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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 339
Date: April 22, 2002
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Top Stories for Monday, April 22, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Media, Tech, and Bells Face Off in Bid to Shape Bush Net View"
"An Agreement in Principle To Recycle Old Computers"
"Elite Programmers Prepare for Showdown"
"Intel's Quixotic Quest for Next Billion Users"
"Japanese Computer Is World's Fastest, as U.S. Falls Back"
"The Hidden Toll of Patents on Standards"
"Why IT's Not Seen as a Job for Girls"
"Can Search Engines Track Down Terrorists?"
"Better Living Through Small Tech: MEMS and Nanotech Meet Real Life"
"White House Cyber Czar Describes Next Phase of Internet Plan"
"Hydrogel-Based Nanoparticles Make Photonic Crystals"
"3-D, and Ditch the Glasses"
"Internet2 Attracts Research Centers"
"Debate Over ICANN Reform Rages On"
"The Search Is On"
"Moore's Law & Order"
"Molding Atoms"
"Can You Trust Your Car?"
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"Media, Tech, and Bells Face Off in Bid to Shape Bush Net View"
The Bush administration remains silent on the dispensation of
broadband and telecom deregulation, despite all the jockeying
among copyright holders, media firms, and high-tech companies
seeking to influence policy. Content providers such as film ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0422m.html#item1
"An Agreement in Principle To Recycle Old Computers"
Local governments and producers have agreed in principle to
establish a national electronic waste recycling program that
would be financed by a proposed fee added to computer purchases
and coordinated by private rather than public organizations. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0422m.html#item2
"Elite Programmers Prepare for Showdown"
TopCoder hosts tournaments that draw professional and collegiate
programmers by offering them the opportunity to win cash prizes,
polish their skills, and boost their job market profile. The
brainchild of brothers Jack and Robert Hughes, TopCoder was ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0422m.html#item3
"Intel's Quixotic Quest for Next Billion Users"
Intel reigns as the world's leading chip manufacturer and as such
has the luxury of employing some unique research. Insight 64
analyst Nathan Brookwood says that although Intel does not make
end-user products primarily, it still does significant end-user ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0422m.html#item4
"Japanese Computer Is World's Fastest, as U.S. Falls Back"
The world's newest fastest computer was created in Japan using a
design method different than that favored by most U.S. computer
scientists and far outpacing competing machines in terms of sheer
speed. The computer, financed by the Japanese government and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0422m.html#item5
"The Hidden Toll of Patents on Standards"
IBM recently backed away from its assertion of patent royalty
dues on a key e-commerce standard, ebXML, being developed in
conjunction with the United Nations. The issue illustrates the
danger patent royalties pose to technology standards, as it ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0422m.html#item6
"Why IT's Not Seen as a Job for Girls"
Young girls tend to shy away from IT because they consider IT
careers to be boring and solitary pursuits. Approximately 50% of
girls polled by Multimedia Victoria last year labeled IT as "too
boring." Extensive travel was also seen as a turn-off to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0422m.html#item7
"Can Search Engines Track Down Terrorists?"
The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. exposed the
need for a better way to find information within the vast
repositories of government agencies. For instance, government
officials say hijacker Mohammad Atta may not have been allowed ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0422m.html#item8
"Better Living Through Small Tech: MEMS and Nanotech Meet Real Life"
More companies are realizing that nanotechnology and
microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) can enhance their products
significantly, as evidenced by the many products on display this
week at Germany's Hannover Fair. In fact, Carlos Yahya-Vargas of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0422m.html#item9
"White House Cyber Czar Describes Next Phase of Internet Plan"
The Govnet initiative of the Bush administration could evolve in
a number of directions, according to Richard Clarke, President
Bush's top advisor on national cybersecurity. On Wednesday,
during a conference attended by hundreds of federal technology ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0422m.html#item10
"Hydrogel-Based Nanoparticles Make Photonic Crystals"
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers reported at the 223d
national meeting of the American Chemical Society that they have
created hydrogel-based nanoparticles that could be used to
fabricate photonic crystals with adjustable optical properties. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0422m.html#item11
"3-D, and Ditch the Glasses"
Several 3D display technologies that can be used without the need
for special glasses are being developed or marketed in the U.S. The
potential uses for such technologies range from the
advanced study of medical imagery and simulation to more ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0422m.html#item12
"Internet2 Attracts Research Centers"
Researchers at Washington University, St. Louis University, and
the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, all St. Louis-based
institutions, have announced a collaborative effort to establish
a connection to Internet2, an improved, high-speed variation of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0422m.html#item13
"Debate Over ICANN Reform Rages On"
The Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) conference held in San
Francisco on April 18 debated the ICANN reform issue, with CFP's
ICANN panel reaching consensus that major reform is needed, but
without the disbanding of ICANN. ICANN President Stuart Lynn's ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0422m.html#item14
"The Search Is On"
Several research efforts to improve data analysis methods have
made significant progress, especially in light of last fall's
terrorist attacks. Systems Research and Development (SRD)
originally devised its Non-Obvious Relationship Awareness (NORA) ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0422m.html#item15
"Moore's Law & Order"
According to Moore's Law, raw computing power doubles every 18 to
24 months thanks to technological innovations, but inventor and
author Ray Kurzweil predicts such growth to ramp up significantly
in the next several decades. The basis for this forecast is ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0422m.html#item16
"Molding Atoms"
University of Aarhus researchers in France and Denmark have
managed to create copper strips just two atoms wide using a
custom-created molecule as a template. Although the copper
strips themselves are of little practical value, experts say the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0422m.html#item17
"Can You Trust Your Car?"
Automotive electronics must be reliable, both to justify the
increased purchase expense and maintenance costs of vehicles
and to ensure the safety of drivers and passengers. Reliability
becomes a more difficult proposition as car electronics increase ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0422m.html#item18
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