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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 519
Date: July 14, 2003
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Top Stories for Monday, July 14, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Funding for TIA All But Dead"
"Led by Intel, True Believers in Wi-Fi Say It Will Endure"
"Job Exports May Imperil U.S. Programmers"
"Gladiator-Style 'Wars' Seek Out Weak Programs"
"The Future of Optical Computing, Now"
"India's Tech Industry Defends H-1B, Outsource Roles"
"Thousands to Cast Ballots by Internet in 2004 Elections"
"U.S. Firms Scramble to Get the Lead Out"
"Privacy Rights Under Threat by Lawmakers"
"Quantum Deep"
"Feds Far From Securing Cyberspace"
"And Now, the Weather Report for Your Neighborhood"
"Sizzling Storage? Just Wait"
"Internet Can be Upgraded 'Without Boosting Backbone'"
"New Software Allows You to Log on By Laughing"
"White House: 5 Priorities to Guide R&D Funding in FY 2005"
"Researchers Spawn Innovative Technologies"
"IT Does So Matter!"
"Building Blocks for Converged Applications"
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"Funding for TIA All But Dead"
A 2004 defense spending bill that the U.S. Senate might pass as
early as next week could effectively kill the Terrorism (formally
Total) Information Awareness program through a defunding
provision. The bill states, "No funds appropriated or otherwise ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0714m.html#item1
"Led by Intel, True Believers in Wi-Fi Say It Will Endure"
Despite the popular notion that Wi-Fi is ruined as a business
opportunity, some media and technology leaders gathered by
investment banker Herbert Allen seem to think otherwise. Among
the business luminaries were Intel's Craig R. Barrett and Andrew ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0714m.html#item2
"Job Exports May Imperil U.S. Programmers"
American programmers are worried their jobs are being
endangered by the offshore outsourcing of highly-skilled tech
positions to India, China, Russia, and other developing countries
where the workforce is cheaper. Furthermore, outsourcing ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0714m.html#item3
"Gladiator-Style 'Wars' Seek Out Weak Programs"
The ClusterWorld conference held in San Jose in June pitted 236
computer programs developed by universities, software firms, and
government research departments around the globe against each
other in a gladiator-style tournament where the winning algorithm ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0714m.html#item4
"The Future of Optical Computing, Now"
Optical computing applications are arriving in the form of
biometric identifiers and network switching equipment. Actual
computers are not far behind, say those in the optical computing
field. Driving demand for optical computing, which relies on ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0714m.html#item5
"India's Tech Industry Defends H-1B, Outsource Roles"
India's National Association of Software and Service Companies
(Nasscom) issued a report to quell concerned American and Indian
parties' worries about outsourcing and the H-1B visa program,
which critics claim are taking jobs away from American workers. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0714m.html#item6
"Thousands to Cast Ballots by Internet in 2004 Elections"
U.S. military personnel and American citizens living overseas
will have the opportunity to cast absentee ballots for the 2004
elections over the Internet, courtesy of the Pentagon's $22
million Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0714m.html#item7
"U.S. Firms Scramble to Get the Lead Out"
In anticipation of a pan-European prohibition on high-tech
exports that contain six toxic substances--lead, mercury,
cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls, and
polybrominated diphenyl ethers--several major American ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0714m.html#item8
"Privacy Rights Under Threat by Lawmakers"
Dan Gillmor writes that California legislators are displaying
contempt for the public good by failing to institute privacy
legislation because such actions benefit their financial
supporters rather than their constituencies. Gillmor cites the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0714m.html#item9
"Quantum Deep"
Quantum computing, thought by many to be the next logical
evolutionary step in information processing, is supposed to
harness the unique nature of quantum physics, which allows for
the superposition of quantum states. "Quantum computing begins ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0714m.html#item10
"Feds Far From Securing Cyberspace"
Speaking at a recent forum in Boston for chief security officers,
former White House cybersecurity advisor Richard Clarke said the
U.S. government is not yet a leader in cyberspace security. In
fact, many U.S. agencies have been rated unsatisfactorily in the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0714m.html#item11
"And Now, the Weather Report for Your Neighborhood"
Several companies, IBM among them, are developing weather
simulation programs that tap the number-crunching power of
supercomputers to provide precise, high-resolution local
forecasts. IBM's effort, Deep Thunder, collects forecast data ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0714m.html#item12
"Sizzling Storage? Just Wait"
Technology trends point toward a revolution in the storage market
by 2006, when today's leading vendors will either have
capitulated their proprietary bastions or become obsolete, writes
Jan Oltsik. Cheapening hardware components are making advanced ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0714m.html#item13
"Internet Can be Upgraded 'Without Boosting Backbone'"
Tom Leighton, the chief scientist of Akamai, recently spoke at
the Fifth International Congress on Industrial and Applied
Mathematics about his belief that operation of the Internet is
hindered by inadequate use of Border Gateway Protocol and Domain ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0714m.html#item14
"New Software Allows You to Log on By Laughing"
Computer scientists at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia,
have developed a program that will automatically log someone onto
the nearest computer at the sound of their voice or laughter. In
an effort to make it easier for their staff to log onto networked ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0714m.html#item15
"White House: 5 Priorities to Guide R&D Funding in FY 2005"
A June 5 White House memo sent to federal agency directors
indicates that President Bush's proposed research and development
budget for fiscal 2005 will have five priorities:
Counterterrorism, nanotechnology, networking and IT, environment ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0714m.html#item16
"Researchers Spawn Innovative Technologies"
Since the inauguration of MIT's Project Oxygen roughly four years
ago, researchers have churned out approximately 20 advanced
communications technologies designed to "[promote] human
interaction, more natural interaction between people and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0714m.html#item17
"IT Does So Matter!"
A number of leading IT experts repudiate Nicholas G. Carr's
assertion that IT's strategic value has been lost to
commoditization, although Andrew McAfee of Harvard Business
School thinks Carr's stance has had one positive effect-it ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0714m.html#item18
"Building Blocks for Converged Applications"
Applications convergence is expected to revolutionize the
enterprise, and key to this development is a "logical enterprise"
model based on an array of building blocks. These fundamental
elements include IP telephony or Voice over IP (VOIP); unified ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0714m.html#item19
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