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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 463
Date: February 28, 2003
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Top Stories for Friday, February 28, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"It's Open Season on Spammers"
"Inventor of Swarming Robots Wins Prize"
"Rivals Chip Away at Microsoft's Dominance"
"Handhelds Gain Space"
"Are the Feds Reading Your E-Mail?"
"Turning the Desktop Into a Meeting Place"
"Congress Targets P2P Piracy on Campus"
"Santa Clara County OKs Touch-Screen Voting"
"Microsoft-Backed Bill Would Dilute Spam Law, State Says"
"Genetic IT: Systems With Evolving Value"
"Telematics Spec Delivered Amidst Growing Doubts"
"With 6 Degrees of Separation, Computers Stay in Sync"
"Many Laid-Off Silicon Valley Techies Work for Free to Brush Up
on Skills"
"Links Adding Up for Grid Computing"
"NSF Expands Cyber Corps Program"
"Cyber Plan's Future Bleak"
"The Linux Uprising"
"Wireless Mesh Networks"
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"It's Open Season on Spammers"
Legislators, regulators, and security specialists flocked to this
week's Data Security Summit in Washington, D.C., where a
hot-button topic was the growing problem of unsolicited
commercial email (spam) and ways to control it so that consumer ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0228f.html#item1
"Inventor of Swarming Robots Wins Prize"
MIT doctoral candidate James McLurkin received this year's
Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for creating robots that are
programmed to swarm like bees. The machines are equipped with
sensors and radio gear that enable them to scan for environmental ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0228f.html#item2
"Rivals Chip Away at Microsoft's Dominance"
Governments, educational institutions, and even businesses are
switching from Microsoft products to open-source solutions, which
offer comparable computing capabilities at a much cheaper price.
As a result, open source is gaining on flagship Microsoft tools ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0228f.html#item3
"Handhelds Gain Space"
University of California at Berkeley researcher Ka-Ping Yee has
turned a handheld computer display into a window that allows
users to work in a much larger virtual workspace more easily.
Instead of using the pen to scroll over a larger document or ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0228f.html#item4
"Are the Feds Reading Your E-Mail?"
Senate Judiciary Committee members Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.),
Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) are
sponsoring the Domestic Surveillance Oversight Act, which
requires that the FBI and the Department of Justice disclose how ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0228f.html#item5
"Turning the Desktop Into a Meeting Place"
Software engineer Robb Beal's Spring computer interface differs
from traditional desktop interfaces by using hypertext
representations of people, places, and things instead of icons
for applications and Web sites, thus simplifying frequent user ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0228f.html#item6
"Congress Targets P2P Piracy on Campus"
A House of Representatives subcommittee that oversees copyright
law held a hearing on the issue of peer-to-peer (P2P) piracy on
college campuses on Wednesday under new subcommittee chairman
Lamar Smith (R-Texas), and during the hearing a bipartisan slate ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0228f.html#item7
"Santa Clara County OKs Touch-Screen Voting"
Heeding the advice of computer experts and voting advocates,
California's Santa Clara County on Tuesday became the first U.S.
county to agree to purchase touch-screen voting systems that
provide a "voter-verified" paper record for each ballot. The ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0228f.html#item8
"Microsoft-Backed Bill Would Dilute Spam Law, State Says"
An amendment to Washington state's anti-spam law that was backed
by Microsoft and which would have weakened Washington state's
anti-spam protections will die in a Senate committee, partially
due to the work of the state's Attorney General's Office that ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0228f.html#item9
"Genetic IT: Systems With Evolving Value"
Businesses need to think about how to align their IT capabilities
with future software evolution, which currently is heading toward
systems that evolve rather than overlap one another. With
automation as the first wave of IT innovation in business, and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0228f.html#item10
"Telematics Spec Delivered Amidst Growing Doubts"
After four years of development, the Automotive Multimedia
Interface Collaboration (AMI-C) presented an approximately
2,000-page multimedia interface standard to the worldwide auto
industry on Feb. 26. "This gives a common baseline for everyone ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0228f.html#item11
"With 6 Degrees of Separation, Computers Stay in Sync"
A team of scientists have developed a mathematical model
demonstrating that the "six degrees of separation" theory, which
speculates that any two people can be connected through no more
than six other people, also applies to synchronized computing. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0228f.html#item12
"Many Laid-Off Silicon Valley Techies Work for Free to Brush Up
on Skills"
Technology workers in Silicon Valley are increasingly accepting
jobs with no pay in an effort to boost their knowledge and
improve their chances for future employment, according to
employers and recruiters. Some companies offer potential ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0228f.html#item13
"Links Adding Up for Grid Computing"
Grid computing, in which unused computing capacity is tapped to
handle complex calculations, has started to migrate out of the
academic sector and into the corporate arena. Moreover, the
relative simplicity of grid computing can be a boon to users who ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0228f.html#item14
"NSF Expands Cyber Corps Program"
The National Science Foundation (NSF) doled out 13 more awards to
U.S. universities and colleges in order to boost the capacity of
its Scholarship for Service program, also known as the Cyber
Corps. President Bush promoted the program after the Sept. 11 ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0228f.html#item15
"Cyber Plan's Future Bleak"
Security experts and Washington insiders doubt that many of the
initiatives contained in the National Strategy to Secure
Cyberspace will be deployed, owing to a vacant leadership
position and few specifics on how the private sector, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0228f.html#item16
"The Linux Uprising"
The open-source Linux operating system has exceeded the vision of
its creator, Linus Torvalds, by penetrating the business sector
and emerging as a threat to Microsoft's dominion over the server
industry. Companies such as DaimlerChrysler are finding it ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0228f.html#item17
"Wireless Mesh Networks"
Point-to-point or point-to-multipoint networks typical of
industrial wireless communications systems have limited
scalability and reliability, respectively, and can be impacted by
unfavorable environmental conditions. Wireless multihop mesh ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0228f.html#item18
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