Latest news about advanced networking research.
A robotic dog you can take hiking: Robotic dogs have been walking around for years – on smooth surfaces – but the metal mutt created by Stefan Schaal, a roboticist at University Southern California can traverse rough terrain.
Web 3.0: Games, games and more games (at work too): We’re still trying to get the hang of Web 2.0 but researchers are already onto Web 3.0. Calit2@UCI this month held an Igniting Technology presentation on “Web 3.0: The Next Transformation of the Internet Experience.”
Researchers: Computer games help heal the world: Computer games help make the world a better place, according to ongoing research in game play at Calit2 and UC Irvine, which has been studying gaming for several years.
Researchers explore whether securing IT networks is really worth it: We often hear corporate IT pros complain that justifying security expenses is tough because they don’t necessarily generate revenue or enable new business opportunities.
Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe goes green in new gig: Ethernet inventor and 3Com founder Robert Metcalfe has taken over as interim president of GreenFuel Technologies , which describes itself as “a pioneer in the development of algae bioreactor technology to convert the CO2 in your smokestack gases into clean, renewable biofuels.”
Software programmers: Not so fast, supercomputers: A good piece here out of Purdue University on the looming problem that supercomputers will have running software as they gain multicore processors.
EMC’s R&D plan for sustainable innovation: Read about what EMC EVP Mark Lewis had to say today about the drastic change in R&D culture that’s needed for EMC to keep its momentum going as storage needs promise to grow in light of companies adopting Web. 2.0 and other new applications.
Israeli researchers map the whole Internet. Boy are they tired: Israeli researchers have created a topographical map of the Internet by enlisting more than 5,600 volunteers across 97 countries who agreed to download a program that tracks how Internet nodes interact with each other.
