BUSAN, South Korea ? U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the United States strongly condemns an Iranian mob attack on British diplomatic compounds in Tehran.
Clinton says that the United States expects Iran's government to protect the lives and property of diplomats. She spoke Wednesday at a global aid development forum in South Korea.
She calls the attack an affront against the British people and the international community.
Hard-line Iranian protesters stormed the British compounds Tuesday. They hauled down the British flag, torched an embassy vehicle and pelted buildings with petrol bombs.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is one of the best-selling video games of all time. It broke launch-day sales records without even batting an eyelash, and will undoubtedly be found under millions of trees across the country this holiday. So how could you make an already fantastic video game even better? By adding Lego, of course!
The video is the latest in a line of Lego spoofs that has been a big hit on YouTube and other video sites, and it shows just how adorable war can be. Its directors at Kooberz Studios took every frame of the much-hyped Modern Warfare 3 launch trailer and gave it a Lego twist. They kept the soundtrack in tact to add to the epic action that is now presented entirely in plastic.
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Contact: Ronaldo Menezes rmenezes@cs.fit.edu 321-674-7623 Florida Institute of Technology
Researchers and practitioners from around the world to come together
MELBOURNE, FLA. -- The Florida Institute of Technology Department of Computer Sciences will host the 3rd Workshop on Complex Networks March 7-9, 2012, to be chaired by Ronaldo Menezes, associate professor, College of Engineering. The international workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from around the world working on areas related to complex networks.
Examples of complex networks include the Internet, a wiring diagram of a food web and the metabolic system of a bacterium. Researchers, interested in understanding complex networks, are now beginning to unravel their structure and dynamics. The field has seen an exponential increase in the number of publications and brings together researchers from biology, mathematics, physics, sociology and epidemiology. It is this interdisciplinary nature of complex networks that the workshop aims to address.
Internationally recognized speakers attending include two keynote speakers. Award-winning Albert-Lszl Barabsi, distinguished university professor, Northeastern University, and director of the Center for Complex Network Research, will speak on March 7. In November 2011 his work made the cover of Popular Science magazine. The story was titled: "This Man Could Rule the World: How Albert-Lszl Barabsi went from mapping systems to controlling them."
Sinan Aral, New York University Stern School of Business assistant professor and Facebook scholar-in-residence, will also speak on March 7.
"Our research in the College of Engineering is internationally recognized. The direct benefit of this is the ability of our faculty to attract world-class researchers such as Albert-Lszl Barabsi to give keynote talks at Florida Tech hosted workshops," said College of Engineering Dean Fredric Ham.
Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished papers or abstracts on their research in complex networks. Both theoretical and applied papers are of interest. Accepted papers of registered authors will be featured in the workshop post-proceedings to be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of the series of Studies in Computational Intelligence.
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Workshop on Complex Networks Public release date: 28-Nov-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Ronaldo Menezes rmenezes@cs.fit.edu 321-674-7623 Florida Institute of Technology
Researchers and practitioners from around the world to come together
MELBOURNE, FLA. -- The Florida Institute of Technology Department of Computer Sciences will host the 3rd Workshop on Complex Networks March 7-9, 2012, to be chaired by Ronaldo Menezes, associate professor, College of Engineering. The international workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from around the world working on areas related to complex networks.
Examples of complex networks include the Internet, a wiring diagram of a food web and the metabolic system of a bacterium. Researchers, interested in understanding complex networks, are now beginning to unravel their structure and dynamics. The field has seen an exponential increase in the number of publications and brings together researchers from biology, mathematics, physics, sociology and epidemiology. It is this interdisciplinary nature of complex networks that the workshop aims to address.
Internationally recognized speakers attending include two keynote speakers. Award-winning Albert-Lszl Barabsi, distinguished university professor, Northeastern University, and director of the Center for Complex Network Research, will speak on March 7. In November 2011 his work made the cover of Popular Science magazine. The story was titled: "This Man Could Rule the World: How Albert-Lszl Barabsi went from mapping systems to controlling them."
Sinan Aral, New York University Stern School of Business assistant professor and Facebook scholar-in-residence, will also speak on March 7.
"Our research in the College of Engineering is internationally recognized. The direct benefit of this is the ability of our faculty to attract world-class researchers such as Albert-Lszl Barabsi to give keynote talks at Florida Tech hosted workshops," said College of Engineering Dean Fredric Ham.
Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished papers or abstracts on their research in complex networks. Both theoretical and applied papers are of interest. Accepted papers of registered authors will be featured in the workshop post-proceedings to be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume of the series of Studies in Computational Intelligence.
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For more information about the workshop, visit http://2012.complenet.org/
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Chrome/Firefox/Safari: Social RSS reader Feedly has received an update with new views, infinite scrolling on feeds and Evernote-like tagging and organization to its saved articles.
You only get one tag per article, but if you use Feedly's "save for later" feature, it can be helpful to organize your articles into a categories that make a bit of sense. The new view updates are simple, but useful, the card view organizes your articles into nice squares while the titles view gives you a short, dense list with infinite scrolling. The update is available now for free in Chrome and Safari. The Firefox version is still waiting approval and should be available shortly.
A woman carries shopping bags as she walks near a Macy's store near Union Square in San Francisco, Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. Early signs point to bigger crowds at the nation's malls and stores as retailers like Macy's and Target opened their doors at midnight. Toys R Us and a few stores other stores that opened on Thanksgiving Day also were filled with shoppers.(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
A woman carries shopping bags as she walks near a Macy's store near Union Square in San Francisco, Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. Early signs point to bigger crowds at the nation's malls and stores as retailers like Macy's and Target opened their doors at midnight. Toys R Us and a few stores other stores that opened on Thanksgiving Day also were filled with shoppers.(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Americans' confidence in the economy in November bounced back to its highest level since July, the latest sign that consumers are beginning to feel more cheerful about spending during the holiday shopping season.
The Conference Board, a private research firm, says Tuesday that its Consumer Confidence Index rose 15 points to 56.0. That's up from a revised 40.9 in October ? the lowest level since the recession ? and the biggest jump since the 59.2 reading in July. The November number is encouraging, but far below the reading of 90, which indicates an economy on solid footing.
The confidence numbers are widely watched by economists because consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of economic activity. The confidence of U.S. consumers has slipped amid renewed fears about a second recession. But Americans, who have been grappling with high unemployment and a weak housing market, have shown that they are feeling much more comfortable spending. Over the past weekend, for instance, they spent more than they ever have during the four-day start of the holiday shopping season.
"Consumers appear to be entering the holiday season in better spirits, though overall readings remain historically weak," said Lynn Franco, director of The Conference Board Consumer Research Center in a statement.
Franco noted that consumers' assessment of current conditions improved after six months of steady declines. Consumers' anxiety regarding the short-term outlook for business conditions, jobs and income prospects eased considerably.
One barometer of the index, which measures how shoppers feel now, rose to 38.3 from 27.1. The other gauge, which measures how shoppers say they will feel over the next six months, rose to 67.8 from 50.0.
Consumers have some reason to be more confident. Earlier this month, for instance, the Labor Department reported that the job market improved modestly as unemployment rate nudged down to 9 percent in October from 9.1 percent in September. The month marked the 13th consecutive month of job gains.
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