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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 506
Date: June 11, 2003
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Top Stories for Wednesday, June 11, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"DOJ Net Surveillance Under Fire"
"Who's in the Loop? USC Tool Maps the Email Labyrinth"
"Online Service Pairs Students, Mentors"
"Should Web Be a Copyright-Free Zone?"
"'Biomimetics' Researchers Inspired by the Animal World"
"A Passion to Build a Better Robot, One With Social Skills and a
Smile"
"Attack of the Two-Headed Scientists"
"Global Summit on New Internet Protocol"
"Beyond WiFi: Airwaves Used in Creative, Lucrative--and
Unregulated--Ways"
"Bell Tolling for PNG Graphics Format?"
"Ex-Cybersecurity Czar Says There's Much Work to Do"
"Glass That Glows and Gives Stock Information"
"World Radiocommunication Conference Takes Up Fight Over Frequencies"
"The Grand Unified Theory of Spam"
"Artificial Beings Evolve Realistically"
"Bell Labs Eyes Broadband's Future"
"Taming the Beast"
"A Psychologist in Cyberspace"
"Exploring the "Singularity""
******************* News Stories ***********************
"DOJ Net Surveillance Under Fire"
Civil liberties groups are criticizing a May 2003 report from the
Justice Department and last week's testimony by U.S. Attorney
General John Ashcroft at a congressional hearing as being too
vague in regards to the Internet surveillance powers authorized ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0611w.html#item1
"Who's in the Loop? USC Tool Maps the Email Labyrinth"
A new tool developed at the University of Southern California
could relieve historians, archivists, and other researchers of
the burden of painstakingly sifting through huge email databases
for specific data by making such collections easy to systematize ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0611w.html#item2
"Online Service Pairs Students, Mentors"
MentorNet, based at San Jose State University, is a nonprofit
program to help more women penetrate the science and engineering
workforce by pairing students with mentors over the Web. The
program is the brainchild of veteran educator Carol B. Muller, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0611w.html#item3
"Should Web Be a Copyright-Free Zone?"
Speakers at the recent Progress and Freedom Foundation
conference, "Promoting Markets in Creativity: Copyright in the
Internet Age," aired their views on whether the Internet should
or should not be subject to copyright law, and questioned whether ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0611w.html#item4
"'Biomimetics' Researchers Inspired by the Animal World"
Biomimetics researchers design robots based on animals in an
effort to enhance the machines' versatility, capability, and
robustness. Federally-funded biomimetics research efforts
currently taking place in the Boston area include BigDog, a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0611w.html#item5
"A Passion to Build a Better Robot, One With Social Skills and a
Smile"
MIT researcher Dr. Cynthia L. Breazeal has dedicated herself to
developing "sociable" robots that appear to respond both
physically and emotionally to people. Breazeal notes that many
people's attitudes toward real-life robots are rooted in science ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0611w.html#item6
"Attack of the Two-Headed Scientists"
The New Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence (NLCSAI) announced in May integrates MIT's
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Laboratory for Computer
Science under the leadership of current AI Lab head Rodney Brooks ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0611w.html#item7
"Global Summit on New Internet Protocol"
Computer scientists and technology companies will be able to get
an in-depth look at the next-generation Internet Protocol,
version 6 (IPv6), and its ramifications for applications and
services at the North American IPv6 Global Summit in late June. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0611w.html#item8
"Beyond WiFi: Airwaves Used in Creative, Lucrative--and
Unregulated--Ways"
A recent FCC report outlines the current situation surrounding
the nation's unlicensed spectrum and the technology innovation it
has inspired. The FCC has made some adjustments to spectrum
allotment rules, allowing license owners to lease and trade ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0611w.html#item9
"Bell Tolling for PNG Graphics Format?"
The patent providing the foundation of the highly popular
Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) design, the Lempel-Ziv-Welch
(LZW) compression algorithm, is scheduled to expire June 20;
Unisys is not planning to extend the patent, either in the United ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0611w.html#item10
"Ex-Cybersecurity Czar Says There's Much Work to Do"
Former White House cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke applauds the
national cybersecurity strategy he helped flesh out, but notes
that a lot more needs to be accomplished. Awareness of the
country's vulnerability to cyberspace-based attacks has spread ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0611w.html#item11
"Glass That Glows and Gives Stock Information"
Researchers and companies are developing unobtrusive display
devices that relay general information to users, such as a glass
sphere from Ambient Devices that can be programmed to change
color to indicate changing stock market conditions, for instance. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0611w.html#item12
"World Radiocommunication Conference Takes Up Fight Over Frequencies"
The U.N.-sponsored World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-03),
held every three years, will discuss global standardization of
Wi-Fi bandwidth allocation, broadband Internet for aircraft, and
more powerful GPS satellite signals. The 172-person U.S. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0611w.html#item13
"The Grand Unified Theory of Spam"
CipherTrust is in the business of developing hardware and
software that counteracts viruses and worms, but chief technology
officer Paul Judge acknowledges that early on he may have not
fully understood the problem of unsolicited commercial email. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0611w.html#item14
"Artificial Beings Evolve Realistically"
University researchers are studying the transmission of genetic
code using simple computer programs that self-replicate in a
contained environment. Michigan State University associate
computer science professor Charles Ofria says the goal is to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0611w.html#item15
"Bell Labs Eyes Broadband's Future"
Bell Labs President Jeff Jaffe says many of the presentations at
this year's Supercomm 2003 conference ape Lucent's tact of
providing end-to-end services for telecom customers. He says
that even as Lucent continues to enhance hardware, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0611w.html#item16
"Taming the Beast"
Maintaining outmoded systems can devour as much as 80 percent of
IT budgets, according to Gartner's Dale Vecchio, and many
companies are attempting to overcome the problem by switching
from mainframe applications to Web services. However, Web-server ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0611w.html#item17
"A Psychologist in Cyberspace"
MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle has become an expert on the deep,
emotional connections human beings make with the technology they
use. She explains that computers, robotic toys, and other kinds
of technology support such connections because they dovetail with ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0611w.html#item18
"Exploring the 'Singularity'"
Exponential technological development is expected to lead to the
Singularity, a point where the results of technological change
will become impossible to predict; the projected signs of the
Singularity range from the integration of biological and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0611w.html#item19
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