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Embedded Software Made Simpler Yet More Powerful
"Hardware development has reached a stage where it is possible to have a fully-fledged computer with processor, memory and operating system on a board the size of a sliver of chewing gum," explains Germán Puebla, a researcher at Madrid Technical University. "But until now software that can be programmed easily, and uses the limited hardware and power resources of pervasive computing devices as efficiently as possible has been lacking." Puebla coordinated the ASAP project, which, with funding from the European Commission's Future and Emerging Technologies initiative, set out to solve the problem of creating and adapting software to run efficiently on pervasive computing systems, where computers are integrated in everyday objects and environments. The result is a groundbreaking open source programming, analysis and optimisation toolkit for pervasive computing systems using Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) languages that has been validated in a series of case studies......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Software Defuses Demographic Time-bomb
To stem this drain of information, University of Cambridge researcher Dr Tony Holden has developed a software program which captures employees' experience as they work. Dr Holden, Department of Engineering, designed the new program, entitled 'Lifetrack', being marketed by the US company The Works Software. The software was developed from the results of a two-year industrial research program sponsored by BP, Honeywell Control and Cambridge University to model the social, communication and information dimensions of how staff work in industrial manufacturing plants. The aim was to significantly improve plant safety, integrity and efficiency. Serious problems at plants have been traced back to inconsistent views of the same operation. With Lifetrack, everyone has the same consistent view of operations to reduce the chance of misunderstandings and reduce the learning curve of new staff. "Today, knowledge retention programs don't provide anything for capturing tacit knowledge where it really exists in an organization - with operational staff at the ground level", says Dinesh Vadhia, CEO of The Works Software. "The trick is to capture, retain and share knowledge while operational staff are doing their job"......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Tube Shaped USB Drives
Measuring 19x59mm and weighing 30g this will be a small addition with big space for your USB drive collection. They look extremely sturdy and have still not been announced with a price. Attachable to a keychain or other easy-to-remember spot......... Posted by: Ryan Permalink Source Flickr moving to San Francisco
Flickr is the first Yahoo! team I've heard of moving into the San Francisco offices. It was previously rumored these would be ad sales offices but it's good to see some product folk moving in......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Google Reader Mobile
The mobile reader is a good blend of what you would like to configure on your desktop but still access on a more limited input device such as a mobile phone. The mobile interface is purposefully barebones but utilizes features made possible by the full desktop experience such as browsing tagged posts......... Posted by: Ashley Permalink Source Searching For The Soul In The Machine
With funding from the European Commission's Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) initiative of the IST programme, five European research institutes are collaborating on the NEW TIES project to create a thoroughly 21st-century brave new world - one populated by randomly generated software beings, capable of developing their own language and culture. This kind of social interaction is a tantalising prospect for the artificial intelligence (AI) experts, computer scientists, sociologists and linguists working on NEW TIES. The keyword here is 'social.' "While individual (or machine) learning and evolutionary behaviour have been quite well studied, social learning is still an unknown quantity," says project coordinator Gusz Eiben, an AI professor at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Joining the Vrije Universiteit are the University of Surrey, Budapest's Eotvos Loránd University, Edinburgh's Napier University and Tilburg University in The Netherlands. The multidisciplinary team has a dual goal: to study natural processes (like language development), and to advance the construction of collective artificial intelligence......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Protect Your Wireless Network to Protect Yourself
The FTC cautions that allowing strangers to “piggyback” on a personal wireless network actually could be risky. Hackers can take advantage of an unprotected wireless connection to access information on any personal computers on that network. And if an unauthorized person uses your network to commit a crime or send spam, the activity can be traced back to your account. To help users learn about this seemingly complicated topic, OnGuardOnline.gov features a new game, “Invasion of the Wireless Hackers: Beat Back the Hack Attack,” where players keep hackers from infiltrating their networks by correctly answering questions about wireless security. The site also offers a glossary of terms and a list of essential tips for wireless network users, including:........ Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Japan Unable To Produce Low Cost Memory
The report was written by Takashi Yunogami from the Institute for Technology, Enterprise and Competitiveness (ITEC) at Doshisha University. Yunogami found that the current predicament facing the Japanese semiconductor industry is rooted in the history of computer chips and the failure of Japanese industry to meet with changing demands. When Japanese semiconductor manufacturers started making computer chips in the 1970s, the chips were produced for use in large mainframe systems and were mandatory to be of the highest possible quality. Around this need for quality developed a culture of extreme technological perfection. This resulted in Japan becoming the world leader in the DRAM market in the 1980s. A fundamental shift in the market occurred through the 1990s as demand changed from mainframe computers to personal computers. The mistake made in Japan was the inability to alter the culture of extreme technological excess and chips continued to be made at quality levels far greater than that mandatory by the PC dominated marketplace. Japanese manufacturers have been unable to reduce manufacturing costs resulting in chips that are too expensive to compete with foreign competition on the world market......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Computer Bed
Using gas assisted pistons, the bed will go from computer desk to bed in moments. The computer area ends up being just under the bed and has good spacing to keep any heat from building. No need to move a thing--just use the desk for any storage or setups and the items stay balanced with the easy movement they have designed for this bed. It's a little pricey but I could definitely see it being used to save space. The company has a number of different models but I was most interested in this one, being the Techie Diva that I am. Visit the site to see The Computer Bed in action via a.gif image and view the details and pricing......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source Connectable Multimedia To The TV
This will allow you to reproduce video, audio and to see photographs, besides its ability to transmit the audio by means of an emitter FM, by which we could listen to it in our radio. It has outlets for Super Video and composite video, a remote port USB and remote control. Its price is of 249 dollars, although strangely it does not include hard disk, which we will have to add......... Posted by: Ethan Permalink Source |
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