DocumentCode
1462009
Title
News Briefs
Author
Garber, Lee
Volume
45
Issue
3
fYear
2012
fDate
3/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
18
Lastpage
20
Abstract
Topics include a supercomputer built with cellphone chips, a new authentication approach, growing concern over threats to industrial-control systems, innovative bots designed to explore the ocean depths, a 3D transistor design that could make computers faster and lighter, and a nonprofit organization starting to manufacture its $35 computers. The first featured Web extra is a video of Rod Dir, CEO of Spectrum Bridge, discussing the first commercial network deployment of whitespace technology in New Hanover County, North Carolina. The featured Web extra is a video of Alan Stillwell, Deputy Chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology for the Federal Communications Commission, discusses the use of whitespace technology to significantly increase the bandwidth of wireless devices.
Keywords
Biometrics (access control); SCADA; Supercomputers; Transistors; Web and internet services; Wireless communication; 3D transistors; Barcelona Supercomputer Center; Raspberry Pi; SCADA; Sensorbots; authentication; biometrics; indium-gallium-arside; industrial-controls systems; supervisory control and data acquisition;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computer
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9162
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MC.2012.101
Filename
6163441
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