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Photos: Computers usher in pilots' vision 2.0
Photo The system creates sharp images in real-time from a camera attached to the plane and relays them back to the pilot, cleaning up visual feeds that would otherwise be obscured by the weather. The engine processes optical,... [16 Jan 2009]
Photos: Unmanned 'spy in the sky' passes first test
Photo The Ministry of Defence's £800m vision of an unmanned spy plane got a step closer with the first official systems tests of Watchkeeper, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) under development by contractor Thales. [26 Nov 2008]
ID cards project adds implementation chief
News The government agency in charge of the impending ID card rollout has appointed an additional senior executive. According to the Identity and Passport Service (IPS), an extra board member has been appointed to the scheme as the government... [18 Nov 2008]
Data Recovery in Differentially Encoded Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
White Paper With advances in DSP technology, fundamental trigonometric signal processing functions which have, in the past, been unavailable now provide a mechanism for recovering phase differential directly from the phase plane. [07 Oct 2008]
FPGA-Based Data Acquisition System for a Compton Camera
White Paper A Data Acquisition (DAQ) system with custom back-plane and custom readout boards has been developed for a Compton camera prototype. The DAQ system consists of two layers. The first layer has units for parallel high-speed... [06 Oct 2008]
Technical White Paper for None Stop Forwarding
White Paper NSF (None Stop Forwarding) is an HA technology that can ensure normal data forwarding when the control plane of a router fails, thus protecting key services on the network. As the network develops, users raise higher... [01 Oct 2008]
Photos: IBM from Spitfires to Sphynxes
Photo During the 1940s, the house was given over to aerospace engineers at Vickers who used it to develop the Supermarine Spitfire fighter plane. The IBM development laboratory at Hursley House celebrates its 50th birthday... [19 Sep 2008]
Optical Burst Switching Network: A Multi-Layered Approach
White Paper The architecture takes into account both the control plane as well as the data plane. This paper defines a new multi-layered architecture for supporting Optical Burst Switching (OBS) in an optical core... [11 Sep 2008]
TrueWay: A Highly Scalable Multi-Plane Multi-Stage Buffered Packet Switch
White Paper Another alternative to scale the switch is to use the multi-plane multi-stage buffered architecture. To keep pace with Internet traffic growth, researchers have been continually exploring new switch architectures with... [10 Sep 2008]
Circuit/Wavelength Switching and Routing
White Paper A first important topic deals with the different control plane models in single- and multi-domain networks. This paper gives an overview of the work carried out during the course of the COST-266 action on... [10 Sep 2008]
Localization and Routing in Sensor Networks by Local Angle Information
White Paper They prove that given a unit disk graph and the angles between adjacent edges, it is NP-hard to find a valid embedding in the plane such that neighboring nodes are within distance 1 from each other and non-neighboring... [10 Sep 2008]
Statistical Multiplexing in Optical Flow Switching Networks
White Paper Special care should be taken in the control plane to bridge the gap. In IP over WDM networks, Optical Paths (OP's) form a virtual topology seen from the upper IP layer, and greatly relieve the burden of electronic... [10 Sep 2008]
Photos: McKinnon "distraught" says family
Photo The refusal of his appeal by the European courts has devastated McKinnon, said Clarke, leaving him "staring into space" and scared "they could put him on a plane at any minute". Anger boiled over into tears as the... [03 Sep 2008]
Jet packs, army tech and Victorian gadgets
Photo The UK Ministry of Defence's Watchkeeper programme is aiming to develop an unmanned 'spy in the sky' plane that will provide the armed forces with vital intelligence and surveillance capability by 2010. [02 Sep 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Science friction
Comment To date we have seen task-specific machines outstrip our abilities at everything from numeric calculation, controlling an elevator, landing a plane, tuning a car engine in motion, assembling cameras and computers and... [28 Aug 2008]
