NEWS
By Frank D. Roylance, The Baltimore Sun | June 10, 2010
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab has chosen a 23-year APL veteran to become the institution's eighth director. Ralph D. Semmel, 53, of Columbia, is currently director of APL's Applied Information Sciences Department. He will succeed the retiring Richard T. Roca, a former AT&T executive who steps down July 1 after more than 10 years as APL director. The lab does research and development work for the Defense Department and NASA. It employs nearly 5,000 people, more than two-thirds of them scientists and engineers.
NEWS
By Laura Smitherman and Laura Smitherman,laura.smitherman@baltsun.com | December 25, 2008
After years of problems with the state's touch-screen voting system, Maryland has filed a claim to recover $8.5 million from the maker of the machines, Premier Election Solutions, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced yesterday. The claim seeks costs the state incurred to correct security gaps in the voting system that were uncovered several years ago by independent investigations. The state has paid $90 million under a contract with Premier, formerly known as Diebold, since 2001.
NEWS
March 18, 2006
Meredith B. Kane, a computer software applications and systems expert, died of complications from ovarian cancer Wednesday at a brother's home in Grasonville. The resident of Phoenix in Baltimore County was 56. She was born Meredith Levering Bond in Baltimore and raised in Roland Park. She was a 1967 graduate of Roland Park Country School and earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1971 from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Va. She earned a master's degree in information technology from the Johns Hopkins University in the 1990s.
NEWS
By Stephanie Desmon and Stephanie Desmon,SUN STAFF | August 27, 2004
Despite warnings from three computer experts -- including two hired by the state -- about widespread security vulnerabilities in a new electronic voting system, Maryland's top elections administrator said yesterday that she sees no reason for concern about proceeding with the planned statewide use of voting machines. Linda H. Lamone testified in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court that some of the experts' recommendations are unworkable, unnecessary and illegal. A voters group is trying to force Lamone's elections department to implement recommended security fixes before the November election.
ENTERTAINMENT
By K. Oanh Ha and K. Oanh Ha,KNIGHT RIDDER/TRIBUNE | June 3, 2004
SAN JOSE, Calif. - It's the world's oldest and largest jigsaw puzzle - an ancient map of Rome in 1,200 fragments of marble. Archaeologists for centuries have tried to painstakingly piece together the sculpture, fragment by fragment. Now, computer wizards at Stanford University say they have created a software program that holds the key to the puzzle and the ancient city. At the heart of the program are three-dimensional scans of the fragments and algorithms to find possible matches. Already the work has produced several dozen probable and possible matches.
NEWS
By Peter Hermann and Peter Hermann,SUN FOREIGN STAFF | February 26, 2004
JERUSALEM - Israeli soldiers raided four banks in the West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday, seizing millions of dollars that they said was funneled from Iran, Syria and Lebanon to Palestinian militants for attacks on Israelis. Soldiers who carried out the daylight raid in the heart of the city were met with a hail of rocks and firebombs, and the soldiers responded with tear gas, rubber-coated bullets and live ammunition that left 42 Palestinians injured. After taking over branches of the Cairo-Amman Bank and the Arab Bank, Israeli police and computer experts logged on to the banking networks to examine accounts and money transfers, then went to the vaults and took away about $9 million.