"The pay deal accepted by Sally Hunt is an insult to all we have been fighting for over the past months, and she is clearly unfit to head our union, " said Dr Stannett, a lecturer in the department of computer science at Sheffield University.
Other students are turning toward computer science because of a change in social mores: A backlash against Wall Street bailouts means careers in the financial sector may now carry a negative stigma, said Adam Cannon, associate chair for undergraduate education in Columbia's department of computer science.
The report was put together by David Moore and Stefan Savage of the University of San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vern Paxson of the ICSI Center for Internet Research in California, Colleen Shannon of CAIDA, and Stuart Staniford and Nicholas Weaver of computer security firm Silicon Defense.
Researchers from the security group at Leibniz University of Hanover and the computer science department at the Philipps University of Marburg tested the most popular apps in Google's Play store.
Professor Huosheng Hu, of the university's computer science department, said the aim of creating the fish and having them on display in a public place was to increase awareness about robots' capabilities.
Thirty years ago -- well, NASAs elite Ames Research Center, supported by the Department of Defense, could barely assemble one measly mip of computer power.
If I can give just one example, as the manager of a computer department, it was essential that my staff were housed in two separate enclosed areas - one for the data preparation and computer operations staff where noise was inevitable, and the second for the systems and programming staff who needed a quiet environment in which to concentrate and create.
"For what it was invented for, the mouse does a good job, " said John Elias, co-inventor of the MultiTouch system and a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Delaware.
With funding from the U.S. Department of Defense, Roitblat built a computer designed to mimic the dolphins' abilities.
Others, especially those with graduate degrees, will go on to careers in law enforcement working for the National Security Administration, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies in need of hackers with special computer skills, such as advanced programming and digital forensics.
He has also come under fire for switching contracts for the Meteorological Department's purchase of a weather forecasting computer.
Back in May, the Department of Homeland Security revealed that there had been a series of attacks on the computer networks of natural gas pipeline companies.
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"Computing now penetrates into just about every line of business and academic discipline, " said Zhigang Xiang, chair of Queens College's Computer Science Department.
The incoming Archer administration discovered that City Hall still had rotary telephones, and that the head of the Information and Technology Services Department had no computer.
"This is intended as a wake-up call, " said Andrew Tanenbaum, one of the researchers in the computer science department at Amsterdam's Free University that did the work revealing the weaknesses on smart tags.
Small businesses, which have no budget for a big technology department, are especially eager to take advantage of the cheap computer power offered in the cloud.
Dozens of officers surrounded and cordoned off the building, known as the Stata Center, which houses computer science laboratories as well as the department of linguistics and philosophy, according to MIT's website.
New York's Department of Transportation has incorporated into its project planning a simple computer tool developed by The Nature Conservancy to highlight areas where reconstruction will have the greatest benefit for wildlife.
Colgate said the Justice Department seeks to create a permanent network of experts dedicated to preventing computer crime and prosecuting those responsible.
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The newspaper reported Monday that a GAO investigation had found data indicating that an unauthorized person had gained access to computers at two overseas posts, causing the department to shut down at least part of one of its international computer systems.
Finally, there was the creation of the Internet in the 1980s (its origins could be traced to earlier computer networks formed by the U.S. Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation), and its explosive growth throughout the 1990s.
Even operations like The Times (which still has, I think, the largest news department of any newspaper in the United States, and whip-smart computer-assisted reporting and investigative units) will face a shortage of human editors to dumpster-dive through all the uploads, looking for good stuff and verifying it.
The Department for Education says the change is intended to reflect the "importance of computer science to both education and the economy".
Corporate computing started out highly centralized on mainframes and other room-size machines, but since the introduction of the PC has been going through swings between the autonomy of the individual computer user and centralized management by the IT department.
"We were extremely lucky in that we were riding the crest of wave in technological advancements because literally every week the guys in the computer department were discovering new plug-ins and new developments in the field and employing it for what I wanted to achieve, " he said.
In the government's friend-of-the-court brief, Justice Department lawyers argued that a provision of the Audio Home Recording Act does not protect Napster because the home computer is not a "recording device" as defined in the statute.
But an e-mail sent in July on the day of the shootings within the school's information technology department acknowledged that Holmes still had an active computer account at the time, and two badges for the campus.
Another example of the closing gap between the worlds of gaming and grown-up simulation is the decision in May by Digital Sandbox, a supplier of simulation software to America's defence department, to set up a consumer division to make computer games.
But soon after, the State Department said the electronic draw would have to be held again because a computer glitch caused 90% of the winners to be selected from the first two days of applications instead of the entire 30-day registration period.
The computer models they used were specifically designed by the Department for Transport to deal with a whole bundle of franchise contracts due for renewal in the next few years.
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