by Brandon Keim Wired.com Networks that are resilient on their own become fragile and prone to catastrophic failure when connected, suggests a new study with troubling implications for tightly linked modern infrastructures. Electrical grids, water supplies, computer networks, roads, hospitals, financial systems – all are tied to each other in ways that could make them vulnerable. [...]
Penn State Live Disease statistics buried within patient records or detailed in newspaper clippings can be sorted and organized to depict geographic patterns, allowing the discovery of trends that were previously overlooked, according to a Penn State geographer. “The use of interactive maps and graphs, combined with word search interfaces, can lead to greater insight [...]
Paul Vincent’s Complex Event The best examples are always from real life. Its hard to make up events like this…. and Complex Events they are! Paul describes the pattern of events that make up this “complex event”. Actually it’s a good example of theft teamwork that happens everywhere, …. not just in the Eternal City. [...]
Cloud Computing – from the Internet.com Dell, IBM, Sun, Microsoft, Amazon and many others are all doing it this year. Cloud computing is a type of computing that is comparable to grid computing, relies on sharing computing resources rather than having local servers or personal devices to handle applications. The goal of cloud computing is [...]