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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 462
Date: February 26, 2003
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Top Stories for Wednesday, February 26, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Critics Call for Electronic Voting Halt"
"PCI Express to Usher in PC Changes"
"Electronics Recyclers Vow to Clean Up"
"Warchalking Hype Raises Wireless-Security Consciousness"
"The Future of Java"
"Computer Made From DNA and Enzymes"
"Nanotech to Pave Way for Micro-Machines"
"Wi-Fi Security Gets a Boost"
"A Radio Chip in Every Consumer Product"
"Swarm Intelligence: An Interview With Eric Bonabeau"
"Software Uses In-Road Detectors to Alleviate Traffic Jams"
"Taking the Bioterrorism Fight to Home PCs"
"Promise of Intelligent Networks"
"Making Cars That Drive Themselves"
"Spyware Epidemic Rallies Call for Action"
"Government Agencies Recruiting IT Workers"
"Is Total Information Awareness a Homeland Security Answer or Big
Brother?"
"Evolution of the IT Lab"
"Geekcorps Wants You!"
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"Critics Call for Electronic Voting Halt"
Silicon Valley scientists want a moratorium on electronic voting
declared until touch-screen voting machines can be modified to
produce a paper trail in order to ensure that vote counts are
accurate and to deter tampering. Critics' chief concern over ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0226w.html#item1
"PCI Express to Usher in PC Changes"
PCI Express interconnect technology is expected to succeed the
PCI-X standard for connecting PCs to peripherals and other
systems; PCI Express chips should arrive by the end of 2003,
while PCI Express-enabled PCs will become available the following ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0226w.html#item2
"Electronics Recyclers Vow to Clean Up"
Sixteen North American electronics recyclers signed a pledge on
Tuesday to responsibly handle electronic waste in order to
prevent the buildup of such trash in landfills, as well as halt
e-waste exports to Third World countries where poor laborers, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0226w.html#item3
"Warchalking Hype Raises Wireless-Security Consciousness"
Wireless company networks tempt techies with new challenges to
prove their skills, free high-speed Internet access, and possibly
valuable corporate secrets. Finding these opportunities is not
difficult due to a low-tech method of marking spots where ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0226w.html#item4
"The Future of Java"
The Java programming language is not gathering as much media
attention as in years past, but industry insiders say that is
because it is now taken for granted as part of the enterprise IT
infrastructure. Java has become another common tool, but is also ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0226w.html#item5
"Computer Made From DNA and Enzymes"
Israeli researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have
followed up last year's development of a programmable molecular
computer synthesized from DNA and enzymes with a new device
fueled by the single DNA molecule that also acts as input data. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0226w.html#item6
"Nanotech to Pave Way for Micro-Machines"
Speaking at the Nanotech 2003 conference on Monday, Albert Pisano
of the University of California at Berkeley predicted that
smaller, less expensive products and new markets could become a
reality within the next decade thanks to advancements in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0226w.html#item7
"Wi-Fi Security Gets a Boost"
A new, more secure 802.11 standard will be released later this
year by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE), but several technologies are already available to help
secure wireless LANs. Cisco's Sri Sundaralingam says a simple, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0226w.html#item8
"A Radio Chip in Every Consumer Product"
Radio frequency identification (RFID) chips are being tested and
touted by retailers as an alternative to the limited practice of
tracking items with bar codes. Joint ventures between
manufacturers, retailers, and customers aim to use the technology ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0226w.html#item9
"Swarm Intelligence: An Interview With Eric Bonabeau"
Wasp and ant colonies provide insight into future IT management
systems, says Eric Bonabeau, a keynote speaker at the upcoming
Emerging Technologies conference and an expert on swarm
intelligence. Bonabeau used swarm intelligence ideas to speed ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0226w.html#item10
"Software Uses In-Road Detectors to Alleviate Traffic Jams"
An Ohio State University engineer has developed software that
could help alleviate traffic jams faster using loop detectors
that are currently used to control traffic lights and scan
traffic. In the March issue of Transportation Research, Benjamin ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0226w.html#item11
"Taking the Bioterrorism Fight to Home PCs"
The effects of a terrorist-engineered smallpox outbreak could be
mitigated by a joint effort between Texas-based United Devices
and Oxford University to harness idle computers to search for a
cure. "We basically have a way for people who are concerned ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0226w.html#item12
"Promise of Intelligent Networks"
Intel researchers are developing a way for wireless networks to
self-organize into "mesh networks" that can automatically
re-route data in response to fluctuating demand as well as the
addition or removal of data devices. Mike Witteman of Intel's ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0226w.html#item13
"Making Cars That Drive Themselves"
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) challenged
inventors on Saturday to build unmanned, self-navigating robot
vehicles to race from the Mojave Desert to Las Vegas--a distance
of approximately 250 miles--within 10 hours, without any human ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0226w.html#item14
"Spyware Epidemic Rallies Call for Action"
The last year has witnessed a significant proliferation of adware
and spyware--software that resides on Web surfers' computers
without their knowledge, usually to serve ads or to gather
information on user behavior and send it back to a parent ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0226w.html#item15
"Government Agencies Recruiting IT Workers"
With 50 percent of the federal IT workforce expected to reach
retirement age by 2004, the U.S. government is hungry for new
blood. Seventy percent of the nearly 60,000 federal IT workers
counted by the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0226w.html#item16
"Is Total Information Awareness a Homeland Security Answer or Big
Brother?"
Michael Wynne, principal deputy under secretary of Defense for
acquisition, technology, and logistics, and Sen. Ron Wyden
(D-Ore.) hold differing views on the Pentagon's Total Information
Awareness (TIA) system, which would integrate databases about ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0226w.html#item17
"Evolution of the IT Lab"
IT labs are changing to better fit enterprise goals, in which
on-the-fly testing and verification of products prior to
implementation is de rigueur. "What we have is an environment
where we can replicate changes that we need to [make] with the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0226w.html#item18
"Geekcorps Wants You!"
The nonprofit startup Geekcorps aims to give international IT
projects a leg up by sending volunteers to developing countries
to provide IT and business expertise to small companies and
community organizations. Geekcorps founder and executive ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0226w.html#item19
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