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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.
[07 May 2008]
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.
[01 May 2008]
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...
[29 Apr 2008]
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.
[10 Apr 2008]
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.
[10 Apr 2008]
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...
[10 Apr 2008]
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...
[07 Apr 2008]
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...
[01 Apr 2008]
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...
[27 Mar 2008]
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...
[26 Mar 2008]
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.
[24 Mar 2008]
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...
[19 Mar 2008]
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...
[18 Mar 2008]
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...
[29 Feb 2008]
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...
[26 Feb 2008]
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...
[25 Feb 2008]
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.
[19 Feb 2008]
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.
[19 Feb 2008]
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.
[11 Feb 2008]
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...
[08 Feb 2008]
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