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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 428
Date: November 27, 2002
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Top Stories for Wednesday, November 27, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Loss of Major Hub Cities Could Cripple Internet, Study Suggests"
"Court Finds Limits to California Jurisdiction in Cyberspace"
"China Tries to Woo Its Tech Talent Back Home"
"TeraGrid Supercomputing Project Expands"
"Volunteers Wanted for IT National Guard"
"Students Learning to Evade Moves to Protect Media Files"
"Bush Signs Homeland Security Bill"
"MIT Cooks Up Wired Kitchen Tools"
"Tough Microbes Offer Clues to Self-Assembling Nano-Structures"
"Free Software vs. Goliaths"
"Free-software Gadfly Takes on Net Group"
"San Diego Supercomputer Center Hits Data-Transfer Speed Milestone"
"Way Back When"
"Experts Mull 'Next Big Thing' in Computing"
"Software Innovation Without End"
"Throttled at Birth"
"Global Positioning System: A High-Tech Success"
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"Loss of Major Hub Cities Could Cripple Internet, Study Suggests"
The centralized "hub-and-spoke" model of the Internet's
infrastructure makes it especially fragile in the event of a
terrorist attack or other catastrophe that threatens to knock out
major Internet nodes, according to an Ohio State University study ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1127w.html#item1
"Court Finds Limits to California Jurisdiction in Cyberspace"
A Monday ruling from the California Supreme Court, in which the
justices determined that merely posting content online does not
give companies the right to sue out-of-state defendants for
copyright infringement in California courts, is considered a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1127w.html#item2
"China Tries to Woo Its Tech Talent Back Home"
The Chinese government is ramping up efforts to win back its
engineering and technology students who had gone to the United
States to study but stayed to do business. Chinese consul
general Wang Yunxiang in San Francisco says jobs for returning ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1127w.html#item3
"TeraGrid Supercomputing Project Expands"
The National Science Foundation, which apportioned $53 million
last year to fund the construction of the Distributed Terascale
Facility (TeraGrid), has authorized an additional grant of $35
million to extend the facility to include different kinds of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1127w.html#item4
"Volunteers Wanted for IT National Guard"
As part of the Department of Homeland Security initiative, the
federal government will put out a call for volunteers to serve in
the National Emergency Technology (NET) Guard, a taskforce of
science and technology experts that will quickly mobilize to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1127w.html#item5
"Students Learning to Evade Moves to Protect Media Files"
In response to warnings from entertainment companies about
students downloading copyrighted material off the Internet
without authorization, as well as the cost of such
activities' bandwidth demands, U.S. colleges are attempting to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1127w.html#item6
"Bush Signs Homeland Security Bill"
Bush signed the Department of Homeland Security bill into law on
Monday, thus authorizing the consolidation of 22 federal agencies
into a single body tasked with protecting the nation's critical
infrastructure. The law has civil liberties groups worried about ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1127w.html#item7
"MIT Cooks Up Wired Kitchen Tools"
Since 1998, MIT's Media Lab has been the center of an effort to
develop sophisticated electronic kitchen products, the foremost
being the Minerva interactive countertop, which combines cameras,
scales, and computers to assist chefs in food preparation. Using ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1127w.html#item8
"Tough Microbes Offer Clues to Self-Assembling Nano-Structures"
NASA biologist Jonathan Trent has proposed that a hardy
extremophile organism's resistance to high temperatures could be
exploited to produce self-assembling arrays of tiny structures,
which forms the basis of nanotechnology. The microbe in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1127w.html#item9
"Free Software vs. Goliaths"
The nonprofit Free Software Foundation faces some formidable
adversaries in its struggle to support the open-source software
movement, including politicians, copyright holders, and
commercial software companies. These organizations and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1127w.html#item10
"Free-software Gadfly Takes on Net Group"
Open-source advocate and Linux pioneer Bruce Perens is working to
change the Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF) policy of
including proprietary code in its specifications. Because the
IETF's current membership is against such a change, Perens is ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1127w.html#item11
"San Diego Supercomputer Center Hits Data-Transfer Speed Milestone"
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of
California, San Diego, achieved a data transfer speed of 828 Mbps
when moving data from its tape drives to disk drives,
demonstrating the type of massive storage capabilities needed for ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1127w.html#item12
"Way Back When"
Paul Marks is the inventor of the Wayback Machine, an access
point for an online archive of roughly 2 billion Web pages that
currently takes up more than 100 terabytes (TB). His Alexa
Internet commercial Web site cataloging business is funding the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1127w.html#item13
"Experts Mull 'Next Big Thing' in Computing"
Leaders of the IT industry discussed future computing trends in a
Comdex panel entitled "The Next Big Thing." The panel focused on
wireless, security, and display technology while presenting a
vision of a world full of networks. In the future, content would ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1127w.html#item14
"Software Innovation Without End"
Computer visionary and inventor Alan Kay, a Palo Alto Research
Center principal whose many credits include the standard PC
interface, the highly influential Smalltalk programming language,
network client/servers, and the Ethernet, is joining ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1127w.html#item15
"Throttled at Birth"
Matthew Williamson, a researcher at Hewlett-Packard laboratories
in Bristol, England, has devised a way to slow the spread of a
computer virus, and it appears to work. Williamson's "throttle"
method limits the rate at which computers can connect to new ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1127w.html#item16
"Global Positioning System: A High-Tech Success"
The Global Positioning System (GPS), which started out as a U.S.
military project to improve navigational accuracy, has evolved
into a tool that can be used by civilians as well, and has many
potential applications. The system consists of 24 satellites ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1127w.html#item17
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