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Gore Urges Bold Moves in Nobel Speech

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 8:29 a.m. ET

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Al Gore received his Nobel Peace Prize on Monday and urged the United States and China to make the boldest moves on climate change or "stand accountable before history for their failure to act."

"We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency -- a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential even as we gather here," Gore said in his acceptance speech.

Gore shared the Nobel with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for sounding the alarm over global warming and spreading awareness on how to counteract it. the U.N. panel was represented at the ceremony by its leader, Rajendra Pachauri.

"It is time to make peace with the planet," Gore said at the gala ceremony in Oslo's city hall, in front of Norway's royalty, leaders and invited guests. "We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war."

The former vice president urged China and the U.S. -- the world's biggest carbon emitters -- to "make the boldest moves, or stand accountable before history for their failure to act."

His remarks came as governments met in Bali, Indonesia, to start work on a new international treaty to reduce climate-damaging carbon dioxide emissions. Gore and Pachauri plan to fly there Wednesday to join the climate talks.

The governments hope to have the new pact, which succeeds the Kyoto accord, in place by 2012, but Gore has said the urgency of the problem means they should aim to come to an agreement by 2010.

Before his speech, Gore said in an interview with The Associated Press that he believes the next U.S. president will shift the country's course on climate change and engage in global efforts to reduce carbon emissions.

"The new president, whichever party wins the election, is likely to have to change the position on this climate crisis," Gore said in the interview. "I do believe the U.S., soon, is to have a more constructive role."

He said it was not too late for Bush administration to join efforts to draft a new global treaty limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

"I have urged President Bush and his administration to be part of the world community's effort to solve this crisis," Gore said. "I hope they will change their position."

The Bush administration opposed the Kyoto treaty on climate change, saying it would hurt the U.S. economy and objecting that fast developing nations like China and India were not required to reduce emissions.

The other Nobel awards -- in medicine, chemistry, physics, literature and economics -- will be presented at a separate ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.

Each Nobel Prize includes a gold medal, a diploma and a $1.6 million cash award.

The Nobel Prizes, first awarded in 1901, are always presented Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death of their creator, Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel.

In Stockholm, the winners of the science Nobels receive their awards Monday from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf before being treated to a lavish white-tie banquet at City Hall.

The 2007 awards in medicine, chemistry and physics honored breakthroughs in stem cell research on mice, solid-surface chemistry and the discovery of a phenomenon that lets computers and digital music players store reams of data on ever-shrinking hard disks.

Three U.S. economists shared the economics award for their work on how people's knowledge and self-interest affect their behavior in the market or in social situations such as voting and labor negotiations.

One of the economics winners, Leonid Hurwicz, 90, and the literature prize winner, 88-year-old British writer Doris Lessing, could not travel to Stockholm. They will receive their awards at later ceremonies in Minnesota and London, respectively.

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On the Net:

www.nobelpeaceprize.org

Stevens Institute to place a campus in South Korea
Friday, October 19, 2007 BY ANA M. ALAYA

Stevens Institute of Technology announced plans yesterday to expand its overseas presence with a campus in a high-tech area of South Korea, making the school in Hoboken the latest in a growing list of U.S. colleges opening up shop in booming Asia.

Under an agreement with Korean government officials, Stevens will offer graduate programs at a proposed new university and high-tech park in the port city of Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, as early as two years from now.

Stevens, which already offers degree programs in partnership with colleges in China, India, Singapore, Scandinavia and the Dominican Republic, hopes to use its global experience with executive-level training to help its Korean partners create a climate of entrepreneurship.

"We will work together in ... getting intellectual property patents and launching and growing new businesses in Pyeongtaek to create new wealth and new jobs," said Stevens President Hal Raveche. "We believe this will be a model for the rest of Korea and the rest of Asia."

Song Myeong-Ho, mayor of the Korean city, said Stevens is the first foreign university to agree to offer educational programs in a high-tech area that will be part of a Korean government-backed $1.6 billion expansion of his city.

The past five years have seen a growing trend of American, British and Canadian universities expanding their educational programs overseas during a time of increasing globalization.

According to Madeleine F. Green, vice president for International Initiatives at the American Council on Education, hundreds of universities are opening satellite campuses or offering specialized degree or certificate programs worldwide, though the exportation of U.S. education is still relatively new territory.

"A lot of the programs out there are fairly young and they're still developing, and it's not clear where it's going," Green said. "It's going to depend on the different rules and regulations in other countries."

Although U.S. schools are hoping to cash in -- both in terms of new revenue and prestige -- some ventures have proved to be expensive, bureaucratic nightmares.

Still, some of the nation's premier universities have taken advantage of the growing need for high-tech and business degrees in nations whose own colleges are unable to meet demand. The hot spots are India, China and Singapore, Green said.

New Jersey institutions with programs in China include Montclair State, Rutgers and Seton Hall universities and Centenary College. Kean University planned to open the first full-scale American college in China this year but ran into red tape and faces several years of delays.

Princeton University yesterday announced its own new "international vision" that focuses on expanding study-abroad options for students and attracting more international professors, while shunning the idea of investing heavily in "satellite campuses."

Stevens plans to initially offer three graduate degrees to the South Koreans, in technology management, systems engineering and manufacturing technologies. The classes will be offered in English and in different formats that blend online education and classes taught by either Stevens professors or Koreans trained by them.

The newly developed port city of Pyeongtaek is expected to more than double in size to nearly a million people by 2020 as a majority of U.S. troops in South Korea move to the U.S. Army base there, Camp Humphreys, Song said.

"We will have the best technology concentrated in one city," the mayor said. "And we are looking forward to developing new intellectual property partnerships with Stevens Institute of Technology."

Stevens and Pyeongtaek officials will work to raise about $100 million from private investors for the new university where the programs will be offered, and the city will work to attract more universities from the United States and other countries to participate, officials said.

The partnership came about relatively quickly after a visiting member of the faculty was introduced to the university project last spring by members of a Stevens alumni group in South Korea.

Raveche said the partnership also may help the United States learn how to improve its high-tech manufacturing -- something that could help create jobs for middle-class Americans.

"We've lost sight of the importance of manufacturing," Raveche said. "We would like to learn how Korea excels at it."

A ZFS page page has appeared on MacOSForge.org, Apple's open source repository for projects. Not much information yet available, and it simple directs people to download the current ZFS implementation from Apple's Developer Connection site:

http://zfs.macosforge.org/

IT Jungle, Timothy Morgan; November 1, 2007

http://www.itjungle.com/tug/tug110107-story03.html

Sun Microsystems is taking its first public steps toward the delivery of its binary distribution of the OpenSolaris open source Unix operating system that underpins its Solaris Unix distribution by putting out the OpenSolaris Developer Edition. The software is the first milestone toward the delivery of a full OpenSolaris binary distribution in early 2008.

While the open source nature of the BSD and Linux operating systems attracts a certain number of nerds, techies, and hackers, there is much larger population of IT people (including developers, system administrators, high-end users, and students) that could compile an operating system and install it but which has better things to do with their time. That's why BSD Unixes and various Linuxes have been available in binary compiled format as well as open source for many years, and it is also why Sun has figured out that if it wants to increase participation in the OpenSolaris development release, it has to provide a binary distribution for free just as it has done for more than two years for the Solaris 10 commercial variant of its Unix. This is what Project Indiana is all about, which is why Ian Murdock, the former Debian Linux leader who Sun hired earlier this year as its chief operating platforms officer, is the perfect person to get this particular job done.

The OpenSolaris Developer Preview, which Sun was planning to release either late Wednesday or early Thursday, is only going to be available on X86 and X64 platforms, with support for Sparc platforms "coming soon." The binary distribution makes use of the graphical installer that Sun has already put into its Solaris 10 8/07 Update, and like prior releases of Solaris, the Project Indiana preview also uses Gnome as a graphical user interface. But the preview is about more than making a binary. It is about making a variant of Solaris Unix that is easier to use for Linux enthusiasts than prior Solaris releases have been.

First and foremost, the contributors on the Project Indiana effort have grafted the GNU Userland add-ons for the Linux kernel onto the Solaris kernel. In plain English, according to Murdock, the Bash shell and Perl and Python scripts as well as the whole Linux command line interface are now part of Solaris, and can be used as an alternative to the existing Solaris command line interface. Sun intends to support both CLIs, by the way, so don't get nervous, Solaris warhorses. By using the GNU Userland, scripts written for Linux now work on OpenSolaris.

The Project Indiana preview also sports a new packaging system called Image Packaging System, which is a network-based, repository-driven packaging system akin to those available for popular Linuxes. The existing Unix SVR4 package system is also still part of OpenSolaris, too, and the IPS packager has been tweaked so it can import the thousands of SVR4 applications out there in the world that run on Solaris. Murdock says that Sun will work with application package maintainers to give them the tools so they can create IPS-compatible packages for OpenSolaris, and in fact, Sun is counting on the vast developer community to eventually make a much broader array of applications available on OpenSolaris and therefore Solaris. This approach, says Murdock, is how Debian Linux grew to support over 25,000 applications in around 14 years. "Of course," Murdock concedes, "those numbers are a little different from the usual ISV package counts, since it might contain 40 different versions of Tetris."

For now, Sun has a limited number of packages available in the IPS repository it is building, including the usual suspects like Apache, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and so forth. It makes sense that Sun and Blastwave, which packages up open source stacks for Sparc and X64 variants of Solaris, will work together to create IPS versions of the Blastwave stack so OpenSolaris users can quickly and seamlessly add software. "Open source works best when it is done iteratively," explains Murdock.

Officially, the final Project Indiana variant of OpenSolaris is expected in the first half of 2008, but Murdock said that Sun's goal is to get it into the field in March 2008. The software will have a similar naming convention to Solaris commercial versions, and if Sun hits that date, then it will be called OpenSolaris 3/08.

OpenSolaris Developer Preview will be available as a LiveCD ISO image and as a USB stick image, which allows the installation on a machine in LiveCD format (meaning running off the CD, not the disk drive) or as a fully installed operating system on a machine.

I did update my Macbook Pro to Mac OSX Leopard last week. I was lucky to get the deep discount from campus computer store at my university.
I already knew Apple did not port their default file system from HFS to ZFS.
But they allow us to access read-only secondary storages on ZFS. I hope they will fully use ZFS soon.
Maybe the problem was difficult to ensure backward compatibility between ZFS-based and existing Mac applications and systems.
Since Leopard release in one version for everybody, ZFS might not suitable for laptops since it uses up a lot of processing power which will cost the battery life. The same reason they use EDGE instead of 3G on iPhone.
But pretty sure they will use ZFS in near future.

A wireless broadband Internet technology developed in
Korea has been adopted as the sixth global standard for
third-generation telecommunication. The adoption enables Korean patent
holders to compete with rivals in the global market on an equal
footing, as they can use the same worldwide radio frequency as IMT-2000
when providing the WiBro service abroad.


Known also as mobile WiMAX, WiBro allows access to broadband Internet on the move.



The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) approved the
Korean-developed technology as a global 3G standard at the 2007
Radiocommunication Assembly at the International Conference Center in
Geneva on Thursday.


WiBro is said to have the advantage in developing into the
fourth-generation telecommunication standard as it already uses
wireless telecommunication technologies like orthogonal frequency
division multiplexing (OFDM) and multi input-multi output (MIMO)
associated with 4G.


At the assembly, China had persistently opposed the adoption of
WiBro out of concern that its own 3G standard TDS-CDMA could be
replaced by WiBro if the Korean technology was chosen before the
Chinese technology takes root. But it conceded at the last moment on
condition that its reservations are stated in the resolution. Germany,
another opponent, agreed to the adoption on condition that the
technical glitches of the Korean wireless technology are addressed as
soon as possible.

Developers have received from Apple a 'ZFS on Mac OS X Preview 1.1' package, which offers preliminary support for the ZFS file system, originally developed by Sun Microsystems for their Solaris OS. Currently, the Mac OS is based on the HFS+ file system, but leaked screenshots of earlier versions of Leopard showed options for formatting hard drives for ZFS. Reportedly, this preview allows full read and write capabilities with the latest developer build of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Apple's upcoming version of its OS X operating system.

Gore and U.N. Panel Win Peace Prize for Climate Work

Praising “their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge
about man-made climate change,” the Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize to Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007

goes to Dr. Albert Fert and Dr. Peter Grünberg

for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance.

Thank you for your great discoveries. We could not enjoy our ipods and computers without your research achievements.
 

1. Finding the benefits of Reseach using Solaris, JAVA(netbean) and SunStudio environment.

2. Porting my research projects from MacOSX/WindowsXP(Vista),Matlab, VisualStudio to Solaris, Netbean and SunStudio

안녕하셔요 저는 김현재(Ryan)이라고 합니다. 뉴저지 호보켄에 있는 스티븐스 공대에 전자공학/컴퓨터공학전공 박사과정학생입니다. 

학사는 물리학을 석사는 컴퓨터공학을 또 다른 석사는 생물정보학을 하였습니다.

연구를 시작하면서 여러가지 Sun microsystems의 기술을 사용하게 되었습니다. 과학 기술 연구분야에 가장 적합한 환경을 솔라리스가 제공한다고 생각합니다.

Sun microsystems의 한 일원이 된것을 기쁘게 생각합니다.

I'm Hyunjae Ryan Kim who is a PhD candidate in ECE(Electrical and Computer Engineering) at Stevens Institute, Hoboken NJ.

I have B.S in Physics, M.E in ECE at Stevens and M.S in Computer Science(concentration on Computational Biology) at New York University, Courant Institute. I've strong background of statistical analysis and machine learning technique in Intrusion detection research over wireless network and in Cancer research/Protein translation/Gene Evolution in Computational Biology.

I've been exposed to Sun technology since the beginning of my researches. I felt that combining the power, security, and stability of Solaris, Solaris provides the ideal platform for scientific computing research.

I'm glad to be a part of Sun microsystems.

Thank you for reading this.