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Stefan Janusz

e-Science Impact Reporter, e-ScienceTalk

Recent articles by this author:

Federating access – the key to improving online security? April 10, 2013 - 11:05am

The password seems to be reaching a crisis point. But is there anything that could replace passwords as we currently use them?

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The mystery of the slowing space probes January 16, 2013 - 7:54am

Discover how rescuing data stored on tapes and magneto-optical disks abandoned under a staircase at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory led to finding the solution to one of our solar system's most perplexing puzzles.

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Tech transfer – a computing success story? October 31, 2012 - 9:12am

Scientific computation is a research field with an excellent track record when it comes to technology and knowledge transfer. Now, with the global economic crisis taking its toll on public science budgets, the need for other research communities to...

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Srinivasa Ramanujan: A cautionary tale about the importance of open access August 29, 2012 - 4:35am

With 2012 having been declared the National Year of Mathematics in India, we take a look at the lessons which can be learned from the country's most famous modern mathematician and examine the role mathematics education has to play in training the...

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Open data and open science enter the mainstream August 8, 2012 - 4:37am

The new e-Science Briefings by iSGTW's dissemination partner e-Science Talk on open data and access is out. Now, governments and publishers realize that science has to be truly open to improve.

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Hunting for giants July 4, 2012 - 4:53am

The top quark may interact with the Higgs field and open up new physics such as supersymmetry. Distributed computing enables researchers to home in on this elusive particle.

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The known and unknown pioneers of modern computing June 20, 2012 - 6:13am

This June 22 and 23 mark the birthdays of two visionaries of computing: Konrad Zuse and Alan Turing. The well known Alan Turing laid groundwork for many theories of computation, one of which was crucial in the allies winning the war. Less well known is...

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Visualizing with VisIVO May 30, 2012 - 6:28am

A collaboration between Italy and the United Kingdom brings astrophysics visualizations to the grid and beyond.

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Glueing together a multi-scale world May 9, 2012 - 4:25am

Bridging the gap between simulations with vastly different scales is the key to a wide variety of scientific breakthroughs.

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