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The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up People underestimate how difficult it is to do this," said BBC tech boffin Erik Huggers. Bill Gates is many things to many people. Brilliant technologist, ruthless businessman, chino-trousered philanthropist, founder of... [27 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.02.08
Round-Up The Round-Up happily acknowledges that using the word 'boffin' to describe scientists is lazy and possibly derogatory. But let's face it: if you get your scientific kicks attaching RFID chips to the tiny but endearingly... [29 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.07.06
Round-Up For many people, the challenge of assembling Ikea furniture is pretty much interchangeable with splitting the atom with a knife and fork but now one British-born boffin has decided to tackle this issue by designing a... [28 Jul 2006]
Teen saves Gates from hackers, gets nothing
News Gates and co issued the now-customary update and let customers know, but when the dust had settled, instead of bunging the teenage boffin a few quid from the bulging Microsoft coffers for his work, the software firm took... [16 Apr 2004]
5 years ago... Schoolgirl stuns IT security world
News This real-life Doogie Howser of the computer science world hasn't rested on her laurels since finding fame as a teenage boffin in 1999. 13.01.99: A 16-year old Irish schoolgirl has developed a mathematical system that... [13 Jan 2004]
20 years later: A real life horror story
Comment You can even picture the opening sequence, bespectacled boffin type proclaims: "I've done it - I've created a computer virus. It sounds like a line from a movie trailer, read out by the voice-over actor with the... [11 Nov 2003]
How to hire the right IT staff
News The day of the back-room boffin have long gone. Respondents to a recent IT Manager channel poll, run on one of silicon.com's sister sites, ZDNet.com.au, have spoken of the need for a mix of technical and 'soft skills'... [08 Apr 2003]
Harmonious 'bee-bots' win top gong for boffin
News Swarming robots that can act in concert and mimic the behaviour of bees have netted James McLurkin, a 30-year-old doctoral candidate in computer science, the annual Lemelson-MIT Student Prize in the US. [27 Feb 2003]
The universe in a computer? It's not as silly as it sounds...
News The project, backed by Cambridge boffin Stephen Hawking, will also use the technology to establish a national UK Cosmology Grid. Supercomputer vendor SGI has signed a deal with Cambridge University to set up a grid... [17 Jul 2002]
Is this the solution for password woes?
News A UK inventor has developed a low-tech solution to the high-tech issue of corporate passwords. Martin Wren-Hilton has designed a system that uses a unique card with a list of 20 four-digit numbers next to common words, such as 'apple',... [30 May 2002]
Chip security undermined by Cambridge boffin
News Boffins at Cambridge University have discovered a vulnerability in chip design which they say will lead to a total rethink of chip security. Sergei Skorobogatov, a PhD student at Cambridge's computer labs, has perfected an attack using a... [15 May 2002]
IDC: Happy days are here again, and they're made in China
News IDC's top boffin sees a mid-year revival for the IT industry driven by demand from China and growing need for security products. IDC's chief research officer, John Gantz, has laid out his top 10 predictions, seeing US IT... [04 Jan 2002]
Ginger was my idea, claims Japanese boffin
News Just as the brouhaha around Ginger was threatening to die down, a Japanese professor pops up and claims it was his idea all along. Kazuo Yamafuji claims he had been working on the design of the two-wheeled scooter in 1986 as part of a... [14 Dec 2001]
Days numbered for English as 'language of the web'
News The boffin's book of cyber-talk http://www.silicon.com/a49697 Despite its US origins, the Internet's non-English speaking users are set to dominate the web as early as next year. According to a United Nations symposium... [07 Dec 2001]
The boffin's book of cyber-talk
News Cambridge boffin David Crystal has published a book which explores the language of the internet. Crystal examines how the use of the English language has been shaped by electronic communication in his recent publication,... [04 Dec 2001]
