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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 411
Date: October 16, 2002
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Top Stories for Wednesday, October 16, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"In the High-Tech Sector, Optimism Is Just a Faded Memory"
"Stress Tests Go Atomic at MIT"
"Media Seek to Limit Digital Copying"
"Net Security Chief Leaves Too Many Questions Unanswered"
"Asia Marches on Technology Frontier"
"University of Florida Researchers Make Progress on Tiny Battery"
"Thanks for the (Digital) Memories"
"Tech-Crash Threatens to Take Down SETI@home"
"Before Instant Messaging--Awareness"
"Wearables: More Than Sci-Fi Stuff"
"Vint Cerf Talks About Internet Changes"
"Drowning in a Deluge of Data, Data, Data..."
"New Telecom Connections for the Deaf"
"Nanoelectronics Run Deep in the Heart of Texas"
"Will Big Business Dictate Public Interest?"
"Designed For Life"
"Slight Bump in 2003 IT R&D Spending Expected"
"The Next Web"
"Controlling Robots With the Mind"
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"In the High-Tech Sector, Optimism Is Just a Faded Memory"
Pessimism has replaced optimism in Silicon Valley, as reflected
by the prevailing mood at this year's Agenda conference; speakers
foresaw little economic growth in the technology sector, and a
few leading technologists implied that the United States' global ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item1
"Stress Tests Go Atomic at MIT"
Scientists hope that a predictive model developed by MIT
researchers could be used to anticipate the earliest
manifestation of defects in materials that range from the
sub-microscopic to the super-macroscopic. Subra Suresh, head of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item2
"Media Seek to Limit Digital Copying"
Speaking at an Associated Press conference, Electronic Frontier
Foundation attorney Fred von Lohmann protested legislation from
Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) that would require consumer
electronics manufacturers to install "copyright chips" that would ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item3
"Net Security Chief Leaves Too Many Questions Unanswered"
Boston Globe technology columnist Hiawatha Bray agrees with
critics of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace that the
policy does not appear to take the issue of cybersecurity as
seriously as it should, given the many critical systems that ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item4
"Asia Marches on Technology Frontier"
Shahid Yusuf, co-author of the World Bank report "Can East Asia
Compete?," says the region has made progress in the technology
arena: Some countries such as Japan, Korea, and China are doing
well, while Southeast Asian nations such as the Philippines, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item5
"University of Florida Researchers Make Progress on Tiny Battery"
Batteries used in portable electronics could be improved while
power packs for microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices could
become a reality thanks to research being conducted by University
of Florida scientists. A team led by chemistry professor Charles ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item6
"Thanks for the (Digital) Memories"
Digital memory development has managed to keep pace with the
evolution of computation, despite predictions that its growth
would be severely limited 20 years ago--in fact, it has outpaced
Moore's Law. For example, there are few major differences ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item7
"Tech-Crash Threatens to Take Down SETI@home"
The SETI@home project needs more funding if it is to continue,
and chief scientist Dan Werthimer told SETI Australia Chairman
Dr. Frank Stootman that the installation of radio data recording
gear at the Parkes telescope observatory would be postponed until ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item8
"Before Instant Messaging--Awareness"
AT&T Laboratories' "Hubbub" instant messaging experiment shows
how presence technology makes co-workers more effective through
collaboration. The study compared collaboration enabled by
Hubbub with the way office workers would normally communicate at ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item9
"Wearables: More Than Sci-Fi Stuff"
Students from MIT and Georgia Tech attending last week's Sixth
Annual International Wearable Computer Symposium tried out new
technologies at the University of Washington campus. One
technology, augmented reality (AR), involves a see-through ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item10
"Vint Cerf Talks About Internet Changes"
ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf addresses how the Internet is changing
during an online question-and-answer session. In his opinion,
anonymity is an important topic for discussion, because it
carries both good and bad uses; he is also concerned about ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item11
"Drowning in a Deluge of Data, Data, Data..."
Data storage requirements have grown at a compound annual rate of
90 percent for the last two years, leaving companies struggling
to figure out what to do with all their information, according to
a recent Meta Group survey of 328 IT executives in the U.S. The ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item12
"New Telecom Connections for the Deaf"
A number of new Internet-enabled technologies for phone
conversation are making deaf and hard-of-hearing people more
effective and mobile in the workplace and enabling them to more
easily communicate with the hearing world. Whereas previously, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item13
"Nanoelectronics Run Deep in the Heart of Texas"
The University of Texas at Austin is working on commercializing
its nanotechnology research, and Renee A. Mallett of The Office
of Technology Licensing and Intellectual Property says both the
local community and investors have an interest in nanotech. The ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item14
"Will Big Business Dictate Public Interest?"
The Internet Society (ISOC), despite promising to manage the .org
domain for the public benefit, can be viewed as an organization
representing major technology companies, because top ISOC members
include WorldCom, IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item15
"Designed For Life"
Northwestern University computer science professor and author
Donald Norman, who wrote "The Design of Everyday Things,"
believes it is taking designers too long to create more usable
computing products, which he attributes to a lack of business ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item16
"Slight Bump in 2003 IT R&D Spending Expected"
A slight increase is expected for government spending on
information technology research and development in the next
fiscal year. The Networking and IT research and development
(NITRD) program's proposed budget for fiscal 2003 is $1.9 ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item17
"The Next Web"
Search engines are very limited when it comes to sifting through
a mountain of data that is increasing steadily, but the Semantic
Web could make finding information easier; such a development
would make employees more productive and companies easier for ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item18
"Controlling Robots With the Mind"
Researchers are hard at work developing technology that could
enable people to control machines by thought; potential
applications include more responsive prosthetics for paralysis
victims, while further advancements carry the promise of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1016w.html#item19
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