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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 392
Date: August 28, 2002
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Top Stories for Wednesday, August 28, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Tech's Major Decline"
"EU Copyright Directive 'All Bad News'"
"What Are the Real Risks of Cyberterrorism?"
"Cells Light Way for Flat-Panel Displays"
"Buggy Software Still Takes a Toll"
"Technical Degrees Still Command Highest Salaries"
"Hoping for Very Big, Yet Extremely Small, Discoveries"
"Battling the Bugs"
"Blue-Laser Storage Moves Closer to Reality"
"Nano Research Challenges Storage Unit"
"Bluetooth Rolls Toward Deployment in Cars"
"Selling the Connected Home"
"The NSF Looks Toward the Future"
"Purdue Retools Nanotech Research to Benefit University and Region"
"The Seven Deadly Security Sins"
"Compu-camp"
"P2P Getting Down to Some Serious Work"
"The Programmable Building"
"Homeland Insecurity"
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"Tech's Major Decline"
The implosion in the U.S. technology industry is impacting the
number of computer science majors that U.S. universities are
churning out. The Computing Research Association reports that
computer science undergraduates declined by 1 percent last year, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0828w.html#item1
"EU Copyright Directive 'All Bad News'"
The Britain-based Campaign for Digital Rights sharply criticizes
the proposed European Union Copyright Directive (EUCD) in a
detailed study released last week. The EUCD is similar to
America's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), in that it ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0828w.html#item2
"What Are the Real Risks of Cyberterrorism?"
Cyberterrorism warnings tend to exaggerate: They imply massive
losses to human life and property, when in fact government and
security experts note that bombing a target is still far more
damaging--and easier--than hacking into a computer. An ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0828w.html#item3
"Cells Light Way for Flat-Panel Displays"
Flat-panel, color displays of the future could be based on
light-emitting electrochemical cells (LEC), according to Penn
State University researchers, who disclosed their findings this
week at the 224th annual meeting of the American Chemical Society ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0828w.html#item4
"Buggy Software Still Takes a Toll"
Although software quality is showing improvement, business
customers continue to blame faulty software for lost productivity
and finances. A federal report estimates an annual loss of
almost $60 billion due to buggy software. Sometimes the problem ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0828w.html#item5
"Technical Degrees Still Command Highest Salaries"
Students that possess undergraduate and graduate technical
degrees usually earn the highest starting salaries, compared to
those with degrees in other fields, according to the most recent
New York Times Job Market (NYTJM) survey. The poll finds that ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0828w.html#item6
"Hoping for Very Big, Yet Extremely Small, Discoveries"
Five new U.S. nanoscience centers are being built under the aegis
of the Department of Energy. One facility, the Center for
Integrated Nanotechnologies, will be run by Los Alamos and Sandia
national laboratories in New Mexico; the other centers will be ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0828w.html#item7
"Battling the Bugs"
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
recently reported that software bugs cost American companies
approximately $60 billion in 2001, while Bill Guttman of
Carnegie-Mellon University's Sustainable Computing Consortium ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0828w.html#item8
"Blue-Laser Storage Moves Closer to Reality"
A new blue-laser optical disc format developed by NEC and Toshiba
is expected to be announced either this week or next week, and
the companies plan to present the product to the DVD Forum as a
next-generation successor to DVD. The technology could end up in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0828w.html#item9
"Nano Research Challenges Storage Unit"
New research shows that magnetic storage technology may be viable
for several more years than previously thought thanks to advances
in nanotechnology. Scientists had worried that, as magnetic
storage bits are squeezed into tighter spaces, they would become ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0828w.html#item10
"Bluetooth Rolls Toward Deployment in Cars"
Chipmakers are working on Bluetooth technology that can withstand
the extreme conditions often found inside an automobile as well
as provide the processing power needed to run a variety of
applications. Bluetooth in cars and trucks would enable a number ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0828w.html#item11
"Selling the Connected Home"
The Internet Home Alliance (IHA) and the Zanthus research firm
recently issued a report detailing what kinds of households are
most amenable to the concept of the connected home, why many
consumers resist the notion, and what consumer requirements are ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0828w.html#item12
"The NSF Looks Toward the Future"
National Science Foundation (NSF) assistant director Peter
Freeman says that his agency has organized an initiative to
bolster the country's high-end computer and supercomputing
efforts. He adds that by investing in improved supercomputing ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0828w.html#item13
"Purdue Retools Nanotech Research to Benefit University and Region"
Purdue University's Schools of Engineering plan to spruce up and
increase their engineering space by 60 percent via a $400 million
renovation that will include a $56.4 million core facility for
nanotechnology research. The initiative's guiding force,...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0828w.html#item14
"The Seven Deadly Security Sins"
Most network security holes are attributed to basic failings,
such as poor password management, misconfigured servers, and
inadequate or nonexistent patching. But security experts also
point to lesser-known dangers such as network sharing between ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0828w.html#item15
"Compu-camp"
The TIC summer camp in Washington, D.C., has been teaching
schoolchildren computer skills for 20 years now, including
programming, animation, Web design, and digital music creation.
Camp director Karen Rosenbaum says the TIC camp offers a unique ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0828w.html#item16
"P2P Getting Down to Some Serious Work"
Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology is gaining ground in the corporate
IT environment, helping make networks more robust and assisting
applications. In addition, P2P is joining with other network
technologies--most notably grid computing--that are also making ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0828w.html#item17
"The Programmable Building"
Director of the MIT Media Lab's Center for Bits and Atoms Neil
Gershenfeld believes that buildings will be much more efficient
and flexible if their myriad systems are connected to the
Internet, and his team is devising small, inexpensive networking ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0828w.html#item18
"Homeland Insecurity"
Bruce Schneier, author of "Applied Cryptography," says that most
of the computer security measures being planned and developed in
the wake of Sept. 11 will be ineffective, and in some cases could
make Americans even more vulnerable. Schneier says people ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0828w.html#item19
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