ACM TechNews - Wednesday, February 13, 2002

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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 311
Date: February 13, 2002

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Top Stories for Wednesday, February 13, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html

"Despite Efforts, Dearth of Women in Tech Continues"
"Microsoft Is Putting Its Muscle Behind Web Programming Tools"
"Senate Chair Urges Stronger Sanctions Against Digital Piracy"
"Cybercrime Bill Ups the Ante"
"U.S. Backing for Guidelines on Fighting Cybercrime"
"Laid-Off Tech Workers Upset About Foreign"
"Digital Tech Corps Bill Revived"
"Newest Suffixes Help to Increase Net's Population"
"U.S. Patent Debate to Pit IP Rights Vs. Competition"
"Vandals Burn Out Defacement Tracking Site"
"Will Anonymous E-Mail Become a Casualty of War?"
"U.S. High-Tech Firms Ramp Up Indian Operations"
"Governor Pitches Utah as Home for High-Tech Companies"
"Demo 2002 Pushes Serious Software"
"New and Improved"
"Brave New OS"
"Many Working Together"
"Re-engineering in Real Time"
"Losing the Code War"

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"Despite Efforts, Dearth of Women in Tech Continues"
Despite gains in scientific fields such as medicine and biology,
women still lag or are falling even further behind in hard
science sectors, such as engineering, computer science, and
physics.  A recent gathering of the National Council for Research ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0213w.html#item1

"Microsoft Is Putting Its Muscle Behind Web Programming Tools"
Microsoft is launching its campaign to win software developers
over to its new Web services programming platform, which it has
spent $2 billion and three and a half years to complete.
Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer are scheduled to speak ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0213w.html#item2

"Senate Chair Urges Stronger Sanctions Against Digital Piracy"
A report saying that anti-piracy measures need to be more
strongly enforced both at home and overseas will be released on
Tuesday by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph
Biden (D-Del.).  "Only by being vigilant in investigating and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0213w.html#item3

"Cybercrime Bill Ups the Ante"
Stiffer sentences for perpetrators of cybercrimes is among the
issues a House Judiciary subcommittee will weigh today as it
debates the Cyber Security Enhancement Act (CSEA) sponsored by
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas).  When he introduced the bill last ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0213w.html#item4

"U.S. Backing for Guidelines on Fighting Cybercrime"
The FBI and the Secret Service have issued the first-ever
guidelines for businesses to report cyberattacks to public
authorities and several information-sharing partnerships set up
by the government.  The guidelines were developed with the help ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0213w.html#item5

"Laid-Off Tech Workers Upset About Foreign"
American IT workers laid off during the recession are upset over
the government's H-1B program, which allowed companies in the
U.S. to hire 163,200 foreign workers in the year ending last
Sept. 30 while at the same time high-tech businesses were laying ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0213w.html#item6

"Digital Tech Corps Bill Revived"
Corporate and federal IT workers would be able to switch jobs
while retaining their salary and benefits through the Digital
Tech Corps Act reintroduced by Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio).
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) presented the same bill to the House last ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0213w.html#item7

"Newest Suffixes Help to Increase Net's Population"
With the .com space containing 22.5 million domain registrations
out of 35 million total domain registrations in the world, new
TLDs like .name, .info, and .biz have come to the rescue, and in
fact are proving helpful.  "Each one of the [new] domains is ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0213w.html#item8

"U.S. Patent Debate to Pit IP Rights Vs. Competition"
Justice Department antitrust chief Charles James and Federal
Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Timothy Muris assured attendees
of a forum on U.S. patent policy that the increase in patented
technologies would not give rise to intellectual property ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0213w.html#item9

"Vandals Burn Out Defacement Tracking Site"
Alldas.de founder Stefan Wagner has announced his retirement,
attributing it to "total burnout and frustration."  Wagner has
grown tired of dealing with systems administrators whose sites
were defaced by online vandals, and then blamed Alldas.de for ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0213w.html#item10

"Will Anonymous E-Mail Become a Casualty of War?"
Anonymous email services are being questioned since recent events
have shaken people's right-to-privacy conviction.  For example,
the kidnappers of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl took
elaborate steps to cover up their identities online, though three ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0213w.html#item11

"U.S. High-Tech Firms Ramp Up Indian Operations"
Bangalore, India, often referred to as India's Silicon Valley, is
home to approximately 950 technology companies, while about 30
leading American tech firms have offices in Karnataka's capital.
Two U.S. semiconductor firms, QuickLogic and Cypress ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0213w.html#item12

"Governor Pitches Utah as Home for High-Tech Companies"
Gov. Mike Leavitt is courting high-tech executives and venture
capitalists to bring their business to Utah through a series of
seminars.  Utah has received a lot of press about its suitability
as a high-tech haven:  The Progressive Policy Institute ranks the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0213w.html#item13

"Demo 2002 Pushes Serious Software"
In addition to other technologies showcased at the Demo 2002
conference, such as wireless, new enterprise software promises to
unify and simplify enterprise-level applications.  Infravio's Web
Services Platform uses XML to consolidate the development, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0213w.html#item14

"New and Improved"
The Internet2 project has been hugely successful with the more
than 190 universities and the small number of corporate users
signed onto it, but has failed to deliver solutions applicable to
the "old" Internet.  University technology administrators first ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0213w.html#item15

"Brave New OS"
New operating systems being developed by IBM, Microsoft, and
Carnegie Mellon University researchers will enable secure data
storage pools, more efficient mobile computing, and operating
systems that respond to applications' needs.  Microsoft Research ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0213w.html#item16

"Many Working Together"
Massively parallel processing (MPP), which recruits thousands of
processors to solve complex problems, would seem to suit
enterprise computing, which needs a scalable infrastructure to
handle ever-expanding resource demands and virtually limitless ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0213w.html#item17

"Re-engineering in Real Time"
Information technology could radically change business processes
as it ushers in the era of the real-time enterprise.  The
ultimate architecture of the real-time enterprise is still up in
the air.  For example, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0213w.html#item18

"Losing the Code War"
Virtually unbreakable encryption technology available to just
about anyone with an email or Web-browser program has given code
users the upper hand, making it even more difficult to trace the
communications of America's enemies.  Encryption software has ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0213w.html#item19


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