Latest news about advanced networking research.
Welcome to the first issue of Network World’s semi-monthly Alpha Doggs News Alert. This newsletter is brought to you by Network World’s Alpha Doggs bloggers, our editors who report on networking and IT research at universities and other labs. Our mission is to give you a peek into the future of networking by tracking “alpha” research at these institutions.
To whet your appetite for things to come, here are some gems from the archives of the Alpha Doggs blog, which was launched early last year.
Making the Internet more language friendly — even for hieroglyphics users, 01/04/2007
The University of California, Berkeley, has been awarded about $300,000 in new funding to continue its effort over the next two years to make writing systems for all languages work on the Internet.
Wireless energy could power electrical devices, 11/17/2006
MIT researchers described this week how wireless energy could be used to power an array of mobile devices.
New technique for sending secret messages over public Internet, 10/10/2006
A pair of Princeton University researchers yesterday presented a paper on a method for sending secret messages over existing public fiber-optic networks.
Diamonds are your cell phone’s best friend, 09/20/2006
Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory are developing a technology based on diamonds that will enable cell phones to operate at much higher frequencies.
PlayStation 3 packs a punch for scientists, 07/31/2006
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley Lab in California praised the processor inside Sony’s PlayStation 3 as a lower-cost alternative to Opteron and Itanium chips, while being eight times faster and at least eight times more power-efficient.
A new way of detecting malicious code, 06/14/2006
A UC Berkeley computer scientist is developing mathematical algorithms based on semantics to help detect malicious code in computer viruses.
Using your brain for biometrics, 05/01/2006
University of Carleton at Ottawa researchers are looking into whether brainwaves might be added to fingerprints and retinal scans as a way to make biometric security work.
Smells like the future of wireless, 03/29/2006
European researchers have launched a project dubbed Aroma to make advances in the area of quality-of-service across wired and wireless IP networks.
MIT profs attack last-million-mile problem, 03/22/2006
You know how aggravating it is waiting for a file to download. Imagine you’re a scientist waiting for data from Mars, and your pokey radio frequency link is taking hours.
