Archive for April, 2010
Posted by Saurabh on April 20th, 2010
CNN (04/16/10) Sutter, John D.
Researchers are developing ways to prevent hackers from accessing and remotely controlling medical devices that emit wireless signals. For example, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Nathanael Paul is designing a more secure insulin pump that cuts some of the wireless connections between parts of the system. Other researchers are looking for security [...]
Posted by Saurabh on April 19th, 2010
New York Times (04/15/10) Markoff, John
Security specialists from eight countries met at a Russian-sponsored conference on Internet security to discuss their differences on how governments view cyberspace. “The Russians have a dramatically different definition of information security than we do; it’s a broader notion, and they really mean state security,” says U.S. ICANN representative George [...]
Posted by Saurabh on April 16th, 2010
Associated Press (04/08/10) Gross, Samantha
Intel is developing software that uses brain scans to determine what items people are thinking about. The software analyzes magnetic resonance imaging scans to determine which parts of the brain are being activated as a person thinks. During testing, the software was 90 percent accurate in guessing which of two words [...]
Posted by Saurabh on April 15th, 2010
Technology Review (04/12/10) Naone, Erica
Microsoft researchers have developed Manual Deskterity, a computer interface that combines touch input with the precision of a pen. The prototype drafting application, designed for the Microsoft Surface tabletop touchscreen, enables users to perform touch actions such as zooming in and out and manipulating images, but they also can use a [...]
Posted by Akhil on April 13th, 2010
A Latin square is an n × n table filled with n different symbols in such a way that each symbol occurs exactly once in each row and exactly once in each column. Here is an example:
1 2 3
2 3 1
3 1 2
The C code for the implementation of the Latin Square problem is given below.
#include “stdio.h”
#define n 8
int main()
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