![DARPA announces Proposers Day for new PERFECT program [image courtesy DARPA].](http://www.cccblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/darpa.gif "DARPA announces Proposers Day for new PERFECT program [image courtesy DARPA].")
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) has announced a Proposers Day for a new program -- Power Efficiency Revolution for Embedded Computing Technologies (PERFECT) -- to introduce the research community to the PERFECT vision and goals, and to facilitate interaction and coordination among prospective PIs and technology developers. The Proposers Day ...
![The 2012 Go Viral to Improve Health Challenge [image courtesy IOM/NAE].](http://www.cccblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/hdilogo1.jpeg "The 2012 Go Viral to Improve Health Challenge [image courtesy IOM/NAE].")
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Academy of Engineering (NAE) have partnered to launch the "Go Viral to Improve Health" Health Data Collegiate Challenge, designed to spur undergraduate and graduate students to create health-related apps. The contest is aimed at students pursuing degrees in health, engineering, and computer science. And the prize for the ...
![The mathematics of taste [image courtesy Christine Daniloff/MIT News Office].](http://www.cccblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/20120123161938-1.jpg "The mathematics of taste [image courtesy Christine Daniloff/MIT News Office].")
Ever wondered how companies determine the best flavors and scents for their packaged food, drinks, cleaning products, toiletries, and so many more items? Well, turns out it's a multibillion-dollar business, with millions of dollars spent every year on R&D, including consumer testing. But if colleagues at MIT have their say, the way of this business could ...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is out this month with a broad agency announcement soliciting "innovation research proposals in support of the development of new software-based biometric modalities" that go beyond the current focus of passwords for identity validation: The current standard method for validating a user’s identity for authentication on an information system ...
The International Society for Technology in Education (ITSE), in partnership with the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), is out with an outstanding four-minute video -- Computational Thinking: A Digital Age Skill for Everyone -- providing an introduction to computational thinking. It's part of the ITSE's recent efforts to develop an operational definition ...
An interesting interview with Alex Szalay, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University -- about data-intensive computing -- in Datanami this week: When it comes to thought leadership that bridges the divides between scientific investigation, technology and the tools and applications that make research possible ... Szalay is one of the first scientists that springs to mind. Szalay, ...
