Pervasive Computing in Sports Technologies
"Technology Experts Help Colleges in the Gulf Region to Get Back Online Since the Hurricanes"
The hurricanes that swept through the Gulf Coast region inflicted significant damage on the technological infrastructure powering the area's colleges and universities. Many schools around the country have dispatched technology experts to the region to help restore Internet access, which ...
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"At Microsoft, Interlopers Sound off on Security"
Microsoft recently held its second Blue Hat conference, where a small group of independent security researchers are invited to the company's Redmond, Wash., headquarters to share details of their work exposing vulnerabilities in Microsoft's programs. The conference, held last week, comes after a ...
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"Linux Calling: Are Cell Phones Ready?"
The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) is launching an endeavor to bring Linux to mobile phones. Aimed at broadening the scope of the open source community, the Mobile Linux Initiative will attempt to improve the operating system to meet the demands of mobile phone applications. OSDL ...
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"Behind Artificial Intelligence, a Squadron of Bright Real People"
That five robots completed the 132-mile course through the Nevada desert last weekend constituted a major victory for artificial intelligence, a field that has long been beset by disappointment and the failure to live up to its expectations. Guided only by GPS tracking, the winning entry came ...
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"Ready for High-Tech Progress?"
At Howard University last week, Bill Gates concluded his campus tour where he outlined his vision of the future of technology in an effort to stimulate interest among college students in computer science. The new breed of technology will be enabled by omnipresent wireless connections, ...
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"Techies: They're Everywhere"
A recent survey seeking to identify where the most technologically savvy residents live in the United States found that it is a diverse group spanning across conventional boundaries of age, gender, income, and location. Early adopters are found in every county across the country, ...
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"The Tricky Art of Program Testing"
The pressure to bring a software program to market on time and under budget confounds the already difficult task of testing for logic flaws. Often it is useful to enlist the aid of someone who is familiar with the system but who was not directly involved in the programming to help test the ...
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"Super-Smart USB Card Delivers Rich Multimedia Content"
To meet the growing demand for multimedia content and interactive television, the IST program FULL SPEED has created a high-throughput platform offering smartcard connectivity through the channel USB 2.0. Using FULL SPEED, smartcard applications such as Pay TV and on-stream data ...
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"EU Says Internet Could Fall Apart"
The future of the Internet may be up for grabs at the World Summit on the Information Society, scheduled for Nov. 16-18 in Tunis, with the United States once again at odds with the rest of the world, this time over Internet governance and control of the Domain Name System, currently ...
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"How We Choose the Words We Do"
Luc Steels of the Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris and his colleagues have used the simple "naming game" computer model to display the process of how a new thing acquires a name. For example, the emergence of unwanted email resulted in terms such as unsolicited email and junk mail to describe ...
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"Untangling a Web"
The Internet should be able to adapt if its busiest routers were to go down, according to a new mathematical model of the Internet by John Doyle of the California Institute of Technology and his colleagues. Doyle and his team have mapped the Internet using the HOT (highly optimized ...
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"No Pause to Refresh: More Robust Web Apps"
To address the browser limitations that detract from the Internet user's experience, an emerging group of rich Internet tools is appearing to preserve the interactive qualities and rich content features in applications accessed through a client. Their goal is to dispense with the ...
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"Teaching With Tech"
U.S. colleges and universities are eagerly implementing and experimenting with new technologies to enhance the learning experience, although many students and faculty are concerned that such tools provide more opportunities for distraction than study. Theoretically, advanced ...
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"US Still World's Top Spammer"
In a recent report, security vendor Sophos determined that about 26 percent of worldwide spam originated within the United States, which is down from 42 percent in 2004. The reason for the drop, according to Sophos senior technology consultant Graham Cluley, is more effective prevention methods ...
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"802.11n or UWB?"
Ultra-Wideband (UWB) and IEEE 802.11n are vying to become the standard wireless interface for home digital equipment, and both are supported as industry standards by multiple competing organizations. With a coverage radius of 200 meters, 11n is the most probable candidate for the home ...
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"TR 35"
Among Technology Review's 35 top innovators under the age of 35 are Stewart Butterfield, whose Flickr photo-sharing site enables users to make their photo collections searchable by content; University of Toronto professor Parham Aarabi, who has enhanced computers' listening facilities through an ...
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"Pervasive Computing in Sports Technologies"
The enhancement of sports by ubiquitous computing technologies is a fascinating trend, and researchers are concentrating on the application of such technologies to athletic performance, leisure and entertainment, and game rules. Equipment augmentation and unique performance measurement and ...
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