Archive for May 27th, 2008
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NIST tool helps Internet master top-level domains
At the request of a worldwide Internet organization, a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed an algorithm that may guide applicants in proposing new top-level domains the last part of an Internet address, such as.com, that people type in navigating the Web. As new top-level domains are added to [...]
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Interactive Web sites draw minds
The interactive look and feel of a corporate website could help shape positive perceptions about the organization if the site includes a likeable design and features that engage the target audience, particularly job seekers, as per media researchers. S. Shyam Sundar, professor of film, video and media studies at Penn State, and Jamie Guillory, formerly [...]
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A CluE in the Search for Data-Intensive Computing
The Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) released a solicitation for proposals for the new Cluster Exploratory (CluE) initiative. The CluE program was announced in February as a part of a relationship between Google, IBM and NSF. NSF hopes this initiative will help lead to innovations in [...]
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TeraGrid Computing Capacity
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $65 million grant to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) to develop Kraken, a state of the art supercomputer. Kraken will enhance the computational power of the TeraGrid, the world’s largest, most powerful and comprehensive distributed cyberinfrastructure for open scientific research……..
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Hackers learn to threaten computer hardware
AS IF computer viruses and worms arent enough of a nuisance, malicious hardware, which will be much more difficult to detect, could soon become a threat too. Today, computer viruses, which are programs downloaded either as an email attachment or when someone visits a website, are responsible for most computer attacks. Hackers use them to [...]
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Not-So-Digital Future of Digital Signal
It’s possible, and in some cases, it’s already happened. In any event, performing digital signal processing using organic and chemical materials without electrical currents could be the wave of the future – or so argue Sotirios Tsaftaris, research professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and Aggelos Katsaggelos, Ameritech Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer [...]
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Copy to 20 USB drives at once
What would you do if you had to copy a couple of hundred megs of data to 20 USB drives in under 5 minutes? That’’s easy, right? But look at the constraint – you have only one PC. Now, that’’s a ………
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Step Toward Creating Quantum Computers
For now, full-fledged quantum computers are the stuff of science fiction – in last summer’s blockbuster movie Transformers, the bad guys use quantum computing to break into the U.S. Army’s secure files in just 10 seconds flat. But Prem Kumar, the ATandT Professor of Information Technology in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science [...]