Computer Science: Xbox 360 - Article Example

The first reaction after reading the article is, “Wow! At last, it’s the wonder of Computer Science! Instead of producing graphics, the chip produces data, tracking electrical signals around damaged cardiac cells that help doctors in identifying such defects as arrhythmia. The stunning part is the clever usage of the chip that speeds up the calculations of heart rhythm. The Xbox 360 delivers mathematical equations relating to proteins, cells, and tissues of the heart five times faster and ten times cheaper.

Scarle, the computer scientist at the University of Warwick in England who has devised the new way of using the Xbox 360, is sure of its potential use by students and early-career scientists in fast and cheap computing of the related data. The credit of making this achievement should incidentally go to Scarle’s intelligence in two different fields – software engineer in the gaming industry and performing electro-cardio dynamics research at the University of Sheffield in England. It seems that in the near future, computer science is going to help doctors in a myriad of ways.