Immersive, computer-based simulations have been around for nearly 50 years. The first ones, built in the 1970s, were created as a way of giving pilots experience and familiarity with an aircraft ...

Salem-based CoActive Connections is raising money to create a new poverty-simulation curriculum that will better focus on the specific challenges facing many Oregonians today. Founded in 2010, the ...

How do you teach an autonomous drone to fly itself? Practice, practice, practice. Now Microsoft is offering a way to put a drone’s control software through its paces millions of times before the first ...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Using cutting-edge video game technology and animation, the U.S. Army and Homeland Security Department have developed a computer-based simulator that can train everyone from teachers ...

In a recent experiment funded by the U.K. Ministry of Defence and carried out by personnel at the Centre for Secure Information Technologies, Queen’s University Belfast, researchers used simulation to ...

The Allen Institute for Brain Science and the Blue Brain Project are deepening their collaboration. Today, the US-based Allen Institute is releasing a set of 40 computer models of neurons from the ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) – A Columbus State University professor has been awarded a $25,000 grant from Epic Games as part of a project to prototype a new educational simulation game. Dr. Anastasia ...

The Irish philosopher George Berkely, best known for his theory of immaterialism, once famously mused, "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" What about ...