Crashproof Code
"Geeks Code for the Gold"
Athens, the site of this year's Olympic Games, is hosting a contest of another kind: The 16th annual International Olympiad in Informatics (http://olympiads.win.tue.nl/ioi/), where approximately 300 programmers from 80 nations are competing to see who can code the fastest through a ...
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"On Fed Payroll, Hackers Seek to Save America"
As part of the Homeland Security Department's attempts to fortify the country's defenses, the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) in August launched a new cybersecurity facility where hackers test the vulnerability of critical systems in an isolated ...
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"Help Wanted by IT Services Firms"
IT services companies such as IBM and Accenture are demanding employees with versatility and a wider range of skills, which means that unemployed professionals will need to obtain business training or experience in order to qualify for jobs as well as advancement. Analyst Marianne Hedin says ...
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"Expand Programming Skills or Lose Your Job, Consultant Warns"
Engineers and programmers could reduce the chances of losing their jobs to outsourcing by learning new programming skills and languages, advised Dan Saks today in his keynote speech at the Embedded Systems Conference. Strategies engineers and programmers could employ include seeking jobs ...
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"File-Sharing Leaps From Internet to Cellphones"
Researchers at the Nokia Research Center in Budapest have developed a peer-to-peer (P2P)-based mobile file-sharing network that was tested on 6600 model cellular phones. The prototype system functions on phones that link to GPRS networks, which are set up to make staying online inexpensive ...
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"Nevada's E-Vote Free of Serious Problems"
Nevada's e-voting program could serve as a model for other U.S. states, given the low incidence of problems that cropped up during the Sept. 7 primary. Although the election was not bug-free--power outages, damaged hardware, and glitchy software did cause data to be lost and results ...
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"Wireless Gets Up Close"
Consumer electronics heavies Sony and Philips have developed a new close-range wireless technology they hope will become the foundation for a number of authentication and electronic wallet applications. The Near Field Communications (NFC) standard is based on radio-frequency ...
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"OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt Talks Software Security"
OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt says the vast majority of software security holes are due to low-level programming errors that are copied and spread throughout many different applications. He says programming errors occur when the code author misuses program functions in seemingly insignificant ...
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"Wireless Care for Elderly and Disabled People"
Giving elderly and disabled people the means to contact carers in case of emergency while allowing carers to constantly know where their patients are is the reason behind LOCOMOTION, an IST project that combines global positioning system (GPS) technology with standard mobile phones. The GPS ...
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"Women Make Inroads in Video Game Industry"
Peter Raad with Southern Methodist University's Guildhall school of video game making estimates that women comprise less than 10 percent of all game developers, and says that it would be in the gaming industry's best interest to bring in more female developers. People such as Laura Fryer, ...
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"On the Sunny Side of Life?"
Internet researchers from about 30 countries gathered in Karlstad, Sweden, to debate the disparities, potential clashes, and cultural inconsistencies in cyberspace at the fourth conference on Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication. A major focus was on the origins of the ...
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"Coming to a Dashboard Near You"
Automakers are trying to simplify the features and control systems in cars, as they move from mechanical to digital systems; many of these improvements are targeted at older drivers who are not used to digital instrument panels and other computer technology. But experts say the ease-of-use features ...
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"Engineer Builds Robot That Walks on Water"
A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers led by NanoRobotics Lab director Metin Sitti has created a prototype robot that can skim across water by mimicking the actions of water striders and similar insects. The machine, which cost about $10 in materials to build and weighs about a ...
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"'Google-Mania' Ignites Search Technology"
Google's recent IPO highlights the increasing popularity of search technology: Enterprises are eager to use new search tools to help them leverage latent and incoming information, and are looking for a single search platform from which to launch searches into both structured and ...
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"World Looks to Reap IT Benefits"
The global potential of information technology will be a key topic of discussion at the semiannual meeting of the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) scheduled for late September in South Africa. Recently recruited WITSA members such as Senegal, Sri Lanka, and ...
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"Data Presentation: Tapping the Power of Visual Perception"
The mechanics of visual perception must be understood in order to effectively and efficiently present data, and key to that understanding is a clear determination of what does and does not work, and why. In his book, "Information Visualization: Perception for Design," Colin Ware ...
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"The New Rules"
Scott Ambler, author of "Agile Database Techniques," writes that data professionals should follow the example of software developers and adopt an agile, evolutionary approach to data modeling. The serial nature of data professionals' traditional development model makes updating the model ...
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"Crashproof Code"
Glitchy flight control software can make the difference between life and death for pilots flying supersonic planes, and research teams at Boeing and NASA must deal with the added difficulty of experimental active aeroelastic wing (AAW) technology, which could potentially yield more maneuverable and ...
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