Information Technology

Secrets that zip across offices through wireless computing networks all too easily also zip through office windows into the hands of competitors – now researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a method of producing tunable surfaces that can selectively block signals from wireless networks from spilling out of the office.

Dr Christos Mias, in the University of Warwick’s School of Engineering has developed a “dipole grid based frequency–selective surface” (also known as an F

A group of researchers from the Department of Computer Languages and Systems at the Universitat Jaume I is taking part in a project to improve realism in video games. The goal is to design software that makes the task of game programmers easier so that they can create more credible environments without having to carry out complex operations. The research, which has received financial help of 1,649,000 euros from the European Commission and is to last for 33 months, involves 11 other members from

When looking for a needle in a haystack, it’s helpful to know what a needle looks like. A new software tool developed by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) makes it possible to find chemical ’needles’ in data ’haystacks’ without having to know anything about the ’needle’ in advance.

The NIST software should be especially useful for analyzing ultrapure metals–recently shown to have superior strength, corrosion-resistance and other properties–

The map is not the territory, runs the famous quote, but maps do represent an unparalleled tool for emergency management. Nobody knows this better than humanitarian organisations like Médecins Sans Frontières, whose work often occurs within territories without any usable maps whatsoever.

ESA has been working in partnership with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Belgium to remedy this. The result is the Medical Humanitarian Disaster Mapping Service (HUMAN). Since last year the servi

New CICS products enable customers to more easily integrate business processes and transform their existing applications IBM today announced the release of CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V3.1 which provides an enhanced Web Services solution. Also announced is CICS Transaction Gateway V6, which provides a J2EE standards-based connectivity solution. Following on the heels of the 35th anniversary of CICS earlier this year, this announcement enables businesses to fully exploit the agilit

ILOG JRules Enables Customization and Business Process Control For Faster Business Response Times

ILOG® (NASDAQ: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) today announced that QAD, Inc., (NASDAQ: QADI), a leading provider of enterprise applications for global manufacturers, has selected ILOG JRules™, a key offering in ILOG’s Business Rule Management System (BRMS) product line, to help streamline and simplify the management of business-rules within MFG/PRO, QAD’s flagship ERP produc