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How a Computer Game Is Reinventing the Science of Expertise 60

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 02, 2011 @05:56PM from the so-many-volunteers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Cognitive scientists at Simon Fraser University and UCSD are beginning to use StarCraft 2 replays to study the development of expertise and the cognitive mechanisms of multitasking. Unlike similar expertise studies in chess that consider roughly a dozen players, these studies include thousands of players of all skill levels — providing an unprecedented amount of data on how players move from 'chumps to champions.'"

Comment Re:A little late (Score 1) 961

by Gablar on Thursday August 25, 2011 @03:09PM (#37210568) Attached to: Michael Mann Vindicated (Again) Over Climategate

Don't forget melts of polar glaciers and mountain peaks in Asia and USA

Comment Re:The MIA thread (Score 1) 150

by Gablar on Tuesday August 31, 2010 @07:43PM (#33431288) Attached to: The Map of Critical Thinking and Modern Science

A quick wikipedia review leads me to believe that he is going for a wider view of the cosmos(outside of conconciousness) by not including the computation theorists that you mention. it. As far as my understanding goes all the mathematicians you listed advanced greatly the field of computation, but computation is quite limited in the quantum world.

Comment Re:re-read the section you quote (Score 1) 324

by Gablar on Monday April 06, 2009 @06:44PM (#27482379) Attached to: Google's Plan For Out-of-Print Books Is Challenged

From the article:

But Mr. Macgillivray and Mr. Boni said prices would be kept in check, in part by the goal, spelled out in the agreement, to reach as many customers as possible.

Given google's bussiness model, this is eventually going to be free.

Submission + - Judge Strikes Down Part of Patriot Act

Submitted by Shining Celebi on Thursday September 06, 2007 @12:34PM

Shining Celebi writes: U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero ruled in favor of the ACLU and struck down a portion of the revised USA PATRIOT Act this morning, forcing investigators to go through the courts to obtain approval before ordering ISPs to give up information on customers, instead of just sending them a National Security Letter. In the words of Judge Marrero, this use of National Security Letters "offends the fundamental constitutional principles of checks and balances and separation of powers."

Submission + - Putting chips inside our brains

Submitted by

Roland Piquepaille

on Friday July 27, 2007 @12:21PM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "Researchers at the University of Florida (UF) have developed chips which someday might be inserted in the brains of people affected by epilepsy or who have lost a limb. These neuroprosthetic chips 'can interpret signals in the brain and stimulate neurons to perform correctly.' The University claims this is the future of medicine. This is maybe a little bit extreme. However, the researchers are currently studying these chips with rats and hope to have a prototype ready within 4 years that could be tested on humans. But read more for additional references and a picture of the electrodes to be used in neuroprosthetic chips."

Submission + - Real Science using SL and WOW

Submitted by Gablar on Friday July 27, 2007 @11:09AM

Gablar writes: "Are Virtual world a fertile ground for research? In this Science Magazine article the author contends that Virtual worlds are fertile grounds for research oportunities on social science, economics and other fields. The author uses WOW and SL as the major examples of virtual worlds and describes some of the current research in SL and WOW. Do virtual worlds have enough parallels with reality to become research platforms?"

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