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Construction of the more than 200,000 square-foot, seven-story-tall Theory and Computing Sciences (TCS) building is underway near Argonne’s North Gate. When completed, the building will provide a much-needed infrastructure for large-scale computers, computational laboratories, a digital conference and meeting area as well as a consolidated Argonne library.
Theme of this year's conclave - Cloud, Big Data, Mobile!
Credits: Concept of cloud computing with smartphone. 3d render. Map source from -www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world.html. Map hand drawn in Illustrator.
Photos of Foyles Computing Section, taken by Craig Smith of O'ReillyGMT
Featuring Stephen Forde, in Computing Bookk Nirvana
Maintec provides mainframe console operation support from its RNOC based in Bangalore, with capability to monitor z/OS system remotely 24/7.
Website : www.maintec.com
Just as mobile phones are becoming ubiquitous, so is wireless computing. It's now common to see people surfing the Web in coffee shops, airports and hotels.
But this is the first time I've seen a couple on a swing, on the lawn outside their apartment--each with their own pc. When I offered to email them a copy of the photo, she immediately sent me an email so I'd have their address. I suspect this kind of image will become increasingly common.
Hosted in collaboration with Google's CS4HS initiative, the MIT Creative Computing 2012 workshop was held at the MIT Media Lab, August 8-11, 2012.
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are trying to create new economic models that will provide policymakers with more realistic pictures of different types of markets so they can better avert future economic catastrophe. Here, Argonne systems scientists Charles Macal (left) and Michael North showcase several of their agent-based models.
Read the full story here.
Photo by George Joch/Courtesy Argonne National Laboratory
Bryan Glick, Mark Samuels, Angelica Mari, Tom Young... all from Computing magazine (except Mark who has left and gone to CIO Connect) - in the John Snow pub in Broadwick St, Soho
Cloud Computing (Maclean's Music) and jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. in the Wood Memorial (GrII) at Aqueduct Racetrack 4/8/17. Trainer: Chad Brown. Owner: William H. Lawrence & Klaravich Stables, Inc.
There are over 50 PC's availabe for student use within the library some of which are avaialbe after hours.
You can also connect your laptop to the wireless network.
Astronomical clock of St. Nikolaikirche (St. Nicholas' Church), Hanseatic Town of Stralsund, district of Vorpommern-Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), Germany.
The astronomical clock of St. Nicholas' Church was built by the clockmaker Nikolaus Lilienfeld in 1394. It is the oldest nearly completely preserved astronomical clock in the Baltic Sea region and the oldest mechanical clock in the world still containing its original wheelwork. Although nearly completely preserved, the clock doesn't work anymore.
The clockface is decorated with a golden frame. It shows all the 24 hours of a day (midnight at the bottom, 6 am at the left, midday at the top, 6 pm at the right). A metallic belt which is fixed to a seperate clock hand shows the zodiac circle and the actual astrological sign.
The paintings in the four corners of the clockface show "Die vier Weltweisen" (The four Wise Men of the World):
Top left: Claudius Ptolemaeus, a Greek-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet from Egypt, one of the best known astronomers of the Antiquity, "inventor" of the Ptolemaic system, a geocentric model of the cosmos.
Top right: Alfonso X of Castile, called "the Wise", sponsored the Alfonsine tables for computing the position of the Sun, Moon and planets relative to the fixed stars.
Bottom left: Ali ibn Ridwan (Hali), an Egyptian physician, astrologer and astronomer.
Bottom right: Albumasar, a Persian astrologer, astronomer, and philosopher, thought to be the greatest astrologer of the Abbasid court in Baghdad.
The pedestal of the clock shows two allegoric figures: Morning (a person opening a door) and Evening (a person closing a door).
On the side of the clock is a portrait of the clockmaker, looking out of a window.
St. Nikolaikirche was built in Northern German Brick Gothic style. It's the oldest of Stralsund's main churches. Being the main church of the local council, St. Nikolaikirche is closely connected to the town hall.
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The town of Stralsund lies in Northeast Germany in the region of Western Pomerania in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
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The town lies on the sound of Strelasund, a strait of the Baltic Sea. Its geographic proximity to the island of Rügen, whose only fixed link to the mainland, the Strelasund Crossing, runs between Stralsund and the village of Altefähr, has given Stralsund the sobriquet "Gateway to the Island of Rügen" (Tor zur Insel Rügen). Stralsund lies close to the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park.
A municipal forest and three municipal ponds (the Knieperteich, Frankenteich and Moorteich) belong to the Stralsund's town borough . The three ponds and the Strelasund lend the Old Town, the original settlement site and historic centre of the town, a protected island location.
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The centre of Stralsund has a wealth of historic buildings. Since 1990, large parts of the historic old town have been renovated with private and public capital, and with the support of foundations. As a result of the contempt for historic buildings in East Germany many houses were threatened by ruin. The Old Town in particular, offers a rich variety of historic buildings, with many former merchants' houses, churches, streets and squares. Of more than 800 listed buildings in Stralsund, more than 500 are designated as individual monuments in the Old Town. In twenty years, from the Wende in 1990 to November 2010, 588 of the more than 1,000 old buildings were completely refurbished, including 363 individual monuments. Because of its historical and architectural significance, in 2002 Stralsund's old town together with the old town of Wismar were added to entitled the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list as the "Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar".
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The medieval towns of Wismar and Stralsund, on the Baltic coast of northern Germany, were major trading centres of the Hanseatic League in the 14th and 15th centuries. In the 17th and 18th centuries they became Swedish administrative and defensive centres for the German territories. They contributed to the development of the characteristic building types and techniques of Brick Gothic in the Baltic region, as exemplified in several important brick cathedrals, the Town Hall of Stralsund, and the series of houses for residential, commercial and crafts use, representing its evolution over several centuries.
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Stralsund short trip October 2012
Dave Nielsen leads discussion about Cloud Computing and what it means to IT (IaaS), Developers (PaaS) and End Users (SaaS)
On Saturday, July 13, 2013, the Creative Computing Online Workshop facilitation team hosted a one-day symposium at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on the topic of creative computing with Scratch.
cc-symposium.eventbrite.com
scratch-ed.org
read the iliveisl blog to see what we are doing in OpenSim with our virtual environmental science field trip stuff over at Enclave Harbour
taken with my canon 50-250 lens!
Apogee and Perigee of the Moon
Apogee and perigee refer to the distance from the Earth to the moon. Apogee is the farthest point from the earth. Perigee is the closest point to the earth and it is in this stage that the moon appears larger. Looking at the moon in the sky without anything to compare it to, you wouldn't notice any size difference. But the difference in size can in fact be quite significant.
If you were to photograph a full moon at apogee and perigee (using the same lens), here's how the two sizes would compare:
Astronomers have formulas for computing the exact distance at any point in time, but the average distance from Earth is 237,700 miles (382,500 km).
Effects of Apogee and Perigee
The apogee and perigee of the moon have an effect on the tides here on Earth. When the moon is at apogee, the furthest distance from the Earth, it has less gravitational pull which, along with other factors that influence the tides, can contribute to lower tides or lower variation in the high/low tide level. When the moon is at perigee, closer to the Earth, there is much more gravitational pull which contributes to the opposite effect: higher tides or greater variation in the high and low tide.
Well, not *quite* vintage. "Old Computing" didn't have a good ring.
I've been looking for a Windows 95 computer to play some old DOS/95 games on for a while, and, I finally came across ones I liked. I actually got these for free, someone I knew on a forum needed a Windows XP copy to install on a computer, and instead of money, we made a deal. I only wanted one good laptop, with a Windows 95 backup, and a external floppy drive. Well, when I got a 40 pound box on my front from UPS this morning, I realized he gave me much more. Awesome.
Fourth-year student Tom Henbest (left) checks out the sound orb project developed by Kevin Laporte, Artsci'17, (right) and Amanda Baker at the Creative Computing Showcase.