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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 369
Date: July 3, 2002
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Top Stories for Wednesday, July 3, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Survey: Raises for Security Pros Decline"
"Silicon Valley Goes Into Sleep Mode This Week"
"Worm Exploits Apache Vulnerability on FreeBSD"
"Cartoon Inspires Student to Create a New Approach for Encryption"
"Grassroots Techies Want to Build a Wireless Internet Network
Across the Bay Area"
"Justice Probe of Sun Could Spur New Look at H-1B Visas"
"Safe From Prying Eyes"
"In-Q-Tel Sounds Call on 'IT Warriors'"
"The Future Supercomputer: Colossus or Cluster?"
"A New Kind of Science?"
"Putting Vision Systems Into Perspective"
"Internet Address Group Approves Overhaul"
"Coming Soon: A 'Telephone Tooth'"
"Researchers Claim New Chip Technology Beats Moore's Law"
"Radio-Ready Chips"
"Enter the Mesh"
"Can the Hackers be Stopped?"
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"Survey: Raises for Security Pros Decline"
Salary increases for security professionals have declined since
December 2000 from 11.6 percent to 7 percent, according to a
recent SANS Institute survey conducted during April and May of
1,214 security and systems administrative professionals. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0703w.html#item1
"Silicon Valley Goes Into Sleep Mode This Week"
Like in other recent recessions, major Silicon Valley companies
are asking their workers to use up vacation time this Fourth of
July week in order to save costs. Adobe Systems made the same
move last year and saved several million dollars, according to a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0703w.html#item2
"Worm Exploits Apache Vulnerability on FreeBSD"
Security experts say a new worm is slowly spreading that takes
advantage of a known vulnerability in the Apache Web server
software running atop the FreeBSD system. Apache Web servers are
used for 63 percent of existing Web sites and FreeBSD is the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0703w.html#item3
"Cartoon Inspires Student to Create a New Approach for Encryption"
University of Dayton mechanical engineering major Jason R.
Kauffman has created a new encryption technology based on a
number generator that has won the backing of his university to be
submitted for a patent and eventually sold to businesses. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0703w.html#item4
"Grassroots Techies Want to Build a Wireless Internet Network
Across the Bay Area"
Wi-Fi Internet access is slowly being spread to cover more and
more area in cities with high concentrations of techies, such as
San Francisco, Seattle, and New York. These enthusiasts have
formed groups--such as SF Wireless and the Bay Area Wireless ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0703w.html#item5
"Justice Probe of Sun Could Spur New Look at H-1B Visas"
The Justice Department is making a preliminary investigation into
claims that Sun Microsystems favored H-1B workers as it scaled
back its workforce last November. The case could have
legislative ramifications, according to experts, even if Sun is ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0703w.html#item6
"Safe From Prying Eyes"
Companies are paying more attention to mobile phone digital
security now that businesses are using Internet-enabled mobile
devices more often. Wireless security can be as secure as
traditional digital security for desktop networks, the difference ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0703w.html#item7
"In-Q-Tel Sounds Call on 'IT Warriors'"
The federal government needs the help of corporate America's IT
workforce, said Gilman Louie, CEO of the Central Intelligence
Agency's In-Q-Tel venture capital group. In-Q-Tel represents a
different tact for acquiring technology to be used for national ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0703w.html#item8
"The Future Supercomputer: Colossus or Cluster?"
The latest rankings in the Top 500 Supercomputer list show that
clustered systems are gaining in power and popularity among the
supercomputer crowd. Clustered systems make up 16 percent of the
list, double the percentage from last November. The most popular ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0703w.html#item9
"A New Kind of Science?"
The fallacy that "like causes like" has misled many scientists,
and for instance is behind the Freudian theory that oral
fixations in childhood automatically blossom into eating,
smoking, and kissing disorders. However, computer scientists ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0703w.html#item10
"Putting Vision Systems Into Perspective"
A California startup is working to enable computers to see in 3D
by using stereo vision video cameras, which would merge two views
to gain depth perception, just like humans do. The company,
Tyzx, says that its products could be used by vehicles and robots ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0703w.html#item11
"Internet Address Group Approves Overhaul"
ICANN has approved the outline of a reorganization plan, one that
is designed to hasten decision-making and streamline operations.
"What we're talking about is an organization that is much more
reflective of the public interest balanced with the private ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0703w.html#item12
"Coming Soon: A 'Telephone Tooth'"
Two recent master's graduates of the Royal College of Art in
London have created a "telephone tooth" device that is implanted
into a person's molar, enabling them to receive audio signals
that can transmit a conversation, music, or verbal Internet ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0703w.html#item13
"Researchers Claim New Chip Technology Beats Moore's Law"
A team of engineering researchers at Princeton University have
announced a breakthrough chipmaking technology that promises to
create more powerful chips faster and for much less cost. Lead
researcher Stephen Chou says the method, called laser assisted ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0703w.html#item14
"Radio-Ready Chips"
Silicon radio transceivers could usher in a new generation of
wireless devices, and Intel aims to hold a vanguard position with
plans to embed silicon-based radios in all of its microchips
within five years. Today's wireless communications devices keep ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0703w.html#item15
"Enter the Mesh"
Pervasive computing and small technology are expected to
intertwine into the Mesh, a system of technology that connects
with all aspects of life and commerce--what Graviton's Larry
Goldstein calls "nervous systems for the engineered world." ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0703w.html#item16
"Can the Hackers be Stopped?"
Experts such as Sun Microsystems security architect Lance
Spitzner believe the key to effective hacker security lies in
studying the methods and motivations of hackers. Spitzner came
up with an intelligence-gathering tool through the creation of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0703w.html#item17
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