New Supercomputer Benchmarks Overdue?
The yardstick used to identify the world’s best-performing supercomputers–the Linpack Benchmark–no longer reflects "real-world usage" and ought to be replaced with a new metric, says Allan Snavely.
Paul Hyman
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Replicating Human Errors to Test Network Security
University of Southern California researchers have developed a system for testing the security of computer networks by making computers simulate the type of human errors that leave networks vulnerable.
Trust Develops ‘science Base’ For Cybersecurity
University of California, Berkeley's TRUST is developing a cybersecurity "science base"– a principled approach to developing trustworthy systems in which security is an integral part and not "bolted on like an afterthought."
Researchers Find Tipping Point to Sway Public Opinion
If 10% of a social network is strongly committed to an opinion, that’s enough to rapidly convert the uncommitted 90% to adopt their point of view, according to a team of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
The Importance Of Analyzing Social Intelligence
Huge amounts of data emanating from Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites, which is known collectively as “social intelligence, ” is being gathered, managed, and analyzed. The insights it creates into markets and customers has become one of today's most important business and technology trends.
Five Tips To Improve Enterprise Mobile Security
Mobile devices are increasingly connected with an ecosystem of third-party cloud and desktop services outside an enterprise's control. Here's five tips that enterprises — as well as end users — can follow to improve their mobile security.
Five Tips For Agile Software Development
The most critical challenge for practitioners of agile software development is learning how to become a self-organizing, cross-functional agile team.
World Ipv6 Day Concludes Without Major Problems
World IPv6 Day has come and gone and — as on January 1, 2000 when the world held its breath for Y2K zero hour — it's safe to say that no disaster has befallen the Internet.
Why Has H-1b Visa Demand Plummeted?
The once-coveted H-1B visa that enables skilled non-citizens to work legally in the U.S. is not the prize it once was. What’s happened?
Autonomous Computers to Recognize and Thwart Cyberthreats
Bruce McConnell, senior counselor for cybersecurity at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, suggests that computers should be involved in protecting themselves against malicious cyberattacks.
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