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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 491
Date: May 5, 2003
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Top Stories for Monday, May 5, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Software Bullet Is Sought to Kill Musical Piracy"
"High-Tech Hardships"
"Server Makers Tout InfiniBand Sequel"
"Finding Solution to Secret World of Spam"
"Intel to Release Machine Learning Libraries"
"International Backlash"
"New Century Will Develop Language Capabilities Critical to
Nation's Security"
"Technology Now Being Tested Could Integrate Cellular and Wi-Fi
Networks"
"Chairman Leads Surprisingly Vigilant FTC"
"Next-Generation Data Storage Gets Interesting"
"Intel Teaches Computers to Lip-Read"
"The Grammar of Sound"
"Technology Takes to the Road"
"The Congressional Corral"
"Wanted: More Wi-Fi Waves"
"The State of Embedded Speech"
"Six Technologies That Will Change the World"
******************* News Stories ***********************
"Software Bullet Is Sought to Kill Musical Piracy"
The music industry is clandestinely developing a barrage of
technical weapons to use against online music pirates, including
programs that freeze users' computers, slow their Internet
connections, and perform seek-and-destroy searches on their hard ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item1
"High-Tech Hardships"
The H-1B program, which Congress expanded three years ago to
alleviate a shortage of high-tech workers due to the industry
boom, has come under fire since the tech implosion and massive
cost-cutting layoffs of domestic employees. "The H-1B program ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item2
"Server Makers Tout InfiniBand Sequel"
Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is a slower, albeit cheaper,
alternative to the InfiniBand high-speed networking technology
that IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and others are developing
so that high-end database servers can be assembled from low-end ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item3
"Finding Solution to Secret World of Spam"
Tracking down senders of spam is a difficult proposition, given
that most bulk emailers transmit their messages under false names
and addresses to thwart authorities. America Online, the Direct
Marketing Association, and others claim that some 150 to 200 spam ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item4
"Intel to Release Machine Learning Libraries"
Intel plans to release a series of Bayesian network software
libraries at the Neural Information Processing Systems 2003
conference on June 6. It is hoped that the release will enable
software developers to incorporate improved machine learning ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item5
"International Backlash"
Changes may be in store for the way in which IT services and
back-end business processes are outsourced as advocates of IT
workers in the United States and Europe increase their pressure
on government officials to support the local job market. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item6
"New Century Will Develop Language Capabilities Critical to
Nation's Security"
Human computer interaction and machine (computer) translation
will be among the focuses of research at the Center for Advanced
Study of Language (CASL), a new collaborative federal research
facility at the University of Maryland's new 130-acre research ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item7
"Technology Now Being Tested Could Integrate Cellular and Wi-Fi
Networks"
Efforts are underway to develop technologies that merge cellular
and Wi-Fi networks; integrating the networks would enable users
to seamlessly take advantage of both Wi-Fi's small-area networks
and cellular's wide-area connectivity. As demand for 2.5G ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item8
"Chairman Leads Surprisingly Vigilant FTC"
FTC Chairman Timothy Muris appears to be quelling many critics
who thought the vigilance of the commission, under his direction,
would take a back seat to business concerns, writes Dan Gillmor.
Muris' zealousness is demonstrated by the more proactive strategy ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item9
"Next-Generation Data Storage Gets Interesting"
Forthcoming and already available storage technologies boast
features that aim to embed intelligence in storage networks so
that companies can better comply with regulations and align data
management to business goals. International Data (IDC) research ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item10
"Intel Teaches Computers to Lip-Read"
Intel's Audio Visual Speech Recognition software is an
open-source speech recognition program that uses face detection
algorithms from the company's OpenCV computer vision library to
read lips in an effort to improve the accuracy of speech ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item11
"The Grammar of Sound"
Fast-Talk Communications, a spinoff out of Georgia Tech, has
developed a new way to search audio files by parsing sound
instead of text. While finding a term in audio files usually
means text transcription and tagging phrases or words, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item12
"Technology Takes to the Road"
Cars and driving are undergoing a metamorphosis thanks to
advanced technologies being incorporated into automotive systems,
including enhanced navigation, damage avoidance, and
entertainment. Audi's drive-by-wire throttle improves engine ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item13
"The Congressional Corral"
Legislation not only threatens to restrict the way consumers use
technology, but the development of technology itself. The music
and movie industries prompted legislation from Sen. Ernest
"Fritz" Hollings (D-S.C.) last year that would have mandated ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item14
"Wanted: More Wi-Fi Waves"
Telecommunications analysts say Starbucks, McDonald's, Borders,
and many others are making Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) ubiquitous,
but they are concerned that a lack of spectrum availability will
stunt the growth of the emerging market. The Precursor Group's ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item15
"The State of Embedded Speech"
The importance of embedded speech technology, in which speech
recognition, text-to-voice (TTV), speaker identification, speaker
verification, and other tasks can be performed on a single
device, is growing thanks to the same computing power ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item16
"Six Technologies That Will Change the World"
Of six potentially revolutionary technologies, the most visionary
are products of academic research. Cynthia Breazeal of MIT's
Robotic Life Group is developing sociable robots that could one
day perform tasks that rely on expressive ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0505m.html#item17
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