Help me pick a second major for my computer science degree. [more inside]
posted on Jul 5, 2008 - 17 answers

How do you explain the this object? [more inside]
posted on Feb 12, 2008 - 30 answers

Photoshop CS keeps crashing when I try and save a file. WHY? [more inside]
posted on Jan 29, 2008 - 9 answers

I'm hoping to get into a Computer Science Masters program somewhere next fall, and am looking for some advice on bettering my chances. [more inside]
posted on Nov 14, 2007 - 9 answers

What are my options for combining neuroscience and computer science in a graduate school setting? [more inside]
posted on Nov 4, 2007 - 15 answers

I graduated last may with a degree in Politics from a small liberal arts school. As one might expect I have found my job prospects since then less than thrilling. I now have the opportunity to re-enroll in school for a masters program in cs. [more inside]
posted on Sep 7, 2007 - 8 answers

Please recommend some canonical books (or even e-books) to learn networking in general (on par with a CS major), up to an 'intermediate' level. Including stuff on wireless networking and security concerns. [more inside]
posted on Aug 31, 2007 - 9 answers

Looking for serious, modern, and fun art schools in Europe, or possibly the US. [more inside]
posted on Aug 10, 2007 - 5 answers

Looking for kick-ass internships in the NJ/NYC area. Background is CS, design, and a little bit of everything. The tougher the better. [more inside]
posted on Jul 13, 2007 - 11 answers

CS-Royalty? So I was eating lunch in Williamsburg and struck up a conversation with a guy who was about 65 or so, and he claimed the following. - He was one of 7 developers to port DARPAnet to commercial architectures - He had worked with almost every president since starting up work - He has been in a Fortune 500 company as an IT higher-up and had met with Bill Gates (and told him "his product sucked") - He went to University of Colorado and taught at MIT His name came out something like Larry Sand-berg, but very uncertain about the last name. I'm interested in seeing if this is complete BS, or some element of truth.
posted on May 4, 2007 - 23 answers

I will be graduating with a B.A. in Math/C.S. in two years. What sort of job should I be looking for now? [more inside]
posted on Jan 2, 2007 - 8 answers

I will begin an academic program for an MS in Computer Science starting Fall, 2007. The upside is that I have a year to prepare, while the downside is that I clearly have some obstacles to overcome, which are that [more inside]
posted on Aug 30, 2006 - 15 answers

A while back I was implementing a distributed transaction coordinator, and in the process also learned some of the pertaining theory. The only thing I can remember semi-vividly was a proof showing that you can't synchronize an action between two parties over an unreliable link, but I can't seem to find it any longer. The final step of the proof was something like "thus, if this was possible, you could shorten every conceivable protocol by one step, which reduces all protocols to the zero-step protocol, which is impossible". I'm pretty sure that it's a standard result of computer science, but I'm unable to find the right keywords to locate it. Help?
posted on Aug 18, 2006 - 5 answers

Computer Sc. PhD student: Should I be worried that I am the second author in most of my publications ? [more inside]
posted on Jul 16, 2006 - 23 answers

My computer crashed, the HD was reformatted and now when I try to use the following fonts, there gone. I use windows EX, MS office and want to use the following fonts in Photoshop CS. I would like to reinstall the following fonts; Amaze, Bangle, Bickley, Broadway, Stencil, Stop, Surfer, Wide latin, MS gothic. I don't want to pay too much, if possible -- I had the above fonts before the crash. Thanks in advance for any advice...
posted on Mar 29, 2006 - 11 answers

Since upgrading to OSX Tiger on my Powerbook G4, Adobe Illustrator CS has been acting a little flaky. Among assorted document hangs/crashes (requiring force-quits), Illustrator keeps creating .tmp files on my desktop such as "Acr1058251.tmp". I've done a bit of googling and, as suggested, have changed my prefs to not create PDF's upon saving, but this doesn't seem to help. Have any designers out there found a solid answer to why these files are being created, and a proper fix?
posted on Jun 1, 2005 - 2 answers

I'm looking for a good computer science Ph.D. program to apply to, with strong research groups in both bioinformatics and AI. [+]
posted on Nov 7, 2004 - 18 answers

I am looking for an index data structure and query algorithm to solve a specific problem. Each row in the table represents a range, with a start/end value; I want to look up all the rows that overlap a certain value.
posted on Oct 7, 2004 - 14 answers

In the teach a man to fish cat., what's the best way to solve computer problems?[mi]
posted on Jun 23, 2004 - 13 answers

Photoshop CS (OSX) books for almost-beginners: I'm hearing good things on "Photoshop CS Bible" by Deke McClelland.
Photoshop CS (OSX, too) for professional photographers: I'm hearing good things on "Adobe Photoshop CS for Photographers: Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative Use of Photoshop" by Martin Evening.
Any other suggestions? thanks
posted on Apr 27, 2004 - 6 answers