Computer Sciences news
New technology lets users set data to self-destruct
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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What if you could send an e-mail to a co-worker, text a friend or post something on Facebook confident that it would eventually self-destruct?
The self-managing, 'unbreakable' internet?
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- High-powered internet applications typically need teams of experts to maintain them. Not any more, say European researchers who have built a system to create applications that manage and fix themselves.
Stay focused: Researchers sharpen photographs by capturing multiple low-quality images
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For photographers, it's sometimes difficult to keep both the foreground and background of an image in focus. Focusing somewhere between the two can ensure that neither is blurry; but neither ...
Denial of service denial: New filtering system could protect networks from zombies
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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A way to filter out denial of service attacks on computer networks, including cloud computing systems, could significantly improve security on government, commercial, and educational systems. Such a filter is reported in ...
New project to create 'FutureGrid' computer network
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Sep 29, 2009 |
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego is part of a team chosen by the National Science Foundation to build and run an experimental high-performance grid test-bed, allowing researchers to collaboratively develop ...
New digital security program doesn't protect as promised
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Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Texas at Austin scientists have shown that they can break "Vanish," a program that promised to self-destruct computer data, such as emails and photographs, and thereby protect a person's privacy.
Ants vs. worms: New computer security mimics nature
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Sep 25, 2009 |
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In the never-ending battle to protect computer networks from intruders, security experts are deploying a new defense modeled after one of nature's hardiest creatures -- the ant.
Computer scientists successfully boot one million Linux kernels as virtual machines
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., have for the first time successfully demonstrated the ability to run more than a million Linux kernels as virtual ...
The sum of knowledge -- online and accessible, no less
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers are creating new technology that could, ultimately, make accessible the sum of humankind's knowledge. Hundreds of organisations and millions of documents are already linked to this "United ...
Code breakthrough delivers safer computing
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer researchers at UNSW and NICTA have achieved a breakthrough in software which will deliver significant increases in security and reliability and has the potential to be a major commercialisation success.
Digital Democracy: The World Wide Web Consortium weighs in on government transparency
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Sep 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On May 21, the day the White House unveiled its Open Government Initiative, it also launched the website data.gov, which put information like Medicare cost reports, residential energy consumption ...
Startup rates people's online clout
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Sep 24, 2009 |
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A pair of French entrepreneurs has come up with a way to identify people whose Internet comments carry weight.
'Triple Space' offers web for web services
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Sep 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- What the World Wide Web is to humans, the Triple Space could become for machines, say European researchers who have helped lay the foundations for this innovative integration of web services, semantic web ...
Visualizing the Aztecs
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Sep 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has visited the ancient ruins of great civilizations can appreciate the difficulty of visualizing the buildings at their peak. Today's visitor to the British Museum can see structures ...
Too scary to be real, research looks to quantify eeriness in virtual characters
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Indiana University's Karl MacDorman has been to the valley -- the uncanny valley of virtual humans so lifelike they give us real humans the creeps. What he's found is that things don't look ...
