Category: Monitoring systems
An old man walks down the stairs in his home. Suddenly, he trips and falls. No one is home to help him. But soon he hears the reassuring clanging of approaching sirens. The surveillance system installed in his home...
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Category: Digital security
Which is more advanced, the technology used by movie makers to depict security in action, or the technology itself?
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Sorry Peter, I hope this wasn't a GE device! I love the fact that what makes it work is spitting on it....
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Category: robots
... well, not exactly, but close: More details here....
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Category: Fallacies
Can ants save us from worms?
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Posted by Greg Laden at 11:10 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Digital security
It is kind of fun watching the new browser war heat up, with Google (a force not to be messed with lightly) lumbers on to the battlefield with Chrome, and Microsoft (a force not to be messed with lightly either)...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 9:43 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Data mining
Any new technology is liable to be used for something other than originally intended. That is often a good thing. As I was growing up, I was told that our new digital wrist watches were a side effect of the...
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Category: Device ID technology
On 9/11 I was in Cincinnati Ohio working on an optical metrology problem for measuring the shape of aircraft engine blades for GE Aircraft engines. That evening we were planning to fly back to Albany NY. However since all commercial...
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Posted by Peter Tu at 5:07 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Standards For Identity Credentials And Authentication Systems Described ScienceDaily (Sep. 9, 2009) -- Two publications from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) describe new capabilities for authentication systems using smart cards or other personal security devices within and...
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Category: Device ID technology
The cookie is a wonderful thing. I'm not talking about Grandma's "Tule Huuse" recipe for chocolate cookies, but the internet browser thing that most people learn to loathe. Internet cookies give your browser and the sites you visit a special...
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