Did Analytics Answer Malaysia Flight MH370 Water-Entry Question?
The tragic disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in March 2014 generated few facts and many questions. But a team of computational math, engineering, modeling, and advanced scale computing ...Full Article
Catalina Sea Ranch Dives Into Aquaculture – and IoT
Just off the coast of Northern California, the Catalina Sea Ranch is starting to grow mussels – and an IoT-fueled bumper crop of data about aquaculture, mollusks, and the ...Full Article
IT: Think Digital, Think Business, Think Big
Business leaders expect and want IT departments to lead organizations' transformation into digital enterprises – but at least one study finds technologists fall short of corporate managers' expectations. Almost ...Full Article
Enterprises Embrace Obama’s HPC Moon Shot
Could President Barack Obama's executive order establishing the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) do for high performance computing what President John F. Kennedy's proclamation about landing on the moon do ...Full Article
GE Takes on Amazon in IoT with Predix Cloud
As part of its effort to provide customers with complete Internet of Things solutions, GE enhanced its Predix IoT platform to include infrastructure-as-a-service. The new Predix Cloud will leverage ...Full Article
Valerie Plame: The Spy Who Came in to the Code
Since her cover was famously blown, former covert CIA operative Valerie Plame is more openly protecting the country's digital assets. In May, the author and anti-nuclear activist joined the ...Full Article
‘Can Containers Contain?’ Remains Top Security Issue
Among the stumbling blocks to scaling application container technology are lingering concerns about security in production environments. Secure deployment of Docker and other container workloads in production was among ...Full Article
U.S. Can Learn a Lot from EU About Cybersecurity Legislation
Violence. Human rights. Universal healthcare. Cybersecurity initiatives. You may ask yourself what these four things have in common. Well, aside from being hot topics of political debate, they are ...Full Article
Intel, Micron Stack New Memory Technology
Chipmakers Intel Corp. and Micron Technology are claiming a new class of memory technology based on new materials and a three-dimensional "cross point" architecture said to deliver a 1,000-fold ...Full Article
MOOCs Teach IT Lessons Before Summer Ends
As full-time students' thoughts return to classrooms and lesson plans, IT professionals will find a slew of new online educational offerings designed to augment and expand their skills. An ...Full Article