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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 470
Date: March 17, 2003
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Top Stories for Monday, March 17, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Internet, Wireless to Play Key Role In an Iraq War"
"Network Guardians Face Thorny Job"
"Does Cyberterrorism Pose a True Threat?"
"Tech Firms Tackle Spam"
"Paper Speeds Video Access"
"U.S. Nanotech Funding Expected to Hit $1 Billion"
"Grid Computing Shows Mettle, ROI In Research-Focused IT
Organizations"
"Programmers to Compete in Calif."
"PCI-X Marks the Spot for IBM, HP"
"Lilith Stirs Interest in Technology Among Girls"
"Sustainable Computing Consortium Hosts Workshop on Trust and
Dependability in Wireless Environments"
"Green Plans for Tiny Tech"
"Homeland Cybersecurity Efforts Doubted"
"Turning Out Quality"
"Spambusters"
"Presence Technology"
"2003 and Beyond"
"Can Sensemaking Keep Us Safe?"
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"Internet, Wireless to Play Key Role In an Iraq War"
The U.S. military will showcase a number of digital war-fighting
technologies in the event of an Iraqi war. Analyst Steve Sigmond
says, for example, that systems will be melded to give carrier
battle groups a consolidated, real-time view of the action, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item1
"Network Guardians Face Thorny Job"
A gathering of communications industry officials under the
auspices of the Federal Communications Commission is discussing
how the sector can improve reliability and security--and avoid
government regulation. Representatives at the Network ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item2
"Does Cyberterrorism Pose a True Threat?"
A cybersecurity panel at the CeBIT technology show in Germany
said the threat of cyberterrorism was overblown, and that
terrorists would more likely use bombs than initiate an Internet
attack. The representatives gathered from IT security firms, the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item3
"Tech Firms Tackle Spam"
In an effort to tackle the growing problem of spam, various
technology firms on Friday gathered at the JamSpam forum to
discuss the development of an "open, interoperable antispam
specification" that would curtail what ePrivacy Group President ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item4
"Paper Speeds Video Access"
Ricoh Innovations and the University of California-Berkeley
teamed up in a research project to augment digital video with
traditional book interfaces. "While historians consider the
primary research artifacts to be audio or...video recordings, the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item5
"U.S. Nanotech Funding Expected to Hit $1 Billion"
U.S. nanotechnology research is ramping up as government,
commercial, and academic forces line up and gather steam.
Government spending dedicated to nanotechnology has increased to
$849 million approved by Congress, and Richard Russell of the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item6
"Grid Computing Shows Mettle, ROI In Research-Focused IT
Organizations"
Early adopters of grid computing and virtualization architectures
say that not only are the technologies working, but they are also
reducing costs and boosting IT options. Phil Emer, chief
architect of the North Carolina BioGrid Project, says grid ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item7
"Programmers to Compete in Calif."
Some 70 student teams from around the world will meet in Beverly Hills,
Calif., next week (March 22-26) to compete in the 27th Annual
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest sponsored by IBM.
The competition requires students to find solutions ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item8
"PCI-X Marks the Spot for IBM, HP"
IBM and Hewlett-Packard have lined up behind the
backwards-compatible PCI-X technology for new chipsets that
connect network cards and other devices into servers. The PCI-X
2.0 technology will first appear next year in a PCI-X 266 ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item9
"Lilith Stirs Interest in Technology Among Girls"
The Lilith Computer Group is a local program in Madison,
Wisconsin, that is working to encourage females to study
information technology. Women hold just 20 percent of IT jobs,
and groups such as Lilith have formed in an effort to get more ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item10
"Sustainable Computing Consortium Hosts Workshop on Trust and
Dependability in Wireless Environments"
Carnegie Mellon University's Sustainable Computing Consortium
(SCC) will host a two-day seminar beginning March 31 to discuss
issues related to mobile, wireless, grid, and other "always-on"
computing systems. The SCC seminar, to be held in Tempe, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item11
"Green Plans for Tiny Tech"
Environmentally safe nanotechnology is the goal of Rice
University's Center for Biological and Environmental
Nanotechnology, according to statements by executive director
Kevin Ausman at this week's meeting of the American Physical ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item12
"Homeland Cybersecurity Efforts Doubted"
Experts worry that cybersecurity is taking a backseat at the new
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which has engulfed most of
the government's computer protection centers. Of the five
directorates built into the DHS, the Directorate of Information ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item13
"Turning Out Quality"
Carnegie Mellon University fellow Watts Humphrey is espousing his
Team Software Process (TSP) and Personal Software Process (PSP)
as new software development methodologies that can help improve
the quality of code while getting projects out quickly. Often, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item14
"Spambusters"
Hackers despise junk email, or spam, with a vengeance, and
programmer Paul Graham explains that this hatred stems from
bruised egos. In the hopes of mobilizing hackers to combat spam,
Graham issued "A Plan for Spam," an outline for a spam filter ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item15
"Presence Technology"
Instant messaging (IM) is a form of presence technology that
offers a better alternative for communicating with colleagues and
customers than email because it lets users know if the other
party is available first. With IM technology, users have a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item16
"2003 and Beyond"
Technological developments that should emerge in the next several
years and become widespread by 2010 include smaller PCs,
pervasive Internet, intuitive handhelds, consumer devices capable
of automatic wireless communication, and improved processing and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item17
"Can Sensemaking Keep Us Safe?"
The Sept. 11 attacks created a demand to leverage the United
States' strength in analytical technology and networking to build
what the Markle Foundation's Task Force on National Security in
the Information Age calls a virtual analytic community threaded ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item18
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