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News Among the scientists to put their name to the letter are professor Bill Roscoe, director of Oxford University's computing laboratory, professor Jean Bacon at the University of Cambridge computer laboratory and professor Ian Sommerville, professor... [24 Jul 2008]
Top University Builds World-Leading Supercomputer
White Paper University of Cambridge's existing supercomputer was struggling to keep up with the demands being placed on it. The needed to move on from so-called 'shared memory' proprietary machines into the world of 'Commodity clusters', having been at the... [08 Jul 2008]
Policy-Controlled Event Management for Distributed Intrusion Detection
White Paper A powerful strategy in intrusion detection is the separation of surveillance mechanisms from a site's policy for processing observed events. The Bro intrusion detection system has been using the notion of policy-neutral events as the basic building... [05 Jul 2008]
An e-Guide to Cyberfraud
White Paper Forrester Research, an Internet consulting company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, estimates that the consumer market will sell $18.2 billion worth of goods in 1999--twice 1998 figures. This e-guide examines the trends in Internet fraud: what to look... [03 Jul 2008]
GPRSWeb: Optimizing the Web for GPRS Links
White Paper This paper investigates what causes the HTTP protocol and its underlying transport TCP to underperform in a GPRS environment. The paper examines why certain GPRS network characteristics interact badly with TCP to yield problems such as: link under... [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. This month silicon.com looked at tech being used at the summer music festivals, the best mini... [30 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Games skills gap, student outsourcing, ID card fears
Comment Richard Southern, Cambridge The games industry is the latest to suffer the dreaded skills gap - but who's to blame? Also attracting plenty of reader comment this week was the revelation that UK students are 'outsourcing' coursework to India. [27 Jun 2008]
Photos: The solar powered speedster
Photo This Affinity whizzes along at a top speed of 60mph and was put together by the Cambridge University Eco Racing (CUER) team. It might look like a UFO hurtling towards you but this solar-powered race car is proof that fast wheels are not at odds... [16 Jun 2008]
Gareth Lewis
CIO Profile Outside of Virgin, the Cambridge-educated Lewis is a non-executive director of mobile services software supplier Elata, a member of the customer advisory board for Tideway Systems and a board member of the Telecommunications Management Forum. [11 Jun 2008]
ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk
News In the report Ross Anderson, a security expert from Cambridge University, also warns that biometrics can easily be stolen by organised gangsters. The national ID card database must not be used to turn the UK into a surveillance society, MPs have... [09 Jun 2008]
Northern Ireland builds high tech credentials
News Invest NI emphasises the strengths of value for money, strong skills and a flexible workforce that cannot be matched elsewhere in the UK as reasons why companies should invest there rather than other UK tech hubs such as Reading or Cambridge. [02 Jun 2008]
Oracle Case Study: Hyatt Hotels
White Paper JSF had just been released and Cambridge Consulting was new to this technology. Hyatt Corporation is one of full-service luxury hotels and resorts with more than 200 locations in about 40 countries. Hyatt Corporation wanted to develop a centralized... [21 May 2008]
Honeycomb - Creating Intrusion Detection Signatures Using Honeypots
White Paper This paper describes a system for automated generation of attack signatures for network intrusion detection systems. The system applies pattern-matching techniques and protocol conformance checks on multiple levels in the protocol hierarchy to... [21 May 2008]
Security experts criticise Phorm
News Dr Richard Clayton, a security expert from the University of Cambridge, published a paper earlier this month detailing Phorm's infrastructure. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. [18 Apr 2008]
Applying the OAIS Standard to CCLRC's British Atmospheric Data Centre and the Atlas Petabyte Storage Service
White Paper The OAIS reference model is being considered as a standard for adoption by the Digital Curation Centre. This work will form part of that assessment. The British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC) at CCLRC is evaluating CCLRC's Atlas Petabyte Storage... [12 Apr 2008]
