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Tim Berners-Lee
AS Profile He heads up the Web Science Research Initiative with colleagues from MIT in the US and the University of Southampton in the UK to promote the study of web science and... [07 Oct 2008]
Lords to debate security progress of "wild west" web
News The debate follows on from the publication of two reports by the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, in August 2007 and July 2008. The initial inquiry found that public confidence in the internet was in... [06 Oct 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.09.08
Round-Up In an attempt to make science 'cool' and appeal to 'young people' a Nasa magazine has commissioned a postgraduate science student from the University of Glamorgan to write an 'Astrobiology Rap'. Student... [26 Sep 2008]
Data Mining in Social Networks
White Paper Recent research projects in two closely related areas of computer science - machine learning and data mining - have developed methods for constructing statistical models of network data. Examples of such data include... [19 Sep 2008]
Note-Taking Software Is Helping Today's Medical Students Become Tomorrow's Doctors
White Paper The University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine is an integral component of one of North America's largest health science complexes. OneNote helps users cull research from the Web into one location,... [19 Sep 2008]
Data Mining, National Security, Privacy and Civil Liberties
White Paper This is because data mining tools are available on the web or otherwise and even naive users can apply these tools to extract information from the data stored in various databases and files and consequently violate the... [19 Sep 2008]
Home broadband gives kids better GCSE results
News For GCSE science, Becta said the average gain from ICT use is 0.56 of a grade. The research also shows the humble interactive whiteboards can help improve pupils' performances in national tests in English, maths and... [28 Aug 2008]
Firefox extension to protect from wireless hacks
News Perspectives also protects against attacks that exploit a recently exposed flaw in the DNS system, which translates web addresses into numerical IP addresses, said Dave Andersen, a computer science... [27 Aug 2008]
Inbox: YouTube surveillance, skills gap, Naked speak
Comment But what is really needed is for someone to take a hard look at all university "computer science" courses, and see whether they: Equip students for the next mobile and web technologies to come over the... [11 Aug 2008]
Probabilistic QoS and Soft Contracts for Transaction Based Web Services Orchestrations
White Paper Web services orchestrations and choreographies require establishing Quality of Service (QoS) contracts with the user. This is achieved by performing QoS composition, based on contracts established between the... [04 Aug 2008]
Integrative Security Management for Web-Based Enterprise Applications
White Paper To this end, the paper presents a design and implementation of an integrative security management solution for Web-based enterprise applications, WebDaemon. It provides Single Sign-On to multiple Web... [04 Aug 2008]
DOH: A Content Delivery Peer-to-Peer Network
White Paper Many SMEs and non-profit organizations suffer when their Web servers become unavailable due to flash crowd effects when their web site becomes popular. One of the solutions to the flash-crowd problem is... [04 Aug 2008]
Berners-Lee and friends promote web science study
News The study of web science is being promoted by a group of top academics to lay the foundations for the future development of the world wide web. The Web... [14 Jul 2008]
A Component Framework for Building Web Science Gateways and Portals
White Paper Portlet-based Grid portals have become a crucial part of the international distributed computing infrastructure to support computational science ("Cyberinfrastructure") provide component-based problem solving... [11 Jul 2008]
Load Balancing on Open Networks: A Mobile Agent Approach
White Paper In order to disperse the load on a Web server, generally the server cluster is configured to distribute access requests, or mirror servers are distributed geographically on different networks. Use of the Internet and the... [11 Jul 2008]
