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Search results for "computer science" ...
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Betrayed
A former health inspector and environmental health specialist is now permanently disabled because of his exposure to toxic mold at his workplace, the Southern Nevada Health District's Environmental Health Wing, and he's not the only worker affected. Although his employer knew the problem existed (and was serious, as they are the agency that investigates and shuts down mold-infected sites) they fought correcting the situation, refused to re-locate infected workers, and contested their disability claims.
Tags: Mold; Air quality; Southern Nevada Health District; Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies at UNLV; rashes; Keck School of Medicine Environmental Sciences Laboratory at USC; Public Employees Retirement System of Nevada; U.S. Department of Labor Family and Medical Leave Act; Dan Pauluk; Apergillus; Stachybotrys; Yellow Rain; Aflatoxin; Saddam Hussein; Biological Weapons
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Wretched Excess
The story investigated the growing industry of municipal sewage sludge recycling, and particularly the practice of spreading sludge on farmland. The story followed a rancher who claims that sewage sludge made him and his family sick, and it reviews the case of a scientist who faced resistance at the EPA to his study of sludge health effects. It showed how science unfavorable to the sludge recyclers was suppressed by the EPA at the behest of the companies.
Tags: sludge; sewage sludge recycling; Environmental Protection Agency; environment; pollution; science; corruption
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I'm Outta Here: Why Microsoft is losing some key talent
This piece is an inside look at problems gripping Microsoft. The author talked with current and former employees, and found that as the company grows, morale seems to fall.
Tags: computers; industry; technology; internet; computer science; business; Mini-Microsoft; Microsoft
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Crime and Injustice
"Here are some partial reprints from the 1973 series 'Crime and Injustice' one of the very first major computer - assisted reporting projects done in the United States....Despite the fact that it was done 17 years ago, on computer equipment that long ago became obsolete, the series remains a model of how modern computer and social - science techniques can make it possible to gauge the performance of a public institution -- in this case, the local criminal - justice system."
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Ticket Shock. Business fares increase even as leisure travel keeps getting cheaper. Technology, obscure science make it easy for airlines to manipulate pricing. Fear of undercutting rivals.
This article talks about advances in the airline industry and explains why the industry was becoming increasingly profitable in 1997. It also includes some information about "yield management," the computer system that allows airlines to predict how many last-minute business travelers will show up at the last minute looking for a flight.
Tags: airlines; flight; planes; airport; airline industry; money; yield management
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No title (id: 9506)
Time Magazine profiles the cyberpunk movement, a growing counter-culture movement made up of computer hackers, futurists, fringe scientists, computer-savvy artists and musicians, and assorted science-fiction afficionados who are obsessed with technology that is just beyond their reach; describes cyberpunk as the defining counterculture of the computer age and outlines the music, orthodoxy, and vocabulary of the movement. Elmer-Dewitt punk raves cybernetics internet William Gibson Ecstasy Timothy Leary William S. Burroughs LSD Techno
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Programmed for disaster
The Sciences details the injuries and deaths caused by computer software errors in medical devices such as radiation machines, blood analyzers, and ventilators; tells how testing software and devices does not always reveal flaws.
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The Sciences explains the difficulty of defending computers against "viruses;" looks at viruses that replicate and disperse automatically through electronic mailing lists; one virus caused a video monitor to burst into flames; also looks at colleges, such as Lehigh University, where all the data in more than 500 computers was destroyed, November/December 1988.
Tags: Cohen computer virus