Technology

Michael Jackson Finally Gets His Own Computer Virus

Interested in Michael Jackson now that he is dead?   So are cyber criminals who are exploiting public interest in his death with spam messages that infect computers with a virus able to steal bank account numbers and passwords, according to Gary Warner, Un ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2009 - 8:56pm

Digital Imaging Boost Makes Bad Images Clear

On television, police technicians zoom in on a security camera video to read a license plate or capture the face of a hold-up artist but, in real life, enhancing this low-quality video to focus in on important clues hasn't been an easy task. It just g ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2009 - 9:35am

Error Handling And Error Codes

Error Handling And Error Codes This article is a brief explanation of how errors can be handled in computer code.  The basic idea is that if an error arises then it should be obvious, and easily corrected. The concept of error-handling and correction is r ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 1 2009 - 2:44pm

Digital Archiving- Protection Of Documents Comes Out Of The Dark Ages (Maybe)

Paperless office?  An optimistic pipe dream.    We use more paper documents than at any time in history despite the prevalence of the Internet and digital technology.    Part of the reason is lousy copy protection of scanned documents and storing them onli ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2009 - 1:32pm

Robocup 2009: Rescue Robots Save The (Some)Day

Robots, lacking families and pensions, will rush into scenarios where humans fear to tread, like rescue missions following natural disasters.   So they need our support.   RoboCup Rescue is a new effort to promote research and development in the field of r ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2009 - 11:27am

Nanotechnology Goes After Nature's Ability For Self- Assembly

If nanotechnology has a dream future, it is self-assembling and self-organizing systems- something nature has been producing for millions of years. A team of scientists has examined how thousands of bacterial membrane proteins are able to assemble into clu ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2009 - 12:04pm

Google's New OS- Not Taking Over The World Yet

Google's Chrome OS is going after Windows. Is this going to be a game changer? The plan is part of Google’s bet that a huge shift in computing is under way. In Google’s view, Web connections will become so fast and browsers so powerful that most of t ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jul 9 2009 - 1:11pm

Two-faced security

A few weeks ago, I got a text message on my mobile. It said it was from my credit card company (and it had the right one). It said they had to talk with me urgently about my account, and I should call a given phone number as soon as possible. In other wor ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Jul 14 2009 - 11:45am

How Blogging Has Changed The Pattern Of The Mainstream News Cycle

Cornell computer scientists say they have tracked and analyzed the "news cycle", the way stories rise and fall in popularity, and found a consistent pattern as stories rose into prominence and then fell off after a few days, with a 'heartbea ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2009 - 6:16pm

Australia's Top Models Certainly Know How To Compute

Australia's top models are going to be on the main stage in Cairns this week but don't get too excited.   They're only here to show new ways to understand climate change, improve air safety and enhance agricultural sustainability- the small ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2009 - 1:06pm