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Artificial intelligence put to the Turing Test
News Among the Agenda Setters judges was the University of Reading's professor of cybernetics, Kevin Warwick, who is working with Loebner to run this year's prize. The prize was founded in 1990 by academic... [10 Oct 2008]
Towards High Availability for High-Performance Computing System Services: Accomplishments and Limitations
White Paper During the last several years, teams at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Louisiana Tech University, and Tennessee Technological University, focused on efficient redundancy strategies for head and service... [19 Sep 2008]
Active/Active Replication for Highly Available HPC System Services
White Paper Today's high performance computing systems have several reliability deficiencies resulting in availability and serviceability issues. Head and service nodes represent a single point of failure and control for an entire system as they... [19 Sep 2008]
Securing a Wireless Network Using a VPN
White Paper The security provided is both authentication, allowing only known authorized users access to the wireless network, and encryption, preventing anyone from reading the wireless traffic. This paper walks through securing a... [11 Sep 2008]
Skills gap plugged by latest IT degree?
News The part-time Computer Systems Management Foundation Degree, which has been developed by computer maker HP in collaboration with Thames Valley University (TVU) where it has been piloted since 2006, will furnish students... [06 Aug 2008]
A Framework for Traffic Engineering in a SIP-Over-MPLS Based Network
White Paper The next generation communication systems will provide multimedia services and will need to support high quality of service in a more flexible and intelligent manner than previous generations. In this paper, a network based on SIP... [10 Jul 2008]
Scaffolding for Struggling Students: Reading and Writing With Blogs
White Paper In its basic form, a blog is an online personal journal. Both free and easy to use, blogs have become very popular. At last count, several hundred thousand diarists were actively posting blogs about almost every conceivable topic. [03 Jul 2008]
IP Quality of Service: an Overview
White Paper The second section discusses these approaches, and suggests links for further reading. Recent years have a seen a lot of research on the provisioning of Quality of Service (QoS) in the Internet Protocol. [03 Jul 2008]
Privacy on the Web
White Paper When you are reading something on the Internet it is most likely reading something about you. Everyone is using the Internet to acquire information, but when they do they compromise their privacy. The... [03 Jul 2008]
Bill Gates, iPhone 2.0, mini laptops and much more...
Photo This is the Affinity solar powered car, which was built by the Cambridge University Eco Racing team (pictured), and whizzes along at a top speed of 60mph. Photo credit: Apple silicon.com went to check out the technology... [30 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Games skills gap, student outsourcing, ID card fears
Comment Surely a university degree in video games is to the games industry what a film studies degree is to the movie industry. Why does anyone need a university education to program a game? They will not work... [27 Jun 2008]
Gary Arthurs
CIO Profile Prior to joining the retailer, Arthurs, who has a marketing degree from Lancaster University, spent seven years at electrical retailer Comet as head of IT - with an IT remit covering its stores, warehouses, after sales... [11 Jun 2008]
Northern Ireland builds high tech credentials
News According to Invest NI, more than 900 tech graduates emerge from the University of Ulster and Queen's University in Belfast each year. Chair of telecommunications engineering at the... [02 Jun 2008]
Data Streaming, Workflow and Firewall-Friendly Grid Services With Styx
White Paper This paper presents the Styx Grid Service (SGS), a remote service type that allows data to be streamed directly between service instances. The Styx Grid Service is built upon the Styx protocol, an established protocol for building... [23 Apr 2008]
Configurable Virtualized System Environments for High Performance Computing
White Paper Existing challenges for current terascale High Performance Computing (HPC) systems are increasingly hampering the development and deployment efforts of system software and scientific applications for next-generation petascale systems. [01 Mar 2008]
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