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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 303
Date: January 25, 2002
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Top Stories for Friday, January 25, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"More IT Executives Urge Government Broadband Push"
"Senate Panel to Consider Web Copyright Protections"
"Skills in Demand, Long-Term"
"Net Users Warned to Beware Sites with Scripting Holes"
"PGP Creator: Snooping Must Be Curbed"
"Fuel Cells That Fit in a Laptop"
"Wireless Robots Work Under a Microscope"
"Micro Industry Involved in Power Struggle"
"Silicon Valley's Underbelly"
"New Group Trying to Halt Flood of Free CDs"
"Building Creativity Into the Box"
"LCDs Boom While Price Hikes Loom"
"Computers Try to Outthink Terrorists"
"Software's Challenge"
"A New Wave"
"In Hot Pursuit of Energy Efficiency"
"Seeing the Future in Photonic Crystals"
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"More IT Executives Urge Government Broadband Push"
A group of high-tech executives on Thursday issued a report
calling for the government to prioritize broadband deployment,
which they deem critical for economic growth. This comes on the
heels of a similar advisory made last week by TechNet, another ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0125f.html#item1
"Senate Panel to Consider Web Copyright Protections"
The Senate Commerce Committee is planning to address the issue of
online copyright protections possibly as soon as early February,
although a spokesman for Commerce Committee Chairman Ernest
"Fritz" Hollings (D-S.C.) says plans for any hearings have not ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0125f.html#item2
"Skills in Demand, Long-Term"
Demand for high-tech skills will continue to be strong in the
long term despite the weak economy, says a report by the European
Commission. Information and communication technologies (ICT)
skills gaps will affect 1.5 million workers by 2003, the study ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0125f.html#item3
"Net Users Warned to Beware Sites with Scripting Holes"
Despite prevention measures suggested nearly two years ago by
CERT, visitors to top Web sites are still vulnerable to
cross-site script (CSS) attacks. CERT advises that it is now up
to them to thwart such attacks, which may lead to the theft of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0125f.html#item4
"PGP Creator: Snooping Must Be Curbed"
In an interview with ZDNet Italy, Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
encryption creator Phil Zimmermann says that he developed the
tool for human rights applications, but the political storm
stirred up by its export and the subsequent three-year criminal ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0125f.html#item5
"Fuel Cells That Fit in a Laptop"
Samsung, Motorola, and Fraunhofer Institute are just a few of the
companies racing to develop micro fuel cells for portable
devices, but a Bavarian startup is about to debut the pilot of a
methanol-based product. Whereas most companies are researching ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0125f.html#item6
"Wireless Robots Work Under a Microscope"
MIT researchers are developing coin-sized wireless robots that
can carry out assembly operations on the molecular level.
NanoWalkers, as they are called, could be used for biotechnology
and research projects, according to MIT researcher Sylvain ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0125f.html#item7
"Micro Industry Involved in Power Struggle"
At the recent MEMS 2002 conference in Las Vegas, a number of
companies displayed new ways to power computers and mobile
phones. For example, Lilliputian Systems, a startup company
founded by MIT researchers, is currently trying to commercialize ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0125f.html#item8
"Silicon Valley's Underbelly"
Silicon Valley will continue to represent an industry that
exploits temp workers, even though computer companies now have to
endure an economic slowdown. Analysts expect the economy to
rebound, and more Silicon Valley employers than ever will turn to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0125f.html#item9
"New Group Trying to Halt Flood of Free CDs"
Concern is growing over the increasing use of one-time-use CDs in
marketing campaigns. From a marketing point of view,
one-time-use CDs are a godsend, because they are easy to mail,
extremely cheap to manufacture, and they enable companies to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0125f.html#item10
"Building Creativity Into the Box"
Computer companies hope that gadgets such as digital camcorders,
DVD players, digital cameras, and MP3 players will usher in the
next great era for their industry. While computer sales have
declined over the past year, the computer industry has seen sales ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0125f.html#item11
"LCDs Boom While Price Hikes Loom"
Demand for flat-panel LCD displays is poised to ramp up
considerably this year, leading to higher prices and infrequent
shortages. Sales of flat-panel monitors more than doubled
between 2000 and 2001, rocketing from 6.4 million to 13.5 ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0125f.html#item12
"Computers Try to Outthink Terrorists"
Neural networking, which uses statistical modeling techniques to
analyze databases in an effort to identify trends, the findings
of which can later be used to scrutinize new data, is currently
being employed by financial institutions to recognize money ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0125f.html#item13
"Software's Challenge"
Bill Gates called attention to the general lack of solid software
security in an internal memo calling for a corporate emphasis on
"trustworthy computing." The announcement comes after a series
of security holes in Microsoft's Windows XP operating system and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0125f.html#item14
"A New Wave"
Vanderbilt University's Akram Aldroubi and the University of
Connecticut's Karlheinz Grochenig believe they have developed a
set of algorithms that will allow digital samples to be
reconstructed without the loss of data that usually results from ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0125f.html#item15
"In Hot Pursuit of Energy Efficiency"
Moore's Law--which states computer power will double every 12 to
18 months--appears to be in jeopardy as the high-tech industry
continues to churn out processors that can consume an increasing
amount of energy. Since 1985, the total electricity demand per ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0125f.html#item16
"Seeing the Future in Photonic Crystals"
Ten years of research into photonic crystals will yield new
market offerings for fiber-optic telecommunications, such as
waveguides and high-resolution spectral filters. The key to the
crystals' usefulness, especially in optical communications, is in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0125f.html#item17
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