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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 490
Date: May 2, 2003
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Top Stories for Friday, May 2, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"What's Spam By Any Other Name?"
"Web-Based Attacks Could Create Chaos in the Physical World"
"Making Intelligence a Bit Less Artificial"
"FCRC Draws Researchers from a Host of Disciplines"
"Off the Hype Meter"
"Robot Science Puts On a Friendly Face"
"Scientists Examine IT's 'Human Factor'"
"Artificial Intellect Really Thinking?"
"Seashell Offers Digital Memories"
"Scientists Study Quantum Computing Feasibility"
"The Great IT Complexity Challenge"
"Harvard Event Showcases Russia as Outsourcing Site"
"A Misnomer Taken to the 'Extreme'"
"Data Security Measures Failing to Match Legal Expectations"
"Group Offers Help for Women in the Tech Sector"
"Big Brother: Is He Watching You?"
"Exporting IT Jobs"
"Bright New World"
"Get Real"
"Personalizing Web Sites With Mixed-Initiative Interaction"
******************* News Stories ***********************
"What's Spam By Any Other Name?"
The first day of the FTC's three-day spam conference in
Washington was marked by disagreement among email experts over
what actually constitutes spam: Anti-spam advocates and certain
companies defined all unsolicited bulk email as spam, while some ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0502f.html#item1
"Web-Based Attacks Could Create Chaos in the Physical World"
Internet security researchers presented a paper at a recent
ACM Workshop on Privacy in an Electronic Society detailing how
criminals or terrorists with a minimum of computer skills and
resources could disrupt real-world operations by swamping ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0502f.html#item2
"Making Intelligence a Bit Less Artificial"
Amazon, NetFlix, and other online retail services rely on
automated recommender systems to anticipate customer purchases
based on past choices; however, a February report from Forrester
Research found that just 7.4 percent of online consumers often ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0502f.html#item3
"FCRC Draws Researchers from a Host of Disciplines"
Attendees of the Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC)
in June will find a wide assortment of affiliated research fields
under one roof. The annual conference, to be held June 7-14 in
San Diego, Calif., will assemble meetings, workshops, and tutorials ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0502f.html#item4
"Off the Hype Meter"
The technology industry hype machine is running on overdrive even
though the products currently available leave a lot to be
desired, writes Jon Oltsik, who compares the promised benefits of
"hot" technologies with their actual performance. He notes that ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0502f.html#item5
"Robot Science Puts On a Friendly Face"
Academic and corporate research labs worldwide are engineering
robots designed to increase human comfort levels by taking on
mundane tasks as well as carry out more sophisticated operations.
Carnegie Mellon University, through partnerships with other ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0502f.html#item6
"Scientists Examine IT's 'Human Factor'"
Researchers working on the National Science Foundation's (NSF)
Management of Knowledge-Intensive Dynamic Systems (MKIDS)
program are leveraging information technology to determine how
social networks among persons and groups shape the organizational ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0502f.html#item7
"Artificial Intellect Really Thinking?"
A computer can be labeled as artificially intelligent, but the
intelligence--if indeed that is what it is--actually resides in
the program, writes Fred Reed. However, he points out that such
programs, once deconstructed, consist of incremental steps that ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0502f.html#item8
"Seashell Offers Digital Memories"
BTexact has developed a methodology in which physical mementos
can be scanned into a computer and connected to related digital
content--emails, photos, video, Web sites, text messages, etc.
This content can be accessed by placing the memento--a child's ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0502f.html#item9
"Scientists Study Quantum Computing Feasibility"
Supercomputers with billions of times the speed and computing
power of current models could become a reality thanks to a
multidisciplinary quantum computing research effort at the
University of California, Berkeley. "What would take millions of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0502f.html#item10
"The Great IT Complexity Challenge"
Autonomic computing promises to clear up complexity in company IT
operations, freeing people from mundane maintenance tasks and
handing those functions over to computers themselves. Major IT
vendors are latching on to autonomic computing not only as a way ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0502f.html#item11
"Harvard Event Showcases Russia as Outsourcing Site"
The second annual Russian IT Seasons event held this week at
Harvard University is an opportunity for Russian firms to
highlight the advantages of outsourcing software research and
development to their country, including lower wages and a large ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0502f.html#item12
"A Misnomer Taken to the 'Extreme'"
Extreme programming is a methodology that ensures the best
results when programming teams are faced with ambiguous and
shifting project expectations. Despite its name, extreme
programming actually incorporates all the most conservative ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0502f.html#item13
"Data Security Measures Failing to Match Legal Expectations"
Increased governmental regulations concerning companies' computer
security and data privacy policies have heightened firms' legal
exposure, according to experts. The Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0502f.html#item14
"Group Offers Help for Women in the Tech Sector"
The Association for Women in Computing (AWC) is a professional
group created to give women a leg up in the technology sector.
The organization currently consists of 2,000 members and about 20
active chapters throughout 13 U.S. states and the District of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0502f.html#item15
"Big Brother: Is He Watching You?"
Legislators and privacy supporters are critical of the
government's efforts to clamp down on terrorism using the latest
technologies to gather, analyze, and share surveillance data on
Americans; they fear that such measures will create an Orwellian ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0502f.html#item16
"Exporting IT Jobs"
The number of U.S. companies hiring cheap offshore labor for
routine IT operations is increasing as a result of their need to
reduce IT costs and balance out desired, salaried employees and
workers they can temporarily hire on an as-needed basis. CIOs ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0502f.html#item17
"Bright New World"
Optical applications are being rethought thanks to the advent of
plasmonics, which has the potential to revolutionize
nanotechnology. Experiments by Thomas Ebbesen and Peter Wolf of
NEC Research Institute established that light directed on a metal ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0502f.html#item18
"Get Real"
The chief value of instant messaging and other forms of real-time
communication (RTC) services is presence, and this is
fundamentally changing business communication, writes A Working
Model managing director Stowe Boyd. To take advantage of this ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0502f.html#item19
"Personalizing Web Sites With Mixed-Initiative Interaction"
Saverio Perugini and Naren Ramakrishnan of Virginia Polytechnic
Institute believe that a truly personalized Web site will
personalize the user's interaction, and a mixed-initiative
architecture where the user can control the interaction is the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0502f.html#item20
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