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World of Warcraft Video Game Succeeds in School

It's not unusual for video game players to speak of a routine that involves ordering pizza, getting a sugar jolt, and then playing "World of Warcraft" for hours. But the person talking in this case is Constance Steinkuehler, an educational researcher who organized an afterschool group for boys to play, for educational purposes, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

World of Warcraft Video Game Succeeds in School

Some of the eighth graders and high school freshmen who signed up for the group couldn't have cared less about writing or reading in school. Yet those students have gone from barely stringing together two sentences to writing lengthy posts in their group's Web site forum, where they discuss detailed strategies for gearing up their virtual characters and figuring out tough quests.

DRM: Sony's Open Market consortium is a wolf in sheep's clothing

If it succeeds, Sony's new digital rights management (DRM) consortium Open Market will be a one-way ticket to losing the rights to your media

NASA's options for space program dwindling

Unless President George Bush intervenes, or whoever succeeds him in January immediately steps into the space arena, the dismantling of the space shuttle program will be too far along to reverse course.

SEO Logic picks Daly as CEO

Oak Park, Ill.—Search agency SEO Logic announced that Gene Daly has been named CEO. Daly was previously president of Ketchum Directory Advertising. He succeeds SEO Logic founder C.J. Newton, who moves into the role of chief strategic officer.

New Contestants On the Turing Test

vitamine73 writes "At 9 a.m. next Sunday, six computer programs — 'artificial conversational entities' — will answer questions posed by human volunteers at the University of Reading in a bid to become the first recognized 'thinking' machine. If any program succeeds, it is likely to be hailed as the most significant breakthrough in artificial intelligence since the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. It could also raise profound questions about whether a computer has the potential to be 'conscious' — and if humans should have the 'right' to switch it off."

REVIEW: Maxell Time Domain Speaker

iPod speaker docks are becoming as common and, to be fair, as uninteresting as USB toys these days. Everyone has got one and there are so many poor quality ones out there that you sometimes have to look a little harder to find one that stands out a little bit from the crowd. Some companies go for new technology and others go for shape. The Maxell MXSP-4000 Time Domain Speaker goes for both and succeeds somewhat, but not completely.

Inside VMware's 'Virtual Datacenter OS'

snydeq writes "Neil McAllister cuts through VMware's marketing hype to examine the potential impact of VMware's newly pronounced 'virtual datacenter OS' — which the company has touted as the death knell for the traditional OS. Literally an operating system for the virtual datacenter, VDC OS is an umbrella concept to build services and APIs that make it easier to provision and allocate resources for apps in an abstract way. Under the system, McAllister writes, apps are reduced to 'application workloads' tailored through vApp, a tool that will allow developers to 'encapsulate the entire app infrastructure in a single bundle — servers and all.' The concept could help solve the current bugbear of programming, parallel processing, McAllister concludes, assuming VMware succeeds.

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