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Getting Smart About Knowledge-Based Processors: A Primer on KBPs

 By: Isa Loundon Posted: Dec. 03, 2012

We live in a world today where people are connected around the clock. So it should come as no surprise that the number of connected devices – as well as the content, apps and services we consume on them – is exploding every year.

The global smartphone market alone is expected to reach 1.1 billion devices by the end of 2012, a 43 percent increase from 2011, according to research firm Canalys. By 2016, that number is expected to jump …

Return to Sender – IPv6 Saves the Day

 By: Tamara Snowden Posted: Jun. 13, 2012

Imagine if the world ran out of home addresses. New homes would be built without addresses, making it difficult for packages to be delivered or friends to stop by for a visit. This is the sort of problem that the Internet is facing today. Like homes, devices such as PCs, smartphones and tablets each hold individual IP addresses that are used to route data.

The World Wide Web currently operates on Internet Protocol Version 4, or IPv4, using a system …

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