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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 493
Date: May 9, 2003
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Top Stories for Friday, May 9, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Balancing Data Needs and Privacy"
"House Earmarks Billions for Nanotech"
"Spam Thrives Despite Effort to Screen It Out"
"Scientists Create Twistable, Ultra-Thin Computer Screen"
"Voting Machine Leaves Paper Trail"
"W3C Blesses, Proposes SOAP 1.2"
"Screen Arcs Widen View"
"Darwin Proved Right by Experiment With 'Alien' Life"
"Beyond Wi-Fi: The Future of Wireless Networks"
"Mobile Robots as Gateways Into Wireless Sensor Networks"
"Report: New Battle for WLAN Security"
"Serial ATA II Approaches--Slowly"
"IBM Details Blue Gene Supercomputer"
"Reeling Chipmakers Debate Moore's Law"
"'Smart' Hospital to Improve Care"
"2.6 Kernel to Push the Envelope"
"Let's Talk"
"Star Search"
"The Lab that Fell to Earth"
******************* News Stories ***********************
"Balancing Data Needs and Privacy"
The federal Total Information Awareness (TIA) program raises
privacy and civil liberties alerts across the country, but even
critics of the program see some benefits in the corresponding
"privacy appliance" being devised by Teresa Lunt of the Palo Alto ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0509f.html#item1
"House Earmarks Billions for Nanotech"
The House of Representatives voted 405 to 19 on Wednesday to
approve a boost to the national nanotechnology research and
development budget, and allocate $2.36 billion over three years
to academic and private-sector nanotech projects. The budget ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0509f.html#item2
"Spam Thrives Despite Effort to Screen It Out"
Although the spread of spam, is under attack on several fronts,
It continues to flourish: It is estimated that over 2 trillion
pieces of spam will be distributed online in 2003 alone.
There are a variety of anti-spam solutions ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0509f.html#item3
"Scientists Create Twistable, Ultra-Thin Computer Screen"
Scientists led by Yu Chen at E Ink have created a three-inch-wide
flexible electronic display that can be bent, twisted, or rolled
up into a cylinder while retaining image quality. The screen
consists of a stainless steel foil covered with a thin circuit ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0509f.html#item4
"Voting Machine Leaves Paper Trail"
Computing experts argue that direct recording electronic (DRE)
voting machines should print paper ballots in order to provide an
audit trail to ensure accurate vote counts, and Election Systems
& Software (ES&S) has developed a prototype that incorporates ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0509f.html#item5
"W3C Blesses, Proposes SOAP 1.2"
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) Version 1.2 is ready for
final review by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The basic
Web services language is key to enterprise development because it
ensures interoperability among diverse platforms. Last year, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0509f.html#item6
"Screen Arcs Widen View"
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) researchers have developed Halo,
software designed to ease small-screen navigation through the
display of arcs on the edge of the screen to represent offscreen
locations and objects. "Halo is a visualization technique that ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0509f.html#item7
"Darwin Proved Right by Experiment With 'Alien' Life"
An experiment by Michigan State University researchers using
artificial lifeforms created in a computer proves that evolution
follows a Darwinian pattern, in which the strongest entities
prevail. Participant Christoph Adami of the California Institute ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0509f.html#item8
"Beyond Wi-Fi: The Future of Wireless Networks"
IT types are still effusive about Wi-Fi technology, but there are
already technologies ready to supplant 802.11b, the open wireless
standard that has opened up wireless access in and around many
homes and businesses. Although 802.11b is fast enough for most ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0509f.html#item9
"Mobile Robots as Gateways Into Wireless Sensor Networks"
Intel is developing hardware and software that will allow
researchers to incorporate advanced intelligence into mobile
robots that can be used as access points for wireless sensor
networks. Such machines could perform duties such as automatic ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0509f.html#item10
"Report: New Battle for WLAN Security"
Enterprises wanting to deploy wireless network access through
technologies such as Wi-Fi have been discouraged by wireless
LANs' vulnerability to hackers, though the Wi-Fi Alliance did
assuage some fears with the development of Wi-Fi protected access ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0509f.html#item11
"Serial ATA II Approaches--Slowly"
The Serial ATA Working Group unveiled the specification for the
Serial ATA Port Multiplier II at the Windows Hardware Engineering
Conference (WinHEC) in New Orleans. Future ports will be able to
support as many as 15 drives thanks to the technology, which is ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0509f.html#item12
"IBM Details Blue Gene Supercomputer"
IBM has embarked on an ambitious goal to develop a supercomputer
that can perform 1 trillion calculations per second (1 petaflop)
with the creation of the Blue Gene/L system. The machine will
consist of 65,536 compute nodes, each of which will boast a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0509f.html#item13
"Reeling Chipmakers Debate Moore's Law"
The chip industry has long regarded Moore's Law--the axiom that
the number of transistors on a chip doubles every 18 months or
so--as gospel, but several chip manufacturers are questioning its
legitimacy, especially in the face of the industry downturn. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0509f.html#item14
"'Smart' Hospital to Improve Care"
Scientists at Aarhus University's Center for Pervasive Computing
in Denmark are working on several ways to enhance medical care
for patients. For example, an "intelligent bed" features
built-in computers with sensors that track the patient's position ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0509f.html#item15
"2.6 Kernel to Push the Envelope"
The projected June release of the Linux 2.6 production kernel
will help the open-source operating system penetrate even further
into the enterprise, according to Open Source Development Lab
(OSDL) lab director Tim Witham, who adds that the kernel will ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0509f.html#item16
"Let's Talk"
The latest generation voice-dictation software requires an
up-to-date computer to run well and may be too laborious for
experienced users to enjoy, but indications are that the software
is catching on among users under the age of 20. Speech ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0509f.html#item17
"Star Search"
John Parkinson of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young concludes that, as far
back as the late 1970s, the most sophisticated and reliable
software applications were chiefly the work of a small portion of
programmers who were labeled 10X or Power Programmers, but these ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0509f.html#item18
"The Lab that Fell to Earth"
The MIT Media Lab was once a technology touchstone for popular
culture and Corporate America, one that boasted an annual budget
of $40 million and enjoyed a steady stream of venture capital.
Now the institution is in danger of falling into obscurity: ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0509f.html#item19
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