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Experiment puts new spin on storage
News In an experiment that could bring the computing world closer to an advanced method of data storage, a team of scientists successfully reproduced an image that was digitally encoded and momentarily stored within a liquid crystal molecule.
[December 3, 2002, 9:43]
Stephen King online in novel experiment
News Bestselling author Stephen King will post the first instalment of his new novel The Plant online on 24 July in a direct online book selling experiment. It will be available on his website, as will the second instalment on 21 August.
[July 20, 2000, 12:39]
Results are in from Pipex's WiMax experiment
News Pipex has completed the first phase of its WiMax experiment, saying the results exceeded expectations. The company's joint venture with Intel, Pipex Wireless, has been trialling the long-range wireless broadband technology in the Stratford-upon...
[August 16, 2006, 10:35]
Minister's wiki experiment suspended
News But the experiment will continue. Government minister David Miliband has vowed to continue experimenting with online engagement after his department's first move into wiki-policy ended in disarray. Miliband, secretary of state for Environment, Food...
[September 6, 2006, 16:25]
Ethernet Network-Based DAQ and Smart Sensors for the OPERA Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment
White Papers This paper proposes a data acquisition scheme for the OPERA long-baseline neutrino experiment based exclusively on Ethernet. The expected data rate allows the use of an Ethernet capable device close to the sensor.
[July 8, 2008, 1:01]
Minister's wiki experiment suspended
Talkback The world of IT illiterate parliament members trying to cross the boarder and failing yet again.
[September 8, 2006, 17:20]
An Experiment of Controlling Gigabit Wide Area Ethernet by GMPLS Supporting Layer-2 Switching Capability
White Papers High speed and large capacity Ethernet technologies have been developed as represented by Gigabit Ethernet (GE) and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GE). Currently, due to the growth of Ethernet technologies, Ethernet has been deployed in Wide Area Network...
[July 4, 2008, 1:00]
FranceTelecom R&D White Paper on SAT+WiFi Experiment
White Papers This white paper describes a bi-directional broadband access composed of a satellite link coupled to Wifi access developed by FranceTelecom in order to provide high bit rate access to areas not covered by terrestrial ADSL technologies.
[October 20, 2005, 3:00]
100Gbit/s DQPSK Transmission Experiment Without OTDM for 100G Ethernet Transport
White Papers Off late, the penetration of the broadband access accelerates the capacity demand for the optical communication networks. Advancement of 10G Ethernet supports this increased demand for both metropolitan area networks and wide area networks.
[July 4, 2008, 1:00]
Universities launch e-book experiment
News When students at Princeton University, the University of Utah and eight other colleges start combing their school bookstore shelves for fall semester textbooks, they'll find a new alternative to the hard-covered tomes they're used to buying.
[August 10, 2005, 18:10]
The Design and Analysis of D-optimal Split-Plot Designs Using JMP Version 6 Software
White Papers An experiment is a process or study that results in the collection of data. Usually, statistical experiments are conducted when researchers can manipulate the conditions of the experiment and control the factors that are relevant to the research...
[May 31, 2008, 1:01]
Intel: Fresh air is good for datacentres
News Fresh air could save millions in datacentre cooling costs, Intel has claimed, after a successful experiment in the New Mexico desert. The experiment was run for 10 months, between October 2007 and August 2008.
[September 19, 2008, 12:51]
Beams all round as LHC progress accelerates
News Progress on the giant experiment has been rapid in the four days since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was restarted, Cern director of communications James Gillies told ZDNet UK on Tuesday. The giant experiment had to be shut down nine days after...
[November 24, 2009, 11:49]
Humans beat AI in robot wars
News Human innovation has fought off competition from robots created using artificial intelligence in an online experiment by boffins at a London university. Dr Peter McOwan, AI researcher at the department of computer science, Queen Mary University of...
[November 28, 2003, 12:30]
A Comparative Evaluation of Tests Generated From Different UML Diagrams
White Papers This paper presents a single project experiment on the fault revealing capabilities of model-based test sets. This experiment found that the statechart test sets did better at revealing unit level faults than the sequence diagram test sets, and the...
[November 29, 2008, 23:00]
SETI@home looks for user funding
News The director of SETI@home -- a high-profile distributed computing experiment to find extraterrestrial life -- has made a plea to his users for funding after denying late last month that the project was facing a funding crisis.
[November 13, 2002, 9:38]
Mesh networking takes to the skies
News Mesh networking has taken to the skies, through a pilot experiment carried out over the rural Midlands earlier this month. According to Richard Lander of LocustWorld, whose MeshAP software is used to run South Witham's network, the experiment's...
[February 24, 2005, 13:45]
Funding crisis threatens SETI@home
News The future of SETI@home, an Internet-based distributed computing experiment to find radio signals from intelligent alien life-forms, is in serious danger as academics behind the project face a funding crisis.
[October 15, 2002, 9:07]
Triage With RFID Tags for Massive Incidents
White Papers In this paper, a triage system using RFID and its experiment are described. The paper applied RFID tags and mobile devices with a wireless network to speed up 1 and 2 and to make them accurate, and verified the effectiveness through an experiment...
[April 14, 2009, 0:00]
Microsoft's Mojave just a desert vista
Blog It didn't seem fair to wade into Microsoft's “Mojave Experiment” advert quite so soon after the flat earth incident. It's got another chance with Windows 7: if Microsoft wants to be more honest about what it does, add features that are actually...
[August 11, 2008, 8:56]
