Stories about: The Chief Scientist

A DNS server compromised by a hacker could be used to funnel Web surfers to all sorts of phishing attacks and malicious Web sites and even cause havoc with directory services and e-mail in some cases, according to the father of the technology, Paul Mockapetris.

Jeff Jonas, the chief scientist and distinguished engineer at IBM's entity analytic solutions group, has developed a means of sharing corporate data without revealing what that data contains.

The chief scientist of supercomputer manufacturer Cray is leaving to take a job at Microsoft.

Australia's ICT research and development community will receive no new federal money from the government's election warchest, with ICT research policy left as it stands until after the polls.

The sheer number of worms and viruses directed at Microsoft's Windows operating system and Internet Explorer browser have many in the computer industry wondering whether we would all be more secure if more users relied on alternatives to Microsoft's products.

Paul Mockapetris is surprised that the DNS (Domain Name System) hasn't changed more in the 20 years since he invented it, but he doesn't expect it to run out of steam any time soon.

Taking a fresh approach to support the intuitive way workers process and access information, Mirror Worlds Technologies Inc. this week introduced an information management tool designed to unite all data in a single place that can be accessed via a PC or mobile device.

The catchcry for forecasters predicting technical trends in the next decade is "pervasive or ubiquitous computing" which will dramatically change the way everyone connects and communicates.

As the size of government shrinks, the only way to make it more efficient is to speed up workers' access to information.

A backdoor into Microsoft's cryptography system has been identified by the chief scientist of a Canadian cryptography and security company, who charges that it may be intended to grant access to data on any Windows user's system to the US National Security Agency.

No one's exactly sure when AT&T Corp. got Internet religion. The idea that the Internet will be the driving force in 21st-century telecommunications has been percolating for a while, and as far as anyone can recall, there was no single moment at AT&T when the light bulb went on. But somehow the company has changed its entire mind-set -- identity, even -- from a tired long-distance phone company to one of the most bullish Internet communications forces in the world. The obsessive network acquisitions of CEO C. Michael Armstrong have attracted the spotlight, but the transformation seems to have happened before his arrival at the company. And it seems to have happened far away from the executive suite, in the enclave now known as AT&T Labs, where small groups of Internet researchers quietly mapped out the revolution to come.