Archive for November, 2007
WikiMapia
WikiMapia is a Web 2.0 project to describe the whole planet Earth. It was created by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev, inspired by Google maps and Wikipedia.To avoid ”online vandalism” you have to register to add places. The further you zoom in on the map, the more details will be ……..
New computer program automates chip debugging
Fixing design bugs and wrong wire connections in computer chips after they’ve been fabricated in silicon is a tedious, trial-and-error process that often costs companies millions of dollars and months of time-to-market. Engineering scientists at the University of Michigan say it doesn’t have to be …
Decades of cancer research into 2 years
Canadian scientists expect to accelerate the war on cancer by tapping into a global network of hundreds of thousands of humans who volunteer their idle computer date to tackle some of the worlds most complex problems. The research team, led by Dr. Igor Jurisica at the Ontario Cancer Institute (OCI)…
Benefits of online interaction for teens outweigh danger
Is there such a thing as being too safe on the Net? One University of Illinois education researcher believes there is, at least when teenagers are concerned. Media reports warn of online predators, hate groups and other “digital dangers” lurking in online social spaces, and those dangers are not to…
Dealing with the input deluge
Most humans have a few gigabytes of files on their PC. In the next decade, astronomers expect to be processing 10 million gigabytes of input every hour from the Square Kilometre Array telescope. And with DNA sequencing getting cheaper, researchers will be info mining possibly hundreds of thousands …
Security loophole in Windows operating system
A group of scientists headed by Dr. Benny Pinkas from the area of Computer Science at the University of Haifa succeeded in finding a safety measure vulnerability in Microsoft’s “Windows 2000″ operating system. The significance of the loophole: emails, passwords, credit card numbers, whether they w…
Lecture Search Engine To Aid Students
Imagine you are taking an introductory biology course. You’re studying for an exam and realize it would be helpful to revisit the professor’s explanation of RNA interference. Fortunately for you, a digital recording of the lecture is online, but the 10-minute explanation you want is buried in a 90-…









