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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 324
Date: March 18, 2002
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Top Stories for Monday, March 18, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Company Town Keeps Indians at Home"
"Hacker Attacks Are Traced To South Korea"
"S.V. Students "Just Say No" to Dot-Com Careers"
"Tech Crisis Adds to Israeli Uncertainty"
"Fiber Optics, as Never Been Seen"
"Teens Ace IT Shortcuts"
"UNCF Campaign Raises $90 Million"
"World's Most Interesting Computer In Jeopardy"
"Defense Spending Boosts Information Technology Sector"
"Industry Ponders Government Role in Digital Identities"
"Polymers Want a Fabric"
"Inside Track: A Storm Brews for Surfers"
"Once Crucial to PCs, Floppy Drive Now a Waste of Space"
"FCC Gives Cable Firms Net Rights"
"Bill Aims to Trade Fed IT Managers"
"Secrets and Lives"
"Riding Out the Storm"
"The Nanotube Computer"
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"Company Town Keeps Indians at Home"
Catalytic Software, based in Washington state, is creating a
community of software developers near the technology hub of
Hyderabad in India. The company is building a small city for its
Indian employees, paying the ones who live there a housing ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0318m.html#item1
"Hacker Attacks Are Traced To South Korea"
A study of data culled from intrusion detection devices in the
fourth quarter finds that 91 percent of cyberattacks that did not
originate in the United States involved Pacific Rim countries.
Predictive Systems, which prepared the report, estimates that 34 ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0318m.html#item2
"S.V. Students "Just Say No" to Dot-Com Careers"
Silicon Valley students' interest in high-tech careers needs to
be spurred if the Bay Area's workforce gap problem is to be
solved, concludes a new study from A.T. Kearney and Joint
Venture: Silicon Valley Network. In 2001, the workforce gap ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0318m.html#item3
"Tech Crisis Adds to Israeli Uncertainty"
Israel's technology sector is badly affected by the current
political and social upheaval, despite its history of counting
itself apart from those disturbances. Comverse Technology, a
telecommunications software firm founded in Israel, recently lost ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0318m.html#item4
"Fiber Optics, as Never Been Seen"
Fiber-optic researchers gathering at the Optical Fiber
Communications Conference and Exhibit are preparing to unveil new
technologies that will increase the efficiency and usefulness of
light-bearing data connections. One fiber-optic innovation from ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0318m.html#item5
"Teens Ace IT Shortcuts"
Technology in education is helping create a generation of
tech-savvy students, but it is also giving them more tools to
plagiarize and cheat. The problem is whether they will do the
same in the work environment. Academics are concerned that ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0318m.html#item6
"UNCF Campaign Raises $90 Million"
A year ago, the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) launched a
campaign to raise $80 million with which students and faculty at
black colleges could receive training and equipment to help them
bridge the digital divide. Since then, major corporations such ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0318m.html#item7
"World's Most Interesting Computer In Jeopardy"
Cray has halted production of its MTA-2 multithreaded
supercomputer because of falling R&D development levels,
according to spokesman Steve Conway. The MTA is one of the most
unusual pieces of hardware ever created: It is a uniform flat ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0318m.html#item8
"Defense Spending Boosts Information Technology Sector"
Vendors that provide integration services and technology to
government are expected to benefit from President Bush's proposed
$52 billion IT budget for fiscal 2003. Defense IT will be the
largest single portion, since it traditionally amounts to half of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0318m.html#item9
"Industry Ponders Government Role in Digital Identities"
A conference hosted by the Information Technology Association of
America and the Center for Strategic and International Studies is
discussing the possibility of government involvement in the
establishment and management of online identification services. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0318m.html#item10
"Polymers Want a Fabric"
Intelligent polymers that can conduct electricity in response to
certain factors--heat, stretching, or exposure to sunlight--are
being researched for many potential applications, particularly in
the area of enhanced fabrics. The University of Wollongong in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0318m.html#item11
"Inside Track: A Storm Brews for Surfers"
The scarcity of domain names has placed ICANN and its function on
center stage. Although ICANN has been instrumental in creating a
dispute-resolution process for domain names, and for alleviating
domain name scarcity and an overreliance on .com by introducing new ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0318m.html#item12
"Once Crucial to PCs, Floppy Drive Now a Waste of Space"
Floppy drives are becoming increasingly irrelevant to computer
users, and their numbers have been steadily declining since 1995,
when sales of disks peaked at 5 billion units. Newer technology,
especially cheap and now nearly ubiquitous CD burners, allow ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0318m.html#item13
"FCC Gives Cable Firms Net Rights"
The FCC voted 3 to 1 yesterday that cable companies can offer
high-speed Internet service without opening their networks to
competing Internet providers, a ruling that provoked criticism
from rivals and public interest groups concerned about ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0318m.html#item14
"Bill Aims to Trade Fed IT Managers"
A bill introduced by Reps. Tom Davis (R-Va.) and Dan Burton
(R-Ind.) would foster the exchange of expertise between the
public and private sectors by having mid-level federal and
commercial IT managers swap jobs for a year, with the option of a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0318m.html#item15
"Secrets and Lives"
The war on terrorism could stifle academic freedom in the United
States. Although the Bush administration is concerned with
keeping certain information away from terrorists that may be used
for biological weapons, the effect may prevent researchers from ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0318m.html#item16
"Riding Out the Storm"
IT certifications have become an essential qualification for
prospective employees. Employers look upon them as a sign of
commitment and credibility, and they better the chances for
employees to make more money. A survey from Foote Partners finds ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0318m.html#item17
"The Nanotube Computer"
Carbon nanotubes have the potential to significantly change the
world of electronics over the next decade. Phaedon Avouris of
IBM Research says that nanotubes can be fashioned into
transistors that are superior in performance to silicon-based ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0318m.html#item18
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