MC Hammer time at Wharton Business Technology Conference
Google doling out millions of dollars: for energy research, for Haiti relief and for lobbying
Every time I turn around it seems like Google is handing out a million dollars, usually for good causes. Associated Press reported late last year that Google topped $1 million in lobbying spending during its third fiscal quarter. Read more
10 fun facts about RIM and the BlackBerry
Alastair Sweeney's book BlackBerry Planet, released last year, tells you more than you ever needed to know about Research in Motion and its famous smartphones, but as a relatively new BlackBerry user I figured getting a good backgrounder would be useful.
NSF funds research to separate you from malware
The National Science Foundation is funneling more than $1.7 million into a pair of computer security projects outlined today by the researchers' schools. Read more
Super (duper) computers
From IDG News Service:
The U.S. Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratories is investigating the possibility of using virtualization to allow its researchers to make better use of its behemoth Red Storm supercomputer. Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico are also participating in the project. Read more
Prolific Cornell prof honored for P2P, Web, social networking research
Jon Kleinberg, a computer science professor at Cornell University, has won the 2009 Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize for his research into such network phenomena as how Web pages link, how social media friendships happen and how peer-to-peer file-sharing works. Read more
Ball State prof: 2010 the Year of the Smartphone
Mellon's folding of open source funding project has education IT pros buzzing
An article in Tuesday's Chronicle of Higher Education about the end of a Mellon Foundation program that funded several popular open source efforts has education IT pros buzzing about what the fate of those efforts. Read more
Sprint store stars in 2009 Darwin Awards
Google Doodles: A recap of the search engine giant's coolest logos of 2009
Google on Monday unveiled its latest Google Doodle, a festive tropical Christmas postcard that overlays the company's logo on its main search page. The company will be rolling out a series of additional Christmas Doodles between now and the holiday, and is archiving them at this web page. Read more
Google Doodles: A recap of the search engine giant's coolest logos of 2009
Google on Monday unveiled its latest Google Doodle, a festive tropical Christmas postcard that overlays the company's logo on its main search page. The company will be rolling out a series of additional Christmas Doodles between now and the holiday, and is archiving them at this web page. Read more
Got Facebook privacy concerns? You ain't seen nothing yet
Carnegie Mellon University researcher Tom Mitchell says that privacy risks "on a scale that humans have never before faced" hinder real-time data analysis that could be used to solve health, traffic and human behavior problems. Read more
NIST doles out up to $71 million on 20 research awards
The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced it will invest up to $71 million on 20 research project awards. The project awards will be matched via other funding sources, bringing the possible total investment to around $150 million. Among the projects awarded funding: Read more
Any interest in running Internet2?
Internet2, the advanced networking consortium powered by educational and research organizations, has announced that it's on the lookout for a new CEO. Read more
Smartphones to make beautiful music at University of Michigan concert
University of Michigan students on Dec. 9 will perform a unique concert: they will play instruments on their smartphones that they built in class. Read more
SETI@home in spotlight following IT chief's job loss
UPDATE: On Dec. 3, Neisluchowski issued a statement denying misuse of or theft of school computers.
Reports this week out of Arizona about how a public school district IT chief lost his job have put the use of volunteer grid computing efforts in the spotlight. Read more
Free Android app rats out bandwidth hogging applications
University of Michigan professors and students have created an Android smartphone apps that gives users and developers a window into how much power their apps are chewing up. Read more
Move over Taylor Swift: Here comes the first Twitter music album
A UK researcher has compiled what he is calling the first album of Twitter music, that is, music squeezed into Twitter's signature 140-character messages.
Dan Stowell, a composer and computer scientist at Queen Mary, University of London, compiled the album – called sc140 – from Tweets sent from around the world. As much as five minutes of music can be jammed into a Tweet using programming tricks.
Kerberos brain dump via MIT
The MIT Kerberos Consortium held a conference in October and is now making slides from presentations available here online. These include slides from Microsoft Chief Architect for Identity Kim Cameron's keynote address and from a panel including NASA and Cornell reps. Read more
Friday the 13th special: 13 geeky 13th anniversaries
2009 marks the 13th anniversary for a slew of seminal tech industry events, so here on Friday the 13th, is a brief look back at developments both lucky and unlucky. (For our annual Geekiest 25th Anniversaries, click here) Read more
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