Information Technology
Here you can find a summary of innovations in the fields of information and data processing and up-to-date developments on IT equipment and hardware.
This area covers topics such as IT services, IT architectures, IT management and telecommunications.
Bringing health care in Africa into the electronic age
But what’s health care got to do with software design?Lots, explains Seebregts, a senior manager at the South African Medical Research Council, Executive…
Apps for Multiple Devices: Open Source Platfom to Design and Run Applications across all Screens
With the mobile internet growing exponentially, the call to develop a single universal platform for the development of mobile internet applications is becoming…
Grasping the Tree of Life: There is an App for That Too
The new "TimeTree" application lets anyone with an Apple iPhone harness a vast Internet storehouse of data about the diversity of life, from bacteria to humans. The intuitive interface is…
Lightweight true random number generators a step closer
Members of the Institute's cryptography research team have produced a series of circuits that are up to 50 per cent smaller than anything else currently…
Software package Midas 2.0 from Siemens optimizes performance of mining machinery
Compared with the previous version, the database connection has been updated in particular and the user interface given a simpler and more flexible design.Built on the solid foundation of the .NET platform, the Midas 2.0 solution uses an active SQL Server database to deliver substantial performance increases over the previous release….
New Supercomputer ‘Sees’ Well Enough to Drive a Car Someday
In fact, visually interpreting our environment as quickly as we do is an astonishing feat requiring an enormous number of computations—which is just one reason…