Pendragon Forms Case Study: Herpetology, Long-term Ecological Studies
White Papers In one long-term field study, students monitor a series of drift fences in the Davidson College Ecological Preserve. The Herpetology Lab at Davidson College is dedicated to the study and conservation of amphibians and reptiles.
[April 18, 2004, 0:00]
Service-Oriented Grid Computation For Large-Scale Parameter Estimation In Complex Environmental Modeling
White Papers Complex environmental modeling often involves a large number of unknown physical and ecological parameters. Being presented as services, the optimization algorithms, the physical and ecological process models and clients can interact with each...
[March 20, 2007, 23:00]
Special Report: Who Pays For Recycling Hardware?
News It is a telling sign that a truck loaded with expensive electronics is working for the sake of environmentalism in a place like New Jersey -- home to the "Sopranos" and a state not widely known for its ecological sensitivities.
[June 18, 2001, 14:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Microsoft is suffering from Easter Islander syndrome: having successfully filled its own ecological niche to the exclusion of everything else, and being well into the process of cutting down all the trees, it realises that there's nothing left for...
[June 25, 2004, 17:35]
Future Of The Environment Is In The Smartcards
News A technological advancement in smartcards - which resemble credit cards, but contain an embedded microprocessor - could someday let people keep track of their ecological behavior. UK product consultantcy Design Stream has teamed up with identity...
[August 4, 2006, 10:15]
Barcelona Agency Of Urban Ecology Develops A Sustainable Information-Sharing Solution
White Papers The Barcelona Agency of Urban Ecology was founded to help cities in Spain and around the world integrate sustainable ecological designs into their urban planning strategies. The agency's inefficient data management system made adding, finding and...
[November 14, 2005, 23:00]
Landscape Planning And GIS-Based Data Management
White Papers The quality of the plans mostly depends on the quality of the gathered data and the quality of ecological evaluation methods applied. Landscape Planning in Germany is based on the recently amended nature protection law.
[January 10, 2006, 23:00]
Urban-Waste Management System
White Papers The new Linux based solution provided by Gb.Com is a user friendly cost effective solution to easily manage the ecological island. Gb.Com is a private owned company based in northern Italy providing IT solutions for process automation and...
[April 24, 2007, 0:00]
Stopping Spyware At The Gate: A User Study Of Privacy, Notice And Spyware
White Papers This paper discusses an ecological study of users installing five real world applications. Spyware is a significant problem for most computer users. The term "Spyware" loosely describes a new class of computer software.
[April 14, 2006, 0:00]
Workflow Oriented Participatory Decision Support For Integrated River Basin Planning
White Papers Thus the proposal for the programme of measures can be chosen with respect to ecological, economic and social criteria and preferences. The European Water Framework Directive implements integrated river basin management in the European Union.
[December 20, 2005, 23:00]
Symbiot Launches DDoS Counter-strike Tool
Talkback We already have spammers to fill that ecological niche. Blindly counter attacking seems like a bad idea. Target identification is non-trivial since the actual packets are coming from machines infected with Windows.
[March 10, 2004, 22:58]
ICANN To Shut Down Internet For One Hour
News ICANN, the body responsible for maintaining the registry of domain names and IP addresses, announced on Tuesday that it would effectively turn off the internet in order to gauge the ecological impact of such a move.
[April 1, 2008, 10:27]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Not so much for the questions of how nice it tasted or the ecological implications of such energetically spendthrift technology (from deeply unsound Nestle, no less), but how on earth the thing worked.
[January 14, 2002, 8:59]
Patent Directive 'could Halt Linux Development'
Talkback So, if you are in software business, prepare to move to China or take up ecological farming. The risk is even greater for commersial software as there usually is a company with money worth sueing behind the software.
[March 3, 2005, 6:02]
Not Everything So Christened Is Green
Leader With PC World's claims for ecological soundness salted with "could be" and "where possible", there are only two solid promises to be checked. If recycling is a virtue, then PC World is virtuous indeed.
[February 22, 2007, 14:23]
Solar-powered Mesh Project Helps Find New Frog
News Supported by the revenue it gains through 2,000 annual visits from ecological tourists, Funedesin will now be setting up a college nearby to train others in the simple art of mesh networking, with support from LocustWorld.
[October 6, 2006, 15:35]
Sun Pushes Environmental Benefits Of Thin Clients
News There are lots of ecological aspects to this environment. Sun has hit on a new tactic to convince reluctant IT professionals of the virtues of its thin-client approach to computing: touting the environmental benefits.
[May 4, 2005, 15:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This, the email said, would spread contamination across the entire country and cause a massive ecological catastrophe. Monday 26/4/1999 Rumours abound that Tempo (Dixons' wannabies) are about to launch a free ISP.
[April 30, 1999, 22:41]
Cutting The CO2 Caused By PC Use
News Ecological, financial motivation Computers have become, indirectly, a significant source of greenhouse gases, according to Kevin Klustner, chief executive of Verdiem, a start-up that has devised software for curbing electricity consumption by PCs.
[September 18, 2006, 10:10]
