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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 496
Date: May 16, 2003
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Top Stories for Friday, May 16, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Judge May Ban Copying Software"
"U.S. Moves to Allow Trading of Radio Spectrum Licenses"
"U.S. Still Vulnerable to Cyber Attack"
"Feds Prime New Antispam Weapon"
"To Register Doubts, Press Here"
"Dept. of Homeland Security Restructuring to Raise Cyber Profile"
"Making Computers Understand"
"Giving Robots the Gift of Sight"
"New Hacking Tool Sees the Light"
"Tera Tech's Final Frontier"
"Net Scan Finds Like-Minded Users"
"US Hackers Top ICC's Annual Review of Cybercrime"
"Security Research Exemption to DMCA Considered"
"Physicists Step Toward Quantum Computing"
"Power Grid"
"EPA Sets Deadline for E-Waste Dilemma"
"Modifying Moore's Law"
"Computers That Cajole"
"Internet2 Becoming a Big Net on Campus"
"Mind-Machine Merger"
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"Judge May Ban Copying Software"
In a key case for the technology industry, San Francisco federal
judge Susan Illston on Thursday questioned the legality of DVD
copying software developed by 321 Studios. Judge Illston
indicated that she may ban the distribution of the software, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0516f.html#item1
"U.S. Moves to Allow Trading of Radio Spectrum Licenses"
The FCC has changed a 40-year rule to allow radio spectrum owners
to lease or trade access, a move that will boost the wireless
communications market and foster more efficient use of the radio
spectrum. Instead of having to own the license themselves, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0516f.html#item2
"U.S. Still Vulnerable to Cyber Attack"
Members of Congress brought in the heads of four key U.S.
security agencies to discuss the progress of their cyber-defense
research and development efforts on Wednesday, and concluded that
the country is still unprepared for a cyberterrorist assault on ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0516f.html#item3
"Feds Prime New Antispam Weapon"
Federal and state law enforcement officials demanded the
worldwide closure of open relays that spammers exploit at a
Thursday event in Dallas. Open relays are mail servers that will
forward mail to anyone online; mass emailers use them to send ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0516f.html#item4
"To Register Doubts, Press Here"
Electronic voting machines have gotten a boost since the
controversial 2000 presidential elections, but the momentum is
being countered by a group of technologists who warn that such
systems are less secure than paper-based ones. Stanford ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0516f.html#item5
"Dept. of Homeland Security Restructuring to Raise Cyber Profile"
Charles McQueary of the Department of Homeland Security told the
House Science Committee at a Wednesday hearing that his
department is reorganizing in order to make it clear that
cybersecurity is a priority. The hearing was characterized by ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0516f.html#item6
"Making Computers Understand"
Meaningful Machines founder Eli Abir is developing an innovative
translation method that could help computers comprehend context
in human language. "The man literally has figured out the way
the brain learns things," declares Meaningful Machines CEO Steve ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0516f.html#item7
"Giving Robots the Gift of Sight"
Patrick Andrews of British e-commerce consultancy Break-Step
Productions claims to have developed software that imitates the
processing pathway in people's upper visual cortex, thus giving
machines the ability to perceive shapes in a wider range than ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0516f.html#item8
"New Hacking Tool Sees the Light"
Princeton University graduate student Sudhakar Govindavajhala
presented a paper at the Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers (IEEE) Symposium on Security and Privacy on Tuesday,
detailing a method he devised that exploits security flaws in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0516f.html#item9
"Tera Tech's Final Frontier"
University of Delaware researchers say they have built a cell
phone-sized device, similar to a laser pointer, that makes it
possible to tap into previously unattainable terahertz waves
whose frequency exceeds that of microwaves a thousandfold. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0516f.html#item10
"Net Scan Finds Like-Minded Users"
Researchers from the University of Chicago have developed a new
grouping technique based on users' Web data requests. Although
data requests have been analyzed before to gauge Web site
popularity or plan caching schemes, this is the first time ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0516f.html#item11
"US Hackers Top ICC's Annual Review of Cybercrime"
More than 60 percent of computer-based crimes committed from
January 2002 to March 2003 came from the United States, with the
majority being hack attacks and scams, according to a report by
the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). ICC's Cybercrime ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0516f.html#item12
"Security Research Exemption to DMCA Considered"
Computer security researchers would be allowed to hack through
copy protection schemes in order to look for security holes in the
software being protected, under a proposed exception to the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) being debated in official hearings ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0516f.html#item13
"Physicists Step Toward Quantum Computing"
Quantum computing enabled by solid state electronic components
has come one step closer to reality with a new University of
Maryland breakthrough. Researchers at the school's Center for
Superconductivity Research used Josephson junctions--macroscopic ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0516f.html#item14
"Power Grid"
Grid computing is starting to take root in the commercial world,
according to analysts. Companies will not be able to resist the
tremendous speed and cost benefits of setting up in-house grid
computing networks. Such systems allow IT managers to make ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0516f.html#item15
"EPA Sets Deadline for E-Waste Dilemma"
The EPA's Marianne Lamont Horinko told National Electronics
Product Stewardship Initiative (NEPSI) stakeholders at the
Electronic Industries Alliance's (EIA) Environmental Issues
Council meeting on May 6 that they must devise a voluntary ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0516f.html#item16
"Modifying Moore's Law"
Moore's Law, along with the scarcity of a killer application, is
ramping up the commoditization of information technology.
Commoditization--and a subsequent decline in value--occurs when
technology proliferates, becomes easy to understand, and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0516f.html#item17
"Computers That Cajole"
Captology, a term conceived by B.J. Fogg of Stanford University's
Persuasive Technology Lab, focuses on how computers are used to
persuasively modify user behavior. Fogg predicts that captology
will play an important role in business training, management ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0516f.html#item18
"Internet2 Becoming a Big Net on Campus"
The Internet2 project continues to lead the development of new
Internet technologies despite its focus on academic research
applications. New software, middleware, and network engineering
projects at Internet2 project sites provide a glimpse in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0516f.html#item19
"Mind-Machine Merger"
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding a
half-dozen brain-machine interface projects for $24 million over
two years, and program manager Alan Rudolph says these
technologies could both restore and enhance cognitive functions, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0516f.html#item20
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