Tsunami Hits Coastal Communities Across Southeast Asia, Killing An Estimated 275,000 People by Andrew Stratton
On December 26, 2004 the Asian Tsunami hit the coastal regions of Southeast Asia. It was the result of the second largest and longest lasting underwater earthquake ever recorded, and has since been referred to as the single worst tsunami on record. The earthquake that generated this tsunami... A further 1,126,900 people were rendered homeless, requiring massive relief efforts to ensure that those that survived the tsunami did not suffer from other causes, resulting from the extensive damage created by the wave.

Let's Take a Look Back in Time to See How the Computer has Evolved by John Gibb
In many ways, man has been using computers for millennia: an abacus is, after all, simply a very basic form of computer. The first mechanical calculator (the ‘calculating clock’) was built in the 17th century. Programming with punch-cards has been around for about 200 years now. ... These computers were massive machines, filling a large room (in some cases, a whole building) and yet having less computing power than a simple calculator does today. ... Combined with the invention of semiconductor integration circuits, by the ‘70s, it was possible to make personal computers small enough for...

Mechanical Engineering Design by Sandy Kathuria
Mechanical engineering design is a part of the overall domain of mechanical engineering. The advent of mechanical engineering and the intrusion of equipment have largely redefined human lifestyles. Mechanised equipment, from tractors and cultivators to a wide variety of industrial machinery, had... In the process, this promoted a massive shift from rural to urban life, resulting in the development of newer equipment for the urban economy. ... These are areas of technical stretch or PoP's (Proof of Principle).

The Brain has the Same Problems that Databases Do by Adam Yax
What can the human brain learn from how a database works? There is a battle going on in every database and the same battle in every human brain. The battle is simply Memory vs. CPU (processing). We either rely on indexes to recall data or we count on the CPU to calculate the resulting data. ... In the front it tells you where in this massive book to find people in a certain city, or where to find businesses of certain types. ... We humans do not make specific efforts to strike the same balance within the inner tables of our brains database.

Managing Design Complexity by Tim Bryce
"100% of your design documentation is contained in the specifications of your information resources." - Bryce's Law There are many companies today, most overseas, still tackling major systems projects particularly in the areas of banking and manufacturing. ... Because of this, they are not afraid to tackle large endeavors, while American companies view such undertakings as seemingly too massive to undertake. ... The IRM should be viewed as the hub of all development efforts and provide the means to interface (import/export) with a myriad of other development tools; e.g., CASE,...

Smart-Ass Series #2: Be the One That Got Away From the Phishers (Spammers) by Roxanne McDonald
Christmas is here: for those of us with any sense of ethics, this typically means good food, good friends, good music, lots of awe-inspiring lights. But for the greedy, unethical, opportunistic folks—those who behave malevolently year round—it means coming up with more ways to phish, to look for... Who in the hell would email themselves a notification for a bounced email?); mailer daemon pseudonyms; officious looking account # or order # subjects flooded your box—as if you had spent a lot of money and time signing up for and ordering massive amounts of product, you rich and busy thing, you!

Purpose Based Computing by John Dir
Accomplishing tasks efficiently requires a series of smaller steps that are built upon the understanding of tools and information required to complete each stage of the process. Once the entire process involved with reaching a goal is absorbed, each repetition of the job becomes less time... Starting with this simple illustration, when the same kind of improvement ratio is spread across a range of computer based tasks it is easy to see how massive the overall impact of this methodology can potentially become in a very short period of implementation.

Information in the Next Five Years by Ena Mwangama
Impact of Radio Frequency Identification Technology The Environment consist of the all elements that are outside the system under consideration, and which it must take as given .The environment also include all the external impositions and constraints other than those imposed by the ownership. ... RFID will have a massive impact on the technical side, as the company will need to change the whole infrastructure and capability of their information system will need to be expanded to accommodate RFID transmission data Impact of RFID on IS Strategy/planning (IT Strategy) The issues...

Enigma: Rising Tide Review by Neal Stevens
SINGLE PLAYER REVIEW Enigma lives! Tesseraction has released a single player offline version of their upcoming massively multiplayer naval game and it lives up to its potential and then some. Playing Enigma offline gives you a chance to see what this game is all about and train for the... I also noted that when you are using the binoculars and en enemy ship hits you with a round, your view is drastically jolted, requiring time to readjust your sighting. ... If Tesseraction is able to forge ahead and bring new versions and enhancements to Enigma as promised, including the massive...

Randomized Algorithms by Marshall Kanner
Abstract Many end-users would agree that, had it not been for fiber-optic cables, the visualization of voice-over-IP might never have occurred. In fact, few statisticians would disagree with the exploration of Smalltalk, which embodies the natural principles of artificial intelligence. ... We concentrate our efforts on showing that 32 bit architectures and simulated annealing are mostly incompatible. ... While we know of no other studies on the transistor, several efforts have been made to investigate telephony [16] [1].