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Introducing Google’s 2010 Anita Borg Scholars & Finalists Posted: 03 May 2010 09:25 AM PDT The Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, established by Google in 2004, honors Dr. Anita Borg, a computer science pioneer who dedicated her life to changing the way we think about diversity and technology. Now in its seventh year, her namesake scholarship continues to support under and post-graduate women completing degrees in computer science and related areas, recognizing and encouraging the next generation of technical leaders and role models.
This year, we're awarding 62 scholars and finalists in the U.S., 17 in Canada and 91 in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. In addition to receiving academic scholarships, all of our winners will be invited to participate in all-expenses-paid networking retreats featuring workshops, speakers, panelists, breakout sessions and social activities at Google offices. See below for a full list of winners and the institution they currently attend. In the coming months, we’ll be announcing winners for the Australia and New Zealand Scholarships. And we’ve introduced some other big changes for 2010: for the first time, we’re awarding Anita Borg Scholarships to students in Sub-Saharan Africa and to high school seniors in the U.S. Later this year, we plan to introduce the first-ever Anita Borg Scholarship in Asia. For more information on the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship and other Google scholarship opportunities, visit our scholarships page. Congratulations, 2010 Scholars and Finalists! U.S. Scholars Aditi Goyal, Stanford University Adrienne Felt, University of California-Berkeley Angela Oguna, University of Kansas Main Campus Anna Molosky, Carnegie Mellon University* Bonnie Kirkpatrick, University of California-Berkeley Boya Xie, East Carolina University Carla Villoria, Texas A & M University Carrine Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology* Daniela Rosner, University of California-Berkeley Erika DeBenedictis, California Institute of Technology* Fan Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Floraine Grabler, University of California-Berkeley Jill Woelfer, University of Washington Karthika Periyathambi, Stanford University Kristi Morton, University of Washington Kyle Rector, Oregon State University Lauren Stephens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology* Lydia Chilton, University of Washington Madeline Smith, Ithaca College Maithilee Kunda, Georgia Institute of Technology Micol Marchetti-Bowick, Stanford University Moira Burke, Carnegie Mellon University Nalini Vasudevan, Columbia University in the City of New York Natasha Nesiba, New Mexico State University* Samantha Ainsley, Columbia University in the City of New York Sheri Williamson, George Mason University Shilpa Nadimpalli, Tufts University Sneha Popley, Texas Christian University Svitlana Volkova, Kansas State University Therese Avitabile, Brown University Valeria Fedyk, Stanford University* Victoria Nneji, Columbia University in the City of New York* *High school senior — planned matriculation at university listed U.S. Finalists Adriana Lopez, New York University Anne Neilsen, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Cassandra Helms, Colorado State University Christina Brandt, Cornell University Emily Shen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Esha Nerurkar, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Farzana Rahman, Marquette University Jana Zujovic, Northwestern University Jessie Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Juliet Bernstein, University of Washington Lirida Kercelli, Carnegie Mellon University Marayam Ramezani, DePaul University Maryam Aziz, Montclair State University Michal Rabani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Michelle Burroughs, Carnegie Mellon University Minlan Yu, Princeton University Miray Kas, Carnegie Mellon University Natalie Yudin, Rice University Pallavi Yerramilli, University of Pennsylvania Rachael Harding, Carnegie Mellon University Rachelle Fuhrer, University of California, San Diego Razieh Nokhbeh Zaeem, University of Texas at Austin Riddhi Mittal, Stanford University Sanjana Prasain, University of Washington Sonia Haiduc, Wayne State University Wei Chen, Carnegie Mellon University Yang Shan, Carnegie Mellon University Yi Gu, University of Memphis Yinian Qi, Purdue University Main Campus Zeinab Abbassi, Columbia University in the City of New York Canada Scholars Allaa Hilal, University Of Waterloo Barbara Macdonald, University Of Waterloo Dana Jansens, Carleton University Ioana Burcea, University Of Toronto Michelle Annett, University Of Alberta Canada Finalists Audrey Corbeil Therrien, University Of Sherbrooke Constance Adsett, Dalhousie University Inmar Givoni, University Of Toronto Jasmina Vasiljevic, Ryerson University Jennifer Woodcock, University Of Victoria Jignasa Shah, Dalhousie University Margareta Ackerman, University Of Waterloo Nazish Bhatti, Concordia University Phillipa Gill, University Of Toronto Rachel Zhang, Queen's University Veronica Irvine, University Of Victoria Yanyan Zhuang, University Of Victoria Europe, Middle East and Africa Scholars Adi Shklarsh, Tel Aviv University, Israel Alexandra Jimborean, Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg, France Andrea Francke, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Arlette van Wissen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Birgit Schmidt, Graz University of Technology, Austria Christina Pöpper, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Christine Zarges, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany Ekaterina Shutova, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Elena Tretyak, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia Estrella Eisenberg, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Hilary Finucane, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Hind Saddiki, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco Irina Makhalova, Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology, Russia Katayoun Farrahi, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Lavinia Basaraba, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Limor Leibovich, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Maria Francesca O' Connor, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Maria-Camilla Fiazza, University of Verona, Italy Melanie Ganz, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Monika Schubert, Graz University of Technology, Austria Nina Kargapolova, Novosibirsk State University, Russia Ntombikayise Banda, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Nuzhah Gooda Sahib, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom Oana Tifrea, Free University of Bozen · Bolzano, Italy Pinar Yanardag, Bogazici University, Turkey Ruzica Piskac, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Samreen Anjum, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Qatar Silvian Gitau, University of Cape Town, South Africa Sinini Ncube, Rhodes University, South Africa Sus Lundgren, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Susanne Pfeifer, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Tatiana Starikovskaya, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia Yael Amsterdamer, Tel Aviv University, Israel Europe, Middle East and Africa Finalists Afsaneh Asaei, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Aia Hassouneh, Birzeit University, Palestinian Territories Alissa Cooper, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Anastasia Tkach, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia Anastasia Shakhshneyder, Technische Universität München, Germany Anna Astrakova, Novosibirsk State University, Russia Anna Dehof, Saarland University, Germany Anna Zych, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Annemarie Friedrich, Saarland University, Germany Archana Nottamkandath, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Charlotte Ipema, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Ching-Yun Chang, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Claudia Rosas Mendoza, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Claudia Schon, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Efrat Mashiach, Tel Aviv University, Israel Elzbieta Dlutowska, University of Wrocław, Poland Eman AbdelSalam, Alexandria University, Egypt Eva Darulova, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Floor Sietsma, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Grace Mbipom, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Hildegard Kuehne, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Ifeanyichukwu Ekeruche, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana Ioana Verebi, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Ivonne Thomas, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany Janneke van der Zwaan, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Julia Preusse, University of Magdeburg, Germany Julie Rico, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Karolina Soltys, University of Warsaw, Poland Laura Zilles, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany Lene Mejlby, Aarhus University, Denmark Lina AL Kanj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Lucy Gunawan, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Maria Mateescu, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Maria Karoliina Lehtinen, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Marije de Heus, University of Twente, The Netherlands Marleine Daoud, University of Stuttgart, Germany Mary Baraza, Busoga University, Uganda Maysa Nouh, Birzeit University, Palestinian Territories Meyyar Palaniappan, Technische Universität München, Germany Min Bao, Linköping University, Sweden Mounira Bachir, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France Naama Tepper, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Nga Nguyen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Nino Shervashidze, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany Olga Streibel, Free University of Berlin, Germany Reem Mostafa, Alexandria University, Egypt Rehab Alnemr, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany Rikke Bendlin, Aarhus University, Denmark Ruth Rinott, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Sarah Greenfield, De Montfort University, United Kingdom Sarah Niebe, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Saskia Groenewegen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Sophia Wadie, American University in Cairo, Egypt Svetlana Olonetsky, Tel Aviv University, Israel Sylvia Grüener, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Tamar Aizikowitz, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Viviana Petrescu, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Zsuzsanna Püspöki, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Posted by Beate List, EMEA University Programmes    
  
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Posted: 02 May 2010 08:30 PM PDT So, apparently this is a thing. At a service station in the U.K., as Kerrie from London noticed, personal safety is the justification.
At a University in Florida, it’s cleanliness.
Meanwhile, in Canada…
related: Nobody likes electric hand dryers (except for ZOMG the Dyson Airblade!!!)     
  
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Gulf Oil Spill: Fisheries Closed, Louisiana Wetlands Now in Jeopardy | 80beats Posted: 03 May 2010 07:23 AM PDT
BP PLC was preparing a system never tried before at such depths to siphon away the geyser of crude from a blown-out well a mile under Gulf of Mexico waters. However, the plan to lower 74-ton, concrete-and-metal boxes being built to capture the oil and siphon it to a barge waiting at the surface will need at least another six to eight days to get it in place [AP]. There are presently three leaks that were created when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank into the gulf. BP says today that it still hopes to install a shutoff valve on one of them, but that’s not an option for the others. So the company wants to place one of these “containment domes” on the largest leak in about a week, and then another on the final leak a couple of days after that. But while BP, with help from the military, struggles to stop the flow, some of the environmental consequences are becoming clear already. Over the weekend, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that fishing would be closed across the Gulf region, from the Mississippi River to the Florida panhandle, for 10 days at least. The U.S. Gulf coast is a rich breeding ground for fish, crabs, oysters and shrimp and accounts for about 20 percent of the nation’s total commercial seafood production. The shrimp and oyster supply, in particular, is heavily concentrated in the Gulf [Reuters]. In addition, crude is now creeping toward the fragile wetlands of the Gulf Coast, and Louisiana in particular. Due in part to pollution, construction, and natural disasters like hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the marsh lands of the Mississippi delta have shrunk drastically; since the 1930s, Louisiana lost an area the size of Delaware to the sea. Healthy wetlands would have some natural ability to cope with an oil slick, said Denise Reed, interim director of the Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences at the University of New Orleans. “The trouble with our marshes is they’re already stressed, they’re already hanging by a fingernail,” she said. It is possible, she said, that the wetlands’ “tolerance for oil has been compromised.” If so, she said, that could be “the straw that broke the camel’s back” [The New York Times]. It would be not only an ecological disaster if the oil influx killed off this ecosystem: Compromised wetlands mean less protection for New Orleans against the storm surge brought by hurricanes. On the political side, BP’s CEO, Tony Hayward, has said that the company accepts full responsibility for the spill and would pay up for “legitimate” claims of damage caused by the slick. However, the scope of this spill is so vast that the list of damages may stretch on and on. Already last week Louisiana shrimpers filed suit against BP for endangering their livelihood. If the spill indeed destroys ecosystems on the Gulf coast, the courts will probably have to sort out responsibility for that, too. Our previous posts on the Gulf Oil Spill: Image: NASA
   
   
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent Posted: 03 May 2010 01:45 AM PDT
The data for our weekly download chart is collected by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are DVDrips unless stated otherwise. RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart.
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Posted: 30 Apr 2010 07:57 PM PDT
A maré negra originada pelo acidente da plataforma petrolífera da British Petroleum (BP), Deepwater Horizon , chegou aos pântanos do Louisiana — que constituem um santuário para a fauna, em especial os pássaros aquáticos — e poderá transformar-se na pior catástrofe ecológica dos últimos anos nos EUA. Já foi decretada “catástrofe nacional” e para os residente do Texas trata-se de um acontecimento que vai destruir a vida de muita gente. Os últimos dados indicam que o derrame de petróleo está a crescer a um ritmo de cinco mil barris por dia desde quinta-feira, 22 de Abril, altura em que ocorreu a explosão na plataforma que também causou desaparecimento de 11 trabalhadores. Em Washington, o Presidente Barack Obama, prometeu mobilizar todos os meios disponíveis, incluindo forças militares. Ao mesmo tempo, a administração americana critica a actuação da BP e pelos recursos da companhia não serem suficientes para impedir o que se está a tornar uma catástrofe ecológica e a BP sofre o risco de vários processos legais e elevadas multas — a BBC recorda o incidente do Exxon Valdez e o que se deveria ter aprendido desde então.
Apesar de todos esforços para minimizar as consequências da explosão na plataforma de petrolífera da BP, tornam-se claras as implicações políticas e o embaraço da administração. Há cerca de um mês, o Presidente Obama disse que estava disposto a levantar a proibição de décadas na exploração offshore. Foi visto como um gesto de boa vontade para com os Republicanos para angariar apoio para a sua política energética e no combate às alterações climáticas. Pode ter “ganho” alguns Republicanos, mas “perdeu” os ambientalistas que sempre foram contra este tipo de exploração pelos perigos que acarreta. Os piores receios destes estão a acontecer agora no Golfo do México e a administração veio afirmar que novas explorações offshore estão de novo suspensas até finalizar o inquérito sobre o que aconteceu no Golfo do México.
       
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Posted: 03 May 2010 01:53 AM PDT Lembram-se do The Box? Um filme com uma premissa interessante: têm uma caixa que vos dá um milhão de dólares sempre que for aberta, mas em contrapartida alguém irá morrer...
Pois bem... agora vejam a paródia que lhe foi feita neste... The Button!   
  
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Posted: 03 May 2010 07:00 AM PDT
Picture by: dunno source Submitted by: dunno source via Fail Uploader
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Posted: 03 May 2010 02:52 AM PDT  Até que tal seja confirmado ou desmentido, a execução ficará suspendida. E se for? Vão ter que verificar de seguida se ele é alérgico às cordas do enforcamento ou às balas de um pelotão de execução? ... ou então será mais simples dizer que é alérgico à morte e pronto, assunto arrumado. E logo de seguida... uma alergia ao trabalho também viria a calhar, com subsídio vitalício! [A Bola via PDL]   
  
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Posted: 03 May 2010 02:52 AM PDT The Ayatana Indicators work has given us a crisp, clean basis for indicators in the panel. We’ve said they will all look a particular way, and behave a particular way. And we’ve said they will be placed on the right of the panel. But why limit indicators to the panel? Let’s make it possible for applications to use indicators themselves, for all the things that indicators are good at:
We’ll start with “window indicators”, or “windicators” for fun. Windicators are indicators displayed in the window title bar that behave just like the indicators in the panel: they have an icon which shows state, and clicking on the icon brings up a menu. Applications can create, update and remove window indicators using an API more or less like the AppIndicator framework first put to use in 10.04 LTS.  Window indicators, or "windicators", shown in a sample application window. We’ve carefully placed all the panel indicators on the right, and we’ve carefully put the window controls and window title on the left. So now we have all this space on the right. As a pattern, it would fit to put the window indicators there. Cody Russell is leading some work in Canonical around the technology which actually draws the window title bar and borders. It’s called “client side window decorations”. We are moving the rendering of the window decorations into the app itself, so that you don’t have the window manager and application drawing those pieces separately. That simplifies certain things (of course it also makes some things harder). One of the most interesting consequences of the client-side decorations work is that it means that the application could more easily draw into the titlebar (because the application is drawing the title bar). And that makes it even more natural for the application to control the right side of the window title bar as well. Less chrome, more content: banish the status barI’m on a “less is more” kick with our design efforts, and one of the things I want to banish is wasted vertical space. For netbooks, that’s particularly important. And a lot of applications have status bars at the bottom, for no good reason other than it was that way in Windows 3.1. Typically the application status bar has:
We can replace these with a combination of windicators and temporary, overlay status bars. I really liked the Chrome browser’s use of overlay status messages, so kudos and thanks to them for the inspiration. The net result of those two steps, in apps where we can, is to save about 5% of the vertical space for your stuff – real content. Prioritising examples for implementationIf you’re interested in this idea, please join the Ayatana mailing list and participate in the design discussions there. We’d like to develop some patterns that are generic, so that we can use a common icon and possibly also common indicator menu entries for addressing the same issue in diverse applications. Of course, applications will be free to use the mechanism for things that are unique to them. Candidates for 10.10It would be fantastic to implement a few of these window indicators for 10.10. Please help us choose the most useful cases! Currently on the list are:
The key thing is that these indicators are entirely application-specific, and ideally only relevant to the window that you are actually looking at. Just like Panel Indicators…From a visual design point of view, again the goal would be to ensure that indicators are symbolic. They would follow the same styling as Ayatana indicators:
Integrated with the Netbook Edition Smart PanelLast week I blogged about our decision to adopt a single, global menu for all applications, in the panel. And I also said we would explore putting the window title *and* menu into the panel, when the window is maximised. Of course, that means that we need to accommodate the window indicators in the panel as well. So: when the window is maximised, and we are using a smart which can include both indicators and window titles, the window indicators will be inserted into the panel as well. They will appear on the right of the panel, and be the leftmost indicators. For example, here is the application, maximised (note the dodgy Ubuntu logo in the top left – that’s the panel, not the window title bar you’re looking at):
In this configuration, the system achieves “singular purpose”: the entire screen is devoted to a single application, yet the Ayatana elements continue to serve their purpose, either systemic (the battery indicator) or application specific.  
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Se tiverem uma versão a pilhas, tem tudo para ser um sucesso Posted: 03 May 2010 01:34 AM PDT Shared by Rui
A Atlantis diz que esta peça de cristal é uma representação da Nossa Senhora de Fátima. Pois…
  
 
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Posted: 03 May 2010 01:00 AM PDT
This is how the movie Mannequin should have been. Submitted by: dunno source via Fail Uploader       
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This week there are two newcomers in the top 10. Clash Of The Titans is the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent this week, again.
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