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A Year Ago: Demon Sued By UK Scientist
News In what could prove to be a landmark case, UK Internet Service Provider Demon is being sued by a scientist for allegedly failing to remove a defamatory message from its server. British particle physicist Laurence Godfrey alleges that a forged...
[February 16, 2000, 9:44]
Xerox Scientist Sees Promise In Plastic
News A scientist at Xerox on Tuesday detailed how to create inexpensive semiconducting plastics that may finally fulfill the promise of reducing the cost of display technology for laptops, cellphones and other devices.
[December 4, 2002, 9:55]
Computer Scientist Always Uses McAfee 24/7 Protection
White Papers Dean Cagle, a twenty-something computer scientist living in Northern California uses McAfee software to protect his home computer from online threats. Dean primarily uses his computer for gaming. Dean most appreciates that McAfee runs invisibly in...
[June 16, 2007, 0:00]
Q&A: Nvidia's Chief Scientist On The Future Of Graphics
News Dave Kirk, Nvidia's chief scientist, was in London recently as part of a European tour. ZDNet UK caught up with him to talk about the future of PC and console graphics, whether they will ever really match mainstream movie quality, and how the...
[April 26, 2002, 14:28]
Google Scientist To Demo Quantum Computer
News A Google scientist will join a controversial demonstration of a claimed quantum computer on Monday — but scientists doubt the validity of the system being shown. During a session at the SC07 supercomputing conference in Reno, Dr Hartmut Neven, a...
[November 9, 2007, 15:29]
AMD's Chief Scientist On Smoke And Mirrors
News Q:A decade ago you launched the K5 processor -- AMD's answer to the Pentium -- but ran aground on production problems that scuppered the chip's chances as a real competitor. Are you confident that we will not see a repeat of this with your 64-bit...
[September 25, 2003, 15:55]
Demon Sued By UK Scientist
News British particle physicist Laurence Godfrey alleges that a forged message containing defamatory information appeared in soc.culture.thai. Godfrey asked Demon to remove it, but the message remained on the server.
[February 16, 1999, 16:38]
Robots Need Culture Says Sony Scientist
News Luc Steels, a professor at the University of Brussels and director of Sony's Computer Science Laboratories in Paris, wants to make robots more like living things by teaching them how to express themselves.
[August 16, 2002, 14:57]
Tribute To Renowned Computer Scientist Jim Gray
Blog Friends and family will be joined by three of the biggest organisations dedicated to the advancement of computer science to pay tribute to Jim Gray - credited with helping to make possible such technologies as the "cash machine, ecommerce, online...
[February 12, 2008, 7:58]
UK Scientist Researches IT Hazards For EC
News The European Commission will rule next week which technologies should be exempt from the Restrictions of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive. The EC's Technical Adaptation Committee (TAC) is scheduled to meet on 22 October to decide whether...
[October 13, 2004, 16:20]
Hawking Warns Of AI World Takeover
News Renowned British scientist Stephen Hawking has claimed that humans should be genetically engineered if they are to compete with the phenomenal growth of artificial intelligence. His comments echo those of Sun Microsystems co-founder and chief...
[September 3, 2001, 12:10]
Latest In Mobile - Is It A Phone, TV, Radio Or Net Browser?
News The Handy 21, featured in August's edition of American Scientist magazine, is a Frankenstein's monster of a device, combining a television, radio, telephone, and Internet browser in one handy handheld unit.
[July 22, 1999, 14:48]
Researchers Warm To Magnetic Plastic
News The world's first practical plastic magnet has been created at the University of Durham, according to a report in New Scientist magazine. However, there remains a great deal of work to do before any practical application for the magnetic variant is...
[September 1, 2004, 18:25]
SETI@home Director Denies Funding Crisis
News SETI@home's director has moved to dampen fears the project is in danger of closing, claiming its chief scientist was "probably just in a pessimistic mood" when he emailed Australian scientists with a gloomy prognosis for its future.
[October 18, 2002, 10:09]
Computer Graphics In Undergraduate Computational Science Education
White Papers Computer graphics forms an important part of a working scientist's tools. This may be provided by resources with the scientist's group or by capabilities of the toolkits that the scientist uses directly in his or her work.
[April 25, 2005, 0:00]
Software Tool Steals Data Via Bluetooth
News The software tool could allow confidential information to be stolen from mobile communication devices over the air, according to science magazine New Scientist. Bluetooth security will grow in importance within the next two years, according to...
[August 15, 2003, 10:35]
Robotics Enthusiast Forced To Pull Aibo-altering Code
News According to a report in New Scientist, the programs gave Aibo new functionality. New Scientist reports that some figures in the robotics community are unhappy that Sony clamped down on efforts to customise Aibo.
[November 1, 2001, 13:27]
Computer Science's Gender Gap
News In a new book entitled "Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing," social scientist and scholar Jane Margolis and computer scientist and educator Allan Fisher explore why only a small fraction of high school and university computer science...
[February 11, 2002, 11:49]
Distributed Java Support For Mobile Applications On Lightweight Devices
White Papers Firstly the mobile householder or office based worker or scientist who is mobile within the context of one or more building zones and who might wish to interact with devices and other users in his/her environment.
[June 24, 2007, 0:00]
Movies On Web 'leaked From Studios'
News From January last year to June this year, a team of researchers from AT&T Laboratories and the University of Pennsylvania tracked the top 50 movies in the US box office uploaded to file sharing networks, according to a report in New Scientist.
[September 17, 2003, 15:10]
