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Sunday, 11. January 2009, 06:49:52
Professional, Investment
Have you ever wished you could give up your job to live life on your own terms, without having any money troubles? Do you find that your expenses increase by geometric progression, while your yearly raise and bonus increases by arithmetic progression?
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Sunday, 15. November 2009, 10:31:33
Programming Language, Google, Go
INTRO : Google has unveiled Go, a new programming language the company says offers the speed of working in a dynamic language such as Python and the performance and safety of a compiled language such as C or C++. Go is a language for systems programming with support for multi-processing, a fresh and lightweight take on object-oriented design, plus some cool features like true closures and reflection. However, Google is not using the experimental language internally for production systems. Instead, Google is conducting experiments with Go as a candidate server environment. The Go project was conceived to make it easier to write the kind of servers and other software Google uses internally, but the implementation isn't quite mature enough yet for large-scale production use. With Go, developers should find builds to be spontaneous.Read more...
Saturday, 14. November 2009, 05:17:26
Fastest algorithm, Prime number
Manindra Agrawal, an Indian professor who developed a deterministic polynomial time algorithm for detecting prime numbers, will receive the 2009 G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research. Agrawal, a professor at IIT Kanpur who also heads its department of computer science and engineering, has conducted pioneering research on theories of computation and algorithms. The award was created to honor significant achievements made by young Indian scientists, and comes with a cash prize. The deterministic polynomial time algorithm enabled Agrawal to solve a problem that has stymied mathematicians for nearly 200 years. "It is faster than other existing solutions and is foolproof," Agrawal says.Read more...
Saturday, 10. October 2009, 08:19:36
B2B, University of Southampton, BCI, EEG
INTRO : The University of Southampton's Institute of Sound and Vibration Research has carried out an experiment that pushes brain-computer interfacing (BCI) one step closer to brain-to-brain communication (B2B). BCI makes it possible for humans to send commands using their thoughts to computers, robots, rehabilitation technology, and virtual reality programs. Lead study author Christopher James asked a participant linked to an electroencephalogram (EEG) amplifier to use BCI to send binary digits over the internet. The first volunteer pictured moving the left arm for zero and the right arm for one. The numbers were then received by a computer being used by a second volunteer who also was connected to an EEG. Next, the computer used BCI to send the digits to a second volunteer, flashing a light-emitting diode lamp to transfer them directly to the person's brain. The second participant's brain activity was interpreted by the computer to check if the right numbers were received.Read more...
Monday, 21. September 2009, 07:16:42
Magazine, Fast flip, Google, News
INTRO : Google Fast Flip is a new service designed to make it easier for users to read newspaper and magazine articles by facilitating the viewing of articles from dozens of major publishers. Readers can flip through the articles as rapidly as they would the pages of a magazine. Browsing news on the Web is much slower than it is in print. When it is fast, people will look at more news and more ads, and that's something that publishers want to see. Fast Flip first manifests itself as a cluster of images of articles Google has compiled from the sites of its partners, displayed side by side and ranked by popularity. The article images are stripped down for fast loading, and readers can zoom into a particular section, publication, or article, as well as go directly to the publisher's Web site by clicking on the article.Fast Flip will use many Web features, and rank articles based on a combination of Google algorithms and user behavior.Read more...
Sunday, 13. September 2009, 03:30:20
H1N1, iPhone, Health Map, Children's Hospital Boston
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INTRO : Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab have created Outbreaks Near Me, an iPhone application that enables users to chart worldwide reports of infectious diseases in real time. The app uses data from the HealthMap, a Web site that gleans information from both official and unofficial online resources, including newspaper Web sites, public health alerts, and blogs. Each resource is posted as a link on its interactive world map. Outbreaks Near Me allows users to submit new data and photographs to the HealthMap. After being approved by managers of HealthMap, the users' alerts are posted onto the map as well. The software also can be set to alert users when new outbreaks are reported in their area or if they are entering an area with reported outbreaks. As people are equipped with more knowledge and awareness of infectious disease, the hope is that they will become more involved and proactive about public health.Read more...
Tuesday, 18. August 2009, 17:53:25
ISP, Malware, University of North Carolina
INTRO : A system that fights highly infectious computer viruses by embedding defense mechanisms in key parts of the Internet has been developed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researcher Scott Coull and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor Boleslaw Szymanski. The modus operandi of computer worm infection is malware scanning the Internet for vulnerable computers and transferring itself to those systems. Coull and Szymanski say the isolation of worms entails coaxing the Internet's core computers or autonomous systems to collaborate, and each system is managed by an Internet service provider (ISP). In their model, the researchers imbued each system with the ability to spot a compromised computer, which may announce itself by making a series of random requests to link to other computers, the majority of which will fail.Read more...
Tuesday, 18. August 2009, 17:40:44
ACM, Microsoft, Anonymous attacks, HostTracker
INTRO : In a paper that will be presented at ACM SIGCOMM 2009, which takes place Aug. 17-21 in Barcelona, Spain, Microsoft researchers will demonstrate HostTracker, software that removes the anonymity from malicious Internet activity. The researchers were able to identify the machines responsible for anonymous attacks, even when the host's IP address rapidly changed. The researchers say HostTracker could lead to better defenses against online attacks and spam campaigns. For example, security firms could create a clearer picture of which Internet hosts should be blocked from sending traffic to their clients, and cybercriminals would have a more difficult time disguising their activities as legitimate communications. The researchers analyzed a month's worth of data collected from a large email service provider to attempt to determine users responsible for sending spam.Read more...
Tuesday, 18. August 2009, 17:29:19
AutoMap, National ICT Australia, Linux, GPS
INTRO : National ICT Australia has developed AutoMap, a Linux-based system designed to make personal navigation systems more accurate. AutoMap uses machine-vision techniques to detect and classify geometric shapes from video footage, including shapes such as signs and company logos, which can change frequently in a neighborhood and make it difficult for digital map makers to keep their projects up to date. AutoMap project leader Lars Petersson says an average of 10 percent to 15 percent of street signs in an area will change every year. He says mapping companies currently employ someone to drive up and down each street in a van equipped with five or six cameras, with a passenger making annotations. Collected footage is then examined frame by frame to determine the location of signs. Petersson says this manual task frequently results in numerous mistakes.Read more...
Tuesday, 18. August 2009, 17:22:55
DOE, ESnet, OSCARS, Ethernet
INTRO : The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been awarded $62 million through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to develop what it says will be the world's fastest computer network. The lab will use the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) to build a prototype 100 Gbps Ethernet network to connect DOE supercomputer centers at speeds 10 times faster than today's ESnet. ESnet currently serves an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 DOE researchers and more than 18,000 non-DOE researchers from universities, government agencies, and private industry.This network will serve as a pilot for a future network-wide deployment of 100 Gbps Ethernet in research and commercial networks and represents a major step toward DOE's vision of a 1-terabit--1,000 times faster than 1 gigabit--network interconnecting DOE Office of Science supercomputer centers.Read more...
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