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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 359
Date: June 10, 2002
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Top Stories for Monday, June 10, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Old Code in Windows Is Security Threat"
"2 Tinkerers Say They've Found A Cheap Way To Broadband"
"India-U.S. Business Group Seeks Broader Base"
"Study: Software Piracy Up for Second Straight Year"
"Nearly 2-Decade-Old Effort Seeks to Teach Computer Common Sense"
"No Need to Worry, Your Computer Isn't After You or Your Job"
"The Code of Life as a Paint Set"
"U.S. Commerce Department is Bullish on Nanotechnology"
"Living in a Wireless World"
"Researchers Demo Self-Assembling Nanowires"
"Lab Taps Universe to Test 'Data Mining'"
"DoS Hole Has Some DNS Servers in a BIND"
"Patent Office Seeks to Go Paperless by 2004"
"Fortress America"
"Intel Rethinks Its InfiniBand Strategy"
"Esther Dyson: Living the Networked Life"
"Deep Vision"
"The Beltway Bandits"
"Environmental Policy"
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"Old Code in Windows Is Security Threat"
Last week, a Finnish researcher reported a security flaw in
Microsoft's Internet Explorer that revolves around Gopher, a
hyperlinking protocol that predates the Web and could leave PC
users vulnerable to attacks. Microsoft's director of security ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0610m.html#item1
"2 Tinkerers Say They've Found A Cheap Way To Broadband"
California software engineers Layne Holt and John Furrier are
taking aim at cable and phone companies by using the 802.11b, or
Wi-Fi, standard to make consumer broadband access available
widely and cheaply. Their company, Etherlinx, has built a cheap ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0610m.html#item2
"India-U.S. Business Group Seeks Broader Base"
Silicon Valley's South Asian networking group, The Indus
Entrepreneurs (TiE), is looking to expand its reach overseas and
across ethnic and gender barriers. Since its founding in 1994,
TiE has linked together venture capitalists, business minds, and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0610m.html#item3
"Study: Software Piracy Up for Second Straight Year"
The Business Software Alliance on Monday announced that for the
first time in seven years software piracy around the world has
increased for two straight years. BSA says its members lost $11
billion in sales to pirated software last year, and the music, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0610m.html#item4
"Nearly 2-Decade-Old Effort Seeks to Teach Computer Common Sense"
The Cyc database lies at the heart of an ambitious effort to
teach a computer common sense by feeding it millions of facts and
general assumptions about life. The public has also been
encouraged to download and add to Cyc through an effort initiated ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0610m.html#item5
"No Need to Worry, Your Computer Isn't After You or Your Job"
For almost three decades, experts such as Hubert Dreyfus and John
Searle of the University of California at Berkeley's philosophy
department have remained skeptical that computers will one day
become super-smart and conscious. Such assumptions have been the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0610m.html#item6
"The Code of Life as a Paint Set"
In the Friday issue of Science, six chemists will disclose a
"dip-pen" nanotechnology that enables DNA molecules to be painted
onto a surface, a breakthrough that could have significant
ramifications for developing a nanostructure assembly method and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0610m.html#item7
"U.S. Commerce Department is Bullish on Nanotechnology"
At a Thursday meeting, Phillip Bond, chief of staff to Secretary
of Commerce Don Evans, announced that the commercialization of
nanotechnology is a high priority. He noted that the White
House's decision to significantly boost the budget of the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0610m.html#item8
"Living in a Wireless World"
Technologists and futurists anticipate a world where everyone has
always-on wireless access to the Internet, a development they say
will have profound effects on all aspects of everyday life.
Already, technology innovations are converging to make this ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0610m.html#item9
"Researchers Demo Self-Assembling Nanowires"
Scientists at Denmark's Aarhus University have succeeded in
creating a molecular template for making nanowires, a first
crucial step in the development of self-assembling nanotechnology
and nanocircuitry. Researchers want to try to find a way to make ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0610m.html#item10
"Lab Taps Universe to Test 'Data Mining'"
Astronomers and scientists studying global warming are both using
Sapphire, a data-mining technology developed by Chandrika Kamath
at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The four-year-old
program is still being refined, but is unique in its scalability, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0610m.html#item11
"DoS Hole Has Some DNS Servers in a BIND"
A June 4 warning has been issued about a newly discovered
vulnerability in versions of ISC BIND 9 that have not been
upgraded to version 9.2.1, which is used for DNS servers. The
Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT) ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0610m.html#item12
"Patent Office Seeks to Go Paperless by 2004"
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office expects to reduce processing
times for applications by adopting electronic technologies.
Electronic filing could save the office as much as $500 million
in costs, said James Rogan, the agency's undersecretary for ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0610m.html#item13
"Fortress America"
Congress is currently working through several cybersecurity
initiatives that would bolster information sharing, increase
research budgets, and require risk assessments from agencies.
Two of the bills contain measures that worry officials in the IT ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0610m.html#item14
"Intel Rethinks Its InfiniBand Strategy"
Intel has decided not to ship InfiniBand chips next year, but
industry observers say this will have little impact on the
InfiniBand market. Venture capital is abundant, and the Yankee
Group projects that InfiniBand-enabled servers will account for ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0610m.html#item15
"Esther Dyson: Living the Networked Life"
Technology author and former ICANN Chairwoman Esther Dyson is
busy organizing the PC Forum conference, publishing the
newsletter Release 1.0, managing investments in over 40 tech
startups, and sitting on the board of U.K. advertising firm WPP. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0610m.html#item16
"Deep Vision"
The Cave Autonomic Virtual Environment (CAVE), first developed by
computer scientist Thomas A. DeFanti and colleagues at the
University of Illinois in 1991, and related virtual reality
technologies are breaking out of academia and into other sectors, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0610m.html#item17
"The Beltway Bandits"
Whether the technology industry is lobbying for broadband
deployment, intellectual property, or international trade in
Washington, D.C., one thing is clear: The general consensus is
that the government should let industry be responsible for its ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0610m.html#item18
"Environmental Policy"
In order to maintain productivity and competitive advantage, a
company's business processes need to be continually upgraded,
streamlined, and added to. Managing them effectively is beyond
the capabilities of current software architectures and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0610m.html#item19
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