Latest news about advanced networking research.
MIT launching Kerberos Consortium: MIT next week is throwing a 20th birthday party for the Kerberos authentication system and the big present is a new consortium devoted to keeping the security system going well into the future.
Will end users ever smarten up about phishing and security?: Phishing researchers will congregate at Carnegie Mellon University Oct. 4-5 to debate whether end users will ever get a clue about the dangers of phishing, among other issues pertaining to online crime.
Networked telescope almost as big as the earth: An Australian research outfit says it has linked one of its radio telescopes to others in China and Europe in real-time, “creating a telescope almost as big as the earth.”
What would you do with $803,306?: The University of Arkansas is using $803,306 from the National Science Foundation to buy its second supercomputer, which it says will be among the fastest at U.S. academic institutions.
Make your voice heard about how the feds should be funding networking R&D: The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) is seeking comment by Sept. 30 on its draft plan for advanced networking research and development.
The perfect storm predictor: The prediction of thunderstorms has never been an exact science. But a research team from the University of Oklahoma and the federal government is poised to dramatically improve weather forecasting with supercomputer analyses of the individual cells that make up severe thunderstorms and tornadoes.
Terrorists beware: Dark Web is after you: Computer scientists at a University of Arizona lab have created a project called Dark Web that is designed to track and analyze the moves of terrorists and extremists using the Internet to spread propaganda, recruit members and plan attacks (click here to read our recent feature on cyberwar).
High-speed wireless promises to move multigigabyte files in seconds: Scientists at the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology have designed a system that can transfer data wirelessly at 5G bytes/sec at a range of five meters. To learn more about how researchers and companies are looking to speed up wireless communications.
What better way to learn about online privacy concerns than doing an online privacy survey?: Carnegie Mellon University researchers want to read about your concerns about online privacy. They’ll even toss you into a raffle for Amazon.com gift certificates. Click here to take part in the survey.
Internet pipes can’t keep up in YouTube age: The Internet needs a massive investment to keep up with the demands of YouTube fans, billions of e-mails and wireless access, a university study states.
