Blog - Preventing Smart-Phone Armageddon

If hackers got access to enough smart phones, they could paralyze wireless communications. In 2009, Scott Totzke, vice president of security at Research in Motion -- maker of the BlackBerry smartphone -- told Reuters that his nightmare scenario was a type of attack in which a sufficient number of smart phones in a given area were compromised in a way that they would send so much data through a ...

IBM program to help ‘Bay Game’

The “U.Va Bay Game/Analytics,” an in-depth simulation of the interactions contributing to the health of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, has been picked up by IBM’s ...

How I Found Beauty in the Beat

Some time around the start of last year I found myself scanning through my music library, and coming to the realisation that something was slowing eating it’s way into my tastes.

Uncle Jerrold and the schwa

Uncle Jerrold alongside John K. King Books, one of his regular spots. Compare and contrast (9/1/2010) Can Detroit schools learn from Baltimore's turnaround?

Scientist says yeast can be simple model to study Parkinson’s disease

Yeast could be a powerful ally in the discovery of new therapeutic drugs to treat Parkinson's disease says a scientist presenting his work at the Society for General Microbiology's autumn meeting in Nottingham today.