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VoIP encryption in a surveillance society
Those of you that have time to get over to the Stanford campus this Wednesday afternoon (March 7th) should do and listen to “Phil Zimmerman’s” talk on VoIP encryption in a surveillance society. For all of you who can’t make it Stanford will put a video online at their “Computer Systems Colloquium (EE380)” site. Phil is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world. He is also known for his work in VoIP encryption protocols…
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BBC: Horizon – most of our universe is missing
Another great documentary from the “BBC science series”. This 50 minutes movie is explaining the fundamentals of gravity, astrophysics, galaxies, dark matter, and dark energy. It is also the story of a controversy in science based on observation supporting a theory that has yet to be experimentally or conclusively proven…
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Europe: European Innovation Scoreboard 2006 published
The European Innovation Scoreboard measures the innovation performance of a country’s economy based on a wide range of 25 indicators, from education to expenditure in Information and Communication Technologies, investment in R&D or number of patents. Countries with a more homogeneous behavior in all aspects of innovation tend to achieve higher overall scores.
“…For the fourth consecutive year, the innovation gap between the US and the EU has decreased. The Nordic countries and Switzerland continue to be the innovation leaders worldwide, while many of the new Member States are steadily catching up with the EU average. These are some of the main findings of the European Innovation Scoreboard 2006, published today. The report presents a comparative analysis of the innovation performance of European countries, the US and Japan…
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2006 Turing award: ACM for the first time laureates female engineer
After more than 40 years of existence the Turing Award aka the “Nobel Prize in Computing” for the first time today was awarded to a female engineer. Frances E. Allen, received the USD 100,000 price for “…pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of optimizing compiler techniques that laid the foundation for modern optimizing compilers and automatic parallel execution…” . Frances E. Allen has been working in the field of computing and Information Technology since the days of punch cards and is currently with…
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Video: Web 2.0 explained
Kansas State University Professor “Michael Wesch” has made the second draft of his video available online that provides a flyover from early HTML to Web 2.0 in less than 5 minutes. Great work…The video is also online at “mojiti.com” were you can write your comments directly into the video itself…
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Research: Unveiling the Quantum Computer
There were quite some stories going around the last days regarding Canadian company D-Wave and their presentation in the Silicon Valley yesterday. If you want to learn more about it: ABC News has a two page story about it. Rose.blog (D-Wave) also has more detailed info and links. There is a Press Release at the [...]
