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Programming

Haskell 2010 Announced 173

paltemalte writes "Simon Marlow has posted an announcement of Haskell 2010, a new revision of the Haskell purely functional programming language. Good news for everyone interested in SMP and concurrency programming."

Comment Test Proctoring (Score 1) 272

Exams are proctored by a local testing center that verifies the student's identity and ensures a trusted testing environment. The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (http://online.engineering.illinois.edu/policies/eop.htm) requires a proctor for all exams. The course content is the same for both on-campus & online students.
Robotics

Submission + - Cyberdyne is shipping nearly 100 more exoskeletons (ieee.org)

Aero77 writes: An army of exoskeletons is coming. And according to their inventor, Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai of the University of Tsukuba, in Japan, they're making a difference in the lives of disabled people. Speaking at the International Conference on Intelligent Robotic Technology and Business, held earlier this month in Taipei, Taiwan, Sankai proudly described how the robotic exoskeleton suit HAL (short for Hybrid Assistive Limb), helped a 46-year-old man whose left leg was withered by polio when he was 11 months old. HAL reads electric signals at the surface of the skin that are generated by the muscle beneath and then uses them to guide the movement of robotic limbs strapped to a person's real limbs, thereby multiplying their strength.

Comment Re:Dumb. (Score 1) 513

False. More than 60 percent of personal bankruptcies are attributable to medical PROBLEMS. If the person can't pay the bill, the hospital sends it to collections, then writes off the bill. Medical bills don't cause bankruptcies, being sick and unable to pay your bills causes bankruptcies.

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