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Short Film of the Day: Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus | Film School Rejects - Stu... - 0 views

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war ethics ITGS cyberwar 2.6_pol_gov 1.2_security 1.13_add_social_ethical short film virus

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The Secret Of Google's Book Scanning Machine Revealed - As A Matter Of Fact Blog : NPR - 28 views

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The software used to scan books, called Optical Character Recognition software or OCR for short
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- dana engineer on 04 Oct 09
  
  how can you destroy a book when u scan it?
  
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- dana engineer on 04 Oct 09
  
  Google created a nifty infared camera technology that detects the three-dimensional shape and angle of book pages when it is placed in the scanner. It allows the OCR software to read text more accurately.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Google created a nifty infared camera technology that detects the three-dimensional shape and angle of book pages when it is placed in the scanner. It allows the OCR software to read text more accurately.</div>
  
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- Bassel Kanj on 04 Oct 09
  
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- Luay Kanaan on 04 Oct 09
  
  Google actually created a camera technology that detects the three-dimensional shape and angle of book pages when it is placed in the scanner. It allows the OCR software to read text more accurately.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Google actually created a camera technology that detects the three-dimensional shape and angle of book pages when it is placed in the scanner. It allows the OCR software to read text more accurately.</div>
  
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How was one to go about scanning a book quickly and efficiently without destroying it?
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book scanning was a tedious process that sometimes resulted in the death of a book.
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The software used to scan books, called Optical Character Recognition software or OCR for short
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- Dalal Najibi on 04 Oct 09
  
  How is the process? Do they have to open every book and scan each page?
  
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Google created some seriously nifty infrared camera technology that detects the three-dimensional shape and angle of book pages when the book is placed in the scanner
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a way to digitize books en masse
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The Secret Of Google's Book Scanning Machine Revealed
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The Secret Of Google's Book Scanning Machine Revealed
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Now anyone who's ever opened a book knows it's next to impossible for a book to lie flat without some sort of device. One solution to the problem was to use glass plates that individually flattened each page, but this method wasn't very efficient. The other solution was to chop off the book's binding, but that method destroyed the book.
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It was a problem that vexed book scanners for years until Google came up with this solution
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OCR for short
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was a tedious process that sometimes resulted in the death of a book
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dana engineer on 04 Oct 09

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Paralysis led Donald J. Dalton to create technology for the disabled (chicagotribune.com) - 1 views

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Elvira Russ on 09 Dec 09

Despite a 1969 swimming accident that rendered him a quadriplegic, Donald J. Dalton achieved tremendous success in providing technology applications for people with disabilities. This Article describes his life and achievements in a short summary.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Despite a 1969 swimming accident that rendered him a quadriplegic, Donald J. Dalton achieved tremendous success in providing technology applications for people with disabilities. This Article describes his life and achievements in a short summary.</div>

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SQLCourse for beginners - 1 views

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IT SYSTEMS applications SQL database

shared by Jeff Ratliff on 27 Jul 09 - Cached

Jeff Ratliff on 27 Jul 09

Excellent short tutorials with online SQL interpreter.

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Cisco IronPort In the News - Did the HerbalKing Takedown Decrease Spam? - 0 views

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This is a very short article, talking about weather or not spam has decreased as a result of the takedown of the HerbalKing group.

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Debate over possible responses to cyber attacks (MSNBC) - 0 views

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the U.S. military's secret offensive cyber capability
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counterstrike on an attacker's computer network
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Chalana Perera on 14 Apr 10

This article discusses the idea of a cyber-war and promotes tit-for-tat solutions and counter-attack strategies that the US could use in a cyber war. It also discusses some short term solutions for small-scale cyber attacks.

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Twitter tweets are 40% 'babble' - 0 views

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shared by Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09 - Cached

A short-term study of Twitter has found that 40% of the messages sent via it are "pointless babble."
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  Social: Privacy This shows how little privacy that Twitter users have sinced they are being judged by complete strangers based on how they tweet (who came to the conclusion that its a lot of pointless babble)
  
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In total it grabbed 2,000 messages and then put each message it grabbed into one of six categories; news, spam, self-promotion, pointless babble, conversational and those with pass-along value
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  IT systems: Communication System This shows how Twitter is used as a communication system and what people communicate with it
  
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This belief, it said, was driven by the growing number of firms starting to use Twitter as a tool to drum up sales.
- Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09
  
  Impact: Business This is an example of a way by which large businesses use technology to increase sales
  
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A fifth of US adults have engaged in video chats - 0 views

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samaraad on 13 Oct 10

This short article has interesting figures on the number of people who participate in video calls. It also conclude that " The research firm said that widespread video-calling adoption in the mobile space could be "held back by a lack of interoperability between different devices."

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