The Sensor Web: A Distributed, Wireless Monitoring System
Supercomputer Hacks Highlight Ed Security Challenge
Under pressure from government regulations, increased user demands, Internet-borne attacks, and even legal threats from the private sector, universities are turning to advanced security technologies such as intrusion prevention systems. Universities have historically tried to ...
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Weighing the Results of PC Recycling
Next month Dell plans to publicly disclose its goal to boost the amount of hardware it recycles by 50 percent by weight of materials collected, which could spur more PC recycling as well as set up a common recycling metric for the computer industry in general. Another benefit of such a plan would ...
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Segway Battlefield Applications Explored
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has sent at least 15 modified Segway Human Transporters to researchers at MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, NASA, the Neurosciences Institute, and elsewhere with the goal of developing them into thinking, reasoning ...
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FTC to Look Closer at 'Spyware'
Privacy advocates are in a furor over "spyware" and "adware" that is often installed on Windows PCs in many popular programs--free music and file-sharing programs, for example--users download off the Internet, sometimes without the user's awareness. The FTC will investigate the ...
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Making Software Customisation a Commodity
A new open-source software development platform allows organizations to more effectively manage variants of open-source applications. Whereas version management software allows companies to keep track of and manage different versions of a vendor product, they do not adequately address the ...
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Could Open Source Elections Close Out Hanging Chads?
Electronic voting systems based on open-source software are a better alternative to those using closed-source proprietary software, according to many computer experts. A local government in Ontario recently used a Linux-based system in its elections that was developed by the local firm ...
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New Web Protocol May Leave DSL in the Dust
North Carolina State University computer science researchers boast that current high-speed digital subscriber line (DSL) connections are positively "lethargic" compared to Internet connections using binary increase congestion transmission control protocol (BIC-TCP). NCSU's Jon Pishney ...
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Testing Times for Women in IT
Information technology testing has become an increasingly attractive area of the IT profession for women. Five years ago, females accounted for just five percent of IT testers, but today they represent more than one-third. Now, according to Vizuri, a risk management and recruitment company, if ...
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Making the World Safe for Free Software
Daniel Egger, a partner at the venture capital firm Eno River Capital, wants to establish the legality of Linux so that his startup firm Open Source Risk Management can begin to offer insurance protection for users of the open source operating system. Egger's efforts are a response to the ...
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Internet Governance Debate Heats Up
The process by which the Internet will be governed in the future has become a hot topic, generating plenty of debate in political and industry circles alike. Some countries are arguing that governments should play a bigger role in overseeing operational aspects of the Internet such as the ...
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A Voting Revolution in India?
India expects to stop election fraud, cut costs, accelerate the electoral process, and boost voter turnout from 60 percent to 70 percent by deploying $200 electronic voting machines that are simple and easy to use. Voters use a keyboard to enter their choice by pushing a button next to the name ...
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Testing 101: AWOL on the College Campus
Few college and university computer science curricula include testing for quality, which is a vital ingredient in software development, according to industry experts. Go Pro Management President Robin Goldsmith maintains that college curricula overemphasize people and project management, leaving ...
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The Makings of a Do-It-Yourself Supercomputer
The Flashmob1 supercomputing project at the University of San Francisco drew hundreds of computer enthusiasts together in an attempt to build one of the world's fastest computers in just one day. While the goal to break into the Top 500 supercomputing list was not met, the participants did ...
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Happy Memories
Motorola has given other electronic manufacturers prototypes of a chip to evaluate that could one day start a PC instantly, power batteries all day, never lose data, and operate at high speed. The magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) chip is the same technology Motorola demonstrated last ...
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Spam to Go
Spam is invading text messaging, with the volume of spam text messages originating in North America outstripping legitimate messages last year, according to messaging firm Wireless Services. The European Union, Japan, South Korea, and California have all passed laws to try to stem the tide, ...
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Paint the Light Fantastic
Animating organic objects--clouds, trees, hair, fire, skin, and the like--in a computer is a tough challenge, since even an untrained eye can usually see through the artifice, often in a single glance. The two key components of computer modeling are the object's shape and the way light ...
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The Sensor Web: A Distributed, Wireless Monitoring System
The NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Sensor Web Project was designed as an instrument made up of multiple sensor platforms or pods that share information among themselves and perform as a single unit for the purposes of environmental monitoring and/or control. A Sensor Web pod is comprised ...
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