physics
Android development kit goes native
News Some examples are signal processing, intensive physics simulations, and some kinds of data processing. A native application development kit has been released for Android developers, offering a way to create certain kinds... [26 Jun 2009]
Analyzing Interaction Between Distributed Denial of Service Attacks and Mitigation Technologies
White Paper Under sponsorship of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Fault Tolerant Networks (FTN) program, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) has been conducting the Distributed... [25 Jun 2009]
Advanced Site Solutions for WiMax
White Paper Still, the laws of physics dictate that there is need to get power from point A to point B that is above the receiver threshold. The allure of the WiMax wireless high speed data service is well documented. [25 Jun 2009]
BlueOx: A Java Framework for Distributed Data Analysis
White Paper High energy physics experiments including those at the Tevatron and the upcoming LHC require analysis of large data sets which are best handled by distributed computation. This paper presents the design and development... [25 Jun 2009]
Concrete Uses of XML in Software Development and Data Analysis
White Paper Despite this there are still some questions about how or if this technology can be useful in High Energy Physics software development and data analysis. XML is now becoming an industry standard for data description and... [25 Jun 2009]
A Proxy Service for the xrootd Data Server
White Paper In data intensive sciences like High Energy Physics, large amounts of data are typically distributed and/or replicated to several sites. Although there exist various ways to store and access this data within a Grid... [25 Jun 2009]
PXI Based Loss Less Continuous Data Acquisition System for Steady State Tokamaks
White Paper But the requirements for the Plasma physics experiments and specifically Tokamaks are unique and different. Most of the plasma physics experiments operates in a pulse mode and capture the data during the... [25 Jun 2009]
MSDN Webcast: Multiple Levels and Additional Character Functionality (Part 8 of 11) (Level 200)
White Paper In this webcast, participants create additional skill levels for their games and learn about how to make the main character jump using a table-based approach and a physics-based approach. The webcast provides a basic... [25 Jun 2009]
Overview of IEPM-BW Bandwidth Testing of Bulk Data Transfer
White Paper Grid Computing capabilities are needed for the High Energy and Nuclear Physics research of today and in the future. Groups such as the Particle Physics Data Grid are developing tools to meet these needs. [25 Jun 2009]
Intel: From silicon company - to software company?
News Starting years ago from basic ingredients such as programming utilities, Intel has expanded its software work - for example by pushing the moblin mobile Linux project and bulking up its Software and Services Group via a spending spree... [05 Jun 2009]
David Tidey
CIO Profile Tidey graduated from the University of Exeter in physics and chemistry in 1982 from where he went to work for Greater London Council as a management trainee. David Tidey moved to the Royal Borough of Kensington and... [01 Jun 2009]
The tech that lifts Pixar's Up
News Instead, the studio's computer whizzes figured out a way to turn the problem over to a programmed physical simulator, which, employing Newtonian physics, was able to address the animation problem. These are relatively... [28 May 2009]
Budget: £750m cash injection for UK tech
News On e-skills the budget mentioned a £3m scheme to provide training for science teachers, a pilot programme to encourage science take-up in 20 local authorities and an additional £2m to be invested in providing support to encourage... [22 Apr 2009]
Wireless Sensor Networks: A Great Opportunity for Researchers in Developing Countries
White Paper This paper advocates the use of wireless sensor networks in Developing Countries as one foresees they have a great role to play not only to expedite novel solutions that help mitigate development problems, but also to facilitate research... [15 Apr 2009]
Robot scientist makes gene discovery - without humans
News While it may not win the Nobel Prize for physics just yet, Adam appears to be doing impressively well for a young scientist, carrying out scientific research automatically, without the need for further human intervention. [03 Apr 2009]