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Jonathan Zittrain
AS Profile As cyber law professor at the University of Oxford, Jonathan Zittrain's expertise and razor-sharp insight has established him as an authority on the future of the internet. Zittrain came to Oxford from... [07 Oct 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.10.08
Round-Up In the past, the MI6 used to recruit spies by tracking students with the right 'qualifications' as they made their way through the country's top universities: Oxford, Cambridge or Hull (as Blackadder would have it). [03 Oct 2008]
Video Data Mining Using Configurations of Viewpoint Invariant Regions
White Paper This paper describes a method for obtaining the principal objects, characters and scenes in a video by measuring the reoccurrence of spatial configurations of viewpoint invariant features. The paper investigates two aspects of the... [01 Oct 2008]
ID card 'will drown in a billion mismatches'
News O is for Oxford The government has underestimated the likely failure rate of the ID card scheme, according to a biometrics expert who reviewed the system. The ID card scheme will guard against one person having multiple... [26 Sep 2008]
One million ID cards every year from 2009
News O is for Oxford The UK will produce up to one million ID cards for foreign nationals every year, according to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. Smith was speaking at an event in London today where she revealed the design of... [25 Sep 2008]
'Uncloneable' biometric passports pass the test
News O is for Oxford Europe has moved closer to the rollout of full biometric passports after key systems were shown to work. The UK was one of 27 countries that took part in the tests of RFID chips and passport readers for... [22 Sep 2008]
Lenovo and Microsoft serve up SME tech bonanza
News Speaking at the announcement of the new products at the AT&T Williams F1 factory in Grove, near Oxford, VP for Lenovo's centre of excellence in EMEA, Damian Crotty added: "Clearly servers present the next market we're... [16 Sep 2008]
Survey results: The Oxford Index - Demand Trends for Oracle Applications Consultants
White Paper Based on a survey sent to managers in the hardware engineering field, Oxford Global Resources has released their most recent index of demand trends for high-end Oracle applications consultants. A specialist in finding... [02 Sep 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.08.08
Round-Up According to reports, the server, originally owned by archiving company Graphic Data of Shoeburyness in Essex, was bought by an eBay user based in Oxford and contained information on customers of American Express,... [29 Aug 2008]
One million bank customers' details sold on eBay
News According to reports, the PC, originally owned by archiving company Graphic Data of Shoeburyness in Essex, was bought by an eBay user based in Oxford and contained information on customers of American Express, NatWest... [26 Aug 2008]
Controlling Multimedia QoS in the Future Home Network Using the PSQA Metric
White Paper This paper studies the quality of multimedia (voice and video) streams in a likely future home networking context. The paper studies the performance of the wireless link, and how it affects the perceived quality of real - time streams. [04 Aug 2008]
Bletchley Park future under colossal threat
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... [24 Jul 2008]
The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News Rutherford Appleton Laboratories (RAL), near Oxford, has a 10-gigabit connection to Cern capable of 1,250Mbps upstream and downstream that will pipe in almost raw data from the LHC via the UK part of the LCG - the GridPP. [15 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone launch: Tech trouble for O2
News As of midday, the spokeswoman said O2 had sold out of 16GB iPhones in its Oxford Street store in London, adding: "We are selling in our biggest stores… 40 [iPhone] handsets an hour - which is more contracts than we... [11 Jul 2008]
WiMax - spreading to more UK businesses
News The provider announced it would be rolling out the technology to customers in Leeds, London, Manchester, Oxford and Sheffield, and claimed this rollout would make it the biggest WiMax provider in the UK. [10 Jul 2008]
