With Web History, you'll be able to:

• View and manage your web activity.
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• Get the search results most relevant to you.
  Web History helps deliver more personalized search results based on the things you've searched for on Google and the sites you've visited. You might not notice a big impact on your search results early on, but they should steadily improve over time the more you use Web History.
  
  
• Follow interesting trends in your web activity.
  Which sites do you visit frequently? How many searches did you do between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.? Web History can tell you about these and other interesting trends in your web activity.

Artificial intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it. Textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents,"^[1] where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions which maximize its chances of success.^[2] John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1956,^[3] defines it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines."^[4]

The field was founded on the claim that a central property of human beings, intelligence—the sapience of Homo sapiens—can be so precisely described that it can be simulated by a machine.^[5] This raises philosophical issues about the nature of the mind and limits of scientific hubris, issues which have been addressed by myth, fiction and philosophy since antiquity.^[6] Artificial intelligence has been the subject of breathtaking optimism,^[7] has suffered stunning setbacks^[8] and, today, has become an essential part of the technology industry, providing the heavy lifting for many of the most difficult problems in computer science.^[9]

AI research is highly technical and specialized, deeply divided into subfields that often fail to communicate with each other.^[10] Subfields have grown up around particular institutions, the work of individual researchers, the solution of specific problems, longstanding differences of opinion about how AI should be done and the application of widely differing tools. The central problems of AI include such traits as reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning, communication, perception and the ability to move and manipulate objects.^[11] General intelligence (or "strong AI") is still a long-term goal of (some) research.^[12]

Wireless communication

Wireless communication is the transfer of information over a distance without the use of electrical conductors or "wires".^[1] The distances involved may be short (a few meters as in television remote control) or long (thousands or millions of kilometers for radio communications). When the context is clear, the term is often shortened to "wireless". Wireless communication is generally considered to be a branch of telecommunications.

It encompasses various types of fixed, mobile, and portable two-way radios, cellular telephones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and wireless networking. Other examples of wireless technology include GPS units, garage door openers and or garage doors, wireless computer mice, keyboards and headsets, satellite television and cordless telephones.

multimedia

The use of computers to present text, graphics, video, animation, and sound in an integrated way. Long touted as the future revolution in computing, multimedia applications were, until the mid-90s, uncommon due to the expensive hardware required. With increases in performance and decreases in price, however, multimedia is now commonplace. Nearly all PCs are capable of displaying video, though the resolution available depends on the power of the computer's video adapter and CPU.

Management information system

A management information system (MIS) is a subset of the overall internal controls of a business covering the application of people, documents, technologies, and procedures by management accountants to solve business problems such as costing a product, service or a business-wide strategy. Management information systems are distinct from regular information systems in that they are used to analyze other information systems applied in operational activities in the organization.^[1] Academically, the term is commonly used to refer to the group of information management methods tied to the automation or support of human decision making, e.g. Decision Support Systems, Expert systems, and Executive information systems.^[1]

It has been described as, "MIS 'lives' in the space that intersects technology and business. MIS combines tech with business to get people the information they need to do their jobs better/faster/smarter. Information is the lifeblood of all organizations - now more than ever. MIS professionals work as systems analysts, project managers, systems administrators, etc., communicating directly with staff and management across the organization." ^[2]

The Web: Hackers penetrate network routers

Hackers are now probing a new target -- network routers -- as they seek to wreak havoc on corporate computing networks and evade the extensive security software that has been deployed on PCs and Web servers, experts tell United Press International's The Web.

A router is a device that forwards packets of digital data over networks and is connected to at least two networks, generally local area networks, and wide area networks and the Internet. The routers are located at network gateways, where two networks connect, and have their own operating systems.

The e-mail messages one receives that are sent over the Internet contain "headers" that indicate the path that the data has taken.

"Companies need to work with their vendors and be vigilant in terms of updating their software," Bart Lazar, an intellectual-property attorney based in Chicago with the firm of Seyfarth Shaw, told The Web.

Earlier this month Cisco Systems Inc., the world's largest maker of routers, issued a public advisory about vulnerabilities to its routers a few months after the ability to hack the routers was made public at a conference of hackers, known as the "Black Hat" conference.

"The Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS) may permit arbitrary code execution after exploitation of a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability. Cisco has included additional integrity checks in its software, as further described below, that are intended to reduce the likelihood of arbitrary code execution," said a statement from Cisco.

This router operating system is present in about 80 percent of corporate computing networks.

Attacking routers -- rather than the Internet service provider or a LAN or WAN -- has been, traditionally, difficult, experts said.

"Traditionally, routers have been relatively impenetrable," Ted Demopoulos, IT expert and co-author of the forthcoming book, "Blogging for Business" (Dearborn Trade Publishing, February 2006), told The Web. "They are simpler than operating systems and hence less likely to contain bugs and resulting security flaws. More simple equals more secure."

Another reason that routers have been impervious to attacks in the past is that hackers have known relatively little about them. "The average hacker knows far more about Windows or Unix than routers," said Demopoulos. "It's hard to hack things you don't understand."

That's changing, now, however. Hacking was once a phenomenon powered by pranksters who were looking for some fun at other people's expense.