Latest news about advanced networking research.
Paper-thin storage: Scientists at Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute is reported to have developed an energy storage device that resembles a sheet of black paper. The battery can function in temperatures up to 300 degrees Fahrenheit and is tiny enough to be used in implantable medical equipment, transportation vehicles and small gadgets.
Rubik’s cube solved in 26 moves or fewer: Northeastern Computer Science PhD student Daniel Kunkle has proven that any configuration of a Rubik’s cube can be solved in 26 moves or fewer moves. The previous upper bound was 27.
Scientist enables spreadsheets to come alive: A researcher at University of Maryland at Baltimore County has developed an application that enables spreasheets to come alive. RDF123, developed by UMBC PhD student Lushan Han, maps spreadsheet data to Resource Description Framework (RDF), which according to the W3C, integrates a variety of apps using XML as an interchange syntax.
UCSD researchers shed light on Internet scams: UC San Diego computer scientists affiliated with Calit2 and the Collaborative Center for Internet Epidemiology and Defenses (CCIED) have found striking differences between the infrastructure used to distribute spam and the infrastructure used to host the online scams advertised in these unwanted email messages.
Purdue blows cool air over computer chips: Researchers are showing off technology that promises to increase the cooling rate of computer chips by as much as 250%.
In wake of Minneapolis bridge collapse, schools tripping over each other to promote bridge safety technologies: The collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis has sent universities into overdrive promoting the wireless and nanotechnology research going on in their labs that could one day make bridges and other structures safer.
Spammers’ Achilles Heel: According to researchers at the University of California, San Diego, antispam fighters could really hurt the spammers bottom line, if they target the Web sites used to host their scams rather than simply trying to block the mail server used to send out unsolicited commercial e-mail.
IBM readying the superest of supercomputers: The New York Times News Service reports that the National Science Foundation is planning to fork over funds to IBM to have it build the world’s fastest supercomputer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
