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Omar Khayyam was born in Persia in 1048 and was a mathematician, astronomer and poet. He was known for using a geometric approach to analyzing algebra problems and for solving cubic equations using line segments. He noted that solving the cubic required the use of conic sections and could not be solved simply with a [...]

Can a group of distributed intelligent agents collaborate well enough to provide situational awareness information that helps protect a network? Oak Ridge explores cybots Imagine being able to deploy an army of software robots intelligent enough to cooperate with one another to monitor and defend the largest networks. Instead of independent devices doing a single [...]

A motion sensing interface allows users to interact with software using a finger which is “sensed” using ultrasonic ranging. The finger becomes a combination mouse/cursor/drawing device or whatever the software supports. http://www.navisense.com/ iPoint Technology The iPoint™ is a small motion sensing mouse device which mounts to the keyboard or computer. Alternatively, the device can be [...]

The link below includes a video demonstration of gesture based computer interface technology that is similar to the fictional interface shown in “Minority Report”. Oblong G-Speak The SOE’s combination of gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels brings the first major step in computer interface since 1984; starting today, g-speak will fundamentally change the way [...]

Zeno of Elea, was born around -460 in southern Italy and influenced the thinking and work of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. Zeno studied under the philospher Parmenides and became famous for posing paradoxical problems. Plato wrote a dialogue called “Parmenides”, which is our primary source on the thinking of Zeno. PRECURSOR: Parmenides SUCCESSOR: Socrates Plato [...]

Ophcrack is a free and open source tool that can be used either within an existing OS (linux, Windows, OS X) environment or as a live-CD that boots its own version of linux. Either way, it has the ability to retrieve Windows password hashes and crack both LM and NT versions using a set of [...]

A new version of 800-53 (revision 3) is in Initial Public Draft (IPD) and available for comments on the NIST web site. [note - IPD means the document is in "draft" mode while NIST collects comments from the public and incorporates them into changes/corrections before releasing the document in a final form, usually many months [...]

Born Abu Ali Sina Balkhi, or ibn Sina, in Persia around 980 and known in western history by the Latin version of his name, “Avicenna”. He was a physician and philospher and studied and taught mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, logic, geometry, geology, paleontology and more. The author of over 400 works, his major effort was [...]

Boyle’s law describes the inverse relationship between pressure and volume in gases. In a closed system if temperature stays constant and either pressure or volume increases, the other (pressure or volume) will decrease proportionally. PRECURSOR: barometer SUCCESSOR: Robert Hooke ideal gas law

tinmith AR system Tinmith is a project of the Wearable Computer Lab at the University of South Australia. The project does research into “mobile outdoor augmented reality”. This means wearing a backpack computer and HUD style headset that can overlay data and graphical information into the headset display while you are walking around outdoors, as [...]