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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 474
Date: March 26, 2003
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Top Stories for Wednesday, March 26, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Privacy Groups Fight Government Data Mining"
"Engineers Create World's First Transparent Transistor"
"Data Expert Is Cautious About Misuse of Information"
"Coming of the Green Computers"
"Can IT Still Attract the Best and Brightest?"
"Peer-to-Peer Networks Can't Be Unplugged"
"Web Hacking Is Up as Tensions Rise"
"Antispam Crusaders Call for New Laws"
"DNS Expert: More Sophisticated Internet Attacks Coming"
"E-Mail Patterns Map Corporate Structure"
"Are Wireless Networks Secure Yet?"
"Making Computers Talk"
"Bio-Battery Runs on Shots of Vodka"
"SALT Sets the Standard for Web-Based Voice Applications"
"Seeking Additional Security After a Big Theft, JSTOR Tests
Internet2's Shibboleth"
"Iraq Still Online"
"E-Mail For Everyone"
"Seizing the Moment"
"The Relentless Storm"
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"Privacy Groups Fight Government Data Mining"
An alliance of privacy groups including the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and the
Electronic Privacy Information Center fired off a letter to Reps.
Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Tom Davis (R-Va.), advising Congress ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0326w.html#item1
"Engineers Create World's First Transparent Transistor"
Oregon State University engineers have built the world's first
transparent transistor out of zinc oxide, and OSU electrical and
computer engineering professor John Wager characterizes the
breakthrough as "a significant new advance in basic electronics ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0326w.html#item2
"Data Expert Is Cautious About Misuse of Information"
In-Q-Tel CEO Gilman Louie told PC Forum attendees on Monday that
a proposal favored by some technology executives--one calling for
a large database on citizens' activities that government
officials would have unrestricted access to--is "very dangerous." ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0326w.html#item3
"Coming of the Green Computers"
Spurred by the enactment of the European Union's Waste Electrical
and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and Restriction of Hazardous
Substances (RoHS) directives last month, the U.S. computer
industry is giving serious consideration to designing more ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0326w.html#item4
"Can IT Still Attract the Best and Brightest?"
The IT industry's salad days may be over, which raises the
question of whether it can continue to bring in top talent.
Exacerbating the situation are morale-dampening mass layoffs and
salary declines plaguing the IT sector. "I think a lot of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0326w.html#item5
"Peer-to-Peer Networks Can't Be Unplugged"
Despite legal and technological assaults against them,
peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks are not going to be shut
down any time soon, according to industry experts. Late last
year, a team of four Microsoft researchers, working ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0326w.html#item6
"Web Hacking Is Up as Tensions Rise"
As the war with Iraq continues, defacement of Web sites is
increasing in frequency, and many security experts claim that
greater damages could be perpetrated in the near future.
Currently, hackers are focusing on replacing original Web ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0326w.html#item7
"Antispam Crusaders Call for New Laws"
Outspoken critics of unsolicited commercial email are urging
Congress to enact a federal ban against spam, arguing their case
with a March 21 appeals court ruling that supports a federal
regulation against "junk" faxes. Electronic Privacy Information ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0326w.html#item8
"DNS Expert: More Sophisticated Internet Attacks Coming"
Domain Name System (DNS) designer Paul Mockapetris argues that
the denial-of-service attacks launched against the DNS last
October were but a foretaste of more advanced assaults in the
future. He contends that future attacks will target DNS ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0326w.html#item9
"E-Mail Patterns Map Corporate Structure"
Graphing the flow of email exchanges within an enterprise could
yield a blueprint of the company's corporate framework, according
to a study from Hewlett-Packard researchers Joshua Tyler, Dennis
Wilkinson, and Bernardo Huberman. The scientists note that their ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0326w.html#item10
"Are Wireless Networks Secure Yet?"
The wired equivalent privacy (WEP) security standard--seen by
many as the reason wireless local area networks (WLANs) are so
insecure--will be replaced by the Wi-Fi protected access (WPA)
protocol when it is rolled out in April by the Wi-Fi Alliance, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0326w.html#item11
"Making Computers Talk"
Synthetic-speech systems are increasing in sophistication thanks
to the emergence of faster computers and cheap data storage, and
one of the most advanced systems is IBM's Supervoices, which
boasts natural-sounding speech and unlimited vocabulary--elements ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0326w.html#item12
"Bio-Battery Runs on Shots of Alcohol"
St. Louis University researcher Shelley Minteer and colleagues
revealed at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting on
Monday that they have created an enzyme-catalyzed ethanol fuel
cell that could eventually be used to power laptop computers and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0326w.html#item13
"SALT Sets the Standard for Web-Based Voice Applications"
The Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) standard, a new voice
interface technology under consideration by the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C), is a Web technology designed to enable voice
interfaces on embedded devices such as those used for telematics ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0326w.html#item14
"Seeking Additional Security After a Big Theft, JSTOR Tests
Internet2's Shibboleth"
In the wake of a raid on JSTOR's online subscription databases
last fall, in which roughly 50,000 digitized articles were stolen
before the intrusion was detected and halted, the nonprofit
scholarly journal licenser has equipped its Web servers with ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0326w.html#item15
"Iraq Still Online"
As of March 21, Iraq's major Web sites were still operating
despite the continuing war, including Uruklink.net, the
government's official site. The site featured the current date
and also displayed links to video streams of the recent interview ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0326w.html#item16
"E-Mail For Everyone"
Some companies are trying out streamlined email access so that
all members of the workforce--not just the higher-ups--are better
informed, and have a closer connection to employers that fuels
productivity growth; other hoped-for benefits of such a tool ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0326w.html#item17
"Seizing the Moment"
The Justice Department's Domestic Security Enhancement Act
(DSEA), a follow-up to the USA Patriot Act, calls for a dramatic
expansion of domestic law enforcement powers that threatens to
further undermine civil liberties, critics charge. As currently ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0326w.html#item18
"The Relentless Storm"
The question of whether Bell Labs Research could survive being
shorn of parent company AT&T has been tested over the last
several years, when economic fallout led to the shutdown of its ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0326w.html#item19
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