
National Review; 12/21/2009; 1747 words; ...that galloping progress in computer technology and brain science will, quite soon, lead to computers as smart as ourselves. They...any gathering of very bright people is of course the hope of stock...principals do not engage much with people of low to middling intelligence--which is to say, most ...

Privacy, a Forgotten Virtue.(The Take)(Tiger Woods)
Newsweek; 12/14/2009; 1163 words; ...even pretend that sports-people are models of propriety? Or...away with when God invented computers. Woods said in his statement...share intimate moments with people who have no interest in privacy...hound. Everybody knew." Some people even "saw it." It wasn...