Conway’s Game of Life can be a good introduction to using computers for modeling physical systems.
The Game of Life is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is the best-known example of a cellular automaton.
http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/
http://www.math.com/students/wonders/life/life.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway’s_Game_of_Life – has lots of links to other sites and apps to try it out.
http://juliefreeman.co.uk/lake/
The Lake is the first in a series of works that track natural biological motion via electronic tagging systems and transforms the data collected into musical composition and animation.
A simple example showing how you can use Monte Carlo methods to do computations is Buffon’s Needle, used to calculate pi.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/kids/sfkc20051125-2.html
Information on E-Waste and the recycling of it.
http://www.google.com/librariancenter/articles/0512_01.html
How does Google collect and rank results?
One of the most common questions we hear from librarians is “How does Google decide what result goes at the top of the list?” Here, from quality engineer Matt Cutts, is a quick primer on how we crawl and index the web and then rank search results. Matt also suggests exercises school librarians can do to help students.
http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/Flash/
Nothing to do with computers but this is so good, I didn’t want to lose it. A huge list of great applets that let you learn about a lot of different areas of physics.
A video from PBS’ Nova series.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3318/03.html
A daring engineer designs robots to communicate and interact the way people do.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=UWCSE
This video presents clips from interviews with roughly a dozen University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering undergraduate students, graduate students, alumni, and faculty, explaining why they chose computer science as their field.
A great video to show young people to get them interested in computer science.
It is about five minutes long.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=UWCSE
This video presents clips from interviews with roughly a dozen University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering undergraduate students, graduate students, alumni, and faculty, explaining why they chose computer science as their field.
A great video to show young people to get them interested in computer science.
It is about five minutes long.
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/
Interactivate is a set of free, online courseware for exploration in science and mathematics. It is comprised of activities, lessons, and discussions.
This is a terrific site with lots of great ideas.
