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Technology Research News
July 2, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Study reveals Net's parts The Internet is rooted in the geopolitical boundaries of the real world -- its natural organization includes groupings that conform largely to national borders. Spaces between groupings are Internet fault lines that reveal where the global network is most vulnerable to splitting. apart.   |
Technology Research News
July 27, 2005
Kimberly Patch |
Traffic model maps congestion Researchers from Oxford University are investigating ways to design better networks. The research is aimed at finding ways to ease bottlenecks in beneficial networks, ways to disrupt unwanted networks, and ways to design better networks. |
Technology Research News
January 1, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Hubs increase Net risk The Internet has much in common with air travel, according to researchers from Ohio State University. This does not bode well, considering how disruptive storms can be to the airlines. |
Technology Research News
September 8, 2004
Kimberly Patch |
Simple Search Lightens Net Load Researchers working on finding better ways to search the Internet are increasingly turning to methods that require individual nodes, or servers, to know a little bit about nearby servers, but don't require servers to look much beyond their own neighborhoods. |
Fast Company
September 2009
Kate Rockwood |
Janette Sadik-Khan Wants New Yorkers to Walk This Way Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation, cut through the congested knots of Manhattan traffic with a novel concept: Close some roads to cars. |
Technology Research News
July 2, 2003 |
Big sites hoard links University of London researchers have uncovered another clue about the Internet's structure -- the rich-club phenomenon. Large, well-connected nodes have more links to each other than to smaller nodes, and smaller nodes have more links to the larger nodes than to each other. |
Search Engine Watch
January 3, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Offers Real-Time Traffic Reports Largely overlooked during the holiday craziness last month, Yahoo introduced real-time traffic information for 70 major U.S. cities. |
Wired
December 2004
Tom McNichol |
Roads Gone Wild It's no surprise that the Dutch, a people renowned for social experimentation in practically every facet of life, have embraced new ideas in traffic management. Other countries are following suite. |
Technology Research News
February 12, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Social networks sturdier than 'Net Although many types of networks, including biological networks, social networks, and the Internet, have a lot in common, when you get right down to who is connecting to whom, social networks follow different rules. |
PC World
October 11, 2006
Dennis O'Reilly |
First Look: Mapping Software Loses Its Way Two low-cost packages aim to steer you in the right direction with varying degrees of success. |
PC Magazine
March 15, 2007
Jamie Lendino |
Google Maps for Mobile Like Opera Mini 3.0, Google Maps for Mobile is another no-brainer download; try it and risk becoming addicted. |
Science News
July 2, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Air Transport Central At times, the international air transport system seems poised on the brink of failure. Indirectly, the same system also plays a role in the transmission of deadly diseases, such as influenza and, most recently, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). |
Scientific American
January 2009
Linda Baker |
Removing Roads and Traffic Lights Speeds Urban Travel Urban travel is slow and inefficient, in part because drivers act in self-interested ways |
Technology Research News
January 26, 2005
Kimberly Patch |
Adaptive Lights Organize Traffic A researcher in Belgium has devised a way to allow traffic lights to self-organize to improve traffic flow. The method, which taps the self-organizing principles of social insects, does away with central control. |
AskMen.com
May 14, 2003
Steve Richer |
How To: Avoid Getting Lost As guys, we'll never admit that we're lost because that's just not manly; that's why you should consider these tips and become a human compass. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2012
McMahon et al. |
Social Awareness Tools For Science Research Tools for social networking and social awareness are developing rapidly and evolving continuously. They are gaining popularity in a growing number of professional as well as personal activities, including scholarly research. |
Reason
March 2009
Adrian Moore & Sam Staley |
A Better New New Deal How can we get the most bang for our transportation buck? Here are six ideas for the new president and cash-strapped governors. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2006
Ted G. Lewis |
Netwar! Recent technology infrastructure failures each posed a problem of concern for homeland security: how to guard critical infrastructure that is so vast and complex that we cannot afford to protect every part or anticipate the ultimate effects of a disruption? |
BusinessWeek
September 12, 2005
Larry Armstrong |
Dodging That #%@! Traffic GPS systems can steer you around traffic jam-ups, but ease of use varies widely. |
PC World
December 2001
Dennis O'Reilly |
New Road-Trip Reconaissance Software New trip-planning programs from Microsoft and DeLorme make planning your next road trip easy... |
Entrepreneur
May 2004
Amanda C. Kooser |
The Mesh Pit Taking wireless networks to the next level. |
The Motley Fool
October 16, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
How to Avoid Rotten Neighbors You may be able to avoid living next to noisy or nosy people with this Website. |
Fast Company
October 19, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Intelligent Cities Expo To celebrate the planners and engineers at this Hamburg expo, we've gathered some particularly smart urban solutions from around the world. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2012
Chris Belter |
Feature: Visualizing Networks of Scientific Research Bibliometric mapping is one of the many applications of network science. To better understand bibliometric maps, it is useful to have a general understanding of network science. |
Technology Research News
August 25, 2004
Kimberly Patch |
Selective Shutdown Protects Nets Networks, including the Internet, are susceptible to cascade failures, which occur when nodes abruptly disconnect from the network. An effective defense is to knock out more nodes immediately after an initial failure. The key is picking the right nodes. |
InternetNews
December 1, 2008
Henry Newman |
Tips on Storage Architecture for E-Discovery E-Discovery systems pose unique challenges for storage architects if they want to keep up with data growth, performance and backup and recovery demands. |
