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CIT News Bytes: Flying Math: Bees Solve Traveling Salesman Problem
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Sunday, September 23, 2012. Flying Math: Bees Solve Traveling Salesman Problem. From Wired Science, 09-21-2012. Bumblebees foraging in flowers for nectar are like salesmen traveling between towns: Both seek the optimal route to minimize their travel costs. Mathematicians call this the “traveling salesman problem,” in which scientists try to calculate the shortest possible route given a theoretical arrangement of cities. Bumblebees, however, take the brute-force approach:. Welcome to the CIT Blog.
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CIT News Bytes: November 2011
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011. Facebook settles FTC Information Privacy Complaint. 11/29/11: Facebook has settled a complaint by the Federal Trade Commission. That the social networking giant deceived consumers by promising privacy protections while it shared and made user data more public, according to the FTC. Wednesday, November 16, 2011. Databases and Metadata in Action: Jeopardy Champion. In September, 2011, Computer Science grad student Roger Craig set a new single-day record of $77,000 on Jeopardy.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012. CIS 110 Help Sessions Week 2. For students who missed their week 1 lab or just want extra help, you are welcome to attend one of more Help Sessions. 110 Help Sessions Week 2 (10/1 - 10/5). B90CD Onyx Bridge (Science Library). That if no one shows up during the first 10 minutes the session is cancelled. Getting to B90CD Ony. Sunday, September 23, 2012. Flying Math: Bees Solve Traveling Salesman Problem. From Wired Science, 09-21-2012. Monday, September 3, 2012. With many usefu...
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CIT News Bytes: January 2012
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Monday, January 30, 2012. Scale of the Universe (Flash). Exometers, Petameters, Terameters, . . ., Meters, ., Picometers, Femtometers, Attometers, . This is an interactive flash animation that lets you zoom in and out on objects in the universe to get a sense for their relative sizes. Who knew that a giant earthworm could grow to be 7 meters long! Tuesday, January 10, 2012. How do I get into the 111 lab I want if it is full? The K Computer: PetaScale Computing. Executing 8.25 quadrillion floating-poi...
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CIT News Bytes: October 2011
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Monday, October 31, 2011. Rising Value of IT Degrees. If you’re trying to figure out what to study in college, a new report suggests you would do well choosing a major in science, technology, engineering or math. Science and technology have “become the common currency in the labor market,” but don’t count the liberal arts out, either. Ch 13 FIT: Passwords. How to Make Usable and Secure Passwords. Check if Your Password Was Compromised. Sunday, October 23, 2011. Saturday, October 22, 2011. The actress pro...
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CIT News Bytes: April 2012
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Monday, April 30, 2012. Visualizing Data: The Data Journalism Handbook. The Data Journalism Handbook. Thursday, April 26, 2012. Everything You Never Knew About CSS Floats. What do floats really do anyway? How do they affect the box model of the elements involved? How do floated elements differ from inline elements? What are the specific rules governing the position of floated elements? How does the clear property work and what is it for? Find out in this article from Design Shack. Interview w/ Clay Shirky.
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Thursday, September 29, 2011. Taking Care of your Laptop (NYT). Good advice for taking care of your laptop: Make Sure the Problem is not in the Chair. Tuesday, September 27, 2011. Read how browser's cache pages. At the CIS 110 blog. For efficiency reasons, browsers will sometimes cache pages/images. Ie, , to avoid redundant downloads, the browser will store a copy of a page/image on the hard drive (along with a time stamp). The next time the page/image is requested, it will first check the cache. Sunday,...
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CIT News Bytes: Disable Java in your Browser (US-CERT)
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Thursday, October 18, 2012. Disable Java in your Browser (US-CERT). The US. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) tells users to disable Java in browsers. http:/ bit.ly/VR5uJT. How to disable Java in your web browser:. Http:/ www.java.com/en/download/help/disable browser.xml. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Welcome to the CIT Blog. Visit this blog for class-related news and content. Subscribe to the RSS feed and new posts will be "pushed" to your browser. Disable Java in your Browser (US-CERT).
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CIT News Bytes: Visualizing Data: The Data Journalism Handbook
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Monday, April 30, 2012. Visualizing Data: The Data Journalism Handbook. The Data Journalism Handbook. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Welcome to the CIT Blog. Visit this blog for class-related news and content. Subscribe to the RSS feed and new posts will be "pushed" to your browser. Visualizing Data: The Data Journalism Handbook. Everything You Never Knew About CSS Floats. Internet security: Keys to the Cloud Castle. Survey of Software Developers, re: Tools. CIS Web Dev Blog.
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CIT News Bytes: The Illustrated Guide to Front-End Development.
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Monday, January 14, 2013. The Illustrated Guide to Front-End Development. The Illustrated Guide to Front-End Development. An illustration-driven e-book by Brian Franco that introduces HTML5/CSS with the newcomer in mind. Download ch. 1 for free. It's a good companion for ch. 2 in our 111 textbook, and project 1, CodeAvengers. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Welcome to the CIT Blog. Visit this blog for class-related news and content. The Illustrated Guide to Front-End Development. CIS Web Dev Blog.