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RSS NasaClouds clear as Microsoft gives Azure a January launch date
News The system will launch with data from organisations including the Associated Press and Nasa. Microsoft's cloud-based computing platform Azure has been given an official launch date. Azure will be made commercially... [18 Nov 2009]
Addressing the Top 5 Database Vulnerabilities Plaguing Federal Agencies
White Paper Agencies of the U.S.government such as The Pentagon, NASA, FAA, The Army, The Veterans Administration, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory have suffered data losses - either through inadvertent human error, insider... [13 Nov 2009]
Gary McKinnon
AS Profile McKinnon has been fighting extradition to the US since 2003, a year after he was arrested for hacking into computer systems used by the Pentagon and Nasa, where it was alleged he caused $700,000 worth of damage. [29 Sep 2009]
White House looks to the cloud for IT cost-cutting
News Speaking at Nasa's Ames Research Center in California, federal CIO Vivek Kundra unveiled the administration's first formal efforts to roll out a broad system designed to take advantage of existing infrastructure and, in... [17 Sep 2009]
Singularity University: Where today's tech titans teach the next generation
News After all, they have regular access to superstar teachers like George Smoot, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics; Dan Kammen, co-director of the Berkeley Institute of the... [21 Aug 2009]
Extradition for Nasa hacker rules high court
News He was charged with intentionally damaging a federal computer system, and with breaking into 97 computers belonging to the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, US Department of Defense and Nasa. Gary McKinnon has lost his... [31 Jul 2009]
NASA Provides Interactive, 3-D Views of the Next Mars Rover to the Public
White Paper A charter of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is to educate the public and inspire students. NASA hosts a Web site for the purpose of generating public awareness about the Mars... [30 Jul 2009]
Photos: Do the moonwalk, Google-style
Photo Moon in Google Earth incorporates the data on the surface of the moon from Nasa. On the 40th anniversary of the first moon walk, Google launched Moon in Google Earth, an addition to its Google Earth mapping software that... [21 Jul 2009]
'Nasa hacker' case raised in parliament
News The Conservative Party has championed the case of Gary McKinnon, the self-confessed Nasa hacker, in an opposition day debate in parliament. McKinnon has admitted breaking into Nasa and other US agency... [16 Jul 2009]
Roadrunner supercomputer keeps ahead of the race
News Pleiades, SGI, NASA Ames Research Center (487.01 teraflop/s) Despite the Jaguar nipping at its heels, Roadrunner continues to speed past the supercomputing pack. That's according to the twice yearly Top500 list of the... [23 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo Johnson can also expect to face fresh pleas from lawyers for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon, who made unsuccessful appeals to Smith to block his extradition to the US to face prosecution. Following a week of political turmoil... [10 Jun 2009]
Tech-world wonders, cyber art and Windows 7...
Photo Photo credit: Nasa silicon.com's Tim Ferguson travelled to Portugal to see how 2004 European Cup winner, FC Porto, uses video security and networking technology at their Estádio do Dragăo ground in Porto. [11 May 2009]
CSC Supports Groundbreaking Satellite Mission
White Paper Following decades of work on major NASA efforts such as the Apollo program, they're playing a key role in the success of a small and relatively inexpensive next-generation satellite. The company wanted to work with the... [01 May 2009]
Photos: My seven wonders of the tech world
Photo Photo credit: Nasa Here, teams of Nasa flight controllers sit behind banks of consoles to monitor and direct shuttle missions from the ground tracking station. Photo credit: Nasa... [09 Apr 2009]
CPS refusal pushes Nasa hacker step closer to extradition
News The Crown Prosecution Service has decided it will not prosecute self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon in the UK, edging him closer to extradition to the US. US authorities last year won the extradition of McKinnon to... [27 Feb 2009]
