by Peter Apps, Reuters The upcoming London Cyber Summit will convene ministers, officials, tech executives, Internet activists, and security experts to discuss cyberspace management, and some experts suggest that a closed session on international security could be an initial step toward some type of ultimate cyberarms control. However, such an effort could be years in [...]
MIT Technology Review A consortium providing the technology for a large-scale smart grid project says the software is nearly complete. IBM’s Ron Ambrosio expects the system to be operational by this time next year. The system will power the $200 million initiative to connect the fragmented grid infrastructure across five U.S. states and 11 utilities, [...]
Green light for the largest fleet test for car-to-X communication worldwide From: Technische Universitat Munchen The largest field test for vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication (car-to-X communication) worldwide is about to get under way. Scientists, auto makers and communication companies as well as public-sector institutions have teamed up to develop a system that allows cars to [...]
By JOHN MARKOFF, New York Times More than 60 years ago, in his “Foundation” series, the science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov invented a new science — psychohistory — that combined mathematics and psychology to predict the future. Now social scientists are trying to mine the vast resources of the Internet — Web searches and Twitter [...]