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RSS cambridgeOn Dynamic Resource Provisioning for Consolidated Servers in Virtualized Data Centers
White Paper Server consolidation based on Operating System (OS) virtualization technologies aims to increase the total resource utilization in data centers. However, efficiently capitalizing on the available resources requires tools to automatically... [12 Nov 2009]
The Economics of Information Security: A Survey and Open Questions
White Paper The economics of information security has recently become a thriving and fast-moving discipline. As distributed systems are assembled from machines belonging to principals with divergent interests, one finds incentives becoming as... [11 Nov 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer laboratory at the University of Cambridge.silicon.com's Nick Heath talks to Hopper about the BBC Micro, Acorn's early days and... [07 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo Technology start-ups from Cambridge unveiled their hottest gadgets at the Diving with Dolphins exhibition last month. Bonhams previewed some vintage tech last month as the London auctioneer prepared to put a selection of... [02 Oct 2009]
Astron Clinica Protects Software With Sentinel Hardware Keys
White Paper Astron Clinica, based in Cambridge UK, enables the diagnosis, analysis, and monitoring of skin health through their skin imaging software suite: DERMETRICS, which incorporates its proprietary skin imaging technology... [01 Oct 2009]
Mike Lynch
AS Profile Lynch has a degree in engineering from Cambridge University as well as a PhD in mathematical computing. Mike Lynch is one of the UK's most successful technology entrepreneurs. He is continuing to lead the UK software... [29 Sep 2009]
Photos: The hottest tech out of the UK's Silicon Valley
Photo With virtual worlds and online gaming now popular pastimes, a Cambridge company has developed a way to give avatars virtual emotions. Fledgling tech businesses from Cambridge were showing off everything... [24 Sep 2009]
Traffic Analysis of the HTTP Protocol Over TLS
White Paper The paper analyzes attacks that take advantage of the data length information leaked by HTTP transactions over the TLS protocol, in order to link clients with particular resources they might access on a web site. [16 Sep 2009]
Photos: Five mobiles of the future unveiled
Photo Meet the changeable phone: Nokia's Morph concept - a collaboration between the Nokia Research Center and the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre. In the beginning. The inventor of the first commercial mobile phone - the... [19 Aug 2009]
Underwater robots, Google Moon, edible beetles and ID cards
Photo Here you can see the Cambridge team placing their challenger into the ocean basin in which the competition was held. Moon lets users visit the sites of each Apollo landing and access panoramic images and YouTube clips by... [04 Aug 2009]
Photos: Underwater robots compete to make the biggest splash
Photo The University of Cambridge also had a robot in the competition. Here, the team makes final preparations to the Cambridge Autonomous Underwater vehicle. The Cambridge team place their... [20 Jul 2009]
Stopping Spam by Extrusion Detection
White Paper End users are often unaware that their systems have been compromised and are being used to send bulk unsolicited email (spam). This paper shows how automated processing of the email logs recorded on the "Smarthost" provided by an ISP for... [01 Jul 2009]
Security Economics and European Policy
White Paper As Europe moves online, information security is becoming increasingly important: first, because the direct and indirect losses are now economically significant; and second, because growing public concerns about information security... [01 Jul 2009]
Cooperative Attack and Defense in Distributed Networks
White Paper Computer networks are becoming increasingly decentralized. No single entity controls the entire system; therefore, no entity can compel compliance. Peer-to-peer file sharing systems connect users to exchange information, yet lack a... [30 Jun 2009]
ProQuest CSA and the AMD Opteron Processor: A Winning Combination
White Paper ProQuest CSA, part of Cambridge Information Group, was formed in 2007 through the merger of two leading and historic information technology firms: ProQuest Information and Learning and CSA. It needed to help aging... [12 Jun 2009]
