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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 499
Date: May 23, 2003
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Top Stories for Friday, May 23, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Data Collection Is Up Sharply Following 9/11"
"Computing's Lost Allure"
"The Computer World Could Use More IT Girls"
"W3C Makes Patent Ban Final"
"Take Tech Threats Seriously, Feds Say"
"Bill in Congress Would Curb L-1 Visa Use for Foreign Workers"
"ACM Honors Peter Franaszek for Contributions to Data Encoding"
"Will Taxing E-Mail Stop Spam?"
"Linux and the Law"
"At Bell Labs, Hard Times Take Toll on Pure Science"
"The Pixel as Shutterbug, Embedded in Your Screen"
"Canadian Security Conference Features Weird and Woeful Predictions"
"Peer-to-Peer Peering Pondered"
"Ethernet Inventor Looks Ahead"
"Spinning Around"
"The Future of 3D Graphics"
"Web Access for All"
"Proof of Concept"
"Electronics: A Voyage of Discovery"
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"Data Collection Is Up Sharply Following 9/11"
Data collection efforts have expanded in the wake of the Sept. 11
attacks, but the same commercial and government databases that
would ostensibly be used to thwart future terrorist incidents
could also be used to gather information on innocent American ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0523f.html#item1
"Computing's Lost Allure"
Fewer new university students are entering computer science
courses as job prospects in that field continue to diminish. At
the University of California, computer science professor Brian
Harvey says just 350 students enrolled in his introductory course ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0523f.html#item2
"The Computer World Could Use More IT Girls"
UCLA education researcher Jane Margolis writes that future
social, economic, and political trends in the United States
depend on the type of people attracted to computer technology and
the values they carry. She observes that girls are sorely ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0523f.html#item3
"W3C Makes Patent Ban Final"
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) director Tim Berners-Lee
announced on Tuesday that his organization had finalized the
Royalty-Free Patent Policy, which excludes royalty-bearing
patents from Web services standards development except in cases ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0523f.html#item4
"Take Tech Threats Seriously, Feds Say"
Charles McQueary of the Homeland Security Department told the
House Select Committee on Homeland Security's Subcommittee on
Cybersecurity, Science, and Research and Development on Wednesday
that the department's budget for biological and nuclear attack ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0523f.html#item5
"Bill in Congress Would Curb L-1 Visa Use for Foreign Workers"
U.S. Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) has targeted foreign outsourcing
firms with new legislation that is designed to protect U.S.
high-tech workers from losing jobs to lower-paid workers. Mica
has unveiled new legislation that attempts to address criticism ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0523f.html#item6
"ACM Honors Peter Franaszek for Contributions to Data Encoding"
ACM will give the Paris 2002 Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
to Dr. Peter Franaszek for his contributions to digital data encoding,
which helped usher in revolutionary breakthroughs in digital media's
recording density and digital communication systems' transmission ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0523f.html#item7
"Will Taxing E-Mail Stop Spam?"
A number of proposals that aim to halt the relentless growth of
unsolicited commercial email, or spam, are being debated in
Congress. A Wednesday hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science,
and Transportation Committee brought several proposals into ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0523f.html#item8
"Linux and the Law"
Supporters of the open-source movement are gaining powerful
allies as Linux and other open-source products find favor in both
U.S. and international governments in response to the increasing
use of open-source software. Venezuela, Britain, Germany, and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0523f.html#item9
"At Bell Labs, Hard Times Take Toll on Pure Science"
Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs operation has become just like any
other corporate research laboratory, heralding the end of
free-reign "pure" research that is not tied to any specific
company product or service. Lucent trimmed Bell Labs' research ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0523f.html#item10
"The Pixel as Shutterbug, Embedded in Your Screen"
Low-temperature polysilicon thin film transistor liquid crystal
displays (LCDs) are being developed by Toshiba and other
manufacturers to capture and copy images, and could later be
tweaked for more sophisticated functions, such as recharging ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0523f.html#item11
"Canadian Security Conference Features Weird and Woeful Predictions"
The 15th annual Canadian IT Security Symposium was characterized
by predictions of both positive and negative developments. In
the former category, John Heidenreich of IBM Research forecasted
that machines built from nanotechnology will start appearing by ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0523f.html#item12
"Peer-to-Peer Peering Pondered"
The House Committee on Government Reform listened to the privacy
dangers surrounding peer-to-peer (P2P) technology in the second
of three hearings regarding file-sharing networks; the first
hearing focused on pornography trading over networks such as ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0523f.html#item13
"Ethernet Inventor Looks Ahead"
Bob Metcalfe says May 22, 1973 was the birth date of Ethernet,
the computer interconnect technology that allows PCs to connect
in networks. That is the date Metcalfe sent a memo describing
his idea to supervisors at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0523f.html#item14
"Spinning Around"
Today's knowledge workers are inundated with information--too
much to be useful, says Web site content management expert Gerry
McGovern. He says society is working under the principals of the
physical economy where "more is better," but should in fact ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0523f.html#item15
"The Future of 3D Graphics"
The WinHEC conference featured a session in which Nvidia graphics
architect David Kirk detailed expected changes in 3D graphics
over the next decade. Kirk, who received Siggraph's 2002
Computer Graphics Achievement Award, mused that graphics ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0523f.html#item16
"Web Access for All"
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act mandated that all federal
agencies and government contractors make their Web sites
accessible to the disabled by June 2001, but many organizations
have yet to comply because the requirements are not always easy ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0523f.html#item17
"Proof of Concept"
Net Effect columnist Simson Garfinkel suggests that the some of
the computer virus outbreaks that have plagued the Internet in
recent years are merely proof-of-concept tests for a truly
devastating online assault organized by a secret ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0523f.html#item18
"Electronics: A Voyage of Discovery"
Breakthroughs in nanotechnology will greatly influence
next-generation electronics and data storage, and open up new
computing methodologies, according to Clayton Teague of the
National Institute of Standards and Technology's Manufacturing
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0523f.html#item19
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