February 8, 2013

EU-funded project TRILOGY has seen European researchers improve Internet traffic management and preserve high quality connections: all this in the context of present-day social, economic and technical demands.

February 8, 2013

Although wireless communication, especially on the frontier-like ISM band, is fraught with hidden dangers, the vendors working together in the IEEE and Wi-Fi Alliance have managed to successfully shepherd wireless LAN technology from humble beginnings to the reasonably reliable high performance we enjoy today.

February 8, 2013

Interview with Darek Kowalski, Visiting Researcher, Institute IMDEA Networks

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February 8, 2013

With YouTube reaching 3 billion views per day and 2 days' worth of uploaded videos every minute in 2011, Internet traffic has reached unprecedented figures. Demand, coupled with increasing security threats, has led to a decrease in bandwidth availability and has, at times, cast doubt over the strength of Internet design altogether.

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February 8, 2013

Twitter is currently one of the most popular and fastest growing applications in the internet. Created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone, it is a micro-blogging system which has rapidly attracted a large number of users to become one of the most successful platforms for both social interaction and information diffusion. On Twitter, a user can post messages, otherwise known as ‟tweets”, of up to 140 characters. Twitter is currently used by around 200 million internauts who upload more than 140 million tweets to the system every day.

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February 8, 2013

This week mi+dtv will discuss the effect of bilingualism in Alzheimer disease; TRILOGY project for a safer Internet; and new activities on Science Week 2011. The news about TRILOGY project highlights research conducted by a scientific institution within Madrid’s science and technology system.

February 8, 2013

P.M. Romer affirms that know-how of a production function is an irreplaceable factor in current economic development. It is what allows rate of return on investment to grow steadily, and is the defining aspect of an economy’s ability to generate technology and consequently increase productivity.

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February 8, 2013

The story of the development of wireless local area networks (WLAN) is a good example of how a research project can open the doors to a whole new industry. Back in the 70s, a research team at the University of Hawaii was unsatisfied with the data connections over the telephone network that they used to access the central computers from remote locations. They envisioned a wireless network that transmitted digital data using radio communications. And they built it.

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February 8, 2013

Dr. Kowalski brings to the team extensive experience in areas including algorithms and data structures, fault-tolerant aspects of computer science, and distributed, parallel, network and mobile computing.

February 8, 2013

Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) who participate in the Trilogy project have uncovered technology which allows Internet users who use the newly established IPv6 to access current Internet content available on IPv4.