Latest news about advanced networking research.
April Fools Day, IETF style, 04/01/2007The Internet engineering community has proposed a new communications protocol designed to help prosecutors track down people who illegally download copyrighted material from peer-to-peer Web sites.Open source swarms around NAC for security, 03/30/2007A pair of Harvard University IT staffers last week released a free virtual appliance that supports their open source network access control platform …Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon forming Computational Thinking center, 03/27/2007
Not all that money you spend on Vista and other Microsoft products is going into Bill Gates’ pockets. Some of it is helping the software company fund initiatives like the new Center for Computational Thinking it is funding at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Go ahead, bounce your cell phone, 03/27/2007
Work by Dutch and German researchers has resulted in plastic that can conduct electricity as well as today’s silicon-based semiconductors, a breakthrough that could make mobile devices sturdier.
Researchers: Don’t trust Google, Yahoo to show you the good stuff, 03/26/2007Researchers are trying to figure out how to make more of the good stuff float to the top of Internet search engines and keep more of the bad stuff buried.Q&A: Stanford applies a clean slate to the Internet, 03/26/2007
Nobody’s going to tear down the Internet and rebuild it from scratch, but academics at Stanford University are imagining what the new blueprint would look like if they did and they hope their work will lead to an Internet that works better in 20 years than it does today.
Just how addicted are people to their BlackBerry devices?, 03/26/2007An MIT researcher who doesn’t own or use a BlackBerry is studying how people who do have the devices use them.IBM chipset allows instant downloads, 03/26/2007
IBM Corp. researchers showed a prototype optical transceiver chipset Monday they say will allow people to download movies or share online data eight times faster than current technology allows.
Chemists turn to sugar to fuel batteries, 03/25/2007
Hey, if you can knock back a Mountain Dew to give yourself a boost, why can’t your electronic devices go for a sugar high to keep themselves cranking, too?
IBM finds way to keep chips running cooler, 03/23/2007Scientists at IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory have developed a glue-application technique used to assemble chips that will keep them running cooler, the company said.
