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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 414
Date: October 23, 2002
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Top Stories for Wednesday, October 23, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Attack on Internet Called Largest Ever"
"Is Your Congress Member Tech-Friendly?"
"Sharp Unveils 'Computer-On-Glass' Display"
"Researchers Predict Worm that Eats the Internet in 15 Minutes"
"China's Next Challenge: Mastering the Microchip"
"Smart Fatigues Hear Enemy Coming"
"IT Circa 2008: Spin Your Crystal Balls"
"Nano Organization Tries to Put the Valley Back on Washington's Map"
"Where Are All the IT Jobs?"
"Professor's Case: Unlock Crypto"
"Fighting Back"
"Dan Gillmor: Software Idea May Be Crazy Enough to Work"
"Fractals Help UCLA Researchers Design Antennas for New Wireless
Devices"
"Indian Scientists Draw Top Dollar in US IT Research"
"Bioinformatics: Bringing It All Together"
"The PC Changes Shape"
"A Better Ballot Box?"
"Grid Iron"
"Pocket Pictures"
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"Attack on Internet Called Largest Ever"
What key online backbone organization officials are calling the
largest and most sophisticated attack ever on the Internet's root
servers disrupted eight or nine of the 13 computers that control
global Internet flow late Monday afternoon for about an hour. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item1
"Is Your Congress Member Tech-Friendly?"
Nearly one-third of Congress is "tech-friendly," or in favor of
the technology sector's program, according to the Information
Technology Industry Council's (ITI) high-tech voting guide issued
on Monday. Technology bills Congress passed as law were positive ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item2
"Sharp Unveils 'Computer-On-Glass' Display"
Japanese liquid crystal display (LCD) manufacturer Sharp today
disclosed a prototype display with microprocessor circuitry
placed directly onto the glass, using the company's continuous
grain silicon (CGS) technology. The company says the screen, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item3
"Researchers Predict Worm that Eats the Internet in 15 Minutes"
A two-month-old research paper theorizes next-generation computer
worms that could overrun the Internet in a matter of minutes;
such worms would use "hit lists" of vulnerable systems, rather
than scan blindly, and also carry payloads that would facilitate ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item4
"China's Next Challenge: Mastering the Microchip"
The Chinese government wants China to become a global competitor
in the semiconductor industry, and is offering a raft of
incentives to foreign companies to set up shop in the country and
offer expertise to domestic workers. China's semiconductor ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item5
"Smart Fatigues Hear Enemy Coming"
Scientists at Virginia Tech and the University of Southern
California have combined state-of-the-art electronics and
traditional weaving techniques to develop a fabric that can
detect and relay sounds from great distances, which could be ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item6
"IT Circa 2008: Spin Your Crystal Balls"
Gartner Research recently unveiled its 10 predictions for
computing in the year 2008, eliciting a number of opinions from
IT-savvy readers. Gartner predicted that increased network
capacity will allow businesses and consumers to draw their ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item7
"Nano Organization Tries to Put the Valley Back on Washington's Map"
The NanoScience Exchange (NSE) founded by software entrepreneur
Jim Hurd is a young organization that aims to bridge the
communications gap between Washington legislators and Silicon
Valley, which suffered a blow to its credibility as a result of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item8
"Where Are All the IT Jobs?"
Recent studies from Challenger, Gray & Christmas and the
Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) report a
drop in the number of IT layoffs, but there are indications that
hiring has also dropped: ITAA reports that new hires between ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item9
"Professor's Case: Unlock Crypto"
Professor Daniel Bernstein of the University of Illinois is
waging a court battle with the U.S. government to make
cryptographic software code freely available to the American
public. In 1995, he filed suit against the State Department, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item10
"Fighting Back"
Media companies are estranging consumers, tech companies, and
creative artists by pushing for legislation that would increase
their control over copyrighted works even further, cutting into
fair-use rights in their quest to stamp out digital piracy. Such ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item11
"Dan Gillmor: Software Idea May Be Crazy Enough to Work"
Lotus Development founder and cyber-activist Mitch Kapor and his
team have spent more than a year developing Chandler, an
open-source Interpersonal Information Manager software program
that encrypts data such as personal email, calendars, and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item12
"Fractals Help UCLA Researchers Design Antennas for New Wireless
Devices"
UCLA researchers are using fractal mathematical models of various
topographies in order to design antennas that can function in
multiple ways on multiple frequencies for use with new cell
phones and other wireless communications devices, according to a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item13
"Indian Scientists Draw Top Dollar in US IT Research"
Three out of the seven highest grants awarded by the U.S.
National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Information
Technology Research (ITR) program went to research projects led
by Indian scientists and professors. "This proves the point that ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item14
"Bioinformatics: Bringing It All Together"
Bioinformatics is the acquisition, storage, analysis, and
visualization of biological information via computational tools,
and Jim Golden of 454 Corporation says that this can be
accomplished by integrating data across myriad databases, a task ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item15
"The PC Changes Shape"
PCs have not changed much in the last seven years, but
manufacturers and vendors looking to jump-start the tepid PC
market will be rolling out PCs will new technologies in the near
future. Dell, IBM, and HP are all developing "transformer" PCs ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item16
"A Better Ballot Box?"
The debacle of the November 2000 presidential election in Florida
has prompted election officials around the world to consider
alternative technologies, such as electronic voting, that promise
to eliminate mistakes and improve reliability and count accuracy. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item17
"Grid Iron"
Distributed or grid computing is designed to harness the idle
computing power of machines spread out over a decentralized
network, enabling customers to solve complex problems without
running up costs for new equipment. IBM's Irving ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item18
"Pocket Pictures"
Telecommunications companies such as NTT DoCoMo and AT&T and
manufacturers such as Nokia, Ericsson, and Fujitsu are
working--often in collaboration--to develop embedded devices and
applications that support wireless 3D graphics. 3D-enabled ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1023w.html#item19
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