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Gartner Revises Server Share Numbers
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:43:24 -0400
Gartner revised its first quarter numbers and found that IBM actually beat out Hewlett-Packard in server revenue....
Who Is Running The Most Secure Browser?
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:03:13 -0400
Many users are undoubtedly not updating their browsers as quickly as they should, but you can't conclude any specifics about that from the recent study of Google logs....
DOJ Sued Over Cell Phone Tracking Practices
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:08:34 -0400
Civil liberties groups claim the Justice Department is bypassing warrants to obtain real-time tracking information on U.S. citizens....
Microsoft Internet Explorer Security Strikes Back
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:03:53 -0400
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 security builds on the Phishing Filter of IE 7 and thwarts cross-site scripting....
IBM Helps Link POS to the Back Office
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:50:30 -0400
IBM and Epicor jointly release an offering that centrally manages and supports POS....

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Pack the plastic; Alaska Airlines goes cashless
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:17:17 -0700
Alaska Airlines will no longer accept cash for in-flight purchases.
Pocket Armrest seeks to become the next neck pillow
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:09:44 -0700
Serial entrepreneur Matt Mostad, of Kenmore, comes up with an idea for traveler's aide while sitting in a cramped airplane seat.
Chevrolet may introduce a mini to U.S.
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:12:00 -0700
General Motors is considering a new Chevrolet minicar for the U.S. as it reworks its product lineup to cope with a dramatic shift from trucks to cars that is linked to high gas prices, a spokesman said Thursday.

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Bits: Google Puts Privacy Link on Main Page
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:08:11 -0000
The move brings Google into clear compliance with a California law that requires many Internet sites to have a link to their privacy policy on their home page.
Google Told to Turn Over User Data of YouTube
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:30:23 -0000
The order raised concerns that the online video viewing habits of tens of millions of people could be exposed.
Bits: What Is Facebook Worth? (Part 37)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:43:10 -0000
A document in the settled Facebook ConnectU litigation reveals that Facebook’s common shares are worth a quarter of the value of the stock Microsoft purchased when it invested in the social network.

CNN.com - Technology

Stealing ideas from nature
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:01:21 -0400
When self-confessed "nature nerd" Janine Benyus coined the term "biomimicry" in a book she published a decade ago, little did she know it would make her a household name, rubbing shoulders with Hollywood stars.
Faked tiger photo sparks Web furor
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:23:49 -0400
Read full story for latest details.
Tunguska blast still a mystery 100 years on
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:17:51 -0400
It produced a blast hundreds of times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb, was seen hundreds of miles away and narrowly missed obliterating an entire city -- but 100 years to the week after the mysterious explosion in Siberia, no one is any closer to understanding what caused it.

NPR Topics: Technology

We Know What You've Been Watching on YouTube
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:13:00 -0400
A court has ordered Google to turn over a database that links users to every video they've watched on the popular Web site YouTube. Jennifer Urban, director of the University of Southern California Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic, says the ruling has big implications for online privacy.
Twitter, What Are You Doing? Co-Founder Tells All
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:51:00 -0400
Twitter.com has so many new users that the Web site keeps crashing. Meanwhile, Twitter engineers are taking popular features away for retooling. It's a painful process, but co-founder Biz Stone has a plan.
Free Speech In China? Text Me
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:21:00 -0400
Hundreds of millions of people in China have cell phones, and with no voice mail, many turn to text messaging to make sure their messages get conveyed. Texting remains one of the few outlets for free speech in a country notorious for its censorship practices.

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition

Google 'faces Street View block'
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:56:34 -0000
Google's plans to launch a mapping tool in the UK could be referred to the Information Commissioner.
Warning letters to 'file-sharers'
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:41:04 -0000
The music industry says thousands of UK broadband users who share tracks illegally will be warned about it in letters.
Google must divulge YouTube log
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:19:53 -0000
Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched avideo on YouTube, says a US court.

Reuters Video: Technology

Japan asks: anybody out there?
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:02:00 -0400
Jul. 4 - Japan's biggest astronomical observatories are teaming up for a fresh quest to find out if there is life in outer space.
Reuters Technology Week
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:52:38 -0400
Jul. 3 - The robo-bartender, virtual haute couture, and global leaders ride hydrogen style.
Robo barman pulls first pint
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:03:25 -0400
Jul. 3 - Billed as the world's first robot barman, Mr Asahi pulls the crowds at London's Selfridges department store.

AP Top Technology News At 6:44 p.m. EDT

Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs
By ANICK JESDANUN Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:52:13 -0000
NEW YORK (AP) -- Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when....
2 teens attacked in town mocked in YouTube videos
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:44:12 -0000
DOVER, N.Y. (AP) -- Two teenagers who drove to Oniontown after a series of YouTube videos portrayed the hamlet as a run-down, backwoods dump were pelted with rocks by an angry group of young residents, authorities said....
Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:57:41 -0000
NEW YORK (AP) -- This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own....

CNET News.com

Ask.com closes Dictionary.com deal
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:52:00 -0700
Fourth-ranked search engine completes its acquisition of the parent company of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.
1 euro eBay baby goes home
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:37:00 -0700
Parents had put their baby boy up for sale on eBay--apparently as a joke--but German authorities didn't find it particularly amusing.
VeriSign names interim CEO
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:02:00 -0700
Company's founder takes the place of the CEO and president, who resigned abruptly earlier this week.

 

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Abel, Jürgen - Lossless data compression based on the Burrows-Wheeler Transformation (BWT), author of ABC.
Meta Description: [ Curriculum Vitae, research activities, research interests, publications and projects of Dr. Jürgen Abel ]

Adler, Mark - Works at JPL. Information-ZIP, gzip, zlib, and PNG.

Battilana, Michael C. - Text compression, Lempel-Ziv coding, author of The GIF Controversy: A Software Developer's Perspective
Meta Description: [ mcb's personal files ]

Bell, Timothy C. - Author of Managing Gigabytes. CS department head at the University of Canterbury.

Chen, Tsuhan - Audio-visual interaction and collaboration, video coding and multimedia communication.

Chrysafis, Christos - Wavelet-based image compression. Student at USC.

Cover, Thomas - Coauthor of Elements of Information Theory. Professor at Stanford.

Creusere, Charles - Perfect reconstruction filter banks, wavelets, video compression. Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University.

Delp, Edward J. - Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Communication Theory. Professor at Purdue.

Effros, Michelle - Assistant professor at CalTech. Communications, compression, information theory, image processing.
Meta Description: [ The homepage for Professor Michelle Effros and her research group at Caltech; research focuses on communications and information theory, including information compression, data storage and transmission, image processing, pattern recognition and speech recognition. ]

Florencio, Dinei - Perfect Reconstruction Non-Linear Filter Banks, the Motion Transform. Formerly a student at Georgia Tech.

Fowler, James E. - Assistant professor at Mississippi State. Image and video processing and coding.

Frey, Brendan J. - Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo. Source coding, computer vision, and interative decoding.

Gailly, Jean-loup - Author of gzip, zlib, coauthor of The Data Compression Book.
Meta Description: [ Home page of Jean-loup Gailly: data compression (gzip, zip, zlib, fractal compression, FAQ), game of Go, ... ]

Gilchrist, Jeff - Author of the Archive Comparison Test (data compression benchmarks) and researcher in the area of cryptography and distributed computing.
Meta Description: [ My home page with links to my data compression, cryptography, and distributed computing research., My home page with links to my data compression, cryptography, and distributed computing research. ]

Gray, Robert M. - Vector quantization for signal compression and classification.

404 Huffman, David A. - Huffman codes, digital signal processing, scene analysis. Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at UCSC.

Jégou, Hervé - IRISA, Rennes. Robust source coding, joint source/channel codes. Publications, resources, teaching.

Kieffer, John - Universal algorithms, multiresolution methods, wavelets and fractals, rate-distortion theory, and quantizer theory.

404 Langdon, Glen G., Jr. - Arithmetic coding. Professor of Computer Engineering at UCSC.

Moffat, Alistair - University of Melbourne. Interests include text, image, and index compression.

Moulin, Pierre - Image and video processing. Assistant Professor of ECE at UIUC.

Nelson, Mark - Coauthor of The Data Compression Book. Addisoft Consulting, Inc.

Nosratinia, Aria - Joint Source-channel coding, image and video processing. Assistant professor at University of Texas at Dallas.

Nosratinia, Aria - (old student pages)

Ortega, Antonio - Digital Image and Video Communication Systems, Adaptive and Multiresolution Compression Techniques, and Joint Source-Channel Coding For Transmission Over Broadcast Channels and Packet Networks. Assistant Professor at USC.

Pearlman, William A. - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. Research interests and publications.

Phong, Dario - Arithmetic, Huffman, and Lempel-Ziv entropy coding.

500 Ramchandran, Kannan - Image and video compression and modeling. Professor at Berkley.

Simoncelli, Eero - Computer vision, image processing, motion, and compression.
Meta Description: [ Primary home page of Eero P. Simoncelli ]

Storer, Jim - The Data Compression Conference.

Strutz, Tilo - University of Rostock, Signal and Image Processing group. Research interests: Data compression, Systematisation. Software, papers and textbook on Image Data Compression.

Taubman, David S. - At the University of New South Wales. Image and video compression and processing.

Uytterhoeven, Geert - Wavelets with integer lifting. Student at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Verdu, Sergio - Rate-distortion theory, source coding. Professor at Princeton.

Vinokur, Alex - Huffman Coding (including n-ary Huffman Template Algorithm). At Tadiran Scopus.
Meta Description: [ Alex Vinokur's Comp. Sci. & Math. Page. The page contains algorithms, programs and discussions in newsgroups ]

Vitter, Jeff - Chair of CS department at Duke. Interests include dynamic Huffman codes, arithmetic coding, lossless image compression, and motion compensation for video coding.
Meta Description: [ Online Library of Jeff Vitter's Papers ]

404 Wiegand, Thomas - Rate-Distortion, affine video coding. Student at Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

Williams, Ross N. - Variations on Lempen Ziv coding.
Meta Description: [ Dr Ross's Compression crypt contains compression algorithms by Ross Williams, and other information about compression. ]

Witten, Ian H. - Coauthor of Managing Gigabytes. Professor of CS at the University of Waikato.

Yew, Tham Jo - Image and video compression, motion estimation and compensation Student at the National Univ. of Singapore.

Zakhor, Avideh - Professor at Berkeley. Image and video compression.