Future Engines for Innovative Electronics Landscape
Big Data and the future of Epidemiology
People
are always the source of any data systems. And hence mobile phones
cannot be ignored while thinking about moving from information into
insights. MIT in the Technology Review online magazine speaks about
different use cases of deriving insights from the mobile phone usage.
Researchers in MIT are dreaming that the data mining strategies in this
direction can even be the future of epidemiology itself. On the research
on genetics of malaria parasite based on Africa, they have studied the
cell phone call data. It can be helpful to understand phenomena like
ethnic divisions in Nairobi slums and the spread of cholera in Rwanda.
HetNet – Network Mix for tomorrow
Portable
devices and programming languages are the backbone of the connected
devices. Now comes portable telecommunication networks, thanks to
HetNet. Mobile experts define the HetNet as a network with complex
interoperation between macro cell, small cell, and in some cases WiFi
network elements used together to provide a mosaic of coverage, with
handoff capability between network elements. A Wide Area Network can use
macro cells, Pico cells, and/or femtocells in order to offer wireless
coverage in an environment with a wide variety of wireless coverage
zones, ranging from an open outdoor environment to office buildings,
homes, and underground areas. In short HetNets can offer better cell
associations and load balancing. On a product end, HetNets can enhance
the capabilities of FaceTime, VideoSkype and related streaming
applications.
Codassium- Coding in Online Streams
Web
RTC Technology has stirred up an excitement in the online collaboration
space. It enables audio/video streaming and data sharing between
browser clients (peers). Codassium is a live tool that works on WebRTC.
As a set of standards, WebRTC provides any browser with the ability to
share application data and perform teleconferencing peer to peer,
without the need to install plug-ins or third-party software. WebRTC
components are accessed with JavaScript APIs. Currently in development
are the Network Stream API, which represent an audio or video data
stream, and the PeerConnection API, which allows two or more users to
communicate browser-to-browser.
Mozilla Servo – Browsing in Parallel Computers
Mozilla
dreams of future versions of Firefox to be able to “take advantage of
tomorrow’s faster, multi-core, heterogeneous computing
architectures,” writes Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich on the company’s blog.
To make that happen Mozilla is developing a new browser engine dubbed
Servo. Servo is not an extension of Gecko, Firefox’s current rendering
engine, but an entirely new beast written specifically to take advantage
of modern, massively parallel processing hardware. Mozilla Servo is
written in Mozilla’s homegrown Rust programming language, a C++ style
language that attempts to provide more security by avoiding memory
corruption and buffer overflows, a common attack vector in today’s
browsers.
World’s Very first Website – Comes Back
Twenty
years ago on April 30th, CERN Research Lab in Europe, published a
statement that made the World Wide Web freely available to everyone. To
celebrate that moment in history, CERN is bringing the very first
website back to life at its original URL. We can see the very first
webpage that Tim Berners-Lee and the WWW team ever put online, point
your browser to http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.
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