Computing and Technology

Can video games help make a better world? You be the judge. Instructor David Ehret explores how modern developers are expanding the idea of what a video game is and can do.

  A quick web search on the fastest-growing jobs across Canada will invariably have big data analytics showing up high on the list, across virtually all industries.

"I had taken a few community courses through Continuing Studies at UVic, just for pleasure, but the Computer Based Information Systems (CBIS) program was the first professional program that I took through Continuing Studies, outside of my degree at UVic," says graduate Carrie LePage, "It was helpful because I could work at the same time."

I can remember purchasing a new computer and thinking, "Wow, with this much power I won't need a new machine for a couple of years." Then, it became, “Maybe this machine will do for a year.” Now, as soon as I buy the latest and greatest, I receive an email the next day and think, “If only I had waited another day or two…look at what I could have bought!”

It seems hardly a week goes by without hearing about the increasing impact 3D printing is having on our world.

Fraud has many roots, but one of them stems from weakened minds nurtured by the fraudulent use of information. Buying-in to fraudulent facts, data, and reason at any level has dire consequences.

$84/hour! That’s what one study says is the average “salary” for someone who rents out their property as a vacation rental. Not bad, right?

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