Imagine a living environment where elderly people can activate robots to perform routine tasks around the house by voice recognition.This futuristic idea is exactly what faculty and student researchers in the computer science department are working on in collaboration with University of Texas at Arlington researchers.

On a $140,000 grant by the National Science Foundation, the Smart Home, an ongoing area of research in artificial intelligence, was created three years ago in the Sid Richardson Building, said Richard Rinewalt, chairman of the computer science department.

Offensive firepower has been the focus of most of the talk surrounding the Frogs this year, but in Saturday's 33-6 title-clinching win over Colorado State, the defense stole the show. "We just have a fast defense," said senior defensive tackle Ranorris Ray. "Tonight was a real good showing. We played smash-mouth and flew around to the ball at the same time, and that caused a lot of problems for the offense."

The win over the second-place Rams locked up a championship for TCU in its first season in the Mountain West Conference.

This season, everyone in the Mountain West Conference has been waiting for something. Something that everyone was sure would happen week after week. And the more weeks that passed, the more sure everyone became that it would eventually happen.But everyone is still waiting. TCU is still undefeated in the Mountain West.

And, even an SMU-like loss to lowly Nevada-Las Vegas can't take away the Frogs' conference championship.

I don't really have a problem with the original skepticism. TCU was coming off a subpar season and entering a much more competitive conference.

These days, Microsoft Office is essential. As much as I hate to give any credit to the world's largest software manufacturer, without Word, Excel and PowerPoint, it is incredibly difficult to be productive.And...

The TCU men's and women's swimming and diving teams competed this weekend in meets against Air Force and Nevada-Las Vegas at the University Recreation Center.The women's team defeated the Falcons 143-91, but the men's team lost 121-120. The women improved to 2-1 in conference play, and the men dropped to 0-2.

The women won 11 of the 13 events. Senior diver Kelly Seely broke the record in the 3-meter diving event with a 6-score of 322.28.

The Horned Frogs play Colorado State on Saturday with a chance to do what no TCU football team has done in almost 50 years-: win an outright conference championship."I told the guys that they have a chance to do things that teams with LaDainian Tomlinson couldn't get done," said head football coach Gary Patterson. "You have a chance to do things that teams with Aaron Schobel, with Bo Schobel, couldn't get done."