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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 362
Date: June 17, 2002
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Top Stories for Monday, June 17, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Consumer Groups Target Software"
"Chip Integration More Sophisticated"
"Inexpensive Technology Is Providing Vision to Machines"
"Wi-Fi Wants a Few Good 'Hot Spots'"
"Bluetooth--Putting the Bite on Wi-Fi?"
"As the Tech Economy Goes, So Go Special Visas"
"Darpa Awards Next-Generation Computing Contracts"
"Skinny Organic LED Displays Set to Grow"
"National Research Council Report Says Some Changes Needed in NNI"
"Military's Push for Unmanned Vehicles Gives Region Chance to
Capitalize on Robotics"
"Public's Role in Net Governance Threatened"
"Hollow Promise for Fibre Optics"
"Government Seeks Accord on XML"
"Someday, 3G Will Come to Europe"
"New Hopes for a Security Lockdown"
"Virtually Human"
"Writing in Pen, Ink, and Pixels"
"Tech Transfers"
"The Internet of the Future: To Control or Be Controlled"
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"Consumer Groups Target Software"
The debate over whether software is a product or a service lies
at the heart of a proposal from consumer advocates that software
vendors should be held responsible for bad products and the
damage they may directly or indirectly cause. The National ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0617m.html#item1
"Chip Integration More Sophisticated"
System-on-a-chip integration continues to gain momentum despite
last year's industry downturn, leading to significant
advancements such as the production of smaller, faster, and
cheaper electronic devices. Stuffing more features onto smaller ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0617m.html#item2
"Inexpensive Technology Is Providing Vision to Machines"
Tyzx is developing a sophisticated yet inexpensive technology
that aims to give computers low-power, real-time 3D vision
capability. The technology involves two cameras spaced a few
inches apart that simultaneously capture images of the same ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0617m.html#item3
"Wi-Fi Wants a Few Good 'Hot Spots'"
Toshiba's John Marston is expected to stress the lack of public
Wi-Fi "hot spots" at the 802.11 West conference as a serious
obstacle to the growth of the wireless standard. Toshiba
estimates that 1,200 public hot spots currently exist, but ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0617m.html#item4
"Bluetooth--Putting the Bite on Wi-Fi?"
Some firms and vendors are touting Bluetooth wireless technology
as an alternative to Wi-Fi, which has a longer range and faster
speed threshold: Stock brokers at Deutsche Bank in London, for
example, can now get their desktop stock-tracking applications on ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0617m.html#item5
"As the Tech Economy Goes, So Go Special Visas"
Immigration experts say the high-tech downturn has reduced the
demand for foreign workers. The INS reports that, for the first
six months of fiscal 2002, H-1B visa applications were down 48
percent compared to last year, while approved H-1Bs were down 38 ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0617m.html#item6
"Darpa Awards Next-Generation Computing Contracts"
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) on June 12
awarded contracts to four companies to develop inexpensive and
scalable high-end computer systems for public and private needs.
Cray, IBM, Silicon Graphics, and Sun Microsystems each were ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0617m.html#item7
"Skinny Organic LED Displays Set to Grow"
Two competing manufacturing processes for organic light-emitting
diode (OLED) displays are set to square off with the announcement
that display maker Seiko Epson and Cambridge Display Technologies
have entered into a partnership to make equipment for the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0617m.html#item8
"National Research Council Report Says Some Changes Needed in NNI"
The White House-commissioned evaluation of the National
Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) has found that the effort is
progressing well, but that it could prove even more fruitful with
some changes. According to the 10 recommendations from the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0617m.html#item9
"Military's Push for Unmanned Vehicles Gives Region Chance to
Capitalize on Robotics"
The U.S. Army's $34 billion investment in unmanned vehicles could
give Pittsburgh's robotics industry a shot in the arm. The
Pittsburgh Regional Alliance and Army subcontractor Carnegie
Mellon University have joined forces to create the National ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0617m.html#item10
"Public's Role in Net Governance Threatened"
ICANN has failed to work so far because it has excluded public
input while making decisions in secret and without public
interests represented on the ICANN board, writes influential
Internet critic Michael Geist. Although ICANN was structured to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0617m.html#item11
"Hollow Promise for Fiber Optics"
Bell Laboratories scientist John Rogers and colleagues have
devised optical fibers that can both process and carry signals,
thus combining the functionality of more expensive devices with
cheap conventional fiber-optics. The hollow, microfluidic fibers ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0617m.html#item12
"Government Seeks Accord on XML"
The federal government is working on ways to head off chaos in
its build-out of XML definitions, the meta data that is meant to
make government systems interoperable. The General Services
Administration is currently investigating how to create a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0617m.html#item13
"Someday, 3G Will Come to Europe"
Alcatel is positioning itself to become a major player in the
nonexistent European 3G marketplace, first aiming at Sweden. The
French telecom equipment maker reasons that if it can find a
foothold among the sophisticated Nordic mobile users, then it ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0617m.html#item14
"New Hopes for a Security Lockdown"
Common Criteria is an international standard developed in 1996
that the U.S. Department of Defense plans to aggressively enforce
in order to secure systems that are vulnerable because of flawed
commercial software. In accordance with the National Security ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0617m.html#item15
"Virtually Human"
Boston University bioinformatics professor and Human Genome
Project founder Charles DeLisi is trying to secure funding for a
distributed computing project to create a virtual human whose
myriad systems and functions are distributed across research ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0617m.html#item16
"Writing in Pen, Ink, and Pixels"
Digital pen technologies that can transfer pen strokes to a
computer screen could prove advantageous in a number of
scenarios. Seiko's InkLink pen system tracks the writing
instrument's position through ultrasound pulses emitted by the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0617m.html#item17
"Tech Transfers"
If the proposed Digital Tech Corps Act becomes law, it would
allow IT managers from private and public sectors to exchange
positions for up to two years. Government IT managers ranked
GS-11 to GS-15 would be able to work at private companies for up ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0617m.html#item18
"The Internet of the Future: To Control or Be Controlled"
The projected scenario of a Control Web would enable users to
regulate access to their personal information as well as make
society safer without imposing a totalitarian state. A Control
Web has two important aspects: It is controllable, in that ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0617m.html#item19
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