Penrillian and Ecebs have clinched an agreement to create a new mobile solution for the transport ticketing market. In this context, Ecebs is now Penrillian’s preferred Part 11 provider for its white-label Voyager app, which allows users to plan, purchase, download and top up tickets for public transport directly to a smartcard via their mobile device.
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Brief memories and reflections on Marvin Minsky (1927–2016)
The recent death of MIT Professor Marvin Minsky at age 88—one of the pioneers and central figures in the field of artificial intelligence, the discipline seeking to make machines “intelligent”—brought to mind a number of memories. This is not the place for a full obituary of Minsky, but in brief: he earned degrees from Harvard and Princeton in mathematics (there was no academic computer science at the time) and spent several years in the Harvard Society of Fellows.
Paul Kocher to moderate RSA Cryptographers’ panel
Paul Kocher, the President and Chief Scientist of Rambus’ Cryptography Research division, will be moderating the RSA 2016 Cryptographers’ Panel on March 1st at 9:50AM.
Participants, including Adi Shamir, Moxie Marlinspike, Ronald Rivest and Whitfield Diffie, are slated to discuss the latest advances and revelations in cryptography, as well as the top security trends of 2016. Kocher is also scheduled to participate as a judge in the RSAC Innovation Sandbox Contest on February 29, from 1:00PM to 4:30PM.
Researchers eye optical flow for drone navigation
Alexander Hellemans of IEEE Spectrum recently reported that a number of drone designers are currently exploring a technique known as optical flow, which is based on the speed of objects passing a subject’s field of vision.
“[We] use optical flow to give us a sense of how fast we’re going when we’re driving,” Hellemans explained. “But unlike humans in cars, drones have a third dimension to worry about. They also have to keep track of their height in order to land successfully.”
NIST bolsters random number generators
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published the second draft of a publication that details design principles for entropy sources, which measure the randomness of generated numbers.
CIOs mull IoT security concerns
Dinyar Dastoor, VP and GM at Wind River, recently penned an article for CIOs in Embedded Computing Design that explores the security risks associated with the management and deployment of IoT devices.
“For many [CIOs], this will be the first time they’ll have to actively manage such embedded devices across their networks. Indeed, for some it will be the first time the walls of their datacenter have extended beyond the web portals used for customer services and other customer-facing engagement,” Dastoor explained.
