Projects
Active Measurement Project
Active Measurement Project AMP (Active Measurement Project) is a project originating at NLANR designed to constantly perform active measurements between a mesh of specialist AMP monitors. These measurements are used to both provide a view of long-term network performance and to detect notable network events. The AMP system c ...
BSOD
BSOD BSOD generates a real-time 3D visualisation of network traffic data. It uses libtrace to read from any supported input format, such as a live network interface or a saved trace file, and displays the flow of network data between hosts. BSOD can provide at a glance information that would otherwise b ...
Community Z Tools
Community Z Tools The Community Z Tools (CZT) project is building a set of tools for editing, typechecking and animating formal specifications written in the Z specification language, with some support for Z extensions such as Object-Z, Circus, and TCOZ. These tools are all built using the CZT Java framework for Z to ...
Digital Invisible Ink Toolkit
Digital Invisible Ink Toolkit The Digital Invisible Ink Toolkit is a Java steganography tool that can hide any sort of file inside a digital image (regarding that the message will fit, and the image is 24 bit colour). It will work on Windows, Linux and Mac OS because it is written in Java and thus platform independent. There ar ...
Digital Image Resizer Toy
Digital Image Resizer Toy The Digital Image Resizer Toy is an implementation of the algorithm for seam carving, sometimes referred to as "content aware image resizing," developed by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir. Seam carving seeks to avoid the drawbacks of other approaches to image resizing like cropping, where parts of the ...
Flexible Language Acquisition
Flexible Language Acquisition The FLAX project aims to automate the production and delivery of practice exercises for overseas students who are learning English. Our strategy is to deploy digital library software to allow teachers and students to capitalise on top-quality prose and multimedia resources already present in the wo ...
Greenstone Digital Library Software
Greenstone Digital Library Software Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. Greenstone provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM. Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, and de ...
Jumble
Jumble Jumble is a class level mutation testing tool that works in conjunction with JUnit. The purpose of mutation testing is to provide a measure of the effectiveness of test cases. A single mutation is performed on the code to be tested, the corresponding test cases are then executed. If the modified cod ...
Keyphrase Extraction Algorithm
Keyphrase Extraction Algorithm Keywords and keyphrases (multi-word units) are widely used in large document collections. They describe the content of single documents and provide a kind of semantic metadata that is useful for a wide variety of purposes. The task of assigning keyphrases to a document is called keyphrase indexing. ...
Sobol' sequence generator
Sobol' sequence generator The Sobol' sequence is an example of a low-discrepancy sequence. Such sequences are often called quasi-random sequences as they are commonly used in place of uniformly distributed random numbers. One application of Sobol' sequences is in numerical multiple integration, that is, in the approximation ...
KeplerWeka
KeplerWeka KeplerWeka is a module for the open-source scientific workflow Kepler released under the GNU General Public License (version 2). It provides the full functionality of the open-source machine learning and data mining workbench WEKA within Kepler. ...
Libtrace
Libtrace Libtrace is a library for capturing and processing network packet traces. It supports many common input methods, including device capture and trace files, and multiple formats, including pcap, DAG and OS-native sockets. The libtrace API allows programmers to easily access packet header information ...
Massive Online Analysis
Massive Online Analysis MOA is a framework for learning from a data stream, a continuous supply of examples. Includes tools for evaluation and a collection of machine learning algorithms. Related to the WEKA project, also written in Java, while scaling to more demanding problems. ...
Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis
Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis WEKA is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks. The algorithms can either be applied directly to a dataset or called from your own Java code. WEKA contains tools for data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, and visualization. It is al ...
Maji
Maji An implementation of an IPFIX meter that is heavily based on the libtrace library. IPFIX is an IETF-standardised method for exporting flow-level measurements of network traffic, similar to Cisco Netflow. Maji differs from most IPFIX implementations in that it allows the user to create their own cus ...
Multi-purpose automatic topic indexing
Multi-purpose automatic topic indexing Maui automatically identifies main topics in text documents. Depending on the task topics are tags, keywords, keyphrases, vocabulary terms, descriptors, index terms or titles of Wikipedia articles. Maui builds on the keyphrase extraction algorithm KEA, but provides additional functionalities: it al ...
ModelJUnit
ModelJUnit ModelJUnit is a Java library that extends JUnit to support model-based testing. Models are extended finite state machines (EFSM) that are written in a familiar and expressive language: Java. ModelJUnit is an open source tool, released under the GNU GPL license. ...
pHMM4weka
pHMM4weka This Java software implements Profile Hidden Markov Models (PHMMs) for binary protein classification for the WEKA workbench. A PHMM is a Hidden Markov Model especially designed to represent multiple sequence alignments of amino acid sequences. This software learns the alignment for unaligned sequenc ...
Realistic Books
Realistic Books People like books. They are convenient and can be accessed easily and enjoyably. Their physical characteristics—size, heft, condition, the patina of page use—communicate ambient qualities of the document they represent. In contrast, the experience of accessing and exploring online document is dull a ...
nettest
nettest A distributed network measurement tool that passively monitors a user's connection to the Internet. It collects simple statistics, such as throughput and latency, that are reported back to a central server for aggregation and analysis. Users specify their ISP and location when they first start using ...
REcording COLlaborative EDitor
REcording COLlaborative EDitor RECOLED (REcording COLlaborative EDitor) is a java-based document editor which allows groups of authors to simultaneously and remotely collaborate around a central shared document. It's a little like Google Docs, except that it focuses on close, synchronous collaboration. It provides a lot more feed ...
scamper
scamper scamper is a program that is able to conduct Internet measurement tasks to large numbers of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, in parallel, to fill a specified packets-per-second rate. Currently, it supports the well-known ping and traceroute techniques, as well as three methods of alias resolution, sting, an ...
The Waikato Analysis Tool for Events in Reactive Systems
The Waikato Analysis Tool for Events in Reactive Systems This software enables users to create finite-state machine models in a graphical user interface, to simulate their execution, and to apply model checking algorithms to them. Its main features are/will be: * graphical modelling of complex finite-state machine models, using the framework of discrete- ...
Wikipedia Miner
Wikipedia Miner Wikipedia Miner is a Java-based toolkit for navigating and making use of the structure and content of Wikipedia. It aims to make it easy for you to integrate Wikipedia's knowledge into your own applications, by: * providing simplified, object-oriented access to Wikipedia's structure and content. * m ...
Katoa
Katoa Katoa is a Java-based toolkit for concept-based text processing. Katoa makes use of external knowledge bases and provides 1) methods for representing natural-language text by the concepts it mentions (instead of words); 2) similarity measures that take the semantic relatedness among concepts into ...
MEKA
MEKA The MEKA project is a Multi-label Extension to the WEKA machine learning framework. It provides an open source implementation of methods for multi-label classification, including the pruned sets and classifier chains, several benchmark methods, as well as a wrapper to the MULAN framework. ...
News
More than one billion VLC downloads
More than one billion VLC downloads H-Online.com: VLC, the popular cross-platform, open source media player, has been downloaded more than one billion times since the project was transferred to the VideoLAN Organization in 2005. ...
Oracle to pursue longshot claim for copyright damages
Oracle to pursue longshot claim for copyright damages ars technica: In the Oracle v. Google lawsuit, Judge William Alsup has been making it clear that Oracle is unlikely to get much money out of its copyright win, since the jury is split over the issue of fair use. Nevertheless... ...
Powertop 2.0 power management tool available
Powertop 2.0 power management tool available H-Online.com: After a long time in development, version 2.0 of the Linux tool for identifying and adjusting components that consume excessive amounts of power has now been released. ...
Notes from the Ubuntu Developer Summit
Notes from the Ubuntu Developer Summit H-Online.com: At UDS, Canonical's VP of OEM Services claimed that Ubuntu will be installed on 5% of all computers next year. The Ubuntu developers also announced their intention to fork the GNOME Control Center. ...
Vert.x offers event-driven framework for the JVM
Vert.x offers event-driven framework for the JVM H-Online.com: Vert.x is taking on node.js's event-driven credentials with a JVM-powered polyglot event framework for Java, Groovy, Ruby and JavaScript. ...
Dell and Red Hat sign OEM partnership
Dell and Red Hat sign OEM partnership H-Online.com: The companies have signed a deal though Dell's OEM Partnership Program that will provide IT service providers with Dell machines that come with RHEL and JBoss pre-installed. ...
Samsung gives away Tizen developer phones
Samsung gives away Tizen developer phones H-Online.com: Samsung is producing a development phone for the Tizen platform which includes a Cortex A9 processor and a 4.65" screen. Attendees of the Tizen Developer Conference were each given a free device. ...
Change at the top of the Python Software Foundation
Change at the top of the Python Software Foundation H-Online.com: The chairman of the Python Software Foundation has stepped down, earlier than planned, and handed over the chairmanship of the non-profit organisation to the vice chair. ...
Google guilty of infringement in Oracle trial; future legal headaches loom
Google guilty of infringement in Oracle trial; future legal headaches loom ars technica: The Oracle/Google jury ruled that Google violated copyright law with its use of Java in Android. Google has asked for a mistrial over the jury's inability to reach a verdict on all counts, but if the verdict stands, it could cause problems for Google in other Android-related litigation ...
Version 2 of Open Compute specifications released
Version 2 of Open Compute specifications released H-Online.com: The Open Compute project has released version 2 of its specifications for energy-efficient data centres. AMD and Intel have both released new motherboard designs as part of the announcement. ...
EU court rules programming languages cannot be copyrighted
EU court rules programming languages cannot be copyrighted The Inquirer: Software vendor SAS Institute lost a lawsuit against World Programming Limited (WPL) that could be a hammer blow to Oracle's case against Google's use of Java in Android should it ever come to Europe. ...
Researchers' Aim To Map Internet Censorship
Researchers' Aim To Map Internet Censorship Tor developers Arturo Filasto and Jacob Appelbaum have released OONI-probe, an open-source software tool designed to be installed on any PC and run to collect data about local meddling with the computer's network connections, whether it be website blocking, surveillance or selective bandwidth slowdo ...
Eclipse awarded ACM System Software Award
Eclipse awarded ACM System Software Award H-Online.com: The original development team of Eclipse has been recognised by the Association for Computing Machinery for the impact its IDE has had on the industry. ...
Conflict of interest forces Open Standards consultation extension
Conflict of interest forces Open Standards consultation extension H-Online.com: After the Cabinet Office discovered that the facilitator of a consultation round table directly advised Microsoft on the Open Standards consultation, the process is being extended by a month and the round table is being re-run. ...
MS Office 15 to support ODF 1.2
MS Office 15 to support ODF 1.2 H-Online.com: Microsoft plans to catch up with open source office suites and present an ODF 1.2 supporting version of Office later this year. ...
Support for ODF from the Hungarian government
Support for ODF from the Hungarian government H-Online.com: Following its decision to make the use of open standard formats compulsory for official documents, the Hungarian Government is to fund further application and tool development around the ODF. ...
Open source adoption on the rise in the French government
Open source adoption on the rise in the French government H-Online.com: France is currently spending 15 per cent of its annual governmental IT budget on open source software. Both president Sarkozy and his challenger Hollande expect this figure to increase in the future. ...
Open Source Project Licenses Trending Toward Open Rather than Free
Open Source Project Licenses Trending Toward Open Rather than Free Slashdot: An analysis of software licenses shows usage of GPL and other copyleft licenses declining at an accelerating rate. In their place, developers are choosing permissive licenses such as BSD, MIT, and ASL. ...
An Interview With Linus Torvalds
An Interview With Linus Torvalds TechCrunch: Scott Merrill had the opportunity to ask Linus a few questions by email, after Linus was awarded the Millennium Technology Prize. ...
Twitter signs up to sponsor open source Apache Software Foundation
Twitter signs up to sponsor open source Apache Software Foundation ars technica: Twitter has announced that it will sponsor the Apache Software Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the Apache Web server and other open source software projects. ...
Events
OctConf 2012
OctConf 2012 will bring together users and developers for five days in July in the French Canadian summer. First two days are intended for newbies and casual users, who may possibly be interested in getting involved in development. Next three days are for code sprints and development. Participants are encouraged to attend for all 5 days, but may choose only the first two or last three as convenient....
OSCON 2012
OSCON is where the serious thinkers and doers—and their favorite technologies—converge. And when the day’s sessions are over, join the 2,500 or more people just like you for some serious fun. It doesn’t matter whether you’re an open source rock star or programmer by day/rock star by night, or somewhere in between--OSCON is a meeting of like minds. If you work with open source, you’ll want to be here....
Software Freedom Day
SFD is a yearly celebration for Software Freedom! Every year there are thousands teams organizing Software Freedom Day in different countries and cities....
LinuxCon Europe
LinuxCon Europe will bring together the best and brightest that the Linux community has to offer, including community developers, system administrators, business executives and operations experts. LinuxCon Europe will deliver attendees top notch speaking talent (from across Europe and around the globe), innovative and abundant program content, and a wide variety of opportunities to connect with peers....