Schoolchildren and sixth form students in Greater Manchester and beyond are being challenged to unleash their creative talents to celebrate a landmark moment in computing history.

HP and MTV today announced "Take Action. Make Art." - a global design competition that challenges young people around the world to create graphics for a special edition HP notebook PC.

It's an odd combination of Navier-Stokes equations and NASCAR driving.
Computer scientists at the University of Washington have developed software that is incorporated in new technology allowing television audiences to instantaneously see how air flows around speeding cars.

Computer scientists from UC San Diego have developed a way to generate images like smoke-filled bars, foggy alleys and smog-choked cityscapes without the computational drag and slow speed of previous computer graphics methods.

American Idol and Comic-Con have come and gone, but fun in San Diego’s summer sun has just begun. From August 4 to 9, the top computer graphics and interactive media folks from around the world will flood San Diego for the SIGGRAPH 2007 conference – and UC San Diego is part of the action.

Researchers from CSIRO and Korea’s ETRI will pour a virtual glass of beer in San Diego next week at SIGGRAPH 07, the world’s largest computer graphics conference, to showcase their innovative fluid special effects software.

Sony will be exhibiting its newly developed "Cell Computing Board (prototype)" at "SIGGRAPH 2007" ( August 7th-9th at San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA).