Last week, Ross Stevenson told the story of a mobile computer exploding at the Alfred hospital due to a problem with a ...

Here is a two-part Navy training film from 1953 that describes the inner workings of mechanical fire control computers. It covers seven mechanisms: shafts, gears, cams, differentials ...

When is it acceptable to set a fire that could rage out of control? In the real world, the answer, of course, is never. But if you're in the virtual world of a computer model, starting such a fire ...

Mr. William D. Walton is a research fire protection engineer with the Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Computer programs are used in many areas of ...

To help design the system of fire protection in atrium buildings, we developed the software "Computer System for the Flow and Control of Fire Smoke in Atrium Buildings". This system considered three ...

Crews continued to battle the blaze throughout the night and into Monday morning which was described as a five-alarm fire. Tyson Fresh Meats facility in Dakota City, Neb., reported computer issues ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Computer Forms (Malaysia) Bhd does not anticipate any significant financial or operational impact on the group from the recent fire outbreak at its wholly owned subsidiary’s ...

The solution could already be in your pocket: a mobile phone. USC computer science researchers have developed a new crowdsourcing system that dramatically slashes wildfire mapping time from hours to ...