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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 497
Date: May 19, 2003
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Top Stories for Monday, May 19, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Internet Dreams Turn to Crime"
"Threat Is Seen to Heirloom Software"
"IRC Operators May Out-Hack Fizzer"
"In Search of the World's Hotbeds of Innovation"
"Business Is Toying With a Web Tool"
"India Seeks To Be Global R&D Center"
"The Big Undo: A Time Machine for Corporate Computing Traces,
Fixes Hacker Damage"
"What's Going on With the Internet?"
"Driving Into the Future"
"Game Over for Mod Chips?"
"Senator Stumps for More IT Training Funds"
"New Role: IT Pros Need to Communicate"
"Wear Down Opposition"
"WiFi Business Model Proves Elusive in Hype Deluge"
"Event-Driven Architecture Poised for Wide Adoption"
"Ethernet at Thirty"
"Toward a Common Data Model for Supercomputing"
"The Copyright Wars"
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"Internet Dreams Turn to Crime"
Russian hackers are often normal programmers who cannot find
legitimate work and use their government's laxity on cybercrime
as cover for attacking foreign firms. U.S. authorities have a
difficult time capturing offenders because of the relative ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0519m.html#item1
"Threat Is Seen to Heirloom Software"
The software accompanying the birth of the PC industry less than
three decades ago is in danger of extinction, warns Brewster
Kahle, chairman of the Internet Archive. He spoke at the U.S.
Copyright Office's meeting last week in Los Angeles about the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0519m.html#item2
"IRC Operators May Out-Hack Fizzer"
Internet relay chat administrators are considering possibly
illegal actions to shut down the Fizzer virus, which has spread
rapidly since May 12 through email and the Kazaa file-trading
network. Fizzer connects to IRC in order to receive instructions ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0519m.html#item3
"In Search of the World's Hotbeds of Innovation"
CHI Research has been tracking patents developed in different
countries and calculating their worth for more than 30 years. It
now says the United States is outstripping European nations such
as the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and France in the number ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0519m.html#item4
"Business Is Toying With a Web Tool"
Wiki, Web collaboration software used by informal online groups,
is taking hold in the business realm. More useful for
collaboration than email or face-to-face communication, wiki
pages are also a cheap and easy alternative to full-blown ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0519m.html#item5
"India Seeks To Be Global R&D Center"
Indian government and information technology industry officials
would like to see the local industry take the next step to
becoming a hub for research and development. Already a market of
choice for low-cost software development, India could become a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0519m.html#item6
"The Big Undo: A Time Machine for Corporate Computing Traces,
Fixes Hacker Damage"
New research from the University of Michigan may help system
administrators discover the way hackers invade their systems and
undo the damage. Hackers can do a considerable amount of damage
to a company's networks in a very brief time, and can leave few ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0519m.html#item7
"What's Going on With the Internet?"
Fundamental changes to the Internet are impossible because of the
number of users and technologies involved, but computer
scientists Wu-chi Feng and Wu-chang Feng say current problems
such as denial-of-service attacks and spam can be solved. The ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0519m.html#item8
"Driving Into the Future"
Model U, a futuristic SUV prototype from Ford Motor Company,
features a number of innovative technologies including a speech
recognition system. Bryan Goodman of Ford Research and Advanced
Engineering says the speech-based system is intended to allow ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0519m.html#item9
"Game Over for Mod Chips?"
The April sentencing of David "krazy8" Rocci to spend an
unprecedented five months in prison and pay $25,000 in fines
reflects the threat that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA) poses to mod chips and the idea of user innovation. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0519m.html#item10
"Senator Stumps for More IT Training Funds"
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) says the Workforce Investment Act, a
federal government training initiative, needs to focus more on
new industry skills such as IT training. The $6.6 billion act
was created in 1998 to provide vocational training to current and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0519m.html#item11
"New Role: IT Pros Need to Communicate"
Social skills and teamwork are becoming increasingly important
skills for IT workers, according to a new survey of IT
recruitment consultants by City & Guilds. IT workers with
developed general business and communications skills are more ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0519m.html#item12
"Wear Down Opposition"
Some academics subscribe to the theory that the move toward
wearable technology is part of an evolutionary trend stretching
back more than seven centuries. In the past few months, Motorola
and other companies have unveiled a plethora of wearable ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0519m.html#item13
"WiFi Business Model Proves Elusive in Hype Deluge"
WiFi, a technology intended to let people connect to the Internet
away from home via notebook PCs and handheld wireless appliances,
is expected to be established in some 15,000 sites across Europe
by the end of 2003. Unlike other widely hyped new technologies, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0519m.html#item14
"Event-Driven Architecture Poised for Wide Adoption"
Event processing is currently limited to developers at financial
institutions and software experts assembling operating systems or
systems management applications, but Gartner analyst Roy Schulte
declared at last week's Web Services and Application Conference ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0519m.html#item15
"Ethernet at Thirty"
Ethernet has evolved over the last three decades from a concept
that few people had faith in into a burgeoning public-domain
technology characterized by inexpensive components,
compatibility, transparency, and widespread adoption in the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0519m.html#item16
"Toward a Common Data Model for Supercomputing"
The Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) general purpose I/O library
co-developed by the University of Illinois' National Center for
Supercomputing Applications, Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, and Los
Alamos national laboratories aims to write data from multiple ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0519m.html#item17
"The Copyright Wars"
Although the development of technologies that support on-demand
digital entertainment--broadband, digital compression, and
recordable DVD drives--is proceeding apace, a lack of standards
over how copyright owners should be compensated for the use of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0519m.html#item18
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