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The Weekly Round-Up: 28.08.09
Round-Up According to work by Stanford University researchers, people who regularly deal with several streams of electronic information simultaneously do not pay attention, control their memory, or switch from one job to another... [28 Aug 2009]
Is constant Facebooking, Twittering, IMing taking its toll on attention spans?
News According to a new study released by a group of Stanford University researchers Tuesday, people who regularly deal with several streams of electronic information simultaneously do not pay attention, control their memory,... [26 Aug 2009]
Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo! join fight against Google Books
News Google is digitizing the works from many major libraries, including the New York Public Library and the libraries at Stanford and Harvard universities, and is making those texts searchable on pages with advertisements. [21 Aug 2009]
OpenSPARC: An Open Platform for Hardware Reliability Experimentation
White Paper OpenSPARC is an open source community based around hardware design and experimentation aids for the UltraSPARC T1 and T2 Chip Multi-Threaded (CMT) microprocessors. The UltraSPARC T2 processor is the industry's first "Server on a chip",... [31 Jul 2009]
Is BT's super-fast broadband coming to your neighbourhood?
News Stanford-le-Hope East of England BT has revealed the towns and cities which will get high-speed fibre broadband in the second stage of its £1.5bn rollout. The rollout of fibre - whose high speeds are expected to enable... [09 Jul 2009]
Using Semantic Analysis to Classify Search Engine Spam
White Paper Due to the similarities between spam and non-spam their original semantic analyzers are not an effective method to classify spam content. Since spam and non-spam documents are so similar, it is sometimes very difficult for a human to... [01 Jul 2009]
ForceHTTPS: Protecting High-Security Web Sites From Network Attacks
White Paper As wireless networks proliferate, web browsers operate in an increasingly hostile network environment. The HTTPS protocol has the potential to protect web users from network attackers, but real-world deployments must cope with configured... [29 Jun 2009]
Photos: Inside HP's garage - the Silicon Valley birthplace
Photo In 1938, after returning from stints at General Electric and MIT, respectively, David Packard and William Hewlett, with the encouragement of their former Stanford University professor, Fred Terman, went looking for a... [29 Jun 2009]
Simon Post
CIO Profile Before that he spent his early years as a partner at Arthur Andersen responsible for running its global e-business and advanced technology teams, followed by a stint at Stanford Research Institute spin-off AtomicTangerine. [03 Jun 2009]
Ballmer talks getting "disruptive" in search
News And, he said, it's time Microsoft starts walking through more of those doors.in response to a question at the end of a speech at Stanford University, Microsoft's CEO said: "We are going to have to be more disruptive. [07 May 2009]
Diversity, Interference Cancellation and Spatial Multiplexing in MIMO Mobile WiMAX Systems
White Paper Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) techniques are an essential part of the IEEE 802.16e - 2005 specifications, which form the basis of mobile WiMAX systems. This paper first discusses the tradeoffs between diversity, interference... [23 Apr 2009]
Hardware Enforcement of Application Security Policies Using Tagged Memory
White Paper Computers are notoriously insecure, in part because application security policies do not map well onto traditional protection mechanisms such as Unix user accounts or hardware page tables. This paper shows that enforcement of these... [05 Feb 2009]
Infrastructure-Establishment From Scratch in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Paper The paper presents a distributed, localized and integrated approach for establishing both low-level and high-level infrastructure in wireless sensor networks. More concretely, the proposed scheme constructs a subgraph of the unit-disk... [05 Feb 2009]
The Costs and Benefits of Java Bytecode Subroutines
White Paper Stanford University compares the cost of formally specifying the bytecode verifier and implementing the Java Virtual Machine in the presence of subroutines to the space saved by using them when compiling a set of... [02 Feb 2009]
Securing Our Data Storage Infrastructures
White Paper Stanford University introduces configurations as a model for quantifying and managing the break-in and data loss risks faced by a secure data storage system. The threats faced by data storage infrastructures can be... [02 Feb 2009]
