World’s first 3D face recognition camera

Canada’s Bioscrypt, a provider of enterprise access control technology, has introduced what it claims is the world’s first 3D face recognition camera for use in authenticating individuals accessing a computer.

Google Searches Web’s Dark Side

BBC News (05/11/07)
Google researchers are studying billions of Web sites in an effort to identify all possible malicious pages on the Internet. Google researcher Niels Provos and his colleagues subjected 4.5 million Web pages to “in-depth analysis” for their paper, “Ghost in the Browser,” and found about 450,000 Web pages able to launch “drive-by [...]

Pervasive Computing

In Future, Everything Will Be a Computer
National Post (CAN) (05/19/07) Medley, Mark
Hundreds of researchers, futurists, computer scientists, academics, and innovators who convened in Toronto discussed the third wave of computing, known in many circles as “pervasive computing,” in which miniature computers will be embedded in virtually everything, making an impact on practically every aspect [...]

Bravo Legendary Liverpool FC

Bravo Liverpool. The Liverpool FC outclassed AC Milan in all areas of the pitch yesterday night for the Champions League final in Athens except in front of the goal.
 

The Athens Fever is On

 
Rafael Benitez has told his players there’s still time to play their way into his Champions League final team. The battle is now on for starting places in Athens and the Liverpool boss admits he will be using this week’s training camp in Spain to prepare his tactical plan and consider his selection possibilities for [...]

CSE Alumni @ Infosys: Working Session at UoM

A group of CSE Alumni working at Infosys has kindly agreed to hold a working session with all the final year students of the Faculty of Engineering. They will discuss the Infosys recruitment exercise and the details of the aptitute test that will be conducted by Infosys. Note that candidates are required to pass the aptitude test to be called [...]

Short Notes on Ambient intelligence

The concept of ambient intelligence or AmI is a vision where humans are surrounded by computing and networking technology unobtrusively embedded in their surroundings. (Wikipedia) This vision assumes a shift away from PCs to a variety of devices which are unobtrusively embedded in our environment and which are accessed via intelligent interfaces.

Guest Lecture at Charles Telfair Institute (DCDM Business School)

I was invited to deliver a guest lecture on “Experimentation in Computer Science and Software Engineering” at the Charles Telfair Institute (formerly DCDM Business School) to some BSc Computer Science level 3 students on Wednesday 16 May 2007. The guest lecture included the following discussions:

Nature of Computing
Why experiment?
Methods of expriementation
Computer Science Research and experimentation 
Issues and possible approaches

IT Job Profiles in Mauritius – 2007

I have recently compiled a list of IT job profiles in Mauritius. These jobs are currently being undertaken by past UoM students in leading IT companies in Mauritius. The names of the persons and the company have not been mentioned for obvious reasons.  
This compilation gives prospective IT graduates an apercu of the duties and responsibilities [...]

Virtual Becomes Reality At Stanford

San Francisco Chronicle (04/29/07) P. A1; Sturrock, Carrie
Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab researchers are investigating how new digital technology can alter human beings and their interactions. Using advanced virtual reality technology researchers can transport student subjects into incredibly real environments, technology the researchers say could be used in a variety of human interactions from [...]

Engineers in, Programmers Out

As the Software World Turns: Engineers in, Programmers Out
TechNewsWorld (04/28/07) Maxcer, Chris
Today, software programmers, developers, analysts, engineers, and architects rarely fill the traditional positions they were limited to only a decade ago, and instead handle a wide variety of tasks as organizations worldwide ask more from application development teams. Software developers need to have [...]

A World of Connections

Economist (04/26/07)
As short development cycles, lower costs, and increased innovation expand the wireless network, more everyday objects will become connected to networks, devices such as televisions, cars, industrial machinery, and coffee makers. David Clark, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and developer of the Internet believes that in 15 to 20 [...]

Mobile Phone Game Developed to Combat Culture Shock

Researchers at the University of Portsmouth are putting the final touches on a game for mobile phones that is designed to help prepare international students for life in Britain. Gaming technology expert Nipan Maniar and research assistant Dr. Emily Bennett are behind C-Shock, which helps foreigners deal with “culture shock” by presenting incidents and images [...]

Professional Short Course: Wireless Networking In Practice

Objectives: The aim of this course is to provide attendees with an understanding of the issues associated with the design and implementation of wireless networks. The course will include practical sessions.  

Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of networking  
Who should attend: Network Administrators, Software Engineers, Software Developers, IT Managers, IT Technicians, Computer Operators, Graduates and Students in IT.     
Mode [...]

AI Will Surpass Human Intelligence After 2020

ITWorld.com (05/03/07) Moon, Peter
In an interview, Vernor Vinge, a retired San Diego University professor of mathematics and computer science and a science fiction writer, outlined some of his predictions for future technological advancements, including the idea that artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence some time after 2020. Commenting on his famous 1993 speech “The [...]