SteveOH

Sep 18 03:37 AM US/Eastern

The Internet got smarter this week with the release of a semantic map that teaches computers the meanings behind words — and gives the machines a vocabulary far larger than that of a typical US college graduate.

Cognition Technologies began licensing the map Tuesday to software creators interested in having programs “understand” words based on tenses and sentence context — in much the same way as the human brain does.

“We have taught the computer virtually all the meanings of words and phrases in the English language,” Cognition chief executive Scott Jarus told AFP.

“This is clearly a building block for Web 3.0, or what is known as the Semantic Web. It has taken 30 years; it is a labor of love,” Jarus said.

The semantic map is reportedly the world’s largest, and gives computers a vocabulary more than 10 times as extensive as that of a typical US college graduate.

The coming third generation of life online is predicted to feature intuitive artificial intelligence applications that work swiftly across broadband Internet connections.

When applied to Internet searches, semantic technology delivers results oriented to what people seem to be seeking instead of simply matching words used to online content.

For example, a semantic online search for “melancholy songs with birds” would know to link sadness in lyrics with various species of birds.

Cognition’s semantic map is already used in a LexisNexis Concordance “e-discovery” software to sift through documents amassed during evidence phases of trials.

“We help them find the needle in a haystack,” Jarus said.

“It used to be boxes and boxes of paper and now 80 percent of it is digital. Lawyers can search for a smoking gun within that discovery material.”

Cognition’s Caselaw program uses the technology to mine more than a half-century of US federal court decisions for legal precedents, according to the company.

The semantic map is also employed in a widely-used medical database.

Cognition says it has also “semantically enabled” globally popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

A Web 3.0 target is to develop artificial intelligence “agents” that mine mountains of information on the Internet for material that suit the interests of the people they serve.

“It would be a software application constantly looking for things you might be interested in while accurately understanding the concepts of what you are looking for,” Jarus said.

He described it as “artificial intelligence agents working for you on a push basis instead of a pull basis.”

Cognition has a handful of rivals, with each firm taking its own approach to semantic technology.

In July US software giant Microsoft bought San Francisco-based Powerset, a three-year-old start-up which specializes in interpreting the intent of people’s Internet searches instead of matching specific words they use.

Microsoft said it plans to use Powerset technology to enhance its free Live Search service, which has been mired in third place behind Google and Yahoo in the lucrative Internet search-related advertising arena.

Powerset’s semantic search merges linguistics with engineering in a software platform to figure out what people are seeking based on questions or phrases.

Standard search engines respond to individual words in the search query.

Microsoft senior vice president of search, portal and advertising Satya Nadella said at the time that a third of today’s online searches don’t get people the answers they seek on the first try.

“Search engines don’t understand today that ‘shrub’ and ‘tree’ are similar concepts,” Nadella wrote in a blog posting.

“We don’t understand that ‘cancer’ sometimes refers to a disease and sometimes refers to a horoscope and when a query or a webpage refers to which.”

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed but unconfirmed reports were that Microsoft may have paid as much as 100 million dollars for Powerset.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080918073717.xvg33wf1&show_article=1

Jonathan Fahey, 07.31.08, 2:30 PM ET

MIT professor Daniel G. Nocera has long been jealous of plants. He desperately wanted to do what they do–split water into hydrogen and oxygen and use the products to do work. That, he figures, is the only way we humans can solve our energy problems; enough energy pours down from the sun in one hour to power the planet’s energy needs for a year.

In January, only a month after reevaluating his methodology in the face of a frustratingly slow process, he finally found a way. “For six months now I’ve been looking at the leaves and saying ‘I own you guys!’”

Nocera’s discovery–a cheap and easy way to store energy that he thinks will be used to change solar power into a mainstream energy source–will be published in the journal Science on Friday. “This is the nirvana of what we’ve been talking about for years,” said Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at MIT. “Solar power has always been a limited, far-off solution. Now we can seriously think about solar power as unlimited–and soon.”

Plants catch light and turn it into an electric current, then use that energy to excite catalysts that split water into hydrogen and oxygen during what is called photosynthesis’ light cycle. The energy is then used during the dark cycle to allow the plant to build sugars used for growth and energy storage.

Nocera and Matthew Kanan, a postdoctoral fellow in Nocera’s lab, focused on the water-splitting part of photosynthesis. They found cheap and simple catalysts that did a remarkably good job. They dissolved cobalt and phosphate in water and then zapped it with electricity through an electrode. The cobalt and phosphate form a thin-film catalyst around the electrode that then use electrons from the electrode to split the oxygen from water. The oxygen bubbles to the surface, leaving a proton behind.

A few inches away, another catalyst, platinum, helps that bare proton become hydrogen. (This second reaction is a well-known one, and not part of Nocera and Kanan’s study.)

The hydrogen and oxygen, separated and on-hand, can be used to power a fuel cell whenever energy is needed.

“Once you put a photovoltaic on it,” he says, “you’ve got an inorganic leaf.”

James Barber, a biochemistry professor at Imperial College London who studies artificial photosynthesis but was not involved in this research, called the discovery by Nocera and Kanan a “giant leap” toward generating clean, carbon-free energy on a massive scale.

“This is a major discovery with enormous implications for the future prosperity of humankind,” he said. “The importance of their discovery cannot be overstated.”

Nocera’s discovery arose from frustration. Disappointed with the pace of his lab’s progress, Nocera and his team decided in December to question some of the basic assumptions they had made in setting up earlier experiments.

Chemists, it turns out, are always worrying about the stability of their catalysts and end up doing backflips to try to synthesize materials that won’t corrode. Photosynthesis, though, is so violently reactive that the catalysts involved break down every 30 minutes. The leaf has to constantly rebuild them. Maybe, thought Nocera, instead of fighting corrosion, he should work with it. “It’s a bias a lot of scientists have. We want something to be structurally stable. But all it has to be is functionally stable.”

This thinking led Nocera to try his cobalt-phosphate mixture. He knew it wouldn’t hold together, but he thought it might still work. Sure enough, Nocera’s catalyst breaks down whenever the electricity is cut, but it assembles itself again when electricity is reapplied.

Nocera’s discovery is still a science experiment. It needs plenty of engineering before it can be a useful device. The cobalt and phosphate at the center of Nocera’s work is cheap and plentiful, but the hydrogen reaction uses platinum, which is rare and expensive. The electrode needs to be improved so the oxygen-making process can speed up. And the system needs to be integrated into some kind of electricity-producing device, ideally powered by solar or wind on one end and a fuel cell on the other.

But splitting the oxygen away from the water was the hard part, and Nocera has done it. “Now we can start thinking about a totally distributed solar [photovoltaic] system,” he said. “We couldn’t have a solar economy unless it could produce energy 24/7. Now we can.”

His hope is that because unlike traditional electrolysis devices, which are expensive and require toxic alkaline solutions, his system is so cheap, simple and benign that scientists and engineers around the world will be able to improve it quickly.

For his part, Nocera says he will work to understand and improve both sides of his new discovery. His lab will try to learn every detail about just how his catalyst is making the oxygen. And he is going to work with his engineering colleagues at MIT to try to integrate his storage device into systems that he hopes one day will power homes and cars all day and all night.

I was contacted by a Public Relations individual from uCertify who requested me to review their product.  This was quite some time ago, and since I had never used their product before, decided to test their test preparation software out in addition to others.  This short review will not mention other applications, suites or books for the preparation for this exam, only the uCertify application.

The first thing you’ll notice when you download the program, is that they offer a few things.  First, there’s 100% money back guarantee that you’ll pass the test on the first try.  That’s enticing and speaks volumes on their product.  Unfortunately, the money back guarantee is on the ~$70 you spent on the program, and not the $150+ on the exam, but alas, something is better than nothing.  At the very least, you can use that money and try again on the exam (or buy a different prep book).

Second, they offer 2 flavors of their software: a full and free (demo) version.   The demo version has a few questions, enough to give you an idea of what’s going on, but not enough for you to do anything with (ie. pass the test, study from, etc).

Lastly, I like the fact that they give you directions on how to download and install the application.  That’s very thoughtful for users who may not be highly technical but want to be, and are therefore attempting to get certified in a particular technology (this is becoming more and more common, even though the certification is supposed to be taken after experience has been attained in the work place, to validate your skills).

So let’s run the application.

As a software developer myself, I have to say that I like the initial interface a lot.  Everything is very well place and easy to navigate.  The demo version only has a Diagnostic Test (15 questions), Create a Custom Test and Create a Fixed Time Test available to you in the main navigation section.  The “Enhance your understanding” section on the right hand side has all of the items available, which are basically extras to give you an ‘edge’.  It’s mostly general information, some tips, and other resources you can find on the internet.  You don’t need this section, but it’s nice to have everything in one place anyway.

uCertify has their advertisements all over the place “Buy the full version”, which makes me laugh.  That’s what they’re supposed to do, and they do a pretty good job in keeping it in your face as you go through the demo.

Diagnostic Test:

I ran it with 10 total questions, 10 minute duration and a passing score of 730.  I also selected the “Always show last answer option as ‘None of the above’” which I believe to be crucial in getting you to think critically.  Why?  Because everyone will default themselves to “the answer must not be here” if they can’t figure it out or come up with an answer based on incorrect assumptions.  Since it’s there all the time, and you won’t know when it’s a valid option, you’ll definitely think twice before choosing it.  In my courses, I always have this option available to students.

Well, the first thing I noticed while taking the Diagnostic Quiz is that my settings didn’t stick.  I noticed at the bottom that I was on question 10 of 15 (I said a max of 10) and that the “Always show ‘none of the above’” wasn’t being shown on all questions.  Maybe this is reduced functionality for the demo, but it would have been nice to see that stated.

I found the questions a bit vague.  They’re not meant to confuse you, but require a good understanding of the underlying topic for you to know what they’re referring to.  The application does assist you with some background information and explanation, but I don’t believe it to be enough for a full understanding of the topics, but again, they are quite helpful.

The results page is fairly straight forward.  A little hard to read, maybe alternating row colors would have been nicer on the eyes.  Anyway, it tells you what you did right and wrong.  Clicking on the question will take you to the page of that question, with the answer you gave and why you were right or wrong, along with those ‘Facts’ that help you solidify your understanding.

I really like the Readiness report, which gives you a summary on how you’ve done on all the exams (there are 5 practice tests, a final test, and a diagnostic test – 423 questions in total).  They also provide an adaptive test, but that functionality is not available, so I cannot comment on it.

All in all, I believe this to be a good product.  It’s obvious the uCertify is trying to get you to pass the test, as they provide you with several ways of doing so.  If I were going to use this product, I would read a book prior to build a decent foundation, and then polish my skills and knowledge off with this application and its exams.  If you did that, you would have taken 7 tests in the uCertify application, and an additional 1 or 2 in the Microsoft book, for a total of 8 or 9.  You would iterate through the content and examinations enough to know what you have to study and understand better, and know where your strengths are.

If you used the approach above, it would cost you about $100 (Microsoft Self-Paced Certification Books – really the only books available for MCTS-ASP.NET) and $60 for the uCertify application.  That’s $160 in prep (and maybe 1 – 3 months) and then the cost of the exam, which is about $200 or so (don’t quote me on that).  When you buy the Microsoft books, you get a voucher for a discount on the actual exam, so that helps. I believe it to be worth it.

The feedback from the exams is that you need to really memorize the book’s content and have lots of coding experience (more project experience than just slapping code together).  In that respect, an application such as this one will really help you with that, as they ask you real-world type questions.  The link below is to a site of a gentlemen who gives his experience from taking the exam: here

Rating of the Application:

Visual Appeal: 8
Question Difficulty: 8
Extra Content to Help (ie. Tips): 10
Number of Questions / Exams: 9
Reporting: 9
Exam Preparedness: 8.5
Overall: 8.75

I would say this system will help anyone pass the exam, as long as they have the knowledge.  I would / will use this system in the future.

Take a look for yourself: http://www.ucertify.com/exams/Microsoft/70-536-VB.html

You can receive a 10% discount on any certification course you wish to attend using the code STEVEH.  Thank you to Roger and uCertify for their generosity.

Computerworld (07/23/08) Gaudin, Sharon

As Intel reaches its 40th anniversary, a top company executive looks forward 40 years to the point when human intelligence and machine intelligence starts to merge. Intel CTO Justin Rattner says that perhaps as early as 2012 we will start to see the lines between human and machine intelligence blur, with nanoscale chips or machines moving through our bodies to fix damage organs or unclog arteries. Rattner also says virtual worlds will become increasingly realistic, and robots will develop enough intelligence and human characteristics that they will become companions. Most aspects of our lives will be rather different as we approach the year 2050, with computing becoming less about running applications and more about living lives in which computers are inextricably woven into daily activities. “The intelligent systems will move from being information systems to intelligent systems that will carry out a whole variety of tasks that we just won’t think of as computing tasks,” says Rattner. “The technology will find its way into so many things we do, and we won’t even think about it. The explicit way we’ve done computing in the past will be there, but it will be a very small subset of what we’ll be doing.” Chip advancements will continue throughout the semiconductor industry, though computer chips will extend beyond computers and phones as people seek to become more connected in virtual worlds and computers learn to react to our motions and thoughts.

By ROBERT McMILLAN, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau, IDG

Published: July 24, 2008

Hackers have released software that exploits a recently disclosed flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) software used to route messages between computers on the Internet.

The attack code was released Wednesday by developers of the Metasploit hacking toolkit.

Internet security experts warn that this code may give criminals a way to launch virtually undetectable phishing attacks against Internet users whose service providers have not installed the latest DNS server patches.

Attackers could also use the code to silently redirect users to fake software update servers in order to install malicious software on their computers, said Zulfikar Ramizan, a technical director with security vendor Symantec. “What makes this whole thing really scary is that from an end-user perspective they may not notice anything,” he said.

The bug was first disclosed by IOActive researcher Dan Kaminsky earlier this month, but technical details of the flaw were leaked onto the Internet earlier this week, making the Metasploit code possible. Kaminsky had worked for several months with major providers of DNS software such as Microsoft, Cisco and the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) to develop a fix for the problem. The corporate users and Internet service providers who are the major users of DNS servers have had since July 8 to patch the flaw, but many have not yet installed the fix on all DNS servers.

The attack is a variation on what’s known as a cache poisoning attack. It has to do with the way DNS clients and servers obtain information from other DNS servers on the Internet. When the DNS software does not know the numerical IP (Internet Protocol) address of a computer, it asks another DNS server for this information. With cache poisoning, the attacker tricks the DNS software into believing that legitimate domains, such as idg.com, map to malicious IP addresses.

In Kaminsky’s attack a cache poisoning attempt also includes what is known as “Additional Resource Record” data. By adding this data, the attack becomes much more powerful, security experts say.

An attacker could launch such an attack against an ISP’s (Internet Service Provider) domain name servers and then redirect them to malicious servers. By poisoning the domain name record for www.citibank.com, for example, the attackers could redirect the ISP’s users to a malicious phishing server every time they tried to visit the banking site with their Web browser.

On Monday, security company Matasano accidentally posted details of the flaw on its Web site. Matasano quickly removed the post and apologized for its mistake, but it was too late. Details of the flaw soon spread around the Internet.

Although a software fix is now available for most users of DNS software, it can take time for these updates to work their way through the testing process and actually get installed on the network.

“Most people have not patched yet,” said ISC President Paul Vixie in an e-mail interview earlier this week. “That’s a gigantic problem for the world.”

Metasploit’s code looks “very real,” and uses techniques that were not previously documented said Amit Klein, chief technology officer with Trusteer.

It will probably be used in attacks, he predicted. “Now that the exploit is out there, combined with the fact that not all DNS servers were upgraded… attackers should be able to poison the cache of some ISPs,” he wrote in an e-mail interview. “The thing is we may never know about such attacks, if the attackers… work carefully and cover their tracks properly.”

Copyright 2008 IDG News Service. All Rights Reserved.

Poop Power

July 24, 2008 — Researchers have identified a climate-energy win-win, but it may put them in deep doo-doo.

That’s what happens when you study poop for a living. Michael Webber and Amanda Cuéllar of the University of Texas at Austin estimate that digesting all of the nation’s livestock manure to produce methane to burn for energy could supply more than 2 percent of the country’s electricity needs.

Meanwhile, the process would avoid the greenhouse gas emissions created by burning the equivalent amount of coal, and it would prevent the release of the super-potent greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide released by normal manure degradation, allowing for a double-whammy of greenhouse gas reduction.

The combined savings could reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from electricity by about 4 percent.

“We wanted to look at what would happen if we took all the manure in the nation, which is currently an environmental liability, and turned it into a commodity as a source of energy,” Webber said. The pair’s work is published today in Environmental Research Letters.

Livestock in the United States unload more than a billion tons of manure each year, most of which ends up in lagoons or other outdoor locations where it decomposes, emitting methane and nitrous oxide, greenhouse gases 21 and 310 times more potent at warming than CO2, respectively.

The proposed approach would send the manure to anaerobic digesters where microorganisms would produce biogas rich in methane that could be captured and burned for energy, releasing the less-potent greenhouse gas CO2. The remaining solids could be used for fertilizer.

This approach would reduce other problems associated with manure ponds, including odor, air pollution, and water pollution from runoff or groundwater contamination, Webber said.

Digesters exist in the United States, and many more are used in Europe. But this is the first time anyone has studied the total potential of biogas production in the United States, he added. “The numbers are big enough that they’re worth paying attention to.”

“This isn’t new technology. It’s not hard to implement,” he added. “It’s decades-old technology that’s ready to go right now. We just haven’t done it. We don’t have incentives.”

But now, the rising cost of energy and increasing drive to reduce greenhouse gases and generate renewable energy make this a better time than ever to consider this approach, Webber said.

“There are a lot of biofeedstocks that are receiving a lot of criticism,” Webber told Discovery News. “This one seems controversy-free. It’s a waste stream right now. It doesn’t fall into the trap of competing with food.”

“They paint a very rosy picture of biogas potential by considering all the animals in the country,” said Christopher Weber of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., who has studied greenhouse gas emissions from livestock.

Webber agrees that not all animals are kept in conditions where it would be easy to collect the manure. Large feedlots would be the best starting point. But his analysis provides an upper limit for what might be possible, he said.

Meat, especially red meat, has received recent attention as a less “green” diet choice than vegetables or fish because of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with its production, including from manure. Reducing the greenhouse gas emissions from manure improves the calculation, but it does not even the playing field, Weber said.

“It would do nothing about the carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide in the production of the grain to feed the animals, which is another large chunk of the greenhouse gases associated with red meat production,” he said. Cows would continue to burp methane as part of their digestion, which is the largest source of methane in beef production.

“All in all, for grain-fed beef, I would think manure is responsible for a total of 20 percent of the life cycle emissions or so; a good start but certainly not enough to make beef on par with vegetables or fish in greenhouse gas production.”

Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we’ve improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe’s Flash Player technology.

In the past, web designers faced challenges if they chose to develop a site in Flash because the content they included was not indexable by search engines. They needed to make extra effort to ensure that their content was also presented in another way that search engines could find.

Now that we’ve launched our Flash indexing algorithm, web designers can expect improved visibility of their published Flash content, and you can expect to see better search results and snippets. There’s more info on the Webmaster Central blog

AWESOME!  This just reduced the amount of work that multimedia web designers and developers by at least half!  Thanks GOOGLE!

Monday, April 07, 2008

The Internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.

At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds.

The latest spin-off from Cern, the particle physics centre that created the web, the grid could also provide the kind of power needed to transmit holographic images; allow instant online gaming with hundreds of thousands of players; and offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call.

David Britton, professor of physics at Glasgow University and a leading figure in the grid project, believes grid technologies could “revolutionise” society. “With this kind of computing power, future generations will have the ability to collaborate and communicate in ways older people like me cannot even imagine,” he said.

The power of the grid will become apparent this summer after what scientists at Cern have termed their “red button” day – the switching-on of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new particle accelerator built to probe the origin of the universe. The grid will be activated at the same time to capture the data it generates.

Cern, based near Geneva, started the grid computing project seven years ago when researchers realised the LHC would generate annual data equivalent to 56m CDs – enough to make a stack 40 miles high.

This meant that scientists at Cern – where Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the web in 1989 – would no longer be able to use his creation for fear of causing a global collapse.

This is because the Internet has evolved by linking together a hotchpotch of cables and routing equipment, much of which was originally designed for telephone calls and therefore lacks the capacity for high-speed data transmission.

By contrast, the grid has been built with dedicated fibre optic cables and modern routing centres, meaning there are no outdated components to slow the deluge of data. The 55,000 servers already installed are expected to rise to 200,000 within the next two years.

Professor Tony Doyle, technical director of the grid project, said: “We need so much processing power, there would even be an issue about getting enough electricity to run the computers if they were all at Cern. The only answer was a new network powerful enough to send the data instantly to research centres in other countries.”

That network, in effect a parallel Internet, is now built, using fibre optic cables that run from Cern to 11 centres in the United States, Canada, the Far East, Europe and around the world.

One terminates at the Rutherford Appleton laboratory at Harwell in Oxfordshire.

From each centre, further connections radiate out to a host of other research institutions using existing high-speed academic networks.

It means Britain alone has 8,000 servers on the grid system – so that any student or academic will theoretically be able to hook up to the grid rather than the internet from this autumn.

Ian Bird, project leader for Cern’s high-speed computing project, said grid technology could make the internet so fast that people would stop using desktop computers to store information and entrust it all to the internet.

“It will lead to what’s known as cloud computing, where people keep all their information online and access it from anywhere,” he said.

Computers on the grid can also transmit data at lightning speed. This will allow researchers facing heavy processing tasks to call on the assistance of thousands of other computers around the world. The aim is to eliminate the dreaded “frozen screen” experienced by internet users who ask their machine to handle too much information.

The real goal of the grid is, however, to work with the LHC in tracking down nature’s most elusive particle, the Higgs boson. Predicted in theory but never yet found, the Higgs is supposed to be what gives matter mass.

The LHC has been designed to hunt out this particle – but even at optimum performance it will generate only a few thousand of the particles a year. Analysing the mountain of data will be such a large task that it will keep even the grid’s huge capacity busy for years to come.

Although the grid itself is unlikely to be directly available to domestic internet users, many telecoms providers and businesses are already introducing its pioneering technologies. One of the most potent is so-called dynamic switching, which creates a dedicated channel for internet users trying to download large volumes of data such as films. In theory this would give a standard desktop computer the ability to download a movie in five seconds rather than the current three hours or so.

Additionally, the grid is being made available to dozens of other academic researchers including astronomers and molecular biologists.

It has already been used to help design new drugs against malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills 1m people worldwide each year. Researchers used the grid to analyse 140m compounds – a task that would have taken a standard internet-linked PC 420 years.

“Projects like the grid will bring huge changes in business and society as well as science,” Doyle said.

“Holographic video conferencing is not that far away. Online gaming could evolve to include many thousands of people, and social networking could become the main way we communicate.

“The history of the internet shows you cannot predict its real impacts but we know they will be huge.”

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 Incredible!  For more information on the LCG, click here.

Can you please tell me about computer science?

I will join the university after 3months and im thinking about studying a computer science so I want someone to tell me about it.(every thing about it =D )

Thank you.

Answer:

If you don’t like to program or think, CS is not the route to take. It is very math and theory intensive and not so much hands on. If you’re more a hands on type of person, CIS (Computer Information Systems) is the way to go… it’s more in line with practical business applications of technology.

A good rule of thumb is that CIS people use the technology created by CS people.

Specifications

Manufacturer:

Fujitsu

Part number:

FPCM10241

General

Platform Technology

Intel Centrino

System Type

Tablet PC

Built-in Devices

Wireless LAN antenna, SmartCard reader/writer

Width

11.5 in

Depth

9.3 in

Height

1.4 in

Weight

4.2 lbs

Processor

Processor

Intel Pentium M 1.4 GHz

Data bus speed

400 MHz

Processor features

Enhanced SpeedStep technology

Chipset type

Intel 855GM

Cache Memory

Type

L2 cache

Cache size

1 MB

RAM

Installed Size

256 MB / 2 GB(max)

Technology

DDR SDRAM – 266 MHz

Memory specification compliance

DDR266/PC2100

Storage Controller

Storage controller type

IDE

Storage

Floppy Drive

None

Hard Drive

40 GB

Storage Removable

None

Optical Storage (2nd)

2nd optical storage type

None

Display

Display Type

12.1 in TFT active matrix

Max Resolution

1024 x 768

Color support

24-bit (16.7 million colors)

Video

Graphics Processor / Vendor

Intel 855GM – AGP

Video Memory

Shared video memory (UMA)

Audio

Audio output type

Sound card

Audio output compliant standards

AC ’97

Input Device(s)

Input device type

Keyboard, Touchpad, Digitizer, Digital pen, Scroll button

Telecom

Modem

Fax / modem

Max transfer rate

56 Kbps

Protocols & Specifications

ITU V.90

Networking

Networking

Network adapter

Networking / Wireless LAN Supported

Yes

Data link protocol

Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, Fast Ethernet

Networking standards

IEEE 802.11b

Expansion / Connectivity

Expansion Bays

None

Expansion Slots Total (Free)

2 ( 1 ) x Memory, 1 ( 1 ) x CardBus – Type III (2 x type I / II)

Interfaces

2 x Hi-Speed USB – 4 pin USB Type A, 1 x Modem – Phone line – RJ-11, 1 x Network – Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX – RJ-45, 1 x Display / video – VGA – 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15), 1 x Infrared – IrDA, 1 x Headphones – Output – Mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm, 1 x Microphone – Input – Mini-phone 3.5 mm, 1 x Docking / port replicator

Miscellaneous

Features

Security lock slot (cable lock sold separately)

Compliant Standards

CUL, TUV, EN55022, EN55024, EN 60950, ICES-003, UL 60950, CISPR 22 Class B, FCC Class B certified, FCC Class C certified

Power

Power device form factor

External

Voltage Required

AC 120/230 V ( 50/60 Hz)

Battery

Technology

Lithium ion

Installed Qty

1

Mfr estimated battery life

4.5 hour(s)

Operating System / Software

OS Provided

Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

Software type

Zinio Reader, Microsoft Reader, NewsStand Reader, Drivers & Utilities, Fujitsu HotKey Utility, Microsoft Internet Explorer, FranklinCovey TabletPlanner (Trial), PowerQuest Drive Image Special Edition

Manufacturer Warranty

Service & support type

1 year warranty

Service & Support Details

Limited warranty – 1 year