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Researchers Reveal Holes in Grid
Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and Lincoln Laboratory published a paper last week detailing how a simple computer worm could trigger a cascade failure in a grid or cluster environment by exploiting a vulnerability in the Secure Shell (SSH) remote ...
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Tech Firms Reach Out for Research
Universities are taking on the role of research and development centers for U.S. technology companies that must increasingly face the realities of budget cuts and consolidation. Next-generation technologies are under development at facilities such as the University of Minnesota's Digital ...
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Hey Google, Map This!
Google Maps, Google's online map service, is being enhanced by tech-savvy developers for various applications. 3D graphic artist Paul Rademacher's HousingMaps hack allows home and rental shoppers to find available apartments by melding craigslist real estate listings with city maps from ...
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Inventing Our Evolution
In his book, "Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies--and What It Means to Be Human," Joel Garreau notes that the interwoven fields of genetics, robotics, and nanotechnology are developing at an accelerated rate. He expects dramatic changes in human ...
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In War on Terrorism, New Cybersearch Tool Seeks Hidden Vulnerabilities
Researchers at the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a prototype search engine designed to extract "hidden" information from public Web sites as part of an initiative to predict and stop potential terrorist activities. The system, whose ...
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Strength in Numbers
Mobile Internet users are not likely to utilize search engines unless mobile operators can figure out how to deliver better results, says search engine personalization researcher and University College Dublin computer science head Barry Smyth. His group has created new technology that learns ...
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Language of Computer Hobbyists Hits the Big Time
Major software companies are adding support for scripting languages such as PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby: Oracle is expected to announce a partnership with Zend Technologies to extend support for PHP applications linking to its namesake database, while IBM formed a similar partnership with Zend for ...
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Digital Gizmos' Abilities Erupting
The convergence of computing, communications, and entertainment technologies is manifesting itself in new digital devices that enable entertainment to be played whenever, wherever, and however a consumer wants. This is an alarming prospect to an entertainment industry that ...
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Europe's $86 Billion Research Program to Create 925,000 Jobs, Says Report
The next collaborative research plan of the European Union would create nearly 1 million jobs, while ending EU support for research and development would result in the loss of about 800,000 jobs and a 0.84 percent decline in the GDP, according to an impact assessment by the European Commission. ...
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Address Policies
In November 2005, the World Summit on the Information Society will convene to discuss a number of topics related to Internet governance and resource management that national delegations and other interested parties have been working on for several years, writes Geoff Huston, Telstra's chief ...
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SIGGRAPH Animation Festival Hits High Notes
This year's SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival will focus on scientific visualization while the SIGGRAPH Papers segment features 98 papers accepted from a field of 461 submissions. The computer animation festival will show 67 pieces, including a strong international and student contribution, says ...
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The Dangers of a Stressed-Out, Overworked DNS
Top companies on the Internet are increasingly being plagued by domain name system (DNS) outages. One of the most notable examples of this occurred on May 7 when Google went offline for 15 minutes, leaving Gmail users and fans of Google News scrambling to find out what had happened. DNS outages have ...
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Instant Messaging Falls Prey to Worms
Instant messaging (IM) technology is fertile new ground for hackers, according to experts. In 2001, 141 million people were using IM applications, but that number has since grown to 863 million people, making IM-based hacks more appealing. Security experts had hoped that limited ...
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School Studies Effects of Internet Attacks
Iowa State University is using a new test laboratory to train students and local security professionals on cyberattacks and cyber-defense. The Internet Simulation Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE) is designed to recreate a cyberattack on any part of the Internet ...
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Black Boxes Capture Car-Crash Data, Controversy
Motor vehicle black boxes, or event-data recorders, are seen as a boon to many parties affected by car crashes. Event recording can be used by automobile manufacturers to assess system performance and vehicle design to make passengers safer; by insurance investigators to speed up accident ...
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Getting R&D Back on Track
The U.S. research community is shrinking away from the type of long-term research bets that created numerous industries, writes Johns Hopkins University President and Council on Competitiveness National Innovation Initiative co-chair William Brody. Though it has been well known that ...
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What CIOs Need From IT Schools
A corporate landscape with greater emphasis on technology is breeding demand for IT workers with strong business skills, but an October 2004 CIO Insight survey finds that most employers consider college graduates ill-prepared for the realities of business IT careers. Seventy-four ...
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Many voice communications technologies in use today are indebted to the pioneering work of James L. Flanagan, who will receive the 2005 IEEE Medal of Honor for his contributions. As a researcher at Bell Labs, Flanagan investigated vocoders based on formant frequencies and developed an ...
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