Melee Puts Parents, Educators on Guard - washingtonpost.com - Students at Central High School in Capitol Heights say classmates trigger a fire alarm nearly every day. Usually it's a false alarm, but one day last month someone set a fire in a boys' restroom.
Computer System Engineering | MIT Video Course - Free video course on Computer System Engineering by Hari Balakrishnan of MIT. This course covers topics on the engineering of computer software and hardware systems: techniques for controlling complexity; strong modularity using client-server design, virtual memory, and threads; networks; atomicity and coordination of parallel activities; recovery and reliability; privacy, security, and encryption; and impact of computer systems on society. It also looks at case studies of working systems and readings from the current literature provide comparisons and contrasts, and do two design projects.