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Firefox tool counters man-in-the-middle attacks
News Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have released an extension for Firefox 3 that can protect wireless-network users from so-called 'man-in-the-middle' attacks. Perspectives also protects against attacks that exploit a recently exposed flaw...
[August 27, 2008, 10:57]
Techs team on cure for software woes
News Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco Systems, NASA and others have teamed up with Carnegie Mellon University to make software more reliable, secure and less buggy. Carnegie Mellon on Thursday launched the Sustainable Computing Consortium (SCC), which brings...
[May 17, 2002, 8:11]
Anti-spam tool helps digitise books
News A group of Carnegie Mellon University programmers has launched a service called "ReCaptcha" that can help cut down on spam while letting people digitise books. Not only can you solve your problems with spam, you can help preserve mankind's written...
[May 25, 2007, 13:11]
Security flaw disclosures harm share prices
News Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania found that a vendor's share price drops by an average of 0.63 percent on the day a vulnerability is announced. The research was conducted by Rahul Telang, the assistant professor of...
[June 8, 2005, 17:55]
IBM, universities team up on cloud project
News IBM, along with Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar University and Texas A&M University in Qatar, plans to use the Qatar Cloud Computing Center to handle advanced research for search, data mining, scientific modelling and simulation, computational...
[January 27, 2009, 15:34]
Tech monoculture study wins funding
News The study, proposed by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of New Mexico almost a year ago, will seek to identify commonalities in software that could be used as the basis for attacks. That was expensive, the Carnegie Mellon and...
[November 26, 2003, 9:40]
CIH is a dodo
News We've seen nothing out of the ordinary," said Bill Pollak, spokesman for the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre at Carnegie Mellon University in the U.S. In the United States, mainly home users and students ran afoul of the...
[May 27, 1999, 8:51]
Looking after oil
News Welcome to the campus of Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie Mellon is exploring the possibility of opening a public policy program in South Australia, and Duke University is helping Singapore establish a medical school based on its curriculum.
[January 23, 2006, 11:35]
Robot meets robot in 'Darpa city' race
News But the robot ultimately lost to Carnegie Mellon University's driverless car, Boss, which was faster overall. Carnegie Mellon's robot, Boss, a modified Chevy Tahoe, approaches the finishing line on Saturday, just minutes after Stanford's car, Junior.
[November 6, 2007, 10:51]
Linux 'better than proprietary software'
News A typical commercial program of similar size usually has more than 5,000 flaws or defects, according to data from Carnegie Mellon University. Proprietary software, in general, has one to seven flaws per thousand lines of code, according to an April...
[December 14, 2004, 10:30]
Computer science's gender gap
News As part of their research for the book, Margolis and Fisher followed more than 100 computer science students, both male and female, at Carnegie Mellon University for four years beginning in 1995. Q: What did you discover in your research at...
[February 11, 2002, 11:49]
Computer science turns off students
News At Carnegie Mellon University, 2,000 students applied to the school of computer science this year, down from 3,200 in 2001. Peter Lee, associate dean at Carnegie Mellon's school of computer science, worries that fewer undergraduate computer science...
[August 12, 2004, 9:45]
Microsoft aims to teach the teachers
News Intel, for example, opened three "lablets" at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University last year. Rick Rashid, head of Microsoft Research and a former professor at Carnegie Mellon, will...
[July 29, 2002, 12:56]
Online library offers 1.5m books for free
News You're not going to find over 900,000 works in Chinese on Google," said Michael Shamos, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and director of intellectual property for the Universal Digital Library (UDL).
[November 28, 2007, 11:13]
Intel parades self-defending hardware
News Keeping to that theme, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University during Rattner's speech showed off the Diamond project, which lets individuals search through digital photos on a hard drive by actually searching on the image itself, not data...
[August 26, 2005, 9:05]
Oiling the wheels of education
News A tribe of foreigners is educating the kids, building the buildings, running the businesses," said Ben Reilly, who teaches history courses at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, including a US-Arab relations course with students on both campuses...
[January 23, 2006, 12:20]
Rhymes Terms Dictionary
Downloads This rhyming dictionary is based on the public domain Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary. Contains 3 830 entries in 97 KB.About BDictyBDicty (pronounced "bee-dikti") is possibly the most popular dictionary reader for the Palm...
[November 22, 2009, 2:53]
Giving robots the gift of sight
News A Carnegie Mellon University professor known for predicting the evolution of super-capable robots says he's just given robots better eyesight. Hans Moravec has completed work on a three-dimensional robotic vision system he says will allow machines...
[December 31, 2002, 9:21]
BEIKS Rhyming Terms Glossary for Windows Mobile
Downloads This free Rhyming Glossary for Windows Mobile by BEIKS with over 4,000 headwords is based on the public domain Carnegie Mellon University and was contributed by Mr. Kenn Nesbitt. It is a glossary where words are grouped together by their end sounds.
[November 13, 2008, 6:00]
Students propose defence for DoS attack
News In two papers presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy on Monday, graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University suggested simple modifications to network software that could defeat denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
[May 13, 2003, 13:30]
