Interview with Antonio Fernández Anta and Agustín Santos Méndez, both researchers at Institute IMDEA Networks, in the Spanish TV news program “Los desayunos de TVE”, about the role of Internet and social networks on political campaigns, within the context of the final run-up of the campaign for the 2012 United States presidential elections, with current President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney as main presidential candidates.
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30 Oct 2012
Dr. Kostić, holder of a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Investigator Award since 2010, devotes his current research to tackle the complexity of distributed systems – such as the World Wide Web - which constitute the foundation of our society's IT infrastructure.
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15 Oct 2012
Institute IMDEA Networks launches a pioneering research effort backed by the Cisco University Research Program Fund, a corporate advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation. This new project aims at identifying and designing new key features of BGP (the core Internet protocol).
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04 Oct 2012
Interview with Tilman Wolf, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA), Visiting Researcher, Institute IMDEA Networks
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24 Sep 2012
Dr. Wolf brings to the team extensive research experience in areas broadly including computer networks, future Internet architecture, router design, multi-core packet processors, and embedded system and network security.
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20 Sep 2012
The locations of the world's most prolific uploaders of content to the Pirate Bay have been revealed by a team of academics.
18 Sep 2012
And everyone’s. Would you be able to imagine your life without computers, airplanes, phones, antibiotics or X-rays? Because science lies behind all these things and virtually everything in your daily life. And, if science is there, it’s because of scientists.
Institute IMDEA Networks & Gowex Wireless develop monitoring platform for mobile Wi-Fi access points
13 Sep 2012
A platform to monitor the efficiency and quality of service of mobile Wi-Fi Access points is being developed successfully.
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12 Sep 2012
One of the main reasons why torrent downloads are dreaded by users who are not familiar enough with this environment are fake torrent downloads.
11 Sep 2012
BitTorrent is not immune from malware. Sites like The Pirate Bay, due the huge volume of contents distributed from them, obviously contain a lot of scams, fakes and malware among their files. According to researchers, at least one third of TPB houses this kind of contents in the form of fake torrents. This is the reason that led to the creation of TorrentGuard, a tool that will enable users themselves to identify this kind of files, that TPB is working to optimize and implement.