Context Reflux: A formal definition
Some new Software engineering terms have come to light in recent of some recent research articles. Among the new terms that have been defined recently, one interesting case is that of “Context Reflux”. Here is the formal definition as introduced in the International Journal of Modern Software Engineering Taxonomy:
Context reflux is the cost of context switching – moving from one task to another – in time, CPU cycles, or any other relevant unit. Context Reflux is sometimes abbreviated as CR.
The Cyber World War – Plot or Reality?
A interesting spy novel/movie plot published by Daily Mail today:
Five minutes later its [worm's] work was done, when an extraordinary sight greeted NORAD personnel watching the giant screen on which an electronic map of the entire world was displayed.
Right across the Russian Federation, missile silos began to show signs of life.
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Digital Protection against counterfeiting: Will it work?
With the money counterfeiting on sharp rise, innovative solutions to this problem are in high demand. About one such candidate solution, ‘New Scientist’ recently had this to report:
A team of German and Japanese researchers created arrays of thin-film transistors (TFTs) by carefully depositing gold, aluminium oxide and organic molecules directly onto the notes through a patterned mask, building up the TFTs layer by layer.
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