How to Hook Worms
Student Interest in Computer Science Plummets
Student interest in computer science has dwindled over the last several years, which gives technology companies and scientific researchers cause for worry; tech firms cannot maintain their competitiveness without IT professionals, while researchers say they would be hard pressed to solve ...
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Giving Innovation a Boost
The Distributed Innovation and Scalable Collaboration in Uncertain Settings (DISCUS) tool developed by researchers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL) is designed to enable creativity, innovation, and ...
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Innovative Curriculum Helps Blind Students Get Start in Computer Science Studies
Saint Mary's University and Winona State University (WSU) coordinate the Computer Science Curriculum Accessibility Program (CSCAP), an effort to help visually impaired students pursue computer science careers that was initially funded by a $450,000 National Science Foundation grant. The ...
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NCSA Shows Off Its Latest Technologies
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) showcased its ongoing research to partners and prospective partners at the Private Sector Program meeting this month. NCSA researcher Alan Craig described a new Internet search application called VIAS that enables users to easily narrow ...
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'Madagascar' Pushes Tech Limits
DreamWorks Animation's upcoming film "Madagascar" depicts many colorful furry animals, but rendering such creatures in a believable way--and in large groups--was a challenge for animators. Computing power breakthroughs helped them meet this challenge, and have also helped computer animation ...
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Next for BitTorrent: Search
BitTorrent is preparing a new search function for its open-source BitTorrent software that will make it much easier to find and manage downloads, but the free search tool could invite a lawsuit from the movie industry. The new search engine is offered in partnership with Ask Jeeves, ...
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Wouldn't It Be Nice...
Asked what kinds of technologies and innovations they would like to see, tech pioneers, inventors, and trend observers responded with a wealth of gadgets. Gizmodo.com editor Joel Johnson envisions a music player that allows users to exchange songs between devices, while the introduction of ...
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The Grand Convergence in 2010
By the end of the decade, increasing connectivity, ambient intelligence, and more mature semantic technologies will enable powerful new opportunities similar to that brought on by the Web, according to IT research firm Gartner. Though predictions of disruptive technologies are ...
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New Cornell Institute Will Apply Artificial Intelligence to Decision Making and Data Searches
Cornell University's new Intelligent Information Systems Institute shows how far the university has come in its involvement in artificial intelligence, which was nonexistent on the campus not too long ago. The institute is the result of a $5 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Air ...
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Hacking the Grid
The U.S. power grid is vulnerable to hackers because the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems the grid relies on have become susceptible as a result of control system standardization brought on by industry consolidation; power companies' linkage of business computers to ...
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The Sociology of Interfaces
Korean and Finnish university researchers have conducted a new study into how cultural differences influence computer interface requirements, focusing on how Korean, Japanese, and Finnish people responded to different mobile data services and how those responses matched cultural aspects. The ...
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Confronting the Reality of Web Services
Harvard Business School professor Andrew McAfee said in the Winter 2005 edition of MIT Sloan Management Review that common standards must be better integrated if Web services are to deliver their promised advantages in terms of communication exchanges and data-sharing. In an interview, McAfee ...
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E-Records R&D Gets Grants
The Library of Congress and the National Science Foundation have announced the winners of $2.8 million in federal grants for research in digital preservation, with results expected from those projects one year from now. The money was made available through a congressionally funded digital ...
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A Robot in Your Future?
Speakers at last week's RoboBusiness Conference expressed dismay that commercial robot products are paltry and for the most part impractical. Putting aside recent innovations such as the entertainment-themed Robosapien and the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, robotics pioneer Joe ...
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Particle Smasher Gets a Super-Brain
Once it is fully up and running in late 2007, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is expected to generate 15 million GB of data annually, and a distributed computing architecture will be used to store and analyze the data. The LHC will operate for 10 to 15 years, performing experiments to ...
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Processing for Science
Virtual supercomputer projects are starting to proliferate thanks in large part to the increase in distributed-computing platforms that are able to host multiple projects. The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC), the host of SETI@home, Einstein@home, and ...
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Linux in the Datacenter
Vesta senior IVR programmer Tony Mancill writes that the maturation of the open-source Linux operating system, along with that of traditional hardware platforms and commercial software, is a positive development because it makes any of the three OSes suitable options for the majority of IT ...
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How to Hook Worms
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory research scientists James Riordan, Andreas Wespi, and Diego Zamboni detail an intrusion-detection system designed to specifically target computer worms, which Mi2g says were partly responsible for more than $68 billion in damages in February 2004 alone. The majority ...
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