Describing the Elephant: The Different Faces of IT as Service
FSF Looking to Raise $500,000 for GPL 3 Evangelizing
Free Software Foundation (FSF) executive director Peter Brown said yesterday that his organization has received its first funding to raise awareness of and stimulate interest in the next version of the General Public License, GPL Version 3. Brown noted in an interview that FSF ...
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Report Attacks Europe's Poor Record in Information Technology
A new report from Indepen Consultants in Britain attributes the last 10 years' economic erosion in Europe to policies that constrain the productive employment of information and communications technology. The report finds that ICT contributed nearly three times as much to annual growth in U.S. ...
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'Six Degrees of Separation' Theory Explained in New Algorithm by UMass Amherst Researchers
University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have developed an algorithm that helps explain the sociological underpinnings of the "six degrees of separation" theory, and which could be applied to ad-hoc wireless networks, peer-to-peer file sharing networks, the World Wide Web, and other ...
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Pushing Girls Toward Science
A report from the National Science Foundation estimates that in 2001, 35% of the students enrolled in undergraduate physics, computer science, and math classes and 16% of those enrolled in undergraduate engineering classes were female. Meanwhile, women comprised less than 10% ...
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Bug Hunters, Software Firms in Uneasy Alliance
The "responsible disclosure" of security flaws can be a contentious issue between software firms and security researchers. Researchers who do not comply with Microsoft's disclosure guidelines and publicly expose a bug in detail before it is fixed can get into trouble, but independent security ...
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Tiny Sensors Run Forever (Almost)
Several technologies for transmitting information wirelessly over unlicensed radio spectrum are targeting consumers, but supporters of the ZigBee specification say the technology is better than rivals such as radio frequency identification (RFID) and Wi-Fi in certain instances thanks to ...
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Unions Step Up Organizing of IT Workers, Outsourcing Fight
The growing trend of offshoring and a generally gloomy perception of the IT labor market has unions increasingly aiming their organizing efforts at technology professionals. A union-supported survey identified a "growing pessimism" in the IT landscape, citing the export of jobs overseas and the ...
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Man Against Machine
University of Texas at Austin researchers Uli Grasemann and Risto Miikkulainen applied a genetic algorithm to the development of a program that can digitally enhance images of fingerprints better than the FBI's WSQ fingerprint image compression program, according to the National Science ...
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PCs Could Make In-Dash Splash
Touch-screen computers are expected to be incorporated into next-generation cars as PC enthusiasts penetrate the market. Damien Stolarz, author of
Car PC Hacks," says interest in car PCs is growing thanks to the affordability of computers. He adds that "the market is educated enough" ...
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Sending Out an SOS: HPCC Rescue Coming
The annual SOS Forum is designed to encourage multinational collaboration on investigations into new avenues of high-performance cluster computing (HPCC). The most recent SOS Forum focused on how supercomputers will nurture future scientific breakthroughs, with particular emphasis on the ...
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Chaos to Rule Internet in 2010
Swinburne University of Technology professor Trevor Barr presented the Smart Internet 2010 report on Sept. 1, which predicted that in five years the Internet will be thrown into anarchy by the unchecked proliferation of malware, spam, and fraudulent email. The report, which came out of ...
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A World of IT Opportunities
After big declines in the technology industry early in the decade, the demand for IT professionals is on the rise again. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a lower rate of unemployment among IT workers than the rate for the general economy, while a Robert Half report has found that 14% ...
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Tech 'Computer Boot Camp' May Be First of Its Kind
The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology is launching a novel program for its freshmen to teach them how to build a PC from scratch. The program is modeled after a graduate course astrophysics professor David Westpfahl has been teaching since 1997, and the components for constructing ...
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Fiber-Optic Research Net Gains Steam
National Lambdarail (NLR) is a nationwide fiber-optic network oriented toward advanced network technology research, one that offers more dedicated capacity than other networks; this is accomplished through the use of dense wavelength division multiplexing that delivers as many as 40 simultaneous ...
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United States Facing Cyber Security Crisis, Experts Tell Capitol Hill Briefing
Experts such as MIT professor F. Thomson Leighton and Purdue University professor Eugene Spafford painted a bleak picture of U.S. cybersecurity at the July 26 Forum on Cybersecurity on Capitol Hill. Leighton, a senior member of the recently disbanded President's Information Technology ...
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On the Frontier of Search
The search engines of the future will be modeled more on sophisticated patterns of human thought than impersonal statistics and algorithms; smarter, more customized searches will produce results based on an individual's preferences and interests, rendering obsolete today's methods ...
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Not the Internet You Know
To address the growing need for fast networks capable of transmitting vast amounts of information in the scientific community, networking researchers are working to create a faster offshoot of the existing Internet2 limited to academic applications. The project, Hybrid Optical and Packet ...
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GIS Unshackled
The emergence of open source GIS tools and public Web Mapping Service (WMS)/Web Feature Service (WFS) data resources will provide a strong foundation upon which flexible, specialized Web interfaces to GIS functionality can be built. Open source database projects particularly ...
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Describing the Elephant: The Different Faces of IT as Service
The enterprise IT environment's transition to distributed, low-cost, and frequently heterogeneous collections of servers has fragmented the architecture into segregated silos, and reintegration must take place so that the new environment can support the advantages of vertical decoupling ...
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