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Two views from 2009 Google Faculty Summit

The 5th Computer Science Faculty Summit was held by Google last week at their Mountain View campus. This summit was attended by approximately 100 faculties from the schools in the Western hemisphere.

The meeting focused on a collection of technologies that serve to connect and empower people. In the Agenda, voice recognition, responding to crises, power monitoring, collaborative data management and presentations on technologies for automated translation of human language were included.

In the meeting there was also discussion about technologies to make personal systems more secure, and how to teach programming using Android phones. You can read more information of the topics in the Faculty Summit Agenda or check out introductory presentation.

Professor Deborah Estrin, a Professor of Computer Science at UCLA and an expert in large-scale sensing of environmental and other information, and Professor John Ousterhout, an expert in distributed operating systems and scripting languages

Google Faculty asked a few of the faculty to provide their perspective on the summit, thinking their views may be more valuable than their own. Professor Deborah Estrin, a Professor of Computer Science at UCLA and an expert in large-scale sensing of environmental and Professor John Ousterhout, an expert in distributed operating systems and scripting languages gave their views on the summit. Read full information about Google Faculty Summit 2009.

Professor Deborah Estrin’s perception:

Professor Estrin told that Google has produced a spectacular array of technologies and services that have changed the way we create, access, manage and share information. A very broad range of people samples and experiences Google’s enhancements and new services on a daily basis.

Professor Estrin told that he first attended Google Faculty Summit in 2007 and this was his second summit. He liked this summit very much then in 2007. He told that Google faculty talked with them as colleagues instead of just visitors.

Estrin had not processed all the impressions, facts, figures and URLs but there were few things that impressed him most. They are as follows:

• Google seed and sponsor all sorts of creative works, from K-12 computer science learning opportunities to the open data kit that supports data-gathering projects worldwide.
• The way Google simultaneously launches production services while making great advances in really hard technical areas such as machine translation and voice search, and how these two threads are fully intertwined and feed off of one another.
• The commitment of company to think high and support their employees on their concerns and take cares in the larger geopolitical sphere. From the creation of Flu Trends to the support of a new "Crisis Response Hackathon" (an event that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are planning to jointly sponsor to help programmers find opportunities to use their technical skills to solve societal problems), Googlers are not just encouraged to donate dollars to important causes — they are encouraged to use their technical skills to create new solutions and tools to address the world’s all-too-many challenges.

Professor John Ousterhout perception:

I spent Thursday and Friday this week at Google for their annual Faculty Summit. After listening to descriptions of several Google projects and talking with Googlers and the other faculty attendees, I left with two overall takeaways. First, it’s becoming clear that information at scale is changing science and engineering. If you have access to enormous datasets, it opens up whole new avenues for scientific discovery and for solving problems. For example, Google’s machine translation tools take advantage of "parallel texts": documents that have been translated by humans from one language to another, with both forms available. By comparing the sentences from enormous numbers of parallel texts, machine translation tools can develop effective translation tools using simple probabilistic approaches. The results are better than any previous attempts at computerized translation, but only if there are billions of words available in parallel texts. Another example of using large-scale information is Flu Trends, which tracks the spread of flu by counting the frequency of certain search terms in Google’s search engine; the data is surprisingly accurate and available more quickly than that from traditional approaches.

My second takeaway is that it’s crucial to keep as much information as possible publicly available. It used to be that much of science and engineering was driven by technology: whoever had the biggest particle accelerator or the fastest computer had an advantage. From now on, information will be just as important as technology: whoever has access to the most information will make the most discoveries and create the most exciting new products. If we want to maintain the leadership position of the U.S., we must find ways to make as much information as possible freely available. There will always be vested commercial interests that want to restrict access to information, but we must fight these interests. The overall benefit to society of publishing information outweighs the benefit to individual companies from restricting it.

Source: Google Official Blog

Enjoy most of the possibilities and functions of the iPhone as a whole and also the new version of iPhone 3GS is incredible, but that Apple could do a simple trick to take over?

It seems that Apple has a small but extremely dangerous vulnerability in the iPhone, which is the basis for hackers to take control of your iPhone. This breach of security, the iPhone has proven and tested by security conference Black Hat, where Charlie Miller and Colin Mullins tricks and simply a little ‘respect for the impact of iPhone owners.

This is a trick unsuspecting iPhone user as a text message with a unique character, which allows an attacker to do the following:
- Make calls from your iPhone
- Theft of personal data on your iPhone
- Send SMS messages from your phone, and …
- Easy to control the phone useless … for you.

Even more alarming is the possibility to affect the iPhone or the propagation of errors, like a virus. If the cracker in your iPhone, this can easily text message to the entire address book and send a copy to the iPhone from malicious viruses to take.

IPhone error by an error of corruption SMS application for iPhone. Unfortunately, as now, Apple has not released a patch to address this huge gap, even if they are known for 6 weeks.

Google Android and displays an error message, but the success of the review are expected within 24 hours, fans of Google relax lightest Apple fan.

The awareness that the development of the virus of iPhone madness, we could not wait and hope for a fast and reliable will be officially closed. In the meantime, if an SMS comes to you with a single character … immediately turn off your iPhone with the hope that it can be avoided.

Virus iPhone News: iPhone virus could be released on Thursday. Two researchers, Charles Miller and his cyber-security researcher Collin Mullin, is a mistake, the iPhone virally infect phones via SMS. The plans must indicate the iPhone bug patch remains in cybernetics Black Hat conference in Las Vegas today. If you receive an SMS with a unique place in nature, you should immediately turn off the iPhone, as said, means that someone has the error, take control of your iPhone.

“The situation is serious. The only thing you can do to stop it turns off the phone,” said Charles Miller, a researcher of the Internet. “Someone could very quickly take care of all the iPhone in the world with this.

The two error in the way the iPhone SMS messages processed. Once the control, the hacker has complete control over the iPhone that allows them to make calls, Web sites, shut down the device and, more importantly, the error by sending SMS.

You have recourse to Apple, more than a month on this vulnerability, but not yet heard back. Already in 2007, Charles Miller, also found a bug that someone improperly allowed the iPhone remotely via browser.

It is not clear whether Apple has released an update to the iPhone OS 3.1 beta recently 3, therefore, not be ready for Thursday. Pay attention to the outside world and, perhaps, this afternoon there will be more information about a possible change to Apple.

This is not a virus iPhone is simply a security hole. Although Apple has been using SMS from iPhone-trick, there are about 6 weeks, the company did not make that mistake, and now there is no patch to fix the problem. According to the researchers, the iPhone hacking SMS is possible with a serious error of memory corruption, which by the way the iPhone handles SMS.

Mullin said that an SMS-trick was in the Android operating system last week and one day after Google fixed the security problem. Take that Apple! Why not patch, when Apple’s iPhone, the company knows the vulnerability? What are these people wait? For all the iPhone hack in the world? We wait, but we are no longer patients.

If you have a strange text message, the only place any time from now, could be the victim of an SMS to the iPhone hacks could be fully exposed to a known hacker. How to avoid? In the absence of a patch from Apple, yours is only the power of iPhone as soon as possible.

Charlie Miller, a prominent researcher, has the work of art, a month ago and has established a partnership with Apple, but the company has yet to resolve a software vulnerability. Miller and an associate researcher Collin Mullins to the public on Thursday, the Black Hat conference on the Internet.

The trick is to introduce a series of SMS messages to distract iPhone. At this point the attacker can control all functions of iPhone, and could also be used for more iPhones.

This is not just about security risks associated with the iPhone. Forensics expert Jonathan Zdziarski recent iPhone 3GS PIN encryption and security with relative ease