by Phillip F. Schewe, Inside Science News Service Smart grid is a phrase that refers to a number of things at the same time. It refers to the modernization of the electrical grid itself — the way electricity is transmitted over long distances and then brought to customers. It refers to things in the home, [...]
by Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology The Cyber Challenge has set as its national goal to identify and train an army of cybersecurity experts to help fill shortages in industry and government. Campuses like Cal Poly are helping to lead the charge. Karen Evans understands the need for online security–and for people who really know how [...]
by Rainer von Ammon, CITT, submission to European ICT research initiatives. Ubiquitous COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING is an Industry led initiative to exploit the opportunities of the science of CEP into the mainstream of computational practice across diverse fields of science, not just the aspect of computational modelling but the fundamental physical world phenomena exhibited. Elucidation [...]
By GRAHAM BOWLEY NYTimes.com A day after a harrowing plunge in the stock market, federal regulators were still unable on Friday to answer the one question on every investor’s mind: What caused that near panic on Wall Street? Through the day and into the evening, officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal [...]
by Tim Weber Business editor, BBC News Cloud computing has been an information technology buzzword for many years. Now it is going mainstream. …. But what is cloud computing? In the simplest of terms, it is IT-as-a-Service. Instead of building your own IT infrastructure to host databases or software, a third party hosts them in [...]