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Distributed Strategic Interleaving With Load Balancing

The objective of this paper is to develop an algebraic theory of threads, interleaving of threads, and interaction of threads with services that covers the case where the threads and services are distributed over the nodes of a network and both explicit thread migration and implicit thread migration take place....

Tags: Load Balancing, Thread, University Of Amsterdam

White papers 2007-07-31

Implementing IPv6 in an Organization

During a research project done in 2004 there was concluded that the migration to IPv6 could be done without too many problems. Because this research was done on paper it would be interesting to test these conclusions in practice. This is what this paper and project is about. IPv6 is...

Tags: IPv6, University Of Amsterdam, Telecommunications, Networking

White papers 2005-02-07

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Works of Albert Einstein. FREE Author's biography & letters in the trial 10.1 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-07

Polar meltdown both north and south

Arctic Ice Cover maps. Courtesy University of Washington/NOAA. That's the March ice cover on the left, September on the right. The top pair show current conditions, the bottom maps show thirty year model: ice free summers. The U.S. Geological Survey has compiled data confirming...

Tags: Earth, Meltdown, Glacier, Sea Level, Ice Sheet, Sea Ice, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-04

Conficker worm to DDoS legitimate sites in March

Among the key innovations of the Conficker worm (W32.Downadup) was the pseudo-random domain generation algorithm used for the generation of dynamic command and control locations in order to make it nearly impossible for researchers and the industry to take them down.  However, once the domain registration algorithm was successfully reverse...

Tags: Domain, Worm, Distributed Denial Of Service, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-03-03

Security researchers hack the London underground train for free ride

A group of Dutch security researchers were able to clone the "smartcards" that commuters use to pay fares in the London Underground system, allowing the group to ride for free.  This is an interesting attack vector that I actually talked to Adam Laurie about when I was at Black Hat Amsterdam. ...

Tags: Card, Smart Card, Researcher, London, Smart Cards, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-26

A new strategy to fight HIV and AIDS

An international team of researchers has developed a novel strategy against HIV. They added two genes to immune cells which 'transformed them into potent weapons that destroy cells infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.' This idea of 'genetically engineering immune cells to redirect their infection-fighting ability toward killing...

Tags: Strategy, Researcher, Cell, HIV, HIV-infected, CTL, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-07

2007 year in review: 10 most popular posts

Due to the lack of news during this time of year and a gentle prod from my ZDNet editors I thought it would be fun to look back at some of the most popular posts here on The Social Web in 2007. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of these posts were also...

Tags: Second Life, Facebook, Site, MySpace, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2007-12-28

Software to ease divorce pains

If you went through a divorce during your life, you know it can be painful. Who will keep the house or the kids? How the money will be distributed? Even if professional mediators are involved, the process can really be unpleasant. According to LiveScience, two programs developed by Australian researchers...

Tags: Software, Decision Support System, Negotiation, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-07

Keep it simple, stupid

The journal Nature reports that making quick decisions feels better than making complex ones. This raises all sorts of questions about whether "blink" decisions, "snap judgments" or following the "wisdom of the crowd" are more genuine or better ways to make decisions. A team of researchers at the University...

Tags: simple decision

Blog posts 2006-02-21

Negotiators clear hurdles to Net summit

Negotiators clear hurdles to Net summitTypical UN...What we need here is another committee, all in favor say aye.Huh? Ok, all in favor of forming a committee to study what sort of committe we need say aye.Huh? Ok, who wants to debate forming a committee to study forming the...

Tags: SECURITY, F-root server, Computer Associates International Inc.

Discussion threads 2003-12-08