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IBM hatches plans for superprocessor
News IBM and the University of Texas at Austin plan to collaborate on building a processor capable of churning out more than 1 trillion calculations per second -- faster than many of today's top supercomputers.
[August 27, 2003, 15:15]
Massive ID theft nabs 55,000 student records
News Online attackers stole information on more than 55,000 students and faculty from insecure database servers at the University of Texas at Austin, the school said on Wednesday. Updegrove could not immediately be reached for comment, nor could...
[March 7, 2003, 13:03]
Spammer loses fight for right to spam
News White Buffalo, an Austin, Texas, start-up that boasts of making "a ton of moolah" by promoting relationship-based Web sites, began its bulk email campaign in February 2003 by filling a freedom of information request that gave it nearly all the...
[August 4, 2005, 9:55]
Data thieves strike university
News Nearly 55,000 Social Security numbers were stolen by a student who took advantage of a security flaw in a key administrative database at the University of Texas at Austin. Investigators accused University of Texas student Christopher Andrew...
[April 1, 2003, 7:31]
Bush snubs tech VC for commerce post
News Bush is expected to name Evans as Commerce secretary in a press conference Wednesday at the University of Texas at Austin. Kvamme didn't have the years of friendship with Bush on his side, but he did meet with Bush in Austin on 16 December, along...
[December 20, 2000, 15:44]
Pentagon database to spy on Americans
News The documents show that funds for TIA and two related information-analysing projects, Genisys and Genoa II, have been awarded to companies including CyCorp of Austin, Texas, for a "Terrorism knowledge base," 21st Century Technologies of Austin...
[February 28, 2003, 11:36]
Establishing a Remote Lab for Teaching Enterprise Application Development
White Papers Many students of Computer Information Systems (CIS) at the McCoy College of Business Administration of the Texas State University - San Marcos live and work in the cities of Austin or San Antonio, which are both more than twenty miles away from...
[September 22, 2006, 1:00]
University suffers massive ID data theft
News Two years ago, online intruders broke into a server containing the credit card numbers of some 57,000 patrons of a Georgia Institute of Technology arts and theatre programme, while others lifted more than 55,000 Social Security numbers from...
[January 11, 2005, 7:40]
Turing Award goes to error-checking researchers
News Edmund M Clarke, of Carnegie Mellon University, E Allen Emerson, of the University of Texas at Austin, and Joseph Sifakis, of the University of Grenoble, were awarded the $250,000 (£127,000) prize by IT professional organisation the Association...
[February 5, 2008, 17:23]
Meet the future: Mobile e-commerce
News Constant access and addictive content are the driving reasons for their success according to Andrew Whinston, director for the Centre for Research in Electronic Commerce at the University of Texas at Austin.
[May 30, 2000, 9:20]
Want Wi-Fi with that?
News The company is launching the Wi-Fi network at 10 restaurants near the University of Texas at Austin with plans to expand it in the future. Hoping people will drop by for free Web access and stay for a sandwich, Schlotzsky's Deli is offering no-cost...
[November 11, 2002, 8:44]
Dell looks back at 25 years of the PC
News More than 20 years after he founded PC's Limited, he admits his parents never quite embraced his decision to leave the University of Texas at Austin to start the company that would eventually bear his name and record $56bn in revenue during its...
[August 7, 2006, 15:15]
Dell carves out cluster niche
News The Austin, Texas-based company and The University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (SUNY Buffalo) on Tuesday will unveil a cluster of 2,008 Dell PowerEdge servers running Red Hat Linux. The company has also funded ongoing research...
[September 3, 2002, 8:05]
Wanted: Web geeks with social consciences
News AIR started with a small rally in 1998 in Austin, Texas. Judges -- primarily experts in accessible design from IBM, University of Texas and elsewhere -- will then rate the sites. The rally is similar to smaller events that CompuMentor and...
[August 13, 2002, 8:50]
Dijkstra, pioneer of computer science, dies
News In 1973, Dijkstra became a Research Fellow for Burroughs, then one of the major computer companies, and in 1984 became a full professor at the University of Texas, Austin. In 1962, he became Professor of Mathematics at Eindhoven Polytechnic: he...
[August 8, 2002, 15:17]
Dell Opteron sale 'an anomaly'
News AMD, which has offices in Austin, Texas, is a regular caller at Dell's headquarters, situated in the same city, but to date the computer maker has used AMD for little more than a bargaining chip against Intel, its main supplier.
[March 24, 2004, 16:02]
IBM's low-powered PC quest
News IBM, which opened the Low Power Center inside its Austin, Texas, research lab in October 2001, has about 37 researchers on the case. Big Blue, which launched a project last year to investigate low-power computer technology with the University of...
[August 7, 2002, 10:25]
BT wins Recycler Of The Year award
Blog These badges have already been deployed in libraries in Minneapolis (July 2006), hotels in Austin, Texas (June 2006).oh dear, it gets worse.back to the UK now, and back to the NHS: Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust (June...
[February 22, 2007, 14:55]
AMD opens up chip design on two fronts
News Their efforts are being coupled with work done by existing design groups at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, and in Austin, Texas. In their first few weeks at AMD, new members of the Massachusetts-based team were occupied...
[September 21, 2004, 14:25]
Adaptive Resource Allocation in Multiuser OFDM Systems With Proportional Fairness
White Papers The sum capacity of MU-OFDM is maximized when each subchannel is assigned to the user with the best channel-to-noise ratio for that subchannel, with power subsequently distributed by water-filling. In this paper, we impose a set of proportional...
[October 26, 2004, 3:00]
