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Mathematics Provides Answer To Airport Security Puzzle
October 12, 2006 High flyers will enjoy faster and safer travel in the future, thanks to mathematicians at the University of Manchester and airport security specialists Rapiscan ... > full story -
Cyber Security Project Helps Keep Oil, Gas Control Systems Safe
October 10, 2006 For the past 12 months, Sandia National Laboratories has served as the lead lab in Project LOGIIC (Linking the Oil and Gas Industry to Improve Cyber Security). The project was created to keep U.S. ... > full story -
Giant Fiber Lasers For Secure Communication
September 30, 2006 Very long lasers made of optical fibers offer a promising route to highly secure communications. Nothing beats quantum communication for absolute security, but the new method, which relies on ... > full story -
Entanglement Unties A Tough Quantum Computing Problem
September 29, 2006 Error correction coding is a fundamental process that underlies all of information science, but the task of adapting classical codes to quantum computing has long bumped up against what seemed to be ... > full story -
Team Sends Quantum Encryption 'Keys' Over Record Distances
September 26, 2006 Using an innovative sensor for detecting single photons, the smallest particles of light, scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and ... > full story -
Using Computers To Sort Out Facts From Opinions
September 26, 2006 In "information extraction," computers scan text for words and phrases that identify subjects, objects and specific types of information in order to understand the highly variable ways in which human ... > full story -
Personal Data Protection Vital To Future Civil Liberties
September 25, 2006 When micro-sized sensors can enquire our business in a particular neighbourhood, and equally micro-sized agents embedded within our clothing answer on our behalf, what are the risks to our personal ... > full story -
The Cool Way To Build The World's Fastest Computer
September 25, 2006 A University of Sussex scientist and his American colleagues have solved a mystery that limits the performance of the world's fastest computer, the quantum computer, after making an unexpected ... > full story -
Researchers Reveal 'Extremely Serious' Vulnerabilities In E-Voting Machines
September 13, 2006 A group of Princeton computer scientists say they have created demonstration vote-stealing software that can be installed within a minute on a common electronic voting machine. The software can ... > full story -
Fingerprinting Hackers: Technique Demonstrates Wireless Device Driver Vulnerabilities
September 12, 2006 The next time you're sipping a latte and surfing the Net at your favorite neighborhood wireless café, someone just a few seats away could be breaking into your laptop and causing irreparable ... > full story
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