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Researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology say they have come up with a way to use the same sort of fiber-optic cables used for telecom to detect tunnel excavation at depths of more than 60 feet. The American Technion Institute notes in its press release that this technology could be used, for example, to sniff out the sort of tunnels "used for smuggling weapons into Gaza."
University of California, Irvine researchers are applying lessons learned from music and video peer-to-peer file transfer networks to a system for reducing traffic jams on the roads. Read more
From the MIT Kerberos Consortium:
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The MIT Kerberos Consortium will hold its first Interoperability Testing event March 30th - April 3rd, 2009. This event will be hosted by Microsoft Corporation on their Campus in Redmond, Washington.
Microsoft Research claims that you're better off flipping burgers than concocting phishing schemes if your sole goal is to make money, according to this Tech Herald report.
From IDG News Service:
With the help of about 200 Sony Playstations, an international team of security researchers have devised a way to undermine the algorithms used to protect secure Web sites and launch a nearly undetectable phishing attack.
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The trick is finding that 4%, who responded to the National Venture Capital Association's annual survey of more than 400 VCs.
Most VCs have a grim outlook, figuring a recovery won't happen until 2010. Clean tech, life sciences and medical devices are the most promising areas, whereas semiconductors are expected to get the worst of it, in terms of investment. Wireless, which has been such a hot area of investment, is expected to fall, according to 60%. Read more
But then, Microsoft R&D honcho Bill Buxton's main point in this BusinessWeek column is that most companies cannot afford not to do basic R&D since the payback has been shown to be greater than that of applied research. Read more
NW's John Cox revisits the Antikythera Device: A new working model of the mysterious 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator has been unveiled, incorporating the most recent discoveries announced two years ago by an international team of researchers.
Research out of MIT's Sloan School of Management finds that when the best of the best academic scientists die that their teams are significantly and permanently less productive.
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From IDG News Service:
Nanotechnology may someday expand your cell phone's range while improving its battery life if a prototype transistor from IBM gets to market. Read more
MIT computer science professor David Karger's research team has developed software dubbed List.it that's designed to computerize many of the things people currently do through sticky notes: organize email addresses, passwords and the like.
The software, now in public beta, lives in your Firefox browser and can be downloaded here. Read more
Or so he writes in the October issue of Scientific American (OK, a little behind on my reading and I'm talking about the print version, though here's an abstract online). Read more
CMU, UNH, Stanford and Rutgers are just some of the schools whose labs are putting futuristic and not-so-far off network technologies through their paces. Here's a slideshow I cobbled together that highlights labs working on advances in wireless, cloud computing, security and more.
I like to think that our crack editorial staff lets through very few typos during the course of any year, but two that I often nip in the bud and that spell checkers don't catch are "Widows,' which is supposed to be Windows, and "manager," which is supposed to be manager, as in network manager. Of course, manger does have a seasonal ring to it at this time of year.
Spoke with Jefferies & Co. Paul Deninger yesterday about the year in tech M&A activity. Here's the full story and here's what he had to say specifically about what the current M&A climate means for CIOs and network pros: Read more
University of Utah researchers have invented technology that could come to be embraced by teenagers with the same enthusiasm they have for curfews and ID checks. And like those things, it could save their lives. Read more
A University of Toronto student has come up with a system for video sharing web sites to better label content and avoid copyright infringement. That's a big deal given the amount of viewers sites like YouTube get (it had 100 million in October, according to the latest ComScore tally). Read more
Can't say much of the Pew Internet Project survey results on adult usage of video games was too surprising (more than of U.S. adults play video games), but did learn at least a few things:
* Men are only slightly more likely to play than women (55% to 50%)
* Just 3% of teens don't play
* Those with college education play more than those with just high school education Read more
Intel's Avalanche Photodetector isn't really what it sounds like: it has nothing to do with whether a mountain's side might slide down. Rather, it has to do with boosting optical communication speeds. More from IDG News Service on this development that "senses light pulses and amplifies output signals for faster data transfer over long distances." Read more
The future of networking as seen through the works of university and other labs.
Our mission is to give you a peek into the future of networking by tracking "alpha" research at university and other labs and at companies based on this work. Your Alpha Doggs are Network World editors Bob Brown, Linda Leung and Neal Weinberg.
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