This weekend, hundreds of thousands of music fans will come to Chicago to attend the Lollapalooza Music Festival in Grant Park. About 100 of them will be students in Computer Science, Business, and Engineering from top universities such as MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Illinois. They will be participating in Think Chicago, a selective program designed to attract talent to Chicago’s growing tech entrepreneurship sector. …read more
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A court ban on a research paper that analyzes flaws in a car-lock system should be overturned, according to the Dutch university that employs two of the three researchers who wrote the analysis.
The U.K. High Court of Justice banned the publication of the paper, “Dismantling Megamos Crypto: Wirelessly Lockpicking a Vehicle Immobilizer” on June 25, said the Radboud University Nijmegen in a news release on Monday. The ban came to the attention of the public when the U.K. newspaper The Guardian published a story about it over the weekend.
The U.K. court issued an interim block on the research paper, while considering a permanent ban on request of car manufacturer Volkswagen, the university added. French defence group Thales also requested the ban, according to a report by the BBC.
Roel Verdult and Baris Ege, of the Digital Security faculty at Radboud University, were planning to present their paper with Flavio Garcia a lecturer in Computer Science of the University of Birmingham during the USENIX Security Symposium in Washington, D.C., in August, the Dutch university said.
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On an 80-core computer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, scientists have built a tool that might make networks significantly faster just by coming up with better algorithms.
The system, called Remy, generates its own algorithms for implementing TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), the framework used to prevent congestion on most networks. The algorithms are different from anything human developers have written, and so far they seem to work much better, according to the researchers. On one simulated network, they doubled the throughput.
Remy is not designed to run on individual PCs and servers, but someday it may be used to develop better algorithms to run on those systems, said Hari Balakrishnan, the Fujitsu professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. For now, it’s churning out millions of possible algorithms and testing them against simulated networks to find the best possible one for a given objective.
IP (Internet Protocol) networks don’t dictate how fast each attached computer sends out packets or whether they keep transmitting after the network has become congested. Instead, each system makes its own decisions using some implementation of the TCP framework. Each version of TCP uses its own algorithm to determine how best to act in different conditions.
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By The Huffington Post News Editors
Students who recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science are making an average salary of $84,400. Engineering grads from Stanford are earning a bit less, $74,700. The third-highest salary for grads is for nursing school alumni from New York University, at $70,200.
These numbers come from a new survey released by NerdWallet, a four-year-old personal finance website based in San Francisco. NerdWallet offers price comparisons for everything from credit cards to airport parking.
To put together its salary list, it started with the US News & World Report list of top colleges and cross-referenced it with data it culled from university career services that polled students about their starting salaries from the years 2010-2012. The numbers on the list are average salaries from those combined years. The list is not comprehensive because many schools don’t release salary info. But NerdWallet was able to get data for 100 schools on the US News list and from those 100, it pulled out the 25 highest-paying. Our slide show highlights the top 10.
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Dr. Gavin Michael Joins JPMorgan Chase as Head of Digital for Consumer and Community Banking
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Chase announced today that Dr. Gavin Michael has joined the firm as Head of Digital for Chase’s Consumer and Community Banking division. Michael served as the Chief Technology Innovation Officer at Accenture since 2010, where he was responsible for the innovation agenda, technology strategy, and research and development. He will report to Gordon Smith, CEO of Chase Consumer and Community Banking, and Guy Chiarello, Chief Information Officer for JPMorgan Chase.
“We are extremely pleased to have Gavin join the firm,” said Gordon Smith, CEO of Consumer & Community Banking. “With over 31 million active Chase.com users and more than 12 million active mobile users, it’s important that we continue to innovate and provide exceptional customer experience in our internet and mobile channels. Gavin has more than 20 years of experience across Retail Banking technology, including governance, organization, strategy, and innovation. His experience in running large, complex global projects across financial services and consulting makes him a great fit to lead Chase’s mobile and digital channel.”
Prior to joining Accenture in 2010, Michael had a series of senior technology roles at Lloyd’s Banking Group, including Retail Chief Information Officer. In this role, he drove branch technology innovations at the center of their customer experience strategy. He previously held senior roles at National Australia Bank and IBM.
Michael received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Australian National University and his undergraduate degree from University of Western Australia.
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Chase is the U.S. consumer and commercial banking business of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYS: JPM) , a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.4 trillion and operations in more than 60 countries. Chase serves more than 52 million consumers and small businesses through more than 5,600 bank branches, 18,700 ATMs, credit cards, mortgage offices, and online and mobile banking as well as through relationships with auto dealerships. More information about Chase is available at www.chase.com.
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Students who recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science are making an average salary of $84,400. Engineering grads from Stanford are earning a bit less, $74,700. The third-highest salary for grads is for nursing school alumni from New York University, at $70,200. These numbers come from a new survey released by NerdWallet, a four-year-old personal finance website based in San Francisco. NerdWallet offers price comparisons for everything from credit cards to airport parking.
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Mobile phone apps are accessing users’ private data and transmitting it to remote servers far more than appears strictly necessary, while users have inadequate tools to monitor or control such access, according to a new study by two French government agencies.
The French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL) studied the behavior of 189 apps on six iPhones equipped with monitoring software and analysis tools developed by the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA). The goal was to improve general understanding of the way apps use private data, not to point the finger at particular developers, CNIL President Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin said Tuesday at a news conference to present the research.
Rather than study apps in laboratory conditions, CNIL took a real-world approach, asking six volunteers to put their own SIM cards in the phones and use them as they would their own between mid-October and mid-January. One volunteer downloaded almost 100 apps, and one added just five to those installed by Apple.
One in 12 of the apps accessed the address book, and almost one in three accessed location information. On average, the users had their location tracked 76 times a day during the study. Foursquare and Apple’s own Maps app requested location information the most often — perhaps understandable given their purpose — with AroundMe and Apple’s Camera app close behind.
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Cross Country Healthcare Announces the Appointment of William J. Grubbs as President, Chief Operating Officer and a Director
BOCA RATON, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. (NAS: CCRN) today announced that effective April 1, 2013, William J. Grubbs will become President, Chief Operating Officer and a director of the Company. Joseph A. Boshart will remain Chief Executive Officer of Cross Country Healthcare until he retires in July 2013. At that time, Mr. Grubbs will become Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
Mr. Grubbs was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of TrueBlue, Inc. (NYS: TBI) , a staffing company, from October 2012 through March 2013. From 2005 through 2011, Mr. Grubbs held various senior executive positions, including Chief Operating Officer, with SFN Group, Inc., a staffing company formerly known as Spherion Corporation. Mr. Grubbs holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from University of New Hampshire.
“Bill is a seasoned executive in the staffing industry and his operational experience will prove very valuable in Cross Country‘s future development and the successful execution of our growth strategy. We are very glad to have him on board,” commented Joseph A. Boshart, Chief Executive Officer of Cross Country.
About Cross Country Healthcare
Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. is a leader in healthcare staffing with a primary focus on providing nurse, allied and physician (locum tenens) staffing services and workforce solutions to the healthcare market. The Company believes it is one of the top two providers of nurse and allied staffing services, one of the top four providers of temporary physician staffing services, and one of the top five providers of retained physician and healthcare executive search services. The Company also is a leading provider of education and training programs specifically for the healthcare marketplace. On a company-wide basis, Cross Country Healthcare has approximately 4,000 contracts with hospitals and healthcare facilities, and other healthcare organizations to provide our staffing services and workforce solutions. Copies of this and other news releases as well as additional information about Cross Country Healthcare can be obtained online at www.crosscountryhealthcare.com. Shareholders and prospective investors can also register to automatically receive the Company‘s press releases, SEC filings and other notices by e-mail.
In addition to historical information, this press release contains statements relating to our future results (including certain projections and business trends) that are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A …read more
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Might the pixel be on it’s way out and dead in 5 years? This project developing a vector based video codec predicts so. The project team consists of researches of the University, Root6 Technology, Smoke & Mirrors and Ovation Data Services.
The pixel isn’t perfect. A grid simplification of the original image, at any scale bigger than it was intended the image looks blocky. To that add the aliasing problems regarding edges and lines that don’t match the grid nicely, and even at the original size things can look chunky.
The transition from pixel based bitmaps to vector based images has been happening for a long time in the static image world. This team of researchers is saying this is also a better way to record moving images and that it will replace the pixel in five years.
The team developed something called a vector-based video codec that attempts to overcome the challenges of a typical vector display. A typical vector display features drawn lines and contoured colors on a screen (rather than the simple, geometrical map of pixels we’re all accustomed to). But it has problems–notably, areas between colors can’t be filled in well enough for a high-quality image to be displayed, the researchers say.
Professor Phil Willis, from the University’s Department of Computer Science, said: “This is a significant breakthrough which will revolutionize the way visual media is produced.”
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Unit 61398 of the People’s Liberation Army has been recruiting computer experts for at least a decade. It has made no secret of details of community life such as badminton matches and kindergarten, but its apparent purpose became clear only when a U.S. Internet security firm accused it of conducting a massive hacking campaign against North American targets.
Hackers with the Chinese unit have been active for years, using online handles such as “UglyGorilla,” Virginia-based firm Mandiant said in a report released Tuesday as the U.S. prepared to crack down on countries responsible for cyberespionage. The Mandiant report plus details collected by The Associated Press depict a highly specialized community of Internet warriors working from a blocky white building in Shanghai:
–RECRUITING THE SPIES: Unit 61398, alleged to be one of several hacking operations run by China‘s military, recruits directly from universities. It favors high computer expertise and English language skills. A notice dated 2003 on the Chinese Internet said the unit was seeking master’s degree students from Zhejiang University’s College of Computer Science and Technology. It offered a scholarship, conditional on the student reporting for work at Unit 61398 after graduation.
–CYBERSPY WORKPLACE: Mandiant says it traced scores of cyberattacks on U.S. defense and infrastructure companies to a neighborhood in Shanghai’s Pudong district that includes the 12-story building where Unit 61398 is known to be housed. The building has office space for up to 2,000 people. Mandiant estimates the number of personnel in the unit to be anywhere from hundreds to a couple of thousand. The surrounding neighborhood is filled with apartment buildings, tea houses, shops and karaoke bars.
–THE UNIT 61398 COMMUNITY: While the building’s activities may be top secret, Unit 61398’s status in the community as a military division is not. It turns up in numerous Chinese Internet references to community events, including a 2010 accord with the local government to set up a joint outreach center on family planning. Other articles describe mass weddings for officers, badminton matches and even discussion of the merits of the “Unit 61398 Kindergarten.” Other support facilities include a clinic, car pool, and guesthouse — all standard for the military’s often self-contained communities across China.
–THE PIPELINE: The Mandiant report describes a special arrangement made with China Telecom for a fiber optic communication infrastructure in the Unit 61398 neighborhood, pointing to its need for bandwidth and its elite status. The contract between the two refers to Unit 61398 as belonging to the General Staff Department 3rd Department, 2nd Bureau, and says China Telecom agreed to the military’s suggested price due to “national defense construction” concerns.
–MODUS OPERANDUS: The cyberspies typically enter targeted computer networks through “spearfishing” attacks, in which a company official receives a creatively disguised email and is tricked into clicking on a link or attachment that then opens a secret door for the hackers, Mandiant says. The cyberspies would steal and retransmit data for an average of just under a year, but in some cases more than four years. Information technology companies were their favorite …read more
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Researchers at Syracuse University’s Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science are studying the toxicity of commonly used nanoparticles, particles up to one million times smaller than a millimeter that could potentially penetrate and damage cell membranes.
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By gabam
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Hello….weird problem but hoping someone can help!
Server: PowerEdge 2850 – 8 core – 12gb ram – 32 bit processor
OS: Redhat ES 6
Setting: University setting .. use server for Computer Science student accounts (350 users)
Every so often the system just boots you, no matter what you are doing. Has happened to me as well when editing a file or just sitting at the command prompt.
Most users use putty to connect, though I have used SSH Secure Shell as well, get booted with both.
Things I have checked or done:
Changed out ethernet cables, changed out the ethernet card. Fiddled with the number of user processes, number of system logins etc.
Have looked at settings in sshd.config relating to Timeouts.
Have connected machine to a different physical switch.
Have increased user limits.
Anyone have any ideas what might cause the system to just boot users randomly like this?
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