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...Twitter isn't a magic bullet against dictators. As tempting as it is to think of the service as a purely anarchic weapon of the masses, too distributed to be stoppable, it is theoretically feasible for a government to shut it down, according to James Cowie, CTO of Renesys, a company that collects data on the status of the Internet in real time. While Iran has a rich and diverse Internet culture, data traffic into and out of Iran passes through a very small number of channels. It's technically relatively trivial for the state to take control of those...
...submicroscopic tunnels that are stuffed with silver ions. It releases the ions only in exchange for others--say, sodium ions in a salty drop of sweat. So ion-rich liquids, in which bugs often thrive, activate AgION's microbicide. "The ceramic delivers enough silver to be effective," says AgION CTO Jeffrey Trogolo, "but not so much that it loses effect over its lifetime...
While her step-father, a chemist by training, works in IBM’s research department, her mother is IBM’s vice president and chief technology officer (CTO) of supply and distribution in the retail sector...
...already playing with the algorithms that are now used to secure data at the world's top financial institutions. Ncipher, the company he founded with his brother Alex, has been equally precocious. In 1996, when banks and stores were unrolling cybershops, Nicko, far right, and Alex, Ncipher's CTO and CEO, respectively, saw that existing encryption technology was not up to the task. And much of it still isn't, even though IT security is a $20 billion business. In a recent survey by Deloitte & Touche, 39% of financial firms questioned said their computer systems had been compromised...
However, the casual discussion of last week's meeting with Sam Gerace '85, CTO and founder of Be Free Inc., contrasted with this week's lecture by Fellows...