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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 317
Date: March 1, 2002
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Top Stories for Friday, March 1, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Senate Mulls Law to End Tech-Media Piracy Fight"
"Scripting Flaw Leaves Sites Vulnerable"
"Senate Leader Contemplates Tauzin-Dingell Compromise"
"CD Technology Stops Copies, But It Starts a Controversy"
"Cultivating Next-Generation IT Talent"
"For High-Tech Firms, Baltimore Is a Bargain"
"Hack a PC, Get Life in Jail"
"Surcharge Suggested for Scrap Electronics"
"Designers Take Robots Out of Human Hands"
"Do Androids Dream of First Amendment Rights?"
"Firm Seeks FDA Approval for Human Chip Implants"
"Bush Team Hopes to Avoid Tech Pitfalls That Plague So Many
Federal Projects"
"Mentoring a Stimulant for Australia's IT Staff"
"IETF Chairman Fires Broadside at ICANN"
"Mac Cluster's Last Stand?"
"The Next Web"
"Wanted: More Network-Security Graduates and Research"
"Games Computers Play"
"At Long Last MEMS"
******************* News Stories ***********************
"Senate Mulls Law to End Tech-Media Piracy Fight"
At a congressional hearing, legislators heard arguments but no
solutions between media and technology executives as to how to
protect copyrighted material from digital piracy, so Senate
Commerce Committee Chairman Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item1
"Scripting Flaw Leaves Sites Vulnerable"
Security researchers on Wednesday warned of flaws in the commonly
used open-source PHP code that runs on open-source Web servers
such as Apache, Microsoft Internet Information Server, and
servers using Sun's Solaris operating system. The flaws leave ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item2
"Senate Leader Contemplates Tauzin-Dingell Compromise"
House of Representative supporters of the broadband deregulation
Tauzin-Dingell bill are working to somehow get it past tough
opposition in the Senate Commerce Committee. Senate Majority
Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) gave them a glimmer of hope when he ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item3
"CD Technology Stops Copies, But It Starts a Controversy"
Recording labels such as Universal Music Group and Sony Music are
stealthily releasing copy-protected CDs into the market.
Grass-roots opposition from consumers is increasing as consumers
find they cannot play some of their store-bought CDs on their ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item4
"Cultivating Next-Generation IT Talent"
Trade associations are organizing programming competitions to
foster IT skills in students, while business-technology managers
use them to scan the future IT talent pool and vendors use the
contests to build brand loyalty. In March, Honolulu will play ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item5
"For High-Tech Firms, Baltimore Is a Bargain"
Baltimore is the least expensive U.S. technology center where a
high-tech company can set up shop, according to a study of 17
national tech centers conducted by Boyd, a corporate relocation
company. It would cost a 500-person company $34.4 million ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item6
"Hack a PC, Get Life in Jail"
A rewrite of the Cyber Security Enhancement Act (CSEA) that
broadens cybercrimes that carry life sentences has been
unanimously approved by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on
Crime. Spurred on by the Bush administration, the replacement ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item7
"Surcharge Suggested for Scrap Electronics"
It is estimated that 6,000 computers and televisions become
obsolete in California each day, a situation that has prompted
Sens. Byron Sher (D-Palo Alto) and Gloria Romero (D-Los Angeles)
to seek to curb e-waste stockpiling through legislation that ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item8
"Designers Take Robots Out of Human Hands"
Robots are being designed today that are capable of limited
autonomy. Dr. Gaurav S. Sukhatme of the University of Southern
California is working on small robotic helicopters that could be
a cheaper alternative to manned choppers that are used to report ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item9
"Do Androids Dream of First Amendment Rights?"
MIT Media Lab Computing Culture Group director Chris
Csikszentmihalyi is building a robot journalist to go to
Afghanistan, where a reporter in the United States can remotely
control it via satellite-delivered Internet. The solar-powered ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item10
"Firm Seeks FDA Approval for Human Chip Implants"
The Food and Drug Administration is reviewing an application for
a human identification implant marketed by Applied Digital
Solutions. Privacy groups warn that national sentiment following
the Sept. 11 attacks could help ease the introduction of such a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item11
"Bush Team Hopes to Avoid Tech Pitfalls That Plague So Many
Federal Projects"
The Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) e-government task
force has released its strategy for attacking inefficiency in the
federal technology spending process. The Bush administration is
trying to make sure the $45 billion spent on federal IT this year ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item12
"Mentoring a Stimulant for Australia's IT Staff"
Although much may have been flawed with the dot-com business
model, the mix and interaction between younger, more tech-savvy
workers and older, staid business types was a real innovation,
say experts. Some Australian IT departments are using this type ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item13
"IETF Chairman Fires Broadside at ICANN"
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) co-Chairman Randy Bush has
written an open letter to the ICANN board revealing his belief
that ICANN's role in the future of the Internet should be scaled
back to "serve the Internet" rather than "trying to rule it." ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item14
"Mac Cluster's Last Stand?"
Research scientists are building networked systems out of
hundreds of PCs, but many would rather use Apple Macintoshes.
Macs produce more processing power with less electricity draw, a
major plus for supercomputer networks, which often have to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item15
"The Next Web"
Tim Berners-Lee, the man who created the World Wide Web, is
planning to follow it up with the Semantic Web, a next-generation
network that can comprehend human language. He is coordinating a
massive initiative with contributions from hundreds of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item16
"Wanted: More Network-Security Graduates and Research"
Many services and organizations--federal agencies, corporate
industries, utilities, and transportation among them--are
dependent on computer networks that are potentially prey to
intrusion. At the root of this problem, security experts say, is ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item17
"Games Computers Play"
Artificial intelligence (AI) breakthroughs involving game theory
are finding wider applications. For instance, the technology
that allowed IBM's Deep Blue to win a match against world chess
champion Garry Kasparov is being furthered in Blue Gene, a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item18
"At Long Last MEMS"
Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) may finally break out of
the niche markets they have been restricted to because of
improved assembly methods, new investors funding startups, and
outsourced production. Investments and acquisitions by companies ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0301f.html#item19
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