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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 430
Date: December 4, 2002
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Top Stories for Wednesday, December 4, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Patent Holders on the Ropes"
"Sun's Microsoft Remedy Praised"
"Xerox Says New Material Will Allow Plastic Transistors"
"Somewhere Over the Virtual Rainbow"
"Video Game College is 'Boot Camp' for Future Designers"
"Spy-Sized Gizmos Built Into Clothes and Glasses"
"In Switch, HP Announces Support for E-Waste Bill"
"Experiment Points to New Spin on Storage"
"Schneier: No "Magic Security Dust""
"Fractals Add New Dimension to Study of Tiny Electronics"
"Copyright Cartel Still Winning Most of the Time"
"'Grid Computing' Is the Next Wave in High-Performance Computing"
"Wireless Watchers Eyeing Mesh Networks"
"Xerox Hopes Small Technology Copies Innovations of the Past"
"Winning the Cybersecurity War"
"Growing Smaller"
"IT to Fight Terrorism"
"IM Means Business"
"Received Wisdom"
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"Patent Holders on the Ropes"
Technology standards bodies are writing new rules excluding
patented technologies, a change that some see as a recompense for
years of abuse by patent holders. The World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) rejected patented technology that required royalty payments ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1204w.html#item1
"Sun's Microsoft Remedy Praised"
Sun Microsystems is seeking a preliminary injunction from a
Baltimore court to prevent Microsoft from shipping Windows
without including Sun's Java, a programming language that can be
used to develop Internet services software much like Microsoft's ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1204w.html#item2
"Xerox Says New Material Will Allow Plastic Transistors"
Cheap, lightweight, and flexible displays for cell phones, TVs,
and laptops could one day become a reality thanks to a new
material that facilitates the fabrication of organic transistors
on a plastic substrate. The material, developed by Xerox, will ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1204w.html#item3
"Somewhere Over the Virtual Rainbow"
An extracurricular project that allows middle school girls to
explore the possibilities of the University of Illinois' 3D
virtual reality CAVE environment aims to get more girls
interested in science and less averse to using technology, among ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1204w.html#item4
"Video Game College is 'Boot Camp' for Future Designers"
DigiPen in Vancouver, British Columbia, offers the only
accredited four-year degree for people who want to make video
games; the school is considered the Harvard for that industry.
Other colleges and universities have launched single courses in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1204w.html#item5
"Spy-Sized Gizmos Built Into Clothes and Glasses"
Technology forecasters such as Wayne Pethrick of the Futures Lab
and Paul Saffo of the Institute for the Future expect
"wearware"--electronics embedded in apparel--will be a major
trend of the coming years. "It's basically the computer as ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1204w.html#item6
"In Switch, HP Announces Support for E-Waste Bill"
In a reversal of an earlier position that prompted Gov. Gray
Davis (D-Calif.) to kill an e-waste recycling bill in October,
leading global PC manufacturer Hewlett-Packard announced its
support for the legislation, which encouraged Sen. Byron Sher ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1204w.html#item7
"Experiment Points to New Spin on Storage"
Oklahoma University researchers reported in the Oct. 15 issue of
the Journal of Chemical Physics that they were able to
successfully encode and retrieve a 1,024-bit image of a test
pattern onto a liquid crystal molecule by changing the spin ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1204w.html#item8
"Schneier: No "Magic Security Dust""
U.S. security expert and Counterpane Internet Security chief
technologist Bruce Schneier believes that the continued migration
of infrastructure to the Internet, advances in computer power and
usability, and the growing complexity of networking systems will ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1204w.html#item9
"Fractals Add New Dimension to Study of Tiny Electronics"
Research at Ohio State University (OSU) and the University of
Utah has uncovered an organic material that emits fractal
magnetic fields. As digital devices using magnetic fields--such
as computer hard drives and magnetic strips on ID cards--become ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1204w.html#item10
"Copyright Cartel Still Winning Most of the Time"
Copyright owners are winning most of the battles in their war to
control how content is consumed. Adobe Systems is in court this
week in the first criminal case for an alleged violation of the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The Russian company ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1204w.html#item11
"'Grid Computing' Is the Next Wave in High-Performance Computing"
Research organizations and governments are working to create
supercomputing grids that will provide the aggregate computing
resources of the group to any connected node. Intel's Rick
Herrmann says universities that have for the last few years ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1204w.html#item12
"Wireless Watchers Eyeing Mesh Networks"
Wireless mesh networking is gaining in popularity because of the
success of the 802.11 wireless standard (Wi-Fi). MeshNetworks in
Florida created technology that forms a larger peer-to-peer
network from several independent multipoint networks. By ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1204w.html#item13
"Xerox Hopes Small Technology Copies Innovations of the Past"
Xerox spun off its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) at the
beginning of this year in order to cut costs at the company, but
Xerox researchers are still at the cutting-edge of
nanotechnology, having developed several new devices that promise ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1204w.html#item14
"Winning the Cybersecurity War"
In the post-Sept. 11, 2001 world, cyber-security has become the
paramount issue for network administrators. Internet attacks are
rising, and CERT reports that while 52,000-plus attacks were
documented in 2001, the first six months of this year has seen ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1204w.html#item15
"Growing Smaller"
Nanotechnology continues to attract negative publicity, including
the recently released Michael Crichton novel "Prey," a story
about bacterium-size machines reproducing into a swarm of
flesh-eating predators. The concern over nanotechnology even ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1204w.html#item16
"IT to Fight Terrorism"
Former Defense Department intelligence analyst and former Network
Solutions CTO David Holtzman, now a professor at American
University, says the U.S. government views IT as its primary
weapon in the war on terror, though he says it may not always be ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1204w.html#item17
"IM Means Business"
The market for instant messaging (IM) applications is thriving,
and currently consists of a customer base of over 100 million
unique home users and 18 million office users; stock brokerages,
the military, e-tailers, law enforcement, and customer service ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1204w.html#item18
"Received Wisdom"
The use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is
much more pronounced than most people realize, because they are
unaware of its widespread presence. RFID tags are used to
monitor the health of trees and livestock, track the location of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1204w.html#item19
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