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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.

Information Systems Management in Practice (7th Edition

Dealing with the management of information technology (IT) as it is being practiced in organizations today, the emphasis of this book is on the current material that information systems executives find important; its organization is around a framework that readers new to the information can understand. In this 7th edition, discussions include the rising societal risks of IT, new sections on digital convergence, messaging, and instant messaging, and a revised discussion on wireless technology. The topics of outsourcing and and information security have been updated and enhanced. Information Systems Management in Practice continues to merge theory with practice through real-world case examples. Topics include leadership issues, the CIO’s responsibilities, uses of IT, information systems planning, essential technologies, managing operations, systems development, decision-making, collaboration, and knowledge work.

Area FIRST teams are off to nationals in Atlanta

Students who built robots that compete at the national level left Wednesday with their professional adult mentors for games in Atlanta that are the highlight of months of work.

Two teams the fourth- to eighth-grade students on FIRSTfruits and the high-school students on the Baxter Bomb Squad are on their way to the national competition to be held over the weekend.

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Bitmap Brothers & Kylotonn Developing 'Speedball 2'

Since 1987, when he founded the Bitmap Brothers, he has been behind the legendary original as well as classics like Xenon Megablast, The Chaos Engine, Gods, Cadaver, Magic Pockets and Z. For the production of Speedball 2, Kylotonn has assembled a fresh team of experienced game designers and programmers. With photorealistic 3D models, breath-taking animations and futuristic arenas for Speedball 2, the French developer team, already renowned for the Bet on Soldier trilogy, heads for a stunning comeback.

To guarantee smooth multiplayer action, Kylotonn has decided to employ renowned network middleware Raknet by Rakkarsoft, used and much acclaimed in the technology demo Cellfactor Combat Training, which also puts the AGEIA PhysX-effects to impressive use - now becoming a first person shooter game, Cellfactor Revolution.