Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1998 > Technology New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Crucial Tech: Ant Wisdom - Professor Paul Kantor's digital-information pheromones sniff out the good stuff on the Web. But keep your antennae up for intellectual fads and poisoned bait. [Wired News]   Crucial Tech: Character Recognition - Armed with a preclassification system based on an algorithm tantamount to natural selection, Silicon Biology believes it holds the key to better optical character recognition of handwriting and other written forms. [Wired News]   Crucial Tech: DNA Tweezers - A recent Noble Prize winner has fashioned an unusual tool for manipulating DNA strands. With a microscopic lens and a laser, he's created optical tweezers. [Wired News]   Crucial Tech: Lookups Looking Up - The routing of packet prefixes is a major source of Net congestion. Washington University's George Varghese is using egg baskets and binary trees to unclog the bottlenecks. [Wired News]   Crucial Tech: Seeing with Sonar - Using an unconventional approach, a laboratory at Yale University is making great strides toward developing artificial eyes. [Wired News]   Crucial Tech: Telecom Goes Qwest - An upstart firm uses the Internet and state-of-the-art fiber laid alongside railroad tracks to offer phone service at half the going rate. [Wired News]   Crucial Tech: Yet Another Gigabit Operation - The latest hot box in the network router wars will open the pipes for videoconferencing and immersive multimedia. All this, and spam blocking, too. [Wired News]   Cryptozilla Thwarts Feds Crypto Ban - A group of independent software developers did Friday what Netscape was never able to do - produce and distribute a version of the Navigator browser with 128-bit strong encryption. [Wired News]   DIY Robot Helps Read Genome - Step-by-step instructions for a gene-hunting robot should put genome research within the grasp of scientists with not-so-deep pockets. By Kristi Coale. [Wired News]   DNA Testing for the Dogs - DNA testing isn't just for celebrities anymore. Just ask "Dog X," an Australian pooch that allegedly left its doo-doo at the beach, and its owner fighting a $30 fine. If the tab isn't paid, guess what goes in for the DNA test? By Stewart Taggart. [Wired News]   DOD-Cracking Team Used Common Bug - The owner of the ISP that provided Internet access to two teenagers implicated in recent attacks on military servers said the pair jumped through a widely known security hole. [Wired News]   DOE Tags IBM for Superfast Computer - To replace nuclear testing with realistic computer simulations, the Department of Energy is paying IBM $85 million for a supercomputer to make it so. [Wired News]   DSL and the Telco Trial - Service by Christmas? Much of the answer rests with phone companies, who will have to invest in facilities to bring the technology into our homes. [Wired News]   DSL's Ticket to Ride? - Lucent matches Rockwell in a new quest for a simplified digital subscriber line technology that phone companies would actually deploy. [Wired News]   Da Vinci Takes Aim at PalmPilot - It looks like a PalmPilot, it acts like a PalmPilot -- but the company making the next personal organizer device claims it's cheaper and better than the million-unit seller. By Michael Stutz. [Wired News]   Data Snafu Downs Cell Calls - A corrupt database was blamed for a Pacific Bell outage that affected nearly 380,000 wireless phone users. [Wired News]   Database Guru Shines Anew - Companies from Oracle to Amazon are indebted to James Gray. His achievements are acknowledged by an international computer group. By Christopher Jones. [Wired News]   Day 1: The Foundations of Web Design - Jeffrey Veen's Web design manifesto begins with a look at the place where art and technology collide. [Wired News]   Day 2: Aesthetics for the Web - Jeffrey Veen's journey into the heart of Web design leads him to speed, simplicity, and clarity. [Wired News]   Debate over Windows NT Password Breaker - A Boston hacker collective releases an upgraded tool it says will help system administrators detect weak file-server passwords that the Microsoft program leaves vulnerable to cracking. [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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