The God Particle and the Grid
More Cash Flowing to Robotics Research
Robotics research is taking off thanks to technological advances and renewed interest from the federal government. While core supporters have consistently pushed robotics forward in the past, the field is generating a lot of publicity with recent military action. The Defense Department is ...
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Smart Net Drops PCs, Keyboard, and Mouse
Australian researchers are working to integrate technology with social and behavioral research, including software that allows groups of people to collaborate digitally without the use of keyboard, mouse, or traditional computer. Called Project Nightingale, the effort is backed by the Smart ...
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In the Trenches With Antivirus Guru Mikko Hypponen
F-Secure director of antivirus research Mikko Hypponen is one of the best virus hunters, a type of researcher that is fairly obscure. Hypponen has been working in computer security for 13 years, and says that his assembly language skills have come in handy in reverse-engineering viruses. ...
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Spamhaus Proposal Aims to Stop Spam
Anti-spam organization Spamhaus has submitted an application to ICANN for a .mail top-level domain name in the belief that its proposed
server-to-server" scheme can prevent spam from reaching email servers. The Spamhaus server-to-server approach is a seamless arrangement that works ...
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The Pure Software Act of 2006
Spyware is perhaps more insidious than other malware such as viruses and worms, since it mixes commerce and deception in a way morally abhorrent to most computer users, writes Simson Garfinkel. While viruses and worms are clearly illegal, spyware that tracks users' online activity and computer ...
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Email Attack Could Kill Servers
Computer security experts at NGSSoftware have discovered a way to disable email servers by using forged emails with thousands of incorrect addresses in the "copy to" field. The researchers found that sending these emails to large email servers ricocheted enormous quantities of unwanted email back ...
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ENUM Still Stalled in US
Despite its technological feasibility and the endorsement of the U.S. government in February 2003, the ENUM standard for telephone numbers used over the Internet has yet to be implemented in the United States due to a number of concerns. Insiders generally agree that ENUM will be a crucial ...
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Group Suggests 25 Ways to Improve IT Security
The Corporate Information Security Working Group released a report this week that says to improve government and private sector cybersecurity, new legislation, insurance changes, and public outreach efforts are needed. The group, consisting of academic and industry members, has offered 25 ...
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Here There Be Data: Mapping the Landscape of Science
Researchers from a number of different fields are working to map the entire scientific landscape using computers. Nearly 20 articles recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describe different aspects of this effort which would benefit not only scientific ...
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Swiss Diplomat Leads Debate Over Policing the Web
At the behest of United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, Swiss diplomat Markus Kummer will help shape the international discussions on Internet governance that are expected to be held at the second World Summit on the Information Society in 2005. Kummer says he plans to create a ...
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Rajan's Spirit
NASA is using MAPGEN (Mixed-Initiative Activity Plan GENerator) to instruct the Mars Exploration Rovers on what maneuvers and scientific tasks to perform each day on Mars. MAPGEN is able to automatically create conflict-free plans and schedules for science and engineering activities; ...
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Photo Recognition Software Gives Location
Researchers at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom have developed software that can recognize photographed buildings nearby, determine your location, and then provide you with directions to your destination. Roberto Cipolla and Duncan Robertson envision cell phone ...
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International Report: Taiwan
China and Taiwan are moving to join the International Commons (iCommons) project of Creative Commons (CC), a nonprofit group that is giving content creators an opportunity to place their work in the public domain without losing control over how others use their copyrighted material. The ...
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Ease-of-Use Equals Use
User-centered user-interface development (UCUID) is a process whereby user interfaces and their components are fleshed out through careful planning, research, analysis, design, deployment, evaluation, training, and maintenance according to usability principles to ensure that products and ...
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Into Thin Air
Supporters claim that offshore outsourcing is crucial to the continued competitiveness of the United States in the global economy, leading to productivity boosts, lower prices, and increased demand for U.S. goods. The accuracy of this projection is of little comfort to American ...
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Security Patching: Easy As 1-2-3
Network managers will have a much easier job protecting Web applications if two new security protocols automate vulnerability description, assessment, and patching. However, the XML-based Application Vulnerability Description Language (AVDL) and Web Application Security (WAS) standards are not being ...
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The God Particle and the Grid
Once it is up and running in 2007, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland could generate a peak rate of 10 petabytes of data annually in its search for the elusive Higgs boson, or God particle. Processing that data is the job of the LHC computing grid, a virtual network of clustered ...
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