The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team touched off a storm this week when it recommended for security reasons using browsers other than Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer. Yahoo Story Wired News article
Apple Computers announced June 21, 200 that it received a contract from the U.S. Army for $5.8 Million dollars to combine 1566 dual processor servers into one super computer which has been dubbed "MACH-5." Read more about it on MacCentral and Cnet. http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/06/21/xservearmy/index.php?redirect=1087831468000 http://news.com.com/Apple+sells+supercomputer+sequel/2100-1010_3-5242487.html?tag=macintouch
The flight of the first private astronaut was not as perfect as it first appeared a number of glitches occurred during the flight, some potentially catastrophic. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996052
The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, one of the top Computer Science programs in the world has just officially opened their new $80 million Siebel Center. The department head describes the building as a single computing entity, meant to be programmed and to interact with those in the building via RFID tags in their ID cards. This is probably one of the biggest and most expensive projects in ubiquitous computing ever launched, touching on all the important issues in this field, from privacy to the ultimate question about the usefulness of such a system. Several papers are covering this including the Chicago Sun Times, and the Chicago Business"
