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RSS shuttleUsing NASA's World Wind Component in Your Java Technology Applications
White Paper Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data, World Wind lets the user experience any part of earth's terrain in visually rich 3D form, just as if one were really there. [28 Mar 2008]
Nortel to showcase networking breakthrough
News Nortel, the largest supplier of telephony gear in North America, plans to announce Wednesday that it has developed gear that can shuttle traffic across the internet backbone at speeds of 40 gigabits per second, according to news wire service Reuters. [12 Mar 2008]
Simulation of TCP for Orbiting Spacecraft Through the TDRS Satellite System
White Paper NASA engineers have designed an interface system that connects the Space Shuttle and Space Station communication system to the Internet on Earth. Simulations of the behavior of the modified TCP protocol over the Space Station or Space Shuttle links... [14 Jan 2008]
Aerospace Dynamics International Uses NX CAM to Speed NC Programming for Large, Complex Parts Produced on High-Speed, Five-Axis Machines
White Paper Aerospace Dynamics International (ADI) manufactures large components such as aircraft wing spars and bulkheads and panels for the space shuttle's external fuel tanks. Aerospace Dynamics International no longer has time to code intricate machine... [14 Jan 2008]
Podcast: Building the James Webb Space Telescope
White Paper Since a system failure would involve a space shuttle mission to repair, the software needs to be right the first time. When the Webb Telescope takes off for its perch in space, it will be operated by some 200,000 lines of software code. [29 Nov 2007]
Podcast: Building the James Webb Space Telescope
White Paper Since a system failure would involve a space shuttle mission to repair, the software needs to be right the first time. When the Webb Telescope takes off for its perch in space, it will be operated by some 200,000 lines of software code. [29 Nov 2007]
MySQL Stored Procedure Programming: Error Handling
White Paper For a certain class of applications - software supporting life support systems or the space shuttle, for instance - this level of perfection is actually a part of the requirements, because any unexpected failure of the software would be catastrophic. [24 Oct 2007]
DoS attack could shut down the net
News Silva said: "Our monitoring systems now resemble those for the space shuttle. Denial of service attacks are growing faster than bandwidth is being added to the internet, according to VeriSign, the company that administers the dot-com domain. [26 Sep 2007]
University Increases Information Access and Quality of Life With Mobile Solution
White Paper Working with partners clearTXT and NuSoft Solutions, with an infrastructure from Cincinnati Bell Wireless and phones from i-mate, the university is deploying "Bearcat Phones" to provide instant access to academic information as well as a link to... [22 May 2007]
Intel to make chips in China
News Initially, Intel will make chipsets - which shuttle data back and forth across the processor to the microprocessor of the computer - and possibly communications chips. Intel has announced it will open a wafer fabrication facility in China, a... [26 Mar 2007]
From CIO to consultant: The first month
Comment Once I arrived at JFK, normally I would jump in a cab from the airport to the hotel but when I booked the hotel, I had the option of a shuttle bus for £8 so I chose that instead. It's been one month since Mike Barrett left his cushy executive job... [20 Mar 2007]
Cisco to shell out $3.2bn for WebEx
News Cisco still generates the bulk of its revenue from sales and servicing of routers and switches that shuttle IP packets across corporate networks and the web. Cisco Systems is planning to spend $3.2bn to buy online conferencing company WebEx. [16 Mar 2007]
Cisco's comms suite goes mobile
News Cisco still generates the bulk of its revenue from routers and switches that shuttle IP packets across corporate networks and the internet. Cisco has said its latest upgrade to its Unified Communications software will enable users to access its... [06 Mar 2007]
Cisco taps into social-networking trend
News While at first blush it seems odd that Cisco, a company which sells hardware to shuttle bits around the internet, would buy a software-based, social-networking business, analysts following the company say it actually fits in well with Cisco's long... [09 Feb 2007]
Criticality of Data Quality as Exemplified in Two Disasters
White Paper The explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and the shooting down of an Iranian Airbus by the USS Vincennes were the result of two serious consumer software and management errors. Both disasters have been reviewed in detail in the literature... [01 Feb 2007]
