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By Deborah
September 19, 2006 - 6:18 PM

While "the 'CSI' effect" makes it harder for law enforcement to gain convictions as juries develop unrealistic expectations about the accuracy of forensic science, there is one field of forensics that seems to be benfitting from all the attention -- forensic computing. Brian Karney, director of product management at forensic computing specialist Guidance Software, insists CSI has given the company a valuable marketing boost. "I can just tell people that when you get to the scene in the show where they send the suspect's hard drive off for checking and then it comes back with the evidence - that's forensic computing." For the full story, head over to whatpc.co.uk.
Thanks to CSI, forensic science has grown in popularity. Union High School has an elective course called "Hollywood Science." Now in its second year, with enrollment of 60 students, the course allows students to apply their knowlkedge of science to analize Hollywood movies, like using a physics equation to caluclate the speed and distance of a falling object in a movie. To read more about this interesting course, see the Union Leader.
A new series called Kidnapped will soon go up against CSI:New York. The new series stars Timothy Hutton and Dana Delaney as wealthy parents of three privileged children, one of whom is kidnapped during a smartly executed traffic manuever. To read all about it, visit Reuters.

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