Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
ZDNet Resources
- MIT students making solar power realistic
- MIT students making solar power realisticno kiddingIn fact, the researchers believe that, because they can concentrate the heat from the sun so intensely, any water run near the focus could easily be vaporized to run a turbine and generate electricity.For crying out loud.I'm getting so tired of this.Here's all you...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, UCSD, Peak-Power, solar energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SolarCity
- Discussion threads 2008-06-22
- Predicting drug side effects
- It would certainly be nice for the pharmaceutical industry to identify potential side effects of a drug before it starts to be tested on humans. Now, a research team at the University of California, San Diego UCSD might have found a solution. They have developed a new computational technique to...
- Tags: Technology Review, Protein, Drug, Molecule, UCSD, Philip Bourne, Tamoxifen, Team Management, Productivity, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-16
- Sun's Blackbox shakes and bakes
- Sun has been earthquake testing its datacenter housed in a shipping container--Project Blackbox at the University of San Diego UCSD, which has a “shake table,†more formally known as a Seismic Response Modification Device.The video shows Project Blackbox shocked by a 6.7 magnitude earthquake. It survived with some detached...
- Tags: Sun, Hardware Infrastructure, Datacenter
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- How to REALLY erase a hard drive
- You may already know that "deleting" a file does nothing of the sort. But did you know that your disk drive has a built-in system for the secure erasure of data? No? Then read on. What do you mean "delete" doesn't delete? File...
- Tags: Floppy Disk, IDE, Hard Drive, Disk, Disk Drive, Secure Erase, UCSD, BIOS, Serial ATA, Hardware, Components, Storage, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- A really smart image search engine
- When you search for images on the Web, you use a search engine which relies on the text associated with the pictures -- and not on the images themselves. So the results are sometimes unsatisfactory. But this soon might change because engineers from UC San Diego UCSD have developed new...
- Tags: Social Sciences, Engineering &, Innovation, Computers &, Internet
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- Catching photons coming from the moon
- In "Shooting the moon," the San Diego Union-Tribune describes how and why physicists from UCSD are using lasers to send light pulses in direction of an array of reflectors installed on our moon in 1969 by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. One of the goals of these experiments is to...
- Tags: moon, laser
- Blog posts 2006-07-14
- How to generate trillions of useful proteins
- Scientists from the University of California at San Diego UCSD have discovered a new way to generate proteins. They found that a single organism, a virus that infects bacteria, called a bacteriophage, or phage, can produce 10 trillion varieties of a single protein via a single mechanism. This protein copying...
- Tags: protein
- Blog posts 2005-10-01
Additional Resources
- CollegeNET ends the thick/thin letter game
- Do you remember the waiting game after you'd applied to college? Checking the mail every day, waiting for that letter? Would it be thick or thin? Because everyone knew that a thin letter would read somewhere along the lines of "We regret to inform you that you do not...
- Tags: Game, Admission, CollegeNET, E-mail, Portals, Web Technology, Internet, Sales Force Management, Online Communications, Sales, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Profitability of spam finally measured
- Profitability of spam finally measuredWhy put out a paper showing the money to be made?Its definitely interesting.. but this paper makes me want to get into the spamming business.I could probably do it. I experimented with some stuff a few years ago that would get the job done. ...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, spam
- Discussion threads 2008-11-11
- Profitability of spam finally measured
- Researchers at UCSD have determined the return on investment for spam generated by the Storm botnet. While the per-message response rate is astonishingly low, it is sufficient for a spammer to generate a profit. At this year's ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security, Stefan Savage,...
- Tags: Anti-spam, Anti-spam Technology, Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Adam O'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Researchers find spam profits not so great, after all
- To understand spammers, you have to spam. That's what University of California researchers at Berkeley and San Diego did earlier this year. And what they found is that is takes a hell of a lot of spam to make some dough, BBC reports. But with billions of spam messages going...
- Tags: Researcher, Spammer, Cyberthreats, Spam, Phishing, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Duplicating your keys without your knowledge
- Some clever computer scientists at UC San Diego UCSD have developed a software that can perform key duplication with just a picture of the key -- taken from up to 200 feet. One of the researchers said 'we built our key duplication software system to show people that their keys...
- Tags: Software, Knowledge, Photograph, Key, Tools & Techniques, Management, Roland Piquepaille, Imaging, Computer, Productivity, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Should engineers fix climate change?
- Should engineers fix climate change?Democracy and the Long ViewThey are, of course, famously incompatible.That said, there is an argument in favor of self-interested First World countries moving as rapidly as possible towards a lower carbon footprint. On the one hand, they're the ones with the most to lose from...
- Tags: global warming, ice, climate change, Joe
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- 68 molecular building blocks of life
- A researcher from the University of California at San Diego UCSD claims that 68 molecules can explain the origins of many serious diseases. After reviewing findings from multiple disciplines, he 'realized that only 68 molecular building blocks are used to construct these four fundamental components of cells: the nucleic acids...
- Tags: Building Block, Biotechnology, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- New algorithm speeds up networks
- Routing scalability has always been a problem in networking research. Now, computer scientists at UC San Diego UCSD have developed a new algorithm to improve the routing efficiency of networks. 'Called XL, for approximate link state, the algorithm increases network routing efficiency by suppressing updates from parts of the system...
- Tags: Algorithm, Network, XL, Engineering, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Large Hadron Collider will put academic networks to the test
- The Large Hadron Collider LHC will be coming online this summer when its construction is complete outside of Geneva. Run by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the collider will be the largest facility of its type, designed to detect new types of subatomic particles, generate previously unseen...
- Tags: CERN, Network, Data, Internet2, Networking, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- A new way to improve computer graphics
- Computer scientists at the University of California in San Diego UCSD have developed a fog and smoke machine for computer graphics which dramatically cuts computing costs for generating bright images. They've used 'photon mapping' algorithms, a subset of the more computationally intensive ray tracing algorithms -- and with better results....
- Tags: Algorithm, Light, Computer Graphics, Image, Computer, Engineering, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- How to try 4,000 makeup products online
- Two researchers of the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California at San Diego UCSD have used their skills in computer graphics to build a new free service on the web named Taaz. According to the computer scientists, Taaz is 'derived from the Hindi word Taaza, meaning fresh,...
- Tags: Women, Vision, Image, Computer, Makeup Product, Taaz, Taaz.com, Productivity, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-22
- Disaster Recovery: A Multi-Institutional Collaboration at the University of California System
- The joint UCOP-UCSD project has been a win-win for the two locations and for the UC system as a whole. It created a model for a cost-effective, internal DR solution that addresses UCOP's and UCSD's immediate needs and provides a model from which other UC campuses can benefit. The rules...
- Tags: Collaboration, Model, University Of California, EDUCAUSE, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- White papers 2007-10-03
- Internet maps are blooming
- It is important to understand network topology to predict its performance and its resilience to attacks. This is why computer scientists at UC San Diego have developed new algorithms which create Internet maps. Their maps -- looking like digital dandelions -- show Internet nodes and their linkages. But they are...
- Tags: Network Topology, Internet, Network, Goal, Topology, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-09-02
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
White Papers and Webcasts
When you transition from your existing Red Hat environment to SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell, you can recognize dramatic cost savings, perhaps as much 50%
Doc delivers the scoop on today's enterprise content management, printer maintenance, and all other issues related to document management. It's the DocuMentor Blog.
The Business Essentials Guide provides you useful tools and templates to help grow your business and save you time with automated shipping solutions.
Read about top issues IT decision-makers face every day, plus get cost-effective solutions to real-life IT problems.
