For every 1,000 lines of code, one to five bugs are introduced. And getting those bugs out of the millions of lines of software code that run today's complex systems is costly and only performed by highly specialized researchers with deep knowledge of software and mathematical theorem-proving techniques.
Most often when the watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office are called into to check out an agency, process or project they are looking for something that has gone wrong. This week, however the group took a look at some government IT projects that have gone right and came up with some...
These aren't your basic video gaming systems here. The US government gave Raytheon BBN Technologies a $10.5 million today to develop what it called "serious games" that result in better decision-making by teaching players to recognize and diminish the effects of their own biases when analyzing...
Getting a series of small satellites to communicate and act as one unit in space while taking commands from Earth-bound command centers is a gargantuan wireless task. But the researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are looking for technology that does just that.
It's clear by the increasing use of analytics software that companies are struggling to get their hands around the huge amounts of data it takes to run a successful business. But developing social, mobile, cloud computing and other applications are also driving the need for new technical...
Researchers from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will next week detail a new program it hopes will develop technology to dramatically change computer system security authorization.
WASHGINTON, DC -- Getting non-traditional security technology quickly into military networks was at best a trying experience. Not only that, if you or your company had a novel security tools the last place you may have wanted to show it off would have been to the government.
If you needed any more evidence the mobile world is just exploding look no further than an IBM study out this week that says during this year's holiday season an unprecedented 15% of people in the US logging onto a retailer's Web site are expected to do so through a mobile device.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is embarking on a tour of three major universities that will take him to Harvard on Nov. 7, the school where he created the famous web site then dropped out of and moved the operation to Silicon Valley in 2004.
The cutting-edge intelligence research development arm of the government wants to take advantage of the world's semiconductor manufacturing capacity but make sure that US security and intellectual property protection is baked in.
If you like puzzles and think you could make shredded or severely damaged documents whole again in a particularly cool way, then the scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have a challenge for you.
When I think if the United States Air Force I don't typically think of it worrying too much about the human psyche. But in this case, the Air Force says it wants to begin studies that look at the psychological, neurological, or contextual elements of human reliance on autonomous systems....
ORLANDO -- As much as 50% of company Web sales will come through social and mobile applications by 2015, according to Gartner.The increase will come as e-commerce vendors offer new context-aware, mobile-based applications. Online sales increases will also be partly as companies move aggressively...
ORLANDO - When you start off with this bit of information from Gartner: By 2015, 80% of newly installed wireless networks will be obsolete because of a lack of proper planning - you understand the challenges enterprises face in ramping up mobile environments.
ORLANDO -- If you had to pick 10 technology-related trends that will impact your enterprise infrastructure in the coming year, Gartner says you'd do well to start with virtualization and move to other issues such as social media influence, energy issues and flat networks to name a few.
The Air Force today tried to quash the firestorm of criticism around its handling of the computer virus that hit its unmanned drone program last month.
NASA this week rolled out a video game that lets would-be network executives design and build a giant virtual ground and space communications system that would keep astronauts in orbit and scientists on the ground in touch.
In an agreement announced today with the Federal Trade Commission, peer-to-peer file-sharing developer Frostwire can no longer use default settings that share consumers' files, provide a free upgrade its software to correct unintended sharing and bars the firm from misrepresenting what files its applications...
In what it says is the largest False Claims Act settlement it has ever collected, the US General Services Administration will get $199.5 million plus interest from Oracle for "failing to meet their contractual obligations."
Botnets are indeed one of the scourges of the Internet and the government in conjunction with public and private companies want to work together to wipe them out.The US departments of Commerce and Homeland Security (DHS) today discussed with other federal agencies and information technology-based private-sector...
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