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Synergy in Security: Why a Combined ISO 17799 and OCTAVE Approach Makes Sense

whitepaper Like a museum, the challenge is to identify the critical assets and protect not just the perimeter of the network, but those assets as well. Information systems today resemble museums more than medieval castles.

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain

Photo The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum in London.

Tags: tech, science, history

[01 May 2008]

India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...

Photo Click here for photos of it being installed in the museum. Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a version of Charles Babbage's famous Difference engine, a machine designed to mechanically calculate...

Tags: hyderabad, robots, bangalore

[29 Apr 2008]

Photos: Charles Babbage's masterpiece reincarnated

Photo Tech millionaire Nathan Myhrvold commissioned London's Science Museum to make him a version of Charles Babbage's famous Difference engine, a machine designed to mechanically calculate polynomial functions.

Tags: science museum, computer

[10 Apr 2008]

RFID for Asset Management at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

whitepaper The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in The Netherlands has been giving considerable attention to their collection registry system for many years. Museum Boijmans wanted to integrate the RFID system with their current registry system.

Tags: asset management, objects, tag, registry

[10 Apr 2008]

A Study of an Augmented Museum Experience

whitepaper This paper describes the design of a study of visitors to a science museum who are equipped with wirelessly connected handheld devices. The museum exhibits are augmented with information and services in the form of web pages, and the users can...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, physical, pages, virtual

[10 Apr 2008]

Photos: Eavesdropping on the net

Photo The Listening Post at the Science Museum in London captures snapshots of fractured conversation from thousands of public chatrooms and bulletin boards. Hannah Redler, head of arts projects at the Science Museum, said in a statement: "It is an awe...

Tags: listen, web

[07 Apr 2008]

Computing museum at risk of being thing of the past

News The UK's first museum dedicated to the history of the computer is facing homelessness after receiving no firm offers to save it. The Museum of Computing in Swindon will lose its base at the University of Bath in Swindon when the Oakdale campus...

Tags: history, museum, computer history

[01 Apr 2008]

Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art

Photo And sticking with the military theme, the Future Soldier event at London's National Army Museum showcased holographic quantum technology and acoustic sniper sensors. Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from...

Tags: supercomputer, robots, viruses, military

[27 Mar 2008]

Photos: Talons, Eagles and Enforcers - the tech behind war

Photo The Future Soldier event at London's National Army Museum blew open the UK's arsenal of the future. Holographic quantum technology and acoustic sniper sensors may sound like the stuff of science fiction films - but they are actually new defence...

Tags: soldier, army, mod, credit

[26 Mar 2008]

Museum Reduces Content Delivery Time From Days to Minutes

whitepaper The Denver Museum of Nature & Science serves a membership base of 40,000 households and is the Rocky Mountain region's leading informal science educator, promoting the understanding of the universe, nature, science and human cultures.

Tags: application servers

[24 Mar 2008]

Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine

Video The base is now home to the fledgling National Museum of Computing, which features a rebuild of the world's first electronic codebreaking computer - Colossus. In the first of this exclusive video series, silicon.com takes you behind the scenes at...

Tags: colossus, bletchley park, museum, world war ii

[19 Mar 2008]

Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine

Photo Bletchley Park is now home to the new National Museum of Computing, which features a rebuild of the world's first electronic codebreaking computer - Colossus. This is the rebuilt Colossus Mk II computer at Bletchley Park's National Museum of...

Tags: colossus, bletchley park, message, messages

[18 Mar 2008]

Network Access Protection Helps Art Museum Share Information More Securely

whitepaper 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 accessibility also extends...

Tags: application servers

[29 Feb 2008]

Photos: When art meets tech - Nokia phone Morphs into view

Photo The exhibition is to run until 12 May at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Morph, a concept mobile phone co-developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge, is featured in an online display presented in conjunction with...

Tags: nokia, phone, art, phones

[26 Feb 2008]

Customer Success Story: The Museum of Modern Art

whitepaper MoMA deployed Varonis DatAdvantage to establish and control museum wide data governance. THE CHALLENGE To optimize the process of data authorization and access management so that it is highly proactive, affording granular control over the...

Tags: data center, governance, establish, rights

[25 Feb 2008]

County Museum Integrates Gift Sales, Admissions, Memberships, and Finances

whitepaper With no IT solution to build upon, Dallas County's forming Old Red Museum had to extrapolate future data needs for souvenir sales, customer records, donations, admissions, memberships, and social events.

Tags: erp

[19 Feb 2008]

Swedish Museum Makes 10 Percent Time Savings on Network Management

whitepaper Varmlands Museum attracts approximately 200,000 visitors every year who want to see how people in the Swedish region of Varmland lived in the past. In 1998 the museum had only one server and five computers.

Tags: application servers

[19 Feb 2008]

Photos: NFC tech takes to the catwalk

Photo Fashion buyers at the Science Museum registered their interest in work by up-and-coming designer Emilio de la Morena simply by touching their Nokia 6131 NFC mobile phone to posters of his clothing, as seen here.

Tags: nfc, o2, nokia, london

[11 Feb 2008]

Universita La Sapienza's Wi-Art Project Uses RFID Technology to Personalize the Museum Experience

whitepaper Located in Rome, Universita La Sapienza is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious universities. Universita La Sapienza wanted to create a single archive of all university artifacts, with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) cataloguing to...

Tags: application servers

[08 Feb 2008]

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