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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 443
Date: January 8, 2003
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Top Stories for Wednesday, January 8, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Boucher Introduces Fair Use Rights Bill"
"A Pared-Back Security Initiative"
"IT Gender Gap Widening"
"Congress to Take on Spam, Copyright"
"Defendant Acquitted in DVD Hacking Case"
"Broader U.S. Spy Initiative Debated"
"System Permits Long-Distance Manipulation of Image Files"
"Tech Doctorates Decline 7 Percent"
"Hubs Increase Net Risk"
"Apple Needs Clear Path to Future"
"Data Stored in Multiplying Bacteria"
"Phone Calling Over Internet Is Attracting More Interest"
"Nanotech Scientists Build Super-Small Circuit"
"Software Designers With Vision Map Hard Drives--and Beyond"
"The Year Ahead: The Future of Viruses"
"Outlook 2003"
"Speak Easy"
"Back to the Garage"
"Since You Asked..."
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"Boucher Introduces Fair Use Rights Bill"
The Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act presented to Congress on
Tuesday by Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and Rep. John Doolittle
(R-Calif.) aims to revise the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA) so that consumers can exercise their fair use rights when ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0108w.html#item1
"A Pared-Back Security Initiative"
A revised internal draft of President Bush's National Plan to
Secure Cyberspace cuts the number of security proposals from 86
to 49 and broadens the authority of the Homeland Security
Department. The latest version removes a recommendation for the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0108w.html#item2
"IT Gender Gap Widening"
Women have been making gradual gains in most professions that
were traditionally male-dominated, but information technology
appears to be an exception--for instance, the number of computer
science degrees awarded to women declined from 35.8 percent to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0108w.html#item3
"Congress to Take on Spam, Copyright"
The 108th Congress is liable to pass at least some of last year's
major technology-related legislation, including bills that would
enforce copyrights and create uniform spam regulation. Rep. Rick
Boucher (D-Va.) is back with his Digital Media Consumers' Rights ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0108w.html#item4
"Defendant Acquitted in DVD Hacking Case"
The trial of John Lech Johansen, the Norwegian teenager accused
of copyright infringement for inventing and distributing the
DeCSS DVD decryption program, ended in a verdict of not guilty in
Oslo City Court. Attorney Halvor Manshaus says the court ruled ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0108w.html#item5
"Broader U.S. Spy Initiative Debated"
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Total
Information Awareness (TIA) project will supposedly uncover
potential terrorists by mining the "transaction space"--huge
databases of personal information--according to Information ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0108w.html#item6
"System Permits Long-Distance Manipulation of Image Files"
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are developing a
system dubbed "Be There Now" that supports the online
manipulation of image files from remote locations, which can save
hours of download time and protect sensitive files. Sandia team ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0108w.html#item7
"Tech Doctorates Decline 7 Percent"
The number of science and engineering doctorate degrees awarded
in the United States slipped 7 percent between 1998 and 2001,
according to a National Science Foundation (NSF) survey conducted
by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center; ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0108w.html#item8
"Hubs Increase Net Risk"
Ohio State University researchers have completed a study showing
how the Internet's infrastructure is becoming more vulnerable to
physical disaster than in its early days. Whereas the Internet
was previously built in a mesh-type network, competitive market ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0108w.html#item9
"Apple Needs Clear Path to Future"
Apple Computer could maintain its competitiveness by switching
from Motorola PowerPC chips, which form the basic architecture of
Mac computers, to Intel-compatible microprocessors that are
central to Windows machines, writes Dan Gillmor. He notes that ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0108w.html#item10
"Data Stored in Multiplying Bacteria"
American researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
have successfully stored information within bacteria as
artificial DNA in an effort to create a new type of memory that
could survive a nuclear catastrophe or other disaster. The ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0108w.html#item11
"Phone Calling Over Internet Is Attracting More Interest"
Telephony via the Internet promises to save money, but it is
mainly restricted to niche markets; however, there are signs that
it has begun to branch out, and widescale adoption will lead to
dramatic revisions in the telecommunications sector. Analysts ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0108w.html#item12
"Nanotech Scientists Build Super-Small Circuit"
Canadian researchers have created an electronic circuit activated
by just one electron. University of Toronto chemist Al-Amin
Dhirani says the nanoscale circuit is formed by a sharp metal tip
that holds the source of the electric charge. Just one nanometer ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0108w.html#item13
"Software Designers With Vision Map Hard Drives--and Beyond"
Yale University computer scientist David Gelernter observes that
computing revolutions took off with the advent of technologies
that can map out data sets visually, such as the spreadsheet and
Apple Macintosh's point-and-click graphical user interface. Such ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0108w.html#item14
"The Year Ahead: The Future of Viruses"
Security experts predict that cyberattack methods will increase
in sophistication this year, including the emergence of faster,
more destructive computer viruses. "Really what has happened is
that the bar has risen on how fast and how hard viruses can hit," ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0108w.html#item15
"Outlook 2003"
InformationWeek Research's Outlook 2003 poll finds more optimism
among IT managers this year than last, although their corporate
strategies are more cautious and risk-averse. Seventy-two
percent of managers expect revenue gains this year, compared to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0108w.html#item16
"Speak Easy"
Industries such as medicine, automotives, video games, and
telecommunications are using speech recognition technology to
save money, increase productivity, and enhance their products.
Using speech recognition, mobile workers can access important ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0108w.html#item17
"Back to the Garage"
The combination of the tech recession, the bursting of the
dot-com bubble, and the economic downturn was a tremendous blow
to Silicon Valley, but it also has, incredibly enough, sparked a
new entrepreneurism. More Bay Area professionals--especially the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0108w.html#item18
"Since You Asked..."
A survey of over 500 IEEE Fellows on how technology trends will
progress in the next five to 10 years was characterized by
cautious optimism, and the belief that technology is a key
societal component. The Fellows considered the development of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0108w.html#item19
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