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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 503
Date: June 4, 2003
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Top Stories for Wednesday, June 4, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Telling of Terrorist-Tracking Tech Tools"
"Overseas Tech Jobs Proliferate"
"Honors Program Showcases IT's Role in Making a Better World"
"Security Standards Could Bolster File-Sharing Networks"
"Pentagon's Super Diary Project Could Put Powerful Software in
Private Hands"
"Imagine Machines That Can See"
"Corporate Computing Tries to Find a New Path"
"New Software Helps Teams Deal With Information Overload"
"Pentagon Launches Internet Voting Effort for Overseas Americans"
"Industrial Evolution"
"Superhero Server Takes War on Hackers to Mythic Level"
"In Future, Foot Soldier Will Be Plugged Into a Massive Network"
"Clash Over Java Standard Heats Up"
"Net Attack Overwhelms Computers With Complexity"
"The Hidden Cost of Software"
"The Next Ethernet"
"Enclosing the Digital Commons"
"Are You Ready for Social Software?"
"Maximize Color and Contrast in Multimedia Images"
******************* News Stories ***********************
"Telling of Terrorist-Tracking Tech Tools"
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently
furnished Congress with a report on its Terrorism Information
Awareness (TIA) program, which has come under fire from critics
as a tool that would be used to spy on innocent Americans and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0604w.html#item1
"Overseas Tech Jobs Proliferate"
The attraction of transferring technology operations overseas
where labor is cheaper, especially during a recession, is
transforming Silicon Valley and eroding its role as a low-end
software developer. Forrester reckons that 3.3 million ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0604w.html#item2
"Honors Program Showcases IT's Role in Making a Better World"
Winners of Tuesday's Computerworld Honors awards stressed their
dedication to improve people's lives through information
technology. E Entertainment Television received an award in the
Media, Arts, & Entertainment category for a digital asset ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0604w.html#item3
"Security Standards Could Bolster File-Sharing Networks"
Harvard University researchers postulate that anti-copying
safeguards suggested by the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance
(TCPA), ostensibly to curb digital piracy, could actually make
peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing programs stronger. The TCPA ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0604w.html#item4
"Pentagon's Super Diary Project Could Put Powerful Software in
Private Hands"
Pentagon documents state that the goal of the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) LifeLog project is to develop
software that deduces behavioral patterns from monitoring
people's daily activities, and DARPA officials say the initiative ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0604w.html#item5
"Imagine Machines That Can See"
Biomimetics researchers are designing robots programmed to
operate the same way biological systems do, and a major
biomimetics push involves the development and refinement of robot
vision. Boston University's Active Perception Lab is working on ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0604w.html#item6
"Corporate Computing Tries to Find a New Path"
The IT explosion and its promised transformation of business have
been victims of their own hype, as demonstrated by today's
unwieldy, overcomplicated corporate information systems. "It's
almost as if the technology took over," observes IBM's Irving ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0604w.html#item7
"New Software Helps Teams Deal With Information Overload"
Collaborative Agents for Simulating Teamwork (CAST), a software
program co-developed by John Yen of Penn State University's
School of Information Sciences and Technology, is designed to
improve teams' decision-making process and augment cooperation ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0604w.html#item8
"Pentagon Launches Internet Voting Effort for Overseas Americans"
American civilians and military personnel living overseas will be
able to vote electronically in the 2004 elections through the
Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE),
according to a Pentagon announcement on Monday. Voters will ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0604w.html#item9
"Industrial Evolution"
The life sciences field is investing heavily in IT equipment and
services in order to handle a flood of biosciences data as well
as make the pharmaceutical development process more efficient.
International Data (IDC) estimates that the biosciences ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0604w.html#item10
"Superhero Server Takes War on Hackers to Mythic Level"
The Hydra server operating system is impervious to electronic
attack by viruses or hackers, according to Bodacion Technologies.
Former Motorola software engineers Eric Uner and Eric Hauk say
Hydra is written completely from scratch and has several ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0604w.html#item11
"In Future, Foot Soldier Will Be Plugged Into a Massive Network"
The "Scorpion ensemble" under development at the U.S. Army
Soldier Systems Center is intended to increase mobility by
reducing the amount of equipment troops must carry while boosting
both safety and effectiveness in the field through numerous ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0604w.html#item12
"Clash Over Java Standard Heats Up"
JBoss Group, a small firm whose open-source server software
programming tools capitalize on the Java Enterprise Edition
(J2EE) standard, is being accused by Sun Microsystems of abusing
the J2EE brand. Sun says the open-source, aspect-oriented JBoss ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0604w.html#item13
"Net Attack Overwhelms Computers With Complexity"
Rice University researchers Scott Crosby and Dan Wallach have
outlined a form of cyberattack that can put Web-connected
computers out of commission by sending data packets that force
the system to carry out highly complex hash functions that eat up ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0604w.html#item14
"The Hidden Cost of Software"
Estimating software's total cost of ownership (TCO) to a company
can be a challenging proposition, given the many factors
involved, writes Tim Chou. Maintenance costs, which can often
surpass the cost of software, also need to be gauged, studied, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0604w.html#item15
"The Next Ethernet"
Even as Ethernet pioneers celebrate Ethernet's 30th anniversary,
quiet talk is going on about the ambiguous future of the
technology. Ethernet is now available at 10 Mbps, but past
trends have indicated a tenfold increase every four years, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0604w.html#item16
"Enclosing the Digital Commons"
Experts are worried that the Internet's development and benefits
are endangered by people trying to enforce patents on widely used
Web methods, such as hyperlinking and the GIF file algorithm.
"There is a tension between the view that says that the Internet ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0604w.html#item17
"Are You Ready for Social Software?"
A Working Model managing director Stowe Boyd predicts that social
software will effect dramatic changes in businesses' marketing
strategies and customer interplay, and transform internal and
external communication and collaboration. Boyd assumes that the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0604w.html#item18
"Maximize Color and Contrast in Multimedia Images"
The goal of color management is to develop methodologies that
allow multiple digital devices to accurately reproduce colors.
The International Color Consortium (ICC) founded 10 years ago by
Eastman Kodak, Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Silicon ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0604w.html#item19
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