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Comment Written on KLM1515 flying from Norwich to Amsterdam and dispatched to silicon.com the same day via a company wired LAN I've just been looking at avatars and synthetic people over the past 15 years and must say the... [11 Nov 2008]
Virtual strip scanners move closer for EU airports
News The meeting looked at key privacy, regulatory and operational issues surrounding the scanners' use and the results of trials of the technology at London Heathrow, Schiphol in Amsterdam and Helsinki's Vantaa airport. [10 Nov 2008]
Length Normalization in XML Retrieval
White Paper The importance of document length normalization is a recurring theme in Information Retrieval (IR). The advent of the Text Retrieval Conferences (TREC) in 1992 introduced large-scale test collections with full-text documents. [02 Nov 2008]
Heathrow Airport: Lost laptop hotspot
News In Europe most laptops go missing at London's Heathrow airport with 900 going astray per week, closely followed by Amsterdam and Paris Charles de Gaulle. Airports are a hotspot for lost or missing laptops with around... [30 Jul 2008]
Has Barclays stamped out fraud with PINsentry?
News The UK's third-largest bank said this week that it has distributed the card reader, made by Amsterdam-based Gemalto, to more than one million customers, and that none have been hit by fraud. Barclays claims to have... [18 Jul 2008]
Optical Switching Middleware for the OptIPuter
White Paper Observing that the exponential growth rates in bandwidth and storage are now much higher than Moore's Law, this major new project of several universities - currently six in the US and one in Amsterdam - exploits a new... [18 Jul 2008]
E-Learning Tool "Dileco" for Low Internet Bandwidth and Its Application
White Paper This paper offers an overview on the advancement of features of the e-learning tool "Dileco". The main features of this tool aim to support operations, using unstable and limited Internet connection, utilizing novel solutions outlined in... [08 Jul 2008]
London data centres hit by credit crunch
News Space taken up in the rest of Europe was split 61 per cent in Frankfurt, 28 per cent in Paris, four per cent in Madrid and three per cent in Amsterdam. London's data centre sector has suffered a downturn, with no... [04 Jul 2008]
A Two-phase Process for Software Architecture Improvement
White Paper This paper describes a two-phase process for software architecture improvement, which is the synthesis of two research areas: the architecture visualisation and analysis area of Philips Research, and the transformation engines and... [03 Jul 2008]
RFID could disrupt medical devices, say researchers
News The tests took place during May 2006 at the Academic Medical Centre in the University of Amsterdam using an active 125kHz RFID system and passive 868MHz in the proximity of 41 medical devices in 17 categories with 22... [25 Jun 2008]
Host-Based Intrusion Detection Systems
White Paper Host-based Intrusion Detection Systems can be used to determine if a system has been compromised and can warn administrators if that happens. This paper recognizes four different methods of host-based intrusion detection: filesystem... [05 Jun 2008]
Axioms for SNABOK, a System and Network Administration Body of Knowledge: Missing Link Stage of Ontology Process
White Paper SNABOK, a system an network administration body of knowledge, is coined as an attempt to complement the well-known and quite influential SWEBOK (software engineering body of knowledge) for the less prominent but equally critical... [04 Mar 2008]
Intrusion Detection System Honeypots
White Paper With the immense popularity of the Internet and the growing number of households with a broadband Internet connection more and more computers are being attacked by hackers, script-kiddies and malware. [04 Mar 2008]
Network Access Protection Helps Art Museum Share Information More Securely
White Paper The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam is a museum in the Netherlands that showcases Dutch art from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The museum has a long history of making art accessible to the public, and the tradition of... [01 Mar 2008]
The "M" Word: TNT Logistics N.A. Initiates an Intermec RFID Pilot With Error-Free Load Validation
White Paper TNT Logistics N.A.found it could take its time with research and development, participating in one of six worldwide pilot programs funded by its parent company, Amsterdam-based TNT Corporate. Many of TNT Logistics'... [12 Feb 2008]
