On Tuesday, National Science Foundation Director Arden Bement met with the Coalition for National Science Funding (of which CRA is a member) and warned the science community CNSF represents to lower expectations of increased funding for the agency in the near-term, saying the expectation of budget-doubling, as authorized by Congress and the President in 2002, […]
Researchers from Harvard Business School and the University of North Carolina released a study today that suggests that illegal downloading of songs via P2P networks is not having a significant effect on legitimate music sales and in many cases may help album sales. The Washington Post has the story. A few choice paragraphs: Songs that […]
The folks at UCSD Computer Science and Engineering and the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) put their “Network Telescope” to good work in analyzing the spread of the Witty Worm. From their analysis: Witty was the first widely propagated Internet worm to carry a destructive payload. Witty was started in an organized manner […]
Spotted on Dave Farber’s Interesting People list: Talent Link Drains AT&T Think Tank
Government Computing News has an interesting, short article on DARPA’s focus on new computer architectures and networking protocols, discussed this week at the DARPATech conference in Anaheim. Flaws in the basic building blocks of networking and computer science are hampering reliability, limiting flexibility and creating security vulnerabilities, program managers said this week at the Defense […]
It appears that corporate R&D is following the off shore trend: R&D Starts to Move Offshore, from Computerworld. (thanks to Jim Foley for pointing this article out)
From the New York Times: Intel Says Chip Speed Breakthrough Will Alter Cyberworld Silicon chips that can switch light like electricity….
