Archive for July 2nd, 2004

An Undergraduate Project in Imaging Radar

Friday, July 2nd, 2004

Ankit Agrawal, Bob Fougere, Mridula Oravakandy and Greg Siemens wrote up their B.S. report Design, Construction and Testing of a Microwave Radar System for Through-Wall Surveillance (PDF) format. I have only skimmed the report, but it appears they were able to detect people standing behind a test wall by using SAR (synthetic aperature radar) techniques. I’ve often wondered if you could do this with cheap 10ghz Gunnplexer horns. I’ll have to read this over in greater detail later.

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The Department of Homeland Security says…

Friday, July 2nd, 2004

If you use Internet Explorer, the terrorists have already won!

The Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team touched off a storm this week when it recommended for security reasons using browsers other than Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer.

Apparently this has touched off a run on Mozilla/Firefox, which are being downloaded at greatly increased rates.

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