| The Difference Between a Virus, Worm and Trojan Horse? |
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The most common blunder when the topic of a computer virus arises is that people will often refer to a Worm or Trojan Horse as a Virus. While the words Trojan, worm, and virus are used interchangeably, they are not the same. |
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| Grid discovers Largest Known Prime Number | ||||||||
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Using an international grid of about 70,000 computers, researchers this month discovered the largest known prime number. |
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| Globus Wins NSF Grant | ||||||||
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made a five-year, $13.3 million award to sustain and enhance the Globus Toolkit, the de facto grid computing standard.Globus founders Ian Foster of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory and Carl Kesselman of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI) will lead the project. |
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| Intel's Billion Transistor Chip | ||||||||
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Intel has begun sampling the first ever processor with more than one billion transistors on a single die, representing an important benchmark in chip technology. |
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| Fuzzy System for Intensive-Care support | ||||||||
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A team of systems’ engineers from the University of Sheffield is developing software that can stand in for a critical-care consultant. |
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