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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 386
Date: August 14, 2002
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Top Stories for Wednesday, August 14, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Bright Spots in the Gloom"
"New Computer Security Dilemma: A Lack of Viruses"
"U.K. Looks to Copy DMCA"
"The Future of Microprocessors Revealed"
"Web Geeks Rally for the Disabled"
"A Fresh Breath of Oxygen"
"Idea in Former Employee's Head Belongs to Alcatel"
"Programming Tool Makes Bugs Sing"
"Net Visionaries Seek New Vistas"
"What Utopia Can Technology Deliver?"
"Stakes Higher for Hackers After Sept. 11"
"Down the Road: Bendable Computers and Wearable LEDs"
"Playing Fair on Electronics Recycling"
"We Must Engage in Copyright Debate"
"Prime Efforts May Boost Encryption"
"Micromachine Technique Creates Terahertz Sensor"
"You Read My Mind"
"Who's Been Looking at Your Data?"
"Why Tech Falls Short of Expectations"
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"Bright Spots in the Gloom"
Silicon Valley's unemployment rate has hovered around 7 percent
for most of 2002, and between December 2000 and May 2002, the
region experienced over 100,000 job cuts. However, Silicon
Valley may be ahead of the rest of the country in perceiving an ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0814w.html#item1
"New Computer Security Dilemma: A Lack of Viruses"
Anti-virus firms have predicted that computer viruses and worms
will be even more destructive, invasive, and numerous this year
than last year, but such predictions have so far failed to pan
out. Security experts are attributing this development to a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0814w.html#item2
"U.K. Looks to Copy DMCA"
The United Kingdom has responded to the call to deploy the
European Union Copyright Directive by proposing its own version
of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which has
engendered controversy in the United States. The proposal would ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0814w.html#item3
"The Future of Microprocessors Revealed"
Over 15 new microprocessors from almost all leading manufacturers
are slated to debut at the 15th annual Microprocessor Forum in
October, which analysts have long used to gauge future trends.
The forum will be launched with the announcement of a 64-bit ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0814w.html#item4
"Web Geeks Rally for the Disabled"
The first Accessibility Internet Rally (AIR) California scheduled
for Sept. 21 will foster collaboration between Web developers and
nonprofit organizations in the creation of Web sites accessible
to users with physical or mental handicaps. CompuMentor project ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0814w.html#item5
"A Fresh Breath of Oxygen"
Rodney Brooks, director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at
MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, is spearheading an
ambitious MIT research project called "Oxygen," which is focused
on developing computer systems that interact with human beings ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0814w.html#item6
"Idea in Former Employee's Head Belongs to Alcatel"
Alcatel USA has won a summary judgment in its bid to claim
proprietary rights to a software idea held by former employee
Evan Brown, who had signed an invention disclosure contract with
Alcatel but had not written the contested idea down on paper. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0814w.html#item7
"Programming Tool Makes Bugs Sing"
University of Northumbria researchers in Britain are adding sound
to computing programs to investigate new applications, such as
the detection of software bugs using auditory cues. Northumbria
lecturer Paul Vickers states that the research could lead to more ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0814w.html#item8
"Net Visionaries Seek New Vistas"
Internet experts Vinton Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee are promoting
new extensions of the Internet, and both Internet visionaries
were recently honored at the Telluride Tech Festival in Colorado
for their work. Cerf is working on extending the Internet into ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0814w.html#item9
"What Utopia Can Technology Deliver?"
A hefty report from the National Science Foundation and the
Commerce Department outlines the next two decades of technology
development, and recommends that the convergence of
nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0814w.html#item10
"Stakes Higher for Hackers After Sept. 11"
New laws designed to improve security, such as the U.S. Patriot
Act and the Cyber Security Enhancement Act, carry greater
penalties for hackers that commit cybercrimes. People who
intrude into computer networks could now go to jail for up to 10 ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0814w.html#item11
"Down the Road: Bendable Computers and Wearable LEDs"
The National Science Foundation and the Semiconductor Research
Corporation are funding research by Cornell University scientists
seeking to create flexible electronics through the combination of
organic and inorganic interfaces. Cornell's Jim Engstrom says ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0814w.html#item12
"Playing Fair on Electronics Recycling"
Heather Bowman, the Electronic Industries Alliance's (EIA)
director of environmental policy, says that electronics recycling
legislation currently being discussed at both the state and
national levels must be fair to consumers, manufacturers, and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0814w.html#item13
"We Must Engage in Copyright Debate"
Dan Gillmor urges consumers, scholars, and other parties who are
not copyright owners to challenge the terms of the debate
currently brewing between the entertainment cartel and Congress.
He says the cartel is using "scare tactics"--threats of anarchy ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0814w.html#item14
"Prime Efforts May Boost Encryption"
Computer scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology in
Kanpur, India, have developed a new algorithm to confirm whether
initial numbers used to generate a larger number are in fact
prime numbers. RSA, an often-used encryption algorithm, creates ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0814w.html#item15
"Micromachine Technique Creates Terahertz Sensor"
The Star Tiger European research consortium is considering the
use of photonic-crystal technology to synthesize a single-chip
sensor that detects terahertz radiation, which exists on the
spectrum between infrared and radar. The project's assembly ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0814w.html#item16
"You Read My Mind"
At a recent event hosted by IBM's Almaden Research Center, Kevin
Wheeler of the Extension of the Human Senses Group at NASA's Ames
Research Center presented research in the realm of human-machine
integration. Wheeler's current research focus is on systems that ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0814w.html#item17
"Who's Been Looking at Your Data?"
The growing frequency of computer network intrusions--and their
potential for cyberespionage or cyberterrorist assaults on the
nation's infrastructure--has prompted academic leaders to take a
serious look at restructuring their security processes. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0814w.html#item18
"Why Tech Falls Short of Expectations"
Prodded by Y2K concerns, the Internet boom, and an unstable
economy, many companies have made excessive IT investments that
have not generated sufficient returns or fulfilled corporate
goals. Mainstay Partners conducted a four-year survey of 450 ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0814w.html#item19
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