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RSS mapsMet police in web 2.0 crime map mash up
News The beta map mashes up Google Maps with crime statistics for each borough, using coloured overlays to indicate varying levels of criminal activity - from patches of dark blue (for low crime) to red (high). [18 Aug 2008]
Photos: Top summer holiday gadgets
Photo There is no shortage of sat-navs to choose from but the Navigon 2110 Series Satellite Navigation System - Western Europe (pictured) will give you Western European maps for around £120. Remembering what the kids got up to on the beach last summer... [11 Aug 2008]
Google Street View cleared by UK privacy watchdog
News The pictures of streets linked to online maps was attacked by privacy campaigners. Google's Street View mapping system has been given the all clear by the UK's privacy watchdog. But now the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said it is... [31 Jul 2008]
Police map out crime online
News People will soon be able to see how well their local police forces are tackling crime with the help of online crime maps. The plan to roll out publicly accessible interactive maps on all police force websites by the end of the year was announced by... [29 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.07.08
Round-Up Meanwhile, the Round-Up, so inept at reading maps that it makes no difference whether they're upside down or even on the right page, thinks they're pretty neat and, bugs aside, the technology certainly increases its chances of getting to the... [25 Jul 2008]
Are sat-navs causing havoc on the roads?
News Using a sat-nav beats the hell out of mucking around with maps and diagrams," said an anonymous poster from Yorkshire, "how many respondents were asked the same questions in relation to maps? Sat-navs not only drive motorists to distraction, they... [24 Jul 2008]
SMS roaming cuts 'could stifle competition'
News Check out silicon.com's latest mobile photo stories here… Photos: Google Android unveils its face Photos: BlackBerry Boldly goes Qwerty over touch again Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008... [16 Jul 2008]
BlackBerry ready to burst into new pastures
News Check out silicon.com's latest mobile photo stories here… Photos: Google Android unveils its face Photos: BlackBerry Boldly goes Qwerty over touch again Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008... [16 Jul 2008]
Simple Efficient Load Balancing Algorithms for Peer-to-Peer Systems
White Paper The first protocol balances the distribution of the key address space to nodes, which yields a load-balanced system when the DHT maps items "Randomly" into the address space. Load balancing is a critical issue for the efficient operation of peer-to... [10 Jul 2008]
A Reconfigurable Architecture for Load-Balanced Rendering
White Paper The programmer species the number of tiles per pipeline stage, and the StreamIt compiler maps the computation to the Raw architecture. Commodity graphics hardware has become increasingly programmable over the last few years but has been limited to... [10 Jul 2008]
Privacy concerns over Google Street View
News The Google service, which was first made available to a European audience last Thursday, shows 360° views of streets as a part of the Google Maps application. The Information Commissioner's Office has said it has concerns about Google's Street View... [09 Jul 2008]
Why Serious Architecture Plans Matter for Small Devices
White Paper Most of them begin by stating that software architecture is the general structure of a system, or that it maps the requirements of a system onto specific design or implementation decisions. This paper discusses the reasons why good software... [09 Jul 2008]
Intrusion Sensor Data Fusion in an Intelligent Intrusion Detection System Architecture
White Paper The Decision Engine uses Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) and fuzzy rule-bases for causal knowledge acquisition and to support the causal knowledge reasoning process. Most modern intrusion detection systems employ multiple intrusion sensors to maximize... [09 Jul 2008]
Cooperative Exploration With Multiple Robots Using Low Bandwidth Communication
White Paper This paper presents an efficient way to incrementally improve that kind of maps. This paper considers the problem of exploring an unknown environment with a team of mobile robots. In this context it is assumed that the robots have only a low... [08 Jul 2008]
A Theory and Implementation of Smooth Conditional Maps
White Paper This paper demonstrates the visual power of continuous smoothing and slicing of multivariate maps, through an example relating the rates of screening tests to colon cancer rates. A new theoretical result provides legitimacy and understanding by... [03 Jul 2008]
