Japan and other nations are hopeful robotics will provide a solution for their growing labor shortage problem as populations age. ...more

March 12, 2009

Game industry recruiters have their sights on the University of Central Florida. The university in Orlando is one of the 10 schools most frequently mentioned by game industry recruiters among 200 that offer courses in video game development, a Los Angeles Times report says. ...more

October 21, 2008

The University of Central Florida is one of the 10 schools most frequently mentioned by game industry recruiters among 200 schools offering courses in video game development, a Los Angeles Times report says. Others in the top 10 listing are the University of Southern California, Southern Methodist University. Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, DigiPen Institute of Technology in Richmond, Wash., Vancouver Film School in Vancouver, British Columbia and the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga., ...more

October 20, 2008

ATLANTA -- Unlike the arms and legs, the tongue has a direct nerve connection with the brain that bypasses the spinal cord. That bit of anatomical reality is why researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology chose to utilize the tongue in an adaptive technology device they are developing. ...more

July 2, 2008

Bill Munz, a former top administrator who guided county growth during a critical decade, died Sunday of liver cancer. He was 56. ...more

June 3, 2008

Although cities are hot spots for global warming, people living in them turn out to be greener than their country cousins. ...more

May 29, 2008

As rapper Kanye West demonstrated on Sunday night's Grammy broadcast, bringing some light on the subject of clothes can create quite an impression. ...more

February 14, 2008

Someday, your shirt might be able to power your iPod - just by doing the normal stuff expected of a shirt. ...more

February 14, 2008

Neil Kane and his staff had figured out how to rearrange methane gas to create industrial diamonds, but their company couldn't afford to build the highly specialized lab needed for developing such nanotechnology. ...more

January 2, 2008