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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 343
Date: May 1, 2002
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Top Stories for Wednesday, May 1, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Salary Gap Still Exists for Women in IT"
"Enthusiasts of Nanotechnology Find Capital Is Hard to Come By"
"Russian CEO Defends Copying Rights"
"Bill Would Push Driver's License with Chip"
"New Super-Strong, Super-Fast Transistor for Wireless Broadband"
"Senate Leaders Seek High-Speed 'Parity'"
"Fun With Your Zip Program: Sort Through Texts, and More"
"Internet Needs Better Simulation Models, Speakers Say"
"SETI@Home Project Nears Milestone"
"Who Can Speak for the Internet? More Voices Would Help"
"Kamen Gives the Kids a Shot"
"Why Scientific Research Groups Set the Pace"
"The Future Face of Enterprise Computing"
"Online, the Armies Have No Borders"
"Hard Times"
"Are Science and Technology Governable?"
"Friendly Foes"
"The Space Age"
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"Salary Gap Still Exists for Women in IT"
The salary gap between male and female IT professionals appears
to be widening, according to the results of InformationWeek
Research's 2002 National IT Salary Survey. In terms of total
compensation, men are making about $7,000 more than women ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item1
"Enthusiasts of Nanotechnology Find Capital Is Hard to Come By"
Nanotechnology--the manipulation of nanoscale structures and
their properties--has received a great deal of hype from
advocates such as scientists, futurists, and entrepreneurs, but
venture capitalists are reluctant to invest because the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item2
"Russian CEO Defends Copying Rights"
ElcomSoft CEO Alexander Katalov is struggling to rehabilitate his
company's public image while fighting the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (DMCA), the controversial law that U.S. prosecutors
claim ElcomSoft broke by offering software that bypasses ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item3
"Bill Would Push Driver's License with Chip"
In an effort to clamp down on identity fraud and bolster national
security, Reps. Jim Moran (D-Va.) and Tom Davis (R-Va.) are
touting legislation calling for the standardization of
state-issued driver's licenses equipped with computer chips and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item4
"New Super-Strong, Super-Fast Transistor for Wireless Broadband"
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
recently published a paper detailing a scientific group's
progress in developing gallium nitride-based transistors that
could significantly bolster wireless broadband systems. Cornell ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item5
"Senate Leaders Seek High-Speed 'Parity'"
Sens. John Breaux (D-La.) and Don Nickles (R-Okla.) today
introduced a bill that calls for the FCC to choose and apply the
same regulatory standards to all broadband services, thus
relaxing the regulation of high-speed digital subscriber line ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item6
"Fun With Your Zip Program: Sort Through Texts, and More"
Zip compression programs can help categorize sets of digitized
information, as an Italian team of scientists recently
demonstrated using literary texts. Writing in Physical Review
Letters, the team said that zip programs codify data according to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item7
"Internet Needs Better Simulation Models, Speakers Say"
More efficient ways of parsing Internet bandwidth are needed
before new services are economically workable, according to
speakers at the 50th anniversary meeting of the International
Conference on Communications (ICC). Telcordia Technologies chief ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item8
"SETI@Home Project Nears Milestone"
This week will mark the 500 millionth result generated by the
SETI@Home project, in which volunteers contribute the idle
processing power of their computers to help analyze trillions of
bytes of data gathered from radio telescopes searching for signs ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item9
"Who Can Speak for the Internet? More Voices Would Help"
The experimentation and invention that led to the Internet and to
the Internet's commercial and cultural boom during the 1990s also
led to the creation of a libertarian Internet governance
structure in ICANN. ICANN has been established to govern the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item10
"Kamen Gives the Kids a Shot"
Co-founded by Segway Human Transporter inventor Dean Kamen, the
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)
Robotics National Competition aims to give high school students a
chance to meet real-world challenges and a taste of the more fun ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item11
"Why Scientific Research Groups Set the Pace"
Advances in grid computing primarily come from the efforts of
publicly funded research groups because of the enormous amount of
distributed computing needed for modern scientific research, the
general consensus that public-sector scientists are more ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item12
"The Future Face of Enterprise Computing"
IT industry analysts say that once businesses resume buying new
IT in about a year's time, Web services and wireless technologies
will be at the top of CIOs' to-do lists. Forrester lead analyst
Ted Schadler says that recent Forrester studies show declines in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item13
"Online, the Armies Have No Borders"
One of the most profound social impacts the Internet will have is
the creation of "network armies," which Richard Hunter, author of
"World Without Secrets: Business, Crime and Privacy in the Age of
Ubiquitous Computing," describes as geographically dispersed ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item14
"Hard Times"
The U.S. IT workforce has been hit hard by the dot-com bust, the
economic downturn, and fallout from two years of corporate
mergers. Information Technology Association of America President
Harris Miller estimates that over 200,000 of the nation's 10.4 ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item15
"Are Science and Technology Governable?"
In early March, Columbia University hosted a conference that
brought together researchers, activists, and other interested
parties to discuss the current direction of science and
technology as well as how societal values can be introduced into ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item16
"Friendly Foes"
The Yankee Group estimates that $3.3 billion will be invested in
collaboration technologies over the next four years, although
collaboration by itself is nothing new. The failure of
business-to-business (B2B) exchanges has fueled a need for a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item17
"The Space Age"
Recordable DVDs are being touted as far more preferable to hard
disks for their ease and affordability, although hard disks still
outshine them in storage capacity. Demand for recordable DVDs
will stem from consumers' desire to store still and moving ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0501w.html#item18
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