More Brain Stuff . . From Cambridge University .
Talkback Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs. I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a...
About: 10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid
[January 31, 2008, 14:57 by glenburdis]
Does it matter if you are an aardvark or a zebra?
Blog According to Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton, if your email address is aardvark at animal.net, you are more likely to receive spam than if your address is zebra at animal.net. In spam terms, apparently it does.
[August 27, 2008, 16:47 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Expert calls for Pan-European cybercrime response
Blog Professor Anderson, who heads security engineering research at the University of Cambridge, told a House of Lords committee on Wednesday that at present individual European police forces do not have an economic incentive to devote resources to low...
[January 6, 2010, 16:32 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback Currently residing as Lamont University Professor Emeritus at Harvard, after stepping down from the prestigious post of Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Great Indian Mathematician, whose interest from academics at Trinity, College, Cambridge...
About: Dell admits Indian mistake
[September 22, 2005, 10:40]
Inventor celebrates 30 years of Ethernet
Talkback Quite a lot of the world's computer development happened courtesy of Coloured Book X25 protocols and Cambridge Ring LANs.and to be less jingoistic, quite a lot also went via BITNET which I later supported in the UK and IBM's RSCS network and...
About: Inventor celebrates 30 years of Ethernet
[November 17, 2005, 12:35]
Toshiba touts Quantum Key Distribution
Blog Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton, who really knows his stuff when it comes to cryptography, pointed out that "networks with thousands of users" need to be linked by routers, or hubs, or switches.
[October 9, 2008, 17:24 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog So thanks indeed to Toshiba Research and Cambridge University for coming up with a semiconductor gallium, indium and arsenic quantum dot entangled photon generator. Tuesday 10/1/2006 One of my favourite treats is getting to write about weird science.
[January 13, 2006, 17:05 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood
Talkback With an estimated worth of US$210 million, it allows 230 students to study at Cambridge University. David Hallowell : "Bill Gates' charity contributions were not the reason for his knighthood, it's good that he makes these donations "
About: Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood
[January 27, 2004, 23:58]
Worthless- good pictures but the technology already exists
Talkback In all honesty if Nokia have joined-up with Cambridge University, to produce this technology then maybe they should have partnered with another mobile phone solutions company who had this technology two maybe three years ago.
About: Nokia shows off nanotech handset
[March 1, 2008, 16:37 by pounder_arthur@hotmail.com]
Lib Dems set up Commission on Privacy
Blog The other members of the Commission are: Baroness Sue Miller, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesperson in the House of Lords; Observer journalist Henry Porter; Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at the University of Cambridge...
[January 14, 2009, 10:45 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Usability conference promises scents and sensible IT
Blog Held up in Cambridge with the help of Microsoft Research and the University, it starts on the 1st September and has a five day programme of remarkably interesting presentations - Lego Mindstorms, low-fi skin vision, vibrotactile information, even...
[August 19, 2009, 16:12 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
Nasa hacker gains judicial review
Blog Professor Baron Cohen of Cambridge University diagnosed McKinnon with Asperger's, a condition on the autistic spectrum, last summer. Self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon has won a judicial review of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's October...
[January 23, 2009, 12:29 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Message in a hamper
Blog Human rights organisations including Justice and Liberty support McKinnon, who has also been backed by autism organisations and experts including professor Simon Baron-Cohen of Cambridge University. Pop star Sting and his wife Trudie Styler have...
[March 6, 2009, 14:28 in by Tom Espiner]
Thursday
Blog His Nobel prize -- shared with cat-fancier Erwin Shrodinger -- came his way at 31, the year after he'd been appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin in Madison have published details of...
[August 9, 2002, 18:19 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Microsoft research does the PDC keynote
Blog The other fun technology on show was a Microsoft Research in Cambridge project called SecondLight which expands out the surface touch technology. Microsoft Research is modelled on an academic structure like a university faculty of the money...
[October 29, 2008, 17:12 in News Blog by PeterI]
Lord Stern: Downturn won't affect climate change efforts
Blog The report, Key Elements of a Global Deal, includes input from HSBC, IdeaCarbon, Cambridge University, Lehman Brothers and consultants McKinsey and suggests a set of proposals to "advance the climate change debate" ahead of the United Nations...
[April 30, 2008, 16:52 in News Blog by Andrew Donoghue]
$100 laptop: moving from a technical to a social debate
Talkback Part of my future plans include filming every lecture at my old university: Cambridge UK. I write in reponse to the suggestion of "shovels not laptops" and to further develop some of the key points that Red Hat's CEO Matthew Szulik brought up.
About: Why every child deserves a laptop
[November 13, 2006, 18:53 by English_Man]
