Heterogeneous Sensor Networks

Modular communications platforms

		Modular communications platforms* (MCP) are industry standards-based communications infrastructure platforms and building blocks that enable efficiencies through the entire value chain including solution flexibility, faster time-to-market, vendor choice, and cost benefits.

Workshop “New Information Technologies for Education”

The workshop was held by IITE in co-operation with the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, Moscow Department of Education and Apple Computer Inc. Among the participants of the workshop there were more than 80 specialists from 14 regions of the Russian Federation, including Republic of Tuva, Republic of Udmurtia; Vologda, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Novgorod, Orel, Tambov, Tomsk, Tula, Tiumen, Yaroslavl Regions, as well as from Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.

The following issues were presented to the participants:

• Russian national policy in the application of ICTs in education (by B. Vinogradov, Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation);
• Moscow regional policy and practice in the use of ICTs in education (by A. Muzykantsky, Minister of Moscow Government, and L. Kezina, Chairperson of the Moscow Department of Education);
• Educational programme of IITE: principles of forming and structure (by V. Kinelev, Director of IITE);
• Apple Computer policy in education (by E. Butman, Director-General of Apple Computer Russia IMC);
• New products and technologies of Apple Computer for education (by P. Zakharov, Manager of Apple Computer Russia IMC);
• “Informatics for Primary Education. Recommendations” prepared by IITE in co-operation with IFIP and INT (by Prof. A. Semenov);
• Examples of the application of ICTs in pre-higher shcool education (by the group of leading educators – teachers, directors and deputy directors of schools from Moscow and Moscow Region);
• ICTs in subject teaching/learning (by the others leading educators);
• Educational information environment at school (by the deputy directors of schools).

LABORATORY OF NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

The Laboratory of New Information Technology works out software of humanities researches. In particular, the Software SKIF, which is used by sociologists in different Russian cities, was created here. In the computer class of the Laboratory, students learn basic skill working with modern personal computers.

DIALOG SYSTEM SKIF

The Dialog System SKIF is made for processing sociological information with mathematical statistics methods. SKIF can be used by sociologists, economists, psychologists and other specialists.

This system has an easy interface, which is very convenient for the users to organize the system of mathematical analysis initial data results. It includes programs to prepare reports in an easy way.

SKIF software can process a massive amount data (around 5 thousand questionnaires, including 500 questions) and carries out local, regional and all-Russian researches.

PC REQUIREMENTS                          

• IBM-compatible PC with 80386 SX or greater microprocessor
• MS DOS version 4.0 or later or Novell DOS 7.0
• 2 Mb RAM
• VGA monitor
• 300 Kb free disk space for systems files location
• 500 Kb free disk space for software work.

Humanoid Robot to Conduct Symphony

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And again robot Asimo. Engineers from Honda does a miracle. Humanoid robot will join Detroid Symphony Orchestra next month. The robot in future will assist the elderly and paralyzed people sitting at home. But they need some time to develop and became more closer to people. The robot Asimo has turned into something like Ambassador-robot of technology world.

“Vista Capable” Lawsuit Turns Up Heat On Microsoft

Microsoft’s short lived break from the “Vista Capable” lawsuit did not quite see the result the software giant was hoping for. After Microsoft’s appeal of a decision to allow the lawsuit to continue as class action, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9^th Circuit on Monday denied to hear it.A statement issued to BetaNews by Microsoft legal spokesperson, Jack Evans, claimed, “The Ninth Circuit’s decision not to accept our request for interim review is not a ruling on the merits of our case. We look forward to presenting all of the facts on what the district court itself said is a novel claim.”

10 Most Important Technologies

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You may not spend much time to consider such things as Unicode, HML, digital transfer, but now, without them you can not live a day. One of the oldest scientific authors Arthur Clarke said that any sufficiently advanced technology is assimilated and is no different from magic. We live in a magic world.We are surrounded by technology, but we forget to consider the amazing things that we use every day. Are you in the Internet, or doing mobile call, or you watch DVD on a big screen with family.

Top 10 MP3 Players (Flash-Based)

Most first mp3 player came on the market in 1998. It was a fairly large size of a stack of device like  cigarettes. He had 32 MB of memory and relatively little screen. The management functions are accessible only keys of “play” and “stop” and the possibility of transition, and next or previous song. Now it isincredibly funny but ,at that days they were the most advanced devices for listening to music. For these devices were not needed tapes and discs, the player connects to a computer and using special programmes and write songs in memory of musicplayer. At current standards possible player already frighten buyers. A small amount of memory and special software. At this time, most melomans waited for the first music CD players supporting mp3 format. At that time  audio players do not support format of mp3, and the popularity of the format rapidly rised up. European companies do not rush to actively develop the emerging market. But sacred place is never empty and dual diligence small Asian companies have begun to actively seized of this niche. And now I will  inroduce the countdown of new mp3 players.

Nintendo’s Wii beats PlayStation and Xbox

	The Wii has sold over one million consoles in the UK

Nintendo Wii has become the fastest selling console in UK history, with more than a million consoles sold since the month of December, latest figures show. It has been about 38 weeks before the sale began, which means for 11 weeks  faster than PS2 and 22 weeks faster  from Xbox 360. These figures come from an independent company which monitors sales. At present Wii stormed video games market in UK.