computer science

Many computing luminaries, such as Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, have an early experience in common -- an engaging experience in middle school or high school that sparked an excitement for learning everything they could about computers.

Today, many young people are surrounded by computing at home and in school, and some of them will likely find a similar passion that will lead them to push tomorrow's frontiers in computer science.

(Stanford University) Stanford artificial intelligence researchers have developed software that makes it easy to reach inside an existing video and place a photo on the wall so realistically that it looks like it was there from the beginning.

The photo is not pasted on top of the existing video, but embedded in it. It works for videos as well; you can play a video on a wall inside your video.

(Yale University) Daniel A. Spielman, professor of applied mathematics and computer science at Yale, has been awarded the prestigious Gödel Prize for developing a technique, known as Smoothed Analysis, that helps predict the success of problem-solving with real data and computers.

He shared the prize with Shang-Hua Teng, professor of computer science at Boston University.

Computer science and engineering researchers revealed that the answer quality provided by online question-and-answer Web sites, such as Yahoo!

Answers and Google Answers, depends on two factors -- how much you pay and how many people contribute to your answer.