The Intelligent Internet
Can Software Kill You?
Faulty software is becoming a larger concern now that computers are involved in nearly every aspect of people's lives. Bad code can even lead to deaths in some cases, such as at the National Cancer Institute in Panama, where 21 patients died in 2000 due to radiotherapy overdose, caused ...
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Hackers Strike Advanced Computing Networks
A number of hackers have compromised U.S. research computing laboratories and networks in the past weeks, doing little damage but raising fears that hugely disruptive attacks are possible. Much like a Canadian teenager used University of California, Santa Barbara supercomputers to knock out ...
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DRC Investigation Finds Public Websites 'Impossible' for Disabled People
The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) in the United Kingdom has condemned Web developers and online companies for throwing up the same barriers to access for disabled people as exist in the physical world. The results of the study and the DRC's recommendations show that the Web could be made ...
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Making Software Systems Evolve
The IST is pursuing a project that would make software evolvable, enabling an organization to change its support software without disrupting the operation of the business. Participants in the ARCHWARE project, which will be completed by year end, want to establish a formal architectural ...
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Blogs: Here to Stay--With Changes
Estimates put the number of blogs on the Web at 2 million while recent research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project says 11 percent of Americans have read one. Experts say the cultural influence of blogs is significant, but has not reached its full potential. Blog pioneer Dave ...
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Researchers Awarded $2 Million to Create High-Tech Tools for Fighting Wildfires
University and government researchers are collaborating to create a complex simulation and sensor system that will help predict the behavior of wildfires quickly. The planned system involves sensors placed around a wildfire that take in data such as temperature, wind direction and speed, ...
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NASA Gives Mars Rovers Software Upgrade
NASA completed a software upgrade for both Mars rovers on Tuesday that should make their computer systems more reliable and enable the robots to travel farther across the red planet. NASA began sending the Spirit rover's new flight code on Thursday and the Opportunity rover's new code on ...
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Friend or Foe? A Digital Dog Tag Beams the Answer
The U.S. military is working on new battlefield identification technology that promises to cut down on friendly-fire incidents. In the Persian Gulf war in 1991, 24 percent of American casualties were caused by mistaken attacks, but Army combat identification researcher Pete Glikerdas says the ...
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Computer Science Degree Still Leads to Employment
Stu Zweben, chair of the Ohio State University Department of Computer Science and Engineering, says the reason fewer undergraduates are majoring in computer science is broader than the outsourcing of jobs overseas. In addition to the poor job market, Zweben says many students are pursuing ...
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Government, Firms Unveil Cybersecurity Framework
A corporate security task force formed by the IT industry and the Homeland Security Department has published a report that provides a framework for security governance. The framework, which says that information security is a fiduciary responsibility for CEOs, uses existing federal and ...
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Major Network Project, Partnership
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the National LambdaRail (NLR) have agreed to share resources, creating one of the most advanced environments for computationally intensive science and network research. NLR focuses on high-speed research networks shared ...
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The Changing Face of Open Source
The open source community continues to conjure up the image of programmers working on a project in their own spare time, but since the mid 1990s much of the code writing has been carried out by developers who work for IT shops. In fact, many programmers involved in open source projects today ...
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Sturdy Quantum Computing Demoed
Quantum computing uses the quantum states of particles as the basis for computer logic, but those states can be erased by the slightest interference from light, heat, or magnetism. Researchers at the University of Toronto have created a method for protecting quantum computing ...
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IETF to Lead Anti-Spam Crusade
The Internet Engineering Task Force is tacking the issue of email authentication standards with a new, high-profile working group called MARID. The name comes from the group's task: to build message transfer agent (MTA) authorization records in DNS. The end-solution will not ...
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Logic From Chaos?
Dr. William Ditto of the University of Florida believes that harnessing chaos is another way to make a powerful computer. In March, Dr. Ditto spoke during the annual conference of the American Physical Society about his efforts to base a computer on the mathematical idea of chaos, in which ...
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Network of Traffic Spies Built Into Cars in Atlanta
Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have scored a significant advancement in traffic analysis by developing Global Positioning System (GPS) -enabled monitoring devices for automobiles. The monitoring devices, which are connected to the speedometers of older cars and onboard ...
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The Intelligent Internet
According to George Washington University's TechCast forecasts, 20 commercial areas of Internet use should achieve 30 percent "take-off" adoption levels in the latter half of the current decade, while a new generation of intelligent systems will emerge in parallel with these trends ...
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