Dubai’s 360-degree rotating skyscraper: an algorithm too far?
Blog Have you seen the BBC report on Dubai’s first ‘rotating skyscraper’ this afternoon? There’s some French architect saying how much he’d observed the wind affecting skyscrapers, so now he wants to use the wind to help shape the buildings themselves.
[June 27, 2008, 16:03]
If Royal Mail won't free postcodes, take them off it
Blog What if a set of data is so central to that algorithm's operation that it can't work without it? What if there's an algorithm that turns a simple string into a location, where everyone in the country knows the string that applies to them?
[October 9, 2009, 16:08]
The problem with PageRank (and one alternative)
Blog I have still to get to the bottom of the algorithm that powers the Google Mini. Obviously Page Rank (Google's famous algorithm for ranking results according to reputation) doesn't work for corporate documents.
[February 1, 2007, 14:34]
Calculator Looking Number Generator from the Bank
Blog Maybe I’m wrong but I assume it takes your card details runs some kind of algorithm and generates a number every time. And maybe I’m wrong about this but I assume my bank hasn’t produced a different device, running a different algorithm for every...
[April 4, 2008, 12:03]
Can cloud savings just evaporate?
Blog We've been at the SharePoint conference this week and I was thinking about Google in the session about using the FAST search engine in SharePoint, in terms of the tweaks administrators can do to refine results and wondering if the Google search...
[October 25, 2009, 17:44]
SSL certificate crack threatens e-commerce sites
Blog The basis of the crack lies in an apparent vulnerability in the MD5 signature algorithm, so the researchers are urging certification authorities (CAs) to switch to newer, more secure alternatives such as SHA-2.
[December 31, 2008, 10:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog He doesn't on the face of it appear to know a hashing algorithm from a DSLAM, but I'm sure he'll soon get up to speed. Tuesday With Patricia Hewitt getting the nod as Trade and Industry Secretary, the much-coveted and influential position of...
[June 15, 2001, 17:45]
0.1 terabit/s Ethernet...
Blog Everything - even the chip parallelizing the stream - is off the shelf, except the algorithm. While I was happily peering into holes at CERN and admiring the new data centre that'll be distributing a gigabyte per second of data worldwide, others...
[November 15, 2006, 22:07]
Microsoft App-V: Helpful Tools
Blog This makes sense as the SoftGrid SFT file format was riddled with Open Source/GPL software and the compression algorithm was written by a lovely French chap who detested Microsoft - hardly the recipe for a thriving format for M$.
[October 16, 2009, 9:08]
Microsoft App-V Tools
Blog This makes sense as the SoftGrid SFT file format was riddled with Open Source/GPL software and the compression algorithm was written by a lovely French chap who detested Microsoft - hardly the recipe for a thriving format for M$.
[October 28, 2009, 8:37]
Microsoft research does the PDC keynote
Blog There was a little dig at Google with a comment that this gives you much more power than map-reduce algorithm that powers a lot of googles code. Wednesdays keynote here at PDC was given by Rick Rashid from Microsoft Research, some interesting...
[October 29, 2008, 17:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Alas for our would-be mole, some of us have spent large portions of their lives writing network stacks and know one end of a transport layer packetisation algorithm from another. BT and AT&T club together!
[August 1, 1998, 8:06]
Breaking wireless keys in a Jimi
Blog I won't put the source code or exact algorithm up: suffice it to say it involves the lyrics from Third Stone From The Sun, by Jimi Hendrix - viz.with your superior cackling hen," Just had a most excellent email from a correspondent, who reports a...
[October 2, 2007, 11:24]
JavaOne: the ‘best of the rest’ awards
Blog As for distinctly non-Java searches uncovered by Krugle management, “Knuth” returned the highest number of hits in honour of leading computer scientist and ‘father of algorithm analysis’ Donald Knuth, far outstripping Satan in a close second place.
[May 7, 2008, 23:55]
Microsoft's Program Compatibility Assistant (PCA)
Blog This got me thinking; What algorithm is the PCA using to determine a missing/deprecated component? This is a rich-text of application compatibility resources and every once in a while, it's worth a re-read.
[November 5, 2009, 8:30]
Wednesday
Blog He also pointed out that Lodestone used a form of distributed processing based on the Paxos algorithm, a fault-tolerant system proposed by a researcher and written up as a fake archaeological report on a lost civilisation on the mythical eponymous...
[March 28, 2003, 9:51]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog I use the new fast algorithm for this, divide by two and add a smidgeon, and the results are gratifying. Sunday 15/02/2004 It's Intel Developer Forum time again! This year, the Spring IDF is in San Francisco, always a romantic city.
[February 20, 2004, 16:05]
How not to make money from Twitter
Blog Magpie claims to have an algorithm that calculates whether you are tweeting automatically and to stop you earning from them if you are. Be A Magpie promises advertising bucks from Twitter. But even with outside help Twitter struggles to find a...
[November 14, 2008, 13:32]
New wave of real-time collaboration arrives?
Blog The overlap with Google Wave is that we use the same operational transformation algorithms", the benefit of which is that "the algorithm works at whatever level is appropriate for the content, whether bytes or paragraphs, for example," says Westaway.
[June 17, 2009, 9:43]
