[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
ACM TechNews - Wednesday, September 11, 2002
Dear ACM TechNews Subscriber:
Welcome to the September 11, 2002 edition of ACM TechNews,
providing timely information for IT professionals three times a
week. For instructions on how to unsubscribe from this
service, please see below.
ACM's MemberNet is now online. For discussion (and voting)
forums on current industry issues and the latest on ACM
activities, visit http://www.acm.org/membernet
Remember to check out our hot new online essay and opinion
magazine, Ubiquity, at http://www.acm.org/ubiquity
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 397
Date: September 11, 2002
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Site Sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company ( <http://www.hp.com> )
HP is the premier source for computing services,
products and solutions. Responding to customers' requirements
for quality and reliability at aggressive prices, HP offers
performance-packed products and comprehensive services.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Top Stories for Wednesday, September 11, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"A Year Later, Online Privacy and Security Still Weak"
"Administration Pares Cyber-Security Plan"
"Worldwide 'War Drive' Exposes Insecure Wireless LANs"
"Organic Electronics"
"Firms Offer to Recycle TVs, Monitors to Avoid Government Fees"
"The UI of the Fifth Revolution"
"Hewlett Takes A Step Forward In the World Of Tiny Chips"
"Quantum Software Gets the Picture"
"Mozilla Rising"
"An Insider's Look at Homeland Security and Technology"
"Hot Spots"
"National Science Foundation Launches Grid Testbed"
"Single Atom Memory Device Stores Data"
"Digital Divide"
"Electronics in the Round: Mixing Plastics and Silicon Yields
Form-Fitting Circuitry"
"Seeking CRM Integration"
"Retaining Top Talent"
"Business Process Management"
"A Year After 9/11: Where Are We Now?"
******************* News Stories ***********************
"A Year Later, Online Privacy and Security Still Weak"
Online privacy has been eroded and security remains loose since
the Sept. 11 attacks a year ago. Although resistance from the IT
community helped prevent a national ID rollout and restrictions
on encryption software, the government has more leeway to pilfer ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item1
"Administration Pares Cyber-Security Plan"
The Bush administration has made some revisions to the National
Strategy to Secure Cyberspace in the hopes that industry will
voluntarily adopt the plan, according to a government official.
Companies have argued against certain recommendations as being ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item2
"Worldwide 'War Drive' Exposes Insecure Wireless LANs"
Many wireless LAN users do not deploy basic security measures,
according to the results of a "Worldwide Wardrive" that was
conducted in Europe and North America over the past week.
Self-proclaimed hobbyists carried out the wardrive using free ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item3
"Organic Electronics"
The University of Arizona Optical Sciences Center is focusing on
the deposition of ultrathin organic molecules onto plastic
substrates in an effort to create electronics such as radio
frequency (RF) tags that could, for instance, allow grocery items ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item4
"Firms Offer to Recycle TVs, Monitors to Avoid Government Fees"
Television manufacturers Panasonic, Sony, and Sharp plan to
demonstrate that they can recycle their discarded products
responsibly through the Electronics Recycling Shared
Responsibility Program, thus obviating the need for ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item5
"The UI of the Fifth Revolution"
The so-called Fifth revolution of computing will require a
radical user interface that takes into consideration several
aspects of mobile computing, including: A small form factor,
voice input, profiling that allows devices to operate according ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item6
"Hewlett Takes A Step Forward In the World Of Tiny Chips"
Hewlett-Packard scientists have unveiled a process for
manufacturing molecular electronics at lower cost and much higher
density than the most sophisticated semiconductor chips being
used today. The breakthrough was disclosed today by Dr. R. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item7
"Quantum Software Gets the Picture"
University of British Columbia physicist Ralf Schutzhold has
developed an algorithm that proves that a quantum computer would
be able to discern a linear pattern faster than a conventional
machine. His algorithm draws patterns from raw data, which is a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item8
"Mozilla Rising"
Mozilla, the open-source project behind the Netscape browser, is
gaining popularity for its programming ease. Experts say that
using Mozilla's XML-based XUL language to build an application
interface is not much more difficult than building Web pages ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item9
"An Insider's Look at Homeland Security and Technology"
In an interview with PC Magazine, Office of Homeland Security CIO
Steve I. Cooper discusses how his group characterizes and
implements anti-terror technologies. Component areas he cites
include intelligence-gathering; integration; information ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item10
"Hot Spots"
The Boston area's roughly 100 public Wi-Fi access points, or hot
spots, are a mix of free and for-fee services, reflecting a
growing trend nationwide to create both free "community networks"
for individuals and "for-pay" projects aimed at business users. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item11
"National Science Foundation Launches Grid Testbed"
The National Science Foundation is overseeing a program that uses
eight American universities as trial sites for grid computing
technologies developed under the aegis of the National Science
Foundation Middleware Initiative (NMI). The NMI Integration ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item12
"Single Atom Memory Device Stores Data"
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin and Switzerland's
University of Basel collaborated on the development of an atomic
memory system that allows data to be stored in individual atoms.
The system enables one atom to represent the difference between a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item13
"Digital Divide"
Legislators have become embroiled in the heated argument between
Silicon Valley and the entertainment industry over the
enforcement of copyright protection on the Internet. Earlier
this year, top Hollywood executives such as Peter Chernin and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item14
"Electronics in the Round: Mixing Plastics and Silicon Yields
Form-Fitting Circuitry"
In the Aug. 26 issue of Applied Physics Letters, Princeton
University's Pai-Hui I. Hsu and colleagues describe their efforts
to combine silicon-based transistors with polyimide plastic in
order to create circuitry that can be molded to any surface. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item15
"Seeking CRM Integration"
Companies that must integrate their diverse CRM applications
while minimizing deployment costs are turning to a number of
solutions. Best-of-breed applications can be linked together via
EAI or messaging middleware, while data warehousing, Web ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item16
"Retaining Top Talent"
Many countries are stepping up efforts to prevent the loss of
highly skilled professionals to other countries, according to a
study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD). Developing countries suffer the most brain ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item17
"Business Process Management"
Approximately 70 percent of 727 executives polled by CIO Insight
in August report that their companies are continuously improving
their business processes and are very committed to such a goal,
but little more than one-third describe their processes as ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item18
"A Year After 9/11: Where Are We Now?"
One year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, digital
technologies and communications media have drawn fire from key
figures as contributing to the tragedy. These same parties are
pressuring Congress, state governments, and international ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item19
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- To review Monday's issue, please visit
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0909m.html
-- To visit the TechNews home page, point your browser to:
http://www.acm.org/technews/
-- To unsubscribe from the ACM TechNews Early Alert Service:
Please send a separate email to listserv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
with the line
signoff technews
in the body of your message.
-- Please note that replying directly to this message does not
automatically unsubscribe you from the TechNews list.
-- To submit feedback about ACM TechNews, contact:
technews@xxxxxxxxxx
-- ACM may have a different email address on file for you,
so if you're unable to "unsubscribe" yourself, please direct
your request to: technews-request@xxxxxxx
We will remove your name from the TechNews list on
your behalf.
-- For help with technical problems, including problems with
leaving the list, please write to: technews-request@xxxxxxx
----
ACM TechNews is sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company.