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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 371
Date: July 10, 2002
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Top Stories for Wednesday, July 10, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"The Clouds of Digital War"
"More Life in Moore's Law, Creator Says"
"House Favors Funds for Science Study"
"Reality Tempers Tech Firms' Dreams for China"
"Rep. Boucher Outlines 'Fair Use' Fight"
"New Chip Process Fuels 'Fantastic' Products"
"Cable Companies Cracking Down on Wi-Fi"
"'Random Walkers' May Speed Peer-to-Peer Networks"
"Control Freaks Tightening Their Grip on the Internet"
"Software is Often Sold, Not Licensed, Despite What License
Agreements Say"
"Quantum Computing Puts Encrypted Messages at Risk"
"Trouble for Telecom Isn't Slowing Down Popularity of Fiber
Optics Classes"
"IBM Engineer Looks to Brain for New Technology"
"Wireless Workhorse"
"Waiting, Waiting and Waiting for IPv6"
"High-Tech Leaders: America Needs Better Math, Science Education"
"Storm Clouds Rise Over H1-B"
"Good Intentions"
"The Search for Perfect Memory"
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"The Clouds of Digital War"
There is concern among experts that the next major terrorist
assault on the United States will take place in cyberspace, and
could wreak actual physical damage. Officials have disclosed
that many critical infrastructure systems are being probed ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0710w.html#item1
"More Life in Moore's Law, Creator Says"
The chip industry will continue to follow Moore's Law, which
states that a computer chip's transistor density doubles every
two years, although its creator Gordon Moore says that the rate
of this doubling will decelerate slightly as it comes up against ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0710w.html#item2
"House Favors Funds for Science Study"
A five-year grant to improve math and science programs at
colleges and universities has been approved by the U.S. House of
Representatives; almost $400 million in funding will go toward
the program, which will be administered by the National Science ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0710w.html#item3
"Reality Tempers Tech Firms' Dreams for China"
For all its promise, tech investment in China poses serious
risks, according to experts. Many companies that have set up
shop in China with plans to sell their products domestically have
not turned a profit, while manufacturing operations that export ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0710w.html#item4
"Rep. Boucher Outlines 'Fair Use' Fight"
Rep. Rich Boucher (D-Va.) says he plans to introduce new
legislation that would modify existing copyright law to ensure
consumers' "fair use" rights and give more leeway to Webcasters.
If his bill passes unaltered, it would also prohibit the music ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0710w.html#item5
"New Chip Process Fuels 'Fantastic' Products"
Oregon State University (OSU) scientists report that they have
hit upon a water-based chemical process for manufacturing
crystalline oxide films at room temperature, a breakthrough that
could lead to "fantastic products" such as credit card-sized MP3 ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0710w.html#item6
"Cable Companies Cracking Down on Wi-Fi"
Cable Internet providers AT&T Broadband and Time Warner Cable
have begun a crackdown on subscribers that let others tap into
their Wi-Fi networks. Time Warner sent letters to 10 people in
New York City telling them their accounts would be cancelled ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0710w.html#item7
"'Random Walkers' May Speed Peer-to-Peer Networks"
Computing and networking researchers at Princeton University and
the University of California, Berkeley have discovered a more
effective search algorithm for peer-to-peer networks. Currently,
peer-to-peer networks send out broad-ranging searches for files, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0710w.html#item8
"Control Freaks Tightening Their Grip on the Internet"
Speakers at the recent "Internet Law Program" at Harvard Law
School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society offered differing
opinions on the situation regarding the control of information
and creativity on the Internet. Stanford law professor Lawrence ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0710w.html#item9
"Software is Often Sold, Not Licensed, Despite What License
Agreements Say"
To control their intellectual property, software vendors are
requiring customers and distributors to sign licensing agreements
that limit buyers' rights to do what they please with the
products, yet this runs counter to the basic fact that customers ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0710w.html#item10
"Quantum Computing Puts Encrypted Messages at Risk"
The advent of quantum computing will render many current
encryption measures obsolete, because the dramatic increase in
computing power will be able to easily cut through the standards'
computational complexity. Security systems installed by the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0710w.html#item11
"Trouble for Telecom Isn't Slowing Down Popularity of Fiber
Optics Classes"
Although the telecommunications sector has fallen on hard times,
academic interest in fiber optics is still going strong. The
International Society for Optical Engineering's Eugene Arthurs
notes that "Telecom may be on the ropes, but there's many new ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0710w.html#item12
"IBM Engineer Looks to Brain for New Technology"
A discussion with a neurosurgeon prompted IBM senior technologist
Kerry Berstein to realize that the operations of computers and
the human brain rely on the same fundamental physics, but the
brain is a much more efficient device: It runs at approximately ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0710w.html#item13
"Wireless Workhorse"
Ultra-wideband (UWB) is being touted as a high-speed radio
technology that will enable wireless connections between a wide
variety of appliances; potential applications include collision
avoidance systems for vehicles and detection of objects behind ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0710w.html#item14
"Waiting, Waiting and Waiting for IPv6"
The proliferation of Internet-enabled mobile devices has led to a
paucity of IPv4 address space in the European and Asian sectors,
but the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has delayed
migration to the more expansive IPv6 standard in order to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0710w.html#item15
"High-Tech Leaders: America Needs Better Math, Science Education"
Science and math education were among the top concerns voiced at
a recent White House forum on the future of technology held by
President Bush that included over 100 IT executives. Consensus
from the participants--which included luminaries such as Intel ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0710w.html#item16
"Storm Clouds Rise Over H1-B"
There has been little activity from proponents of the H1-B visa
program lately, but experts say a battle between supporters and
opponents is likely to erupt before the annual H1-B cap reverts
back to 65,000 visa holders in 2004. The opposition, in the form ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0710w.html#item17
"Good Intentions"
Some IT workers are choosing to take a hiatus from the corporate
world and work on volunteer IT projects in response to corporate
downsizing, long-term dreams, and the urge to try something
beyond the office. However, while working in the non-profit ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0710w.html#item18
"The Search for Perfect Memory"
It has long been a dream of the semiconductor industry to have
inexpensive, fast, and dense memory chips that retain their
information whether the machine is on or off and can record and
erase data without wearing out. But no current chip ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0710w.html#item19
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