Stories about: Georgia Institute of Technology

The industry is learning more and more about tricks used by spammers to get their unwanted messages across, as evidenced by a handful of research studies made public this month from university and vendor labs. But even as their tricks are revealed, spammers continue to stay a step ahead of the filters, techniques and services designed to catch them.

Internet Security Systems (ISS) last week entered an agreement to be acquired by IBM for US$1.3 billion in cash, a deal expected to close by the end of the year. Chris Klaus, founder and chief security advisor at ISS, talks about what he plans to do next -- and it could involve an online virtual world he hopes you'll visit, too.

As more CIOs move toward business and IT alignment over the next several years, the makeup and structure of IT will change. IT and business unit employees will work more closely together -- and in some cases, interchangeably.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are working on a hybrid network that could carry both wired and wireless signals on a single optical fiber. The benefit for enterprise customers would be increased availability of high-speed wired and wireless services -- including video, corporate applications and broadband Internet access -- at conference centers, airports, hotels, and eventually small offices.

After doing research for years using computer clusters, Iowa State University has a high-performance supercomputer running to decipher the corn genome. Meanwhile, Georgia Institute of Technology deepened its high-performance computing relationship with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Several academics are suggesting a "denationalization" of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization responsible for running the Internet, as a way to end an escalating scrap in government circles over U.S. control of the Internet.

Accurately predicting the costs and benefits of IT initiatives is a critical skill. Here's how.

The busy antispam marketplace has another new entrant: Barracuda Networks, which today unveiled a line of hardware appliances to fight spam and computer viruses.

More than 100 years of motion pictures, TV broadcasts and other images, now scattered in museums and collections around the globe, have never been catalogued in one massive worldwide database.

Microsoft is awarding US$3.5 million in research grants to fund 25 computer science projects, and in April will release a new version of its programming tools for students and educators, officials said Thursday.

Preparing for an eventual post-silicon-chip world, the U.S. is hiking its research spending on quantum computers and other advanced computing alternatives. But foreign governments are doing likewise, and a race to develop new technologies -- potentially raising profound implications for computer security -- may be beginning.