Learning How To Read The Riot Act

TO UNDERSTAND how riots spawn and breed, or terrorist networks seed and expand, computer scientists are turning to experimental techniques to develop tools that analyse and predict social patterns and behaviour.

Pack An Emergency Toolkit

It's possible you'll sail happily through life without encountering hardware or software failure. Possible, but not likely - engineers have yet to build a crash-proof computer.

The Lost Patrol Arrives Home

WITH annual revenues of about $US1.5 billion, BMC is one of the world's top 10 software companies. Much of its success in performance monitoring tools over the past 10 years came from a product called Patrol, developed in Australia and bought by BMC in 1993.