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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 310
Date: February 11, 2002
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Top Stories for Monday, February 11, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Tech Innovation Thrives, Despite Stock-Market Blues"
"House Panel to Examine Another Net Security Bill"
"Linking Patent Goes to Court"
"A Robot Revolution is Coming Your Way"
"Tech Trainees Remain Upbeat Through Slump"
"U.S. Funds Open Source Security Hub"
"From Computer Games to U.S. Prison Cells"
"Indian IT Firms Urged to Train Their Sights on Europe"
"Tech Upgrades With a Hidden Downside"
"Tried and True Beating Out InfiniBand"
"Experts Veto 'Net Elections"
"'Virtual' Guards to Patrol World's Borders"
"In Tokyo, Street Fashion Goes High-Tech"
"Brands, Free Speech Clash Over Domains"
"House Schedules Feb. 27 Broadband Deregulation Vote"
"Pervasive Computing: The Walls Are Listening"
"Faulty Memory"
"State of Web Services"
"Technology Makes City Agendas"
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"Tech Innovation Thrives, Despite Stock-Market Blues"
Innovative technologies are still emerging at a fast pace,
despite a dearth of venture capital and startup companies.
Startups developing new technologies are finding ways to do more
with less, says Carver Mead, chairman of Foveon, which recently ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0211m.html#item1
"House Panel to Examine Another Net Security Bill"
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime is planning to hold a
hearing on Tuesday that covers the Cyber Security Enhancement
Act, a proposal to revise the U.S. Sentencing Commission's policy
on sentencing convicted perpetrators of computer crimes. The bill ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0211m.html#item2
"Linking Patent Goes to Court"
BT Group, the former British telecom monopoly, is going to court
to defend a patent it says covers hypertext links, which are used
ubiquitously on the Internet. Its first potential victim is
Prodigy, the longest-standing Internet Service Provider. The ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0211m.html#item3
"A Robot Revolution is Coming Your Way"
The annual Demo technology conference in Phoenix will showcase
technology from Evolution Robotics, a software company created by
Idealab CEO Bill Gross. Gross envisions his company laying the
foundation for personal robots that exhibit a degree of autonomy. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0211m.html#item4
"Tech Trainees Remain Upbeat Through Slump"
Many Silicon Valley residents who struggled through high-tech
training programs in order to net a lucrative job--only to lose
it because of the tech slump--do not regret the investment,
saying that it has improved their skills and boosted their ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0211m.html#item5
"U.S. Funds Open Source Security Hub"
A new online clearinghouse to check the security of open-source
code has been awarded funds from the U.S. Defense Department,
which plans to use more open-source software in the future. The
Sardonix project will consolidate efforts to check for bugs in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0211m.html#item6
"From Computer Games to U.S. Prison Cells"
Piracy will continue in Russia, says Dmitry Sklyarov, the first
person to be indicted under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA) of 1998. Although he says the Russian government should
create tougher copyright laws that crack down on the distribution ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0211m.html#item7
"Indian IT Firms Urged to Train Their Sights on Europe"
Indian IT service companies need to focus on expanding their
European business in order to capture more of the global market.
India's IT growth has skyrocketed in the last few years due to
outsourcing contracts secured from U.S. companies, but experts ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0211m.html#item8
"Tech Upgrades With a Hidden Downside"
Small companies are especially vulnerable to the hidden costs in
setting up new IT systems because buying decisions are often made
by senior management who lack the time to devote to the project
that IT departments in larger companies can afford. Gartner ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0211m.html#item9
"Tried and True Beating Out InfiniBand"
Computer experts now agree that InfiniBand technology will be
regulated to the data center and other enterprise-level network
applications, whereas it was once speculated it would completely
take over the current PCI architecture. New developments in PCI ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0211m.html#item10
"Experts Veto 'Net Elections"
Although there is a pressing need for a more reliable voting
system, experts do not think an Internet-based system will come
about anytime soon, given unresolved issues relating to security
and infrastructure. Computers owned by voters can be hacked, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0211m.html#item11
"'Virtual' Guards to Patrol World's Borders"
Sophisticated technology is being seen as a way to more quickly
process travelers crossing national borders, but it also serves
another function--the quick exchange of data to locate foreign
visitors who may have malevolent agendas, a key consideration in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0211m.html#item12
"In Tokyo, Street Fashion Goes High-Tech"
Japan's street fashions may include the world's first wearable
PCs for the masses. Fashion designer Sone Michie was a teacher
at Tokyo's Bunka Fashion College until launching into a
collaboration with Pioneer to create a fashionable, wearable PC ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0211m.html#item13
"Brands, Free Speech Clash Over Domains"
Canada has emerged as the world's No. 1 protector of free-speech
issues in the domain name field, despite the U.S. reputation for
being the global defender of free speech. The United States has
increasingly favored trademark interests in domain name disputes, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0211m.html#item14
"House Schedules Feb. 27 Broadband Deregulation Vote"
Broadband deregulation is the closest it has ever come to a vote
in Congress, now that leaders of the House Commerce Committee and
Judiciary Committee have come to a tentative compromise.
Although the agreement still has to be polished, sources say it ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0211m.html#item15
"Pervasive Computing: The Walls Are Listening"
Smart Space Laboratory researchers at the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) have used elements of pervasive
computing to develop a prototype voice-recognition conference
room. Pervasive computing is described as giving devices the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0211m.html#item16
"Faulty Memory"
The job title of computer "operator" may have prevented six women
from being written into the history of the ENIAC, the first
electronic computer. Jennifer Light, assistant professor of
communication studies and sociology at Northwestern University, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0211m.html#item17
"State of Web Services"
Web services are poised to be very successful, despite the fact
that they may not all be as flexible, scalable, reliable, and
affordable as advertised. Some companies have already
implemented Web services to handle internal business operations: ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0211m.html#item18
"Technology Makes City Agendas"
A new generation of techno-savvy mayors and an increased focus on
security have boosted the role of IT in city government. Center
for Digital Government executive director Cathilea Robinett says
public safety is one of the starting points for mayors, when ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0211m.html#item19
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