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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 427
Date: November 25, 2002
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Top Stories for Monday, November 25, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"IT Warns Against Slippery Slope to Regulation"
"Agency Weighed, but Discarded, Plan Reconfiguring the Internet"
"New Gizmos May Spark Deregulation"
"Researchers: Pull Plug on Battery Attacks"
"'Here's Looking At You' Has New Meaning: Eye Contact Shown to
Affect Conversation Patterns, Group Problem-Solving Ability"
"Nano Research Should Study Consequences"
"Radical Physicist Flatters Computer Fans"
"Planning for the Day When Silicon Rules No More"
"Straining Digital Copyright Law, Junior Paper Exposes Protection
Flaws in CDs"
"A Visionary Pays a Visit"
"The Next Chapter"
"Retooling the Programmers"
"The FBI's Cybercrime Crackdown"
"The Ghosts of Computers Past"
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"IT Warns Against Slippery Slope to Regulation"
The IT industry responded to the White House's draft National
Strategy to Secure Cyberspace last week, in which hardware and
software vendors commented on recommendations that were both
promising and troubling. The Business Roundtable praised the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item1
"Agency Weighed, but Discarded, Plan Reconfiguring the Internet"
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) looked into
the possibility earlier this year of creating a new Internet
environment where every user would necessarily leave uniquely
identifiable imprints, just as criminals leave DNA evidence at a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item2
"New Gizmos May Spark Deregulation"
Technology experts argue that a series of breakthroughs should
lead to a rethinking of how people use the airwaves: Among them
are wireless technologies being developed by the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Intel, Bell Laboratories, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item3
"Researchers: Pull Plug on Battery Attacks"
Virginia Tech scientists Tom Martin, Dong Ha, and Michael Hsiao
are conducting research on ways to counter cyberattacks on mobile
computers that aim to incapacitate their targets by draining
their batteries. The researchers are concentrating on three ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item4
"'Here's Looking At You' Has New Meaning: Eye Contact Shown to
Affect Conversation Patterns, Group Problem-Solving Ability"
Dr. Roel Vertegaal of Queen's University has discovered a
correlation between the amount of eye contact people receive and
their involvement in conversations, and believes this research
could have valuable ramifications for the development of future ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item5
"Nano Research Should Study Consequences"
A study authored by Glenn Harlan Reynolds of the University of
Tennessee College of Law and released by the Pacific Research
Institute (PRI) calls for nanotechnology researchers to openly
disclose the nature of their research to the public while also ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item6
"Radical Physicist Flatters Computer Fans"
This fall's Comdex trade show was unusual in that a key speaker
presented radical ideas that could be applied in the distant
future, as opposed to the present. Physicist Stephen Wolfram,
the author of "A New Kind of Science," explained his view that ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item7
"Planning for the Day When Silicon Rules No More"
In their respective keynote speeches at the Nanoelectronics
Planet Conference & Expo on Thursday, Dr. Thomas Theis of IBM's
Research Division and Dr. Yong Chen of Hewlett-Packard
Laboratories' Quantum Science Research agreed that silicon still ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item8
"Straining Digital Copyright Law, Junior Paper Exposes Protection
Flaws in CDs"
Alex Halderman, a senior computer science major at Princeton
University, has acknowledged the possibility that he could be
sued by the music industry for allegedly violating the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) if he presents a junior paper at ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item9
"A Visionary Pays a Visit"
Vinton Cerf spoke about envisioning the Internet last week at the
well known Toronto Empire Club that counts many of Canada's
leading business figures as members. Cerf believes that issues
such as the assignment of domain names, taxing e-commerce, online ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item10
"The Next Chapter"
CenterBeam Chairman Sheldon Laube sees disposable PCs as the
future of information technology, considering personal computers
can be purchased for less than $200 today. Because it would not
make economic sense to ship a PC back for repairs, within five ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item11
"Retooling the Programmers"
Aspect-oriented programming seeks to relieve companies of many
headaches, such as the intense difficulty programmers face in
converting the needs and ideas of non-technical personnel into
usable code, as well as organizing and updating vast numbers of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item12
"The FBI's Cybercrime Crackdown"
Cybercrime is a growing concern in Washington, especially with
experts warning that an online assault on the nation's critical
infrastructure coupled with a physical terrorist attack could
trigger chaos, confusion, and loss of life, to say nothing of the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item13
"The Ghosts of Computers Past"
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., contains an
archive of precedent-setting hardware and software, and museum
board member John Mashey says the need to historically document
the evolution of today's computers is critical, especially since ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item14
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