Tidbits
Editor's Note: I am always looking for strange, fun, or interesting technical communication tidbits. Please contribute freely.
Girls Go Nuclear
From Aiken Standard (Aiken, S. carolina) , 29 March 2009
Nuclear engineering firm, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, and the Society of Women Engineers sponsored an "Introduce a Girl to Engineering" Day. Activities included experiments involving liquid nitrogen and bubble gum, talks about the engineering profession, and more..... Read more.
Google Earth for the Body
From Ieee Spectrum Tech Alert, 12 march 2009
IBM has worked with a Danish hospital to develop a 3-D avatar of the human body that enables doctors to review patient records at the click of the mouse. This is a great example of practical and useful information design that combines graphical and textual information...View Video.
Botnets Pose Growing Threat
From IEEE Institute Online, 24 February 2009
"Few computer network users and operators appreciate the magnitude of the threat posed by botnets to networks around the world. Botnets are groups of computers, spread around the Internet, that have been infected with "rogue" software that causes them to log in to a central location from where one machine can control all the others. Under the direction of the "command and control server," the computers can be used to send spam or to launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack."....Read more.
Learning Through Play
From IEEE Institute Online, 9 March 2009
"Computers—especially in combination with communications technology—giveth, and they taketh away. They take jobs away from high-wage countries by making them easier to export, but they also make it possible to create new jobs in their place—an activity in which computer games might prove valuable." Read more.