Computer Science
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Japanese researchers downplay super CPU effort
News Alliance aims to create software standard for multicore chips in devices, including mobile phones and car navigation systems.
Tags: Mobile processors, Processors, NEC Corp., Intel Corp., Embedded System, CPU, Chip Company, API, processor, researcher
Philippines spotlights software, BPO cities
News Country unveils "global domination" campaign to market local software market, and identifies new "next-wave" cities as alternative outsourcing hubs.
Tags: Services, Business applications, City, Outsourcing, Conference, Philippines, software company, BPO, Back-office, software
Google-backed tool detects Net filtering, blocking
News A new open platform from Google, the New America Foundation and PlanetLab allows consumers to monitor their broadband connection for Internet-provider interference.
Tags: Domain names, Web sites, Web 2.0, 3G (Third Generation), Bluetooth, Google Inc., BitTorrent, Tool, Broadband, Net Neutrality
Google grants outsider Chrome-coding privileges
News Although the browser is still largely a Google project, its open-source nature is being highlighted as a University of Warsaw programmer is granted insider status.
Tags: Open source, Web browsers, Web services, Google Chrome, Google Inc., Programmer, computer science, SVN, Computer, software
Crypto pioneers differ on cloud-computing risks
News During an RSA panel, world's top cryptographers disagree on the risks inherent in cloud computing and downplay the possibility of a digital Pearl Harbor.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Cloud computing, Security, Cybersecurity, computer science, 9/11 commission, computer, Cloud computing, phone, virus
Google designer leaves, blaming data-centrism
News Google's visual design leader quits as he finds the company's reliance on detailed Web page performance data too confining.
Tags: Product development and design, Web Page, Google Inc., computer science, performance, leader, blog, vice president, Marissa Mayer, Wired Inc.
Tech to cure crop failure and look inside Einstein's mind?
News The British Computer Society has laid out the most pressing economic, environmental and social issues facing the world that it feels could be solved with technology within the next two decades.
Tags: Virtualization, Conference, computer science, motivation, computer disc, computer, Artificial Intelligence, virtual reality, information system, U.K.
Symantec's Ramzan on solving the antivirus puzzle
News From puzzles and chess to ciphers and antivirus software, Zulfikar Ramzan talks about how he got into the computer security business and where it's headed.
Tags: Security implementation/standards, App servers, IT project management, R&D, Antivirus software, Norton Co., Security, computer science, Machine, Cryptography
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
IBM launches cloud virtual-desktop service
News IBM enters virtual-desktop market with eye on cost savings and manageability.
Tags: Cloud computing, IBM Corp., Virtual Desktop, Virtualization, Web Browser, Service, Cloud computing, Server, Thin Client, Hardware
Hire security pros based on reasoning and aptitude
Techguide In-house education--not resume bullet points--is the key to having the best possible employees.
Tags: Security Management, HR policies and procedures, Recruiting, Cookie, Bullet Point, Security, Human Resources Inc., job, Training, IP
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
Why 'Joe Facebook' wants to cash out
News Reports indicate that Facebook's official employee stock buyback program has been "oversubscribed". Here's why this is normal, and hardly greedy.
Tags: Web 2.0, IPO, Stock, dot-com, payment, Facebook, Silicon Valley, Web, Web 2.0
Web-science pioneer is made a dame
News The New Year's honors list included a damehood for Professor Wendy Hall, a seminal figure in the research and development of web libraries, hypermedia, multimedia and the semantic Web.
Tags: Web sites, Government, Benefits, Semantic Web, Hypermedia, Information And Communication Technology, Tim Berners-Lee, Association for Computing Machinery, Computer, Wendy Hall
Robo-scientist makes gene discovery--on its own
News Scientists designed "Adam" to carry out scientific research automatically, without the need for further human intervention.
Tags: Robot, Robotics, Bot, Robot, Yeast, Artificial Intelligence, University of Cambridge, U.K., researcher, scientist
