Carnegie Mellon University
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Energy-aware Internet routing coming soon
News Researchers say they have developed routing algorithm that can help big Internet companies reduce their energy bills by millions of dollars.
Tags: Green IT, Energy, Cisco Systems Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., Energy Usage, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Carnegie-Mellon University, networking company, researcher, Internet
Bill would give US president emergency control of Internet
News Critics question revised proposal from U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller to let the White House do what it deems necessary to respond to a "cybersecurity emergency".
Tags: Web sites, Cybersecurity, U.S. Senate, computer, aide, White House, Electronic Frontier Foundation, network, Internet, president
How should we handle security notifications?
Techguide As the purpose of breach notification is damage control, laws on this should be regarded as a means to protect people by giving them the opportunity to take steps in their own defense.
The link between academia and outsourcing
Blogs One of the surest signs that an industry or profession is maturing is its entry into the university realm. This can be e...
Google acquires ReCaptcha as book-scanning aid
News Google's massive book-scanning project could produce more accurate results with ReCaptcha, a twist on the captcha-style log-in screens found on many Web sites.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Data Management, Scanner, Bot, computer science, font, Carnegie-Mellon University, CAPTCHA, blog
Researchers tout 'wimpy nodes' for Net computing
News Carnegie Mellon researchers believe flash memory and feeble processors can do what conventional servers can't: power Internet sites at low power and low cost.
Tags: Components, Processors, Intel Corp., Computing, FAWN, David Andersen, Storage, Server, Intel Atom, Carnegie-Mellon University
IBM teams up with universities on cloud project
News The company joins forces with Carnegie Mellon, Qatar and Texas A&M universities to develop one of the first cloud computing platforms in the Middle East.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Software, Programming languages, IBM Corp., University, biology, Cloud Computing, Apache Hadoop, financial modeling
Agile project management: Estimating the unknown
Techguide Rick Freedman explains why estimation in an agile environment is not as mysterious as many project managers think.
Tags: Project management, IT project management, NEC Corp., Feature, Project, Project Management Institute, Rick, Environment, Carnegie-Mellon University, technique
More universities join Yahoo for Net-scale research
News UC Berkeley, Cornell, and UMass Amherst will get access to Yahoo's M45 cluster for large-scale data-processing research using software called Hadoop.
Tags: Data Management, Data centers, Supercomputing, Yahoo! Inc., Cornell University, Cloud Computing, Apache Hadoop, Carnegie-Mellon University, National Science Foundation, Internet
Report: US Social Security numbers can be predicted
News Researchers say they have proven that it is possible to predict Social Security numbers knowing the state and date of birth.
Tags: Security Management, Local Government, Data mining & analysis, Domain names, Authentication, IP, social security number, IP Address, Social Security, Carnegie-Mellon University
Apple TV gets a security update
News Six patches address buffer overflows and arbitrary code execution. Apple TV devices are set to automatically detect and download the update within a week.
Tags: Security, Apple Inc., Apple QuickTime, TV, Buffer-overflow, Application Termination, Issue, Arbitrary Code Execution, Apple TV, Update
Defend against patch-based exploits, warns Sans
News Automatically generated exploit code from reverse-engineered patches can be countered with centralized configuration management, says the Sans Institute.
Tags: Security, Authentication and encryption, Security applications/tools, Microsoft Corp., software company, Patch, Environment, Carnegie-Mellon University, software, patch management
Firefox extension protects against man-in-the-middle attacks
News New software helps guide users to safe Web sites and away from malicious sites, without being confused by an error message Firefox displays for many Web sites that do not pay third-parties to verify their security.
Tags: Security, Mobile/Wireless, Domain names, Web browsers, Site, Attack, Mozilla Firefox, Carnegie-Mellon University, software, Mozilla Firefox 3.0
Google signs US$146M lease for NASA campus
News The deal, negotiated over the last year, builds on an agreement the search giant signed with NASA in September 2005 to collaborate on space and technology research.
Tags: Investments, Growth strategies and tools, NASA, Google Inc., Lease, Carnegie-Mellon University, workplace, partnership, Silicon Valley, R&D
Web users ignoring security certificate warnings
News Researchers from Carnegie Mellon find that Web users often ignore warnings in browsers about the validity of a Web site's digital certificate.
Tags: Data security, PC security, Network security, Security applications/tools, Security, SSL, Web Browser, SSL certificate, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 2.0
