The program researched vulnerabilities in computer networks running critical infrastructure and sought ways to close security holes.
Because the technique uses off-the-shelf wireless transceivers similar to those used in home computer networks, "the cost of this system will be cheaper than existing methods of monitoring breathing, " says Neal Patwari, senior author of a study of the new method and an assistant professor of electrical engineering.
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Moreover, improvements in sensor technology and computer networks mean that the system would not need a large radar in central Europe.
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These products are used in telecommunications networks, computer-controlled systems, security systems, emergency lighting, electric utilities and switchgear, medical equipment, rail signaling, renewable energy, and military and aviation equipment.
Cerf, who helped design the first protocols that allowed information to be sent across computer networks in the late 1970s, expressed regret in a speech Tuesday that he hadn't designed the Internet to be a safer, more regulated system.
Senators worried the new position of overseeing the military's cyber defense efforts for the Pentagon could blur the lines between Alexander's current civilian role of leading the National Security Agency (NSA), which also plays a role in protecting the nations computer networks by monitoring domestic electronic communications.
"The incidence and complexity of computer crime continues to increase rapidly as greater numbers of people develop proficiency in manipulating electronic data and navigating computer networks, and as worldwide access to the Internet continues to expand, " according to the budget document.
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In the United States, government computer networks parry millions of attempted intrusions every day, Internet-security experts say.
Boston's Route 128 was home not just to the minicomputer revolution but to early developments in word processing, spreadsheets, networks and computer-aided design.
PCs in networks served by a powerful central computer seemed splendid.
Barry Cheetham, senior lecturer in The School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, is combining his academic expertise in communications, networks and digital signal processing with his love of choral singing.
The Cohen brothers saw an opportunity in Alain's MIT research project on modeling computer networks.
The probe watched where the hackers went within the Journal's computer networks, what information they were interested in and how deeply they had penetrated.
As the Web moguls see it, the Internet has evolved from a method of transmitting information to its own computing platform, as novel as the personal computer was in the late 1970s, or client-server networks were in the '80s.
Finally, there was the creation of the Internet in the 1980s (its origins could be traced to earlier computer networks formed by the U.S. Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation), and its explosive growth throughout the 1990s.
Why on earth in this day of deep relational databases and high-speed international computer networks do we need printed passports?
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The cybercriminals would monitor the withdrawals in real-time from within the credit-card processing firms' computer networks, prosecutors said.
Jan Verplancke, the chief information officer of Standard Chartered, says that international banks build their large computer systems in the places that have the most reliable communications and power networks and are least prone to natural disasters.
It would have a computer and an interface that let it talk to other data networks in the ship.
There were also reports of skulls popping up on some computer screens, which could indicate that hackers had installed malicious code in the networks, the Korean Internet Security Agency said.
Our mental image of the high-tech entrepreneur is still that of a young man, in jeans, t-shirt (or signature turtleneck), and hoodie, tinkering in his garage to build the first Apple computer, or putting his college social networks online.
In 2002, when the FBI reorganized to put more of its resources toward protecting computer networks, it handled nearly 1, 500 hacking cases.
In March, we suggested that the pressure on the federal government to upgrade its computer networks was a good reason for investors to get into network equipment stocks.
An attack on U.S. computer networks could knock out power grids, telecommunications, transportation and banking systems in a matter of seconds.
He was at Edinburgh University's Computer Science Department in the 1970s, researching what was needed to run early Local Area Networks (LANs).
Dave Boyce, who works for an Internet service provider in Amsterdam, declared that the ultimate purpose of the camp was to create human and computer networks of activists to defend such policies.
Consumer electronics equipped with wireless mesh hardware could easily become a part of ad hoc networks in your house, allowing users to easily share music and video between their computer, TV or stereo.
In 1989, he expanded his successful publishing business by helping clients place and receive orders over private computer networks.
Adoption has been even stronger in businesses, where corporations can replace their expensive phone networks and save money routing calls over their computer network.
Neural networks are computer programs that, as their name suggests, behave rather like nerve cells in an animal's brain.
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