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NASA's lunar breathing system

When six astronauts share a 15 cubic meters spacecraft for weeks, how is it possible to avoid to be bothered by your fellows sweating and breathing? I've already written about staying clean in space, but NASA is going further this time. Its scientists are testing a lunar breathing system. The...

Tags: NASA, Carbon Dioxide, CAMRAS, Sorbent, Flows, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Attribution and Aggregation of Network Flows for Security Analysis

This paper describes a network flow analyzer that is capable of attribution and aggregation of different flows into single activity events for the purposes of identifying suspicious and illegitimate behaviors. Flows are correlated with security events using the Process Query System PQS infrastructure. This paper shows results from initial experiments...

Tags: Security, Network, Aggregation, Dartmouth College, Attribution, Flows, Networking

White papers 2008-01-01

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Giant rubber snakes to capture wave power?

UK researchers have developed a prototype of a future giant rubber tube which could catch energy from sea waves. The device, dubbed Anaconda, uses 'long sea waves to excite bulge waves which travel along the wall of a submersed rubber tube. These are then converted into flows of water passing...

Tags: Turbine, Environment, U.K., Sea Wave, Anaconda, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-06

Physics - getting a raw deal in schools?

Physics - getting a raw deal in schools?physics is not a fundamental application of mathsPhysics is the basis for understanding any physical phenomenon. I do not see any sense in studying biology w/o a strong physics curriculum, as w/o physics you will have a hard time understanding what...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, raw deal

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

Introduction to dynamic documents

Q&A Jake Sorofman, senior VP of marketing and business development for JustSystems, says ynamic documents can transform how organizations create, share and deliver information. Dynamic documents can transform how organizations create, share and deliver information. Jake Sorofman, senior VP of marketing and business development for...

Tags: Document, Information, Jake, Q, Usage Pattern, XML, Portals, Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Business Operations, Software, Special to ZDNet News, business applications, documents, dynamic documents

News items 2008-06-25

Photos: Boeing's Dreamliner feels the power

Electricity flows into first 787 on the assembly line--months behind schedule, but Boeing is upbeat in its latest progress report. by CNET News.com

Tags: Boeing Co., Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-06-23

Headr Surf Tool (xpi)

Our Semantic experiment add pluggin to your browser and let us analyze pages you view, and recommend related pages & Web sites. We currently support 15 different languages, with 55 more coming up. You can also make a personalized search engine, make Web flows about a specific subject, and did...

Tags: Web, Personalized Search, Tool, Headr, Search, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-06-18

Government 2.0: Focus is on IT recruiting

Should local governments deploy Web 2.0 applications as part of an online services portfolio? Speakers at the Pennsylvania Digital Government Summit, sponsored by Government Technology magazine, were four-square in favor but urged CIOs to move deliberately, ComputerWorld reports. "I'm not here to tell government to just jump in," said...

Tags: Information Technology, Recruiting, Government Information Portal, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-17

HP Scanner and Document Management Solutions for Easy Electronic Work Flows

HP can help solve your document management headaches easily and inexpensively. HP has many new products from scanners and MFPs to archival storage, that support all of your electronic work flow needs while saving you time and money. Electronic data is growing at a staggering rate...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Scanners, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Hardware, Peripherals

Webcasts 2008-06-17

An Architectural Model to Provide QoS in a Home Network and Its Evaluation in a Real Testbed

Home networks are an evolution of office local area networks, answering the need for residential distribution of broadband services. The design of a home network must strive to keep low costs, easy installation and maintenance while at the same time providing a large variety of services, from voice and data...

Tags: QoS, Network, Home Network, Academy Publisher, Networking

White papers 2008-06-01

Stopping data leakage: Exploiting your existing security investment

As attitudes to work and information continue to evolve away from those of the past, organizations have become more aware of the acute need to control the information that flows into, through, and out of their networks. This paper demonstrates the need for a high-profile acceptable use policy to prevent...

Tags: Sophos Plc., Investment, Security, Finance

White papers 2008-06-01

White paper offers hands-on tips for greening your data center

White paper offers hands-on tips for greening your data centerServer room efficiencyThe document does not mention much about datacenter cooling technologies but actually that is one of the key issues at datacenters at the moment. Because of higher density servers meaning higher heat concentration the cooling has become a big...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, data center

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

Software industrialization: not so fast, Henry Ford

There's been a lot of talk about IT and software "industrialization" lately -- the idea that software development can be broken down into standardized, low-level, highly automated tasks that can mass produce applications on demand, at low cost. Does software really belong on the assembly line?...

Tags: Software, DSL, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Management, Software/Web Development, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-05-26

Silverlight version of New York Times reader for Macs

The WPF-based New York Times reader is one of my favorite RIAs out there. I wrote a long post about it when it first came out praising the added interactivity and for making reading the newspaper a lot more interesting. I also think it does a good job of showing...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Silverlight, Version, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, New York Times Co., Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-05-20

IBM executive defines next generation of enterprise datacenters through cloud computing

IBM Vice President for Enterprise Systems Rich Lechner took the stage at the Forrester Research IT Forum on Tuesday to explore the definition of new enterprise datacenters that will enable new levels of business innovation. Factors buffeting the definition of the new class of datacenterinclude globalization, a...

Tags: Cloud Computing, Data Center, Information Technology, IBM Corp., Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Nanorobots to improve health care

Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...

Tags: Software, 3D, Protein, Biomedical, Health Care, Hardware Architecture, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Documenting Software Architecture, Part 2: Develop the System Context

Part 1 of this series explained the importance of a disciplined approach to documenting software architecture. It also introduced commonly used mechanisms to capture the architectural artifacts used in a typical software development process. This paper continues the discussion and focuses on the first important architecture artifact: the system context....

Tags: Software, Artifact, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Management, Software/Web Development

White papers 2008-05-13

Apotheker goes for theatrics; Kagermann the details

SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker had a simple message in his keynote Tuesday: It's all about the business network, which consists of companies, suppliers, customers and all the data that flows between them. And to be in that network you need SAP. Sound...

Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Apotheker, Coca-Cola Enterprise, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Software, Sales, Web Services, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-06

TokiVoki Integrated Editor (exe)

Increase your efficiency. Increase your creative and expressive powers. Add one more dimension to your information and control flows. Add one more dimension to your documents, e-mail, records and reports. Unite what is written and what is said together. Manipulate formatted text and sound together in one document. Use formatting,...

Tags: Dimension, EasyWonder, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-05-01

Can assistive technology save computing?

Computing is becoming an old man's game. (Picture from the University of Buffalo. Go Bulls.) Last year just 8,000 people graduated with computing majors, nationwide, the lowest figure in years. Can assistive technology turn that around? Michael Buckley at the University of Buffalo thinks...

Tags: Computing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-30