| From forensics to robotics Students get a taste of the high-tech world
HAVERHILL - A 28-year-old drug dealer is arrested on charges of selling illegal drugs to high-school students. Police want to put the man away but will need technical assistance.
The alleged dealer is believed to have left incriminating evidence on a computer floppy disk police retrieved from his home. Now they need help recovering the suspect's deleted, corrupted or hidden data from that disc.
It's the kind of information police hope to use as evidence in a trial.
Students from Methuen and Haverhill high schools were on the case yesterday when Northern Essex Community College hosted its first Engineering and Technology Day - which was in the college's Technology Center.
The event introduced high-school students to fields of engineering and technology through a variety of lectures and demonstrations on topics such as robotics, electric circuits, computer games, and of course, computer forensics - the science of retrieving lost or corrupted data from a computer storage device such as a floppy disk or hard drive.
Regional digest: Aggies' baseball team has season-best outing
Matt Dempsey had a season-high four RBIs, and Aaron Hanke and Evan Hudson had three RBIs apiece as the UC Davis baseball team beat Loyola Marymount 16-5 in a nonconference game in Los Angeles. The Aggies (8-13) had season highs of 16 runs and 18 hits. • Stanford defeated host Sacramento State 10-0, splitting the two-game series with the Hornets. Starter Trevor York held the Cardinal (12-9) hitless through the first three innings but wound up with the loss for the Hornets (9-16). In the fifth inning, Stanford led off with seven consecutive singles. .
Julianne Swartz, Hope
Sexually acute, Julianne Swartz' work trades in the rough interface between body and building. Architecture and its ordered, ordering imperative is consistently pitted against human frailty and our irrational impulses. The body and its sensorial extensions - the probing eye and the disembodied voice - are set loose to subversive, often poignant, ends. Interior and exterior, public displays and private activities, transcendence and abjection, containment and leakage: these seeming opposites exist in an uneasy, evocative alignment in Swartz's work, informing and transforming one another. (Charles Labelle, Frieze, March 2005) Josée Bienvenu gallery is pleased to present Julianne Swartz's second solo exhibition in New York. Swartz's new work body of work uses sound and movement to articulate an architecture of frailty.
Intuitive Surgical raises 2007 revenue view
April 19 (Reuters) - Robotic surgical systems maker Intuitive Surgical Inc. (ISRG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) raised its total revenue outlook for 2007. In a conference call, the company said it now expects its total revenue to grow up nearly 40 percent over 2006, compared with its previous forecast of 35 percent growth. It had reported total revenue of $372.7 million in 2006. Analysts on average expect revenue of about $509 million in 2007, according to Reuters Estimates. (Reporting by Deepti Chaudhary in Bangalore) ((Editing by Deepak Kannan; Reuters Messaging: deepti.chaudhary.com@reuters.net; within U.S. +1 646 223 8780; outside U.S. +91 80 4135 5800)) Keywords: INTUITIVESURGICAL OUTLOOK/ (C) Reuters 2007.
Labor of Love
Suzanne Collier and Allie Cossman display the funds they raised to donate to the Humane Society. The two girls had known Rachel Smith since they were in eighth grade. The money will start the Rachel Smith Foundation, which will work to pair animals in need with troubled teens.
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