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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 512
Date: June 25, 2003
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Top Stories for Wednesday, June 25, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Senator Presses Pentagon on Spy Plan"
"New California Law Forces Companies to Disclose Hacking"
"PlanetLab 'Slices' Into Alternate Universe"
"Hackers Move on to Hijacking"
"Sony's Flexible Approach Pays Dividends in Lab"
"Bill Aims to Cut Computer Clutter"
"Quantum Computing Is Out There, and It Just Got Funding"
"Software Referees Group Calls"
"Exhibiting Technology"
"New Bill Injects FBI Into P2P Battle"
"Researchers Demonstrate Tunable Schottky Barrier, Aim for
Ferroelectric"
"Virtual Voting"
"Mentors Help Students Build a Better Robot"
"In Search of Africa's Silicon Valley"
"The Sentient Office Is Coming"
"How Do I Know Who You Are?"
"Defensive Postures"
"From Virtual Communities to Smart Mobs"
******************* News Stories ***********************
"Senator Presses Pentagon on Spy Plan"
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wrote a letter to the director of the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on June 24
asking 11 questions concerning the scope, privacy ramifications,
and other details of Terrorist (formerly Total) Information ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0625w.html#item1
"New California Law Forces Companies to Disclose Hacking"
A California law that takes effect on July 1, 2003, requires
companies to notify state customers about network intrusions that
compromise the security of their personal information. Personal
information, according to the bill, refers to an individual's ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0625w.html#item2
"PlanetLab 'Slices' Into Alternate Universe"
PlanetLab, which was launched June 24 by a consortium of academic
institutions and high-tech companies, is an Internet-based
testbed for online services that uses overlay networks and
distributed computing. Organizers say its purpose is to allow ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0625w.html#item3
"Hackers Move on to Hijacking"
Hackers are commandeering Web sites and using them as platforms
to launch all kinds of unauthorized activity--transmission of
unsolicited commercial email, pornographic site hosting,
searching for more computers to victimize and so on--via an intrusion ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0625w.html#item4
"Sony's Flexible Approach Pays Dividends in Lab"
Sony's Tokyo-based interactive research laboratory plays host to
a research team that has been gathered to explore novel computer
interface concepts such as Gummi, a flexible handheld device that
is sensitive to touching and bending, and GestureWrist, a gadget ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0625w.html#item5
"Bill Aims to Cut Computer Clutter"
The National Computer Recycling Act sponsored by Rep. Mike
Thompson (D-Calif.) aims to curb the growing stockpile of
discarded computers by attaching a fee of about $10 to new
computer or monitor purchases to fund recycling initiatives. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0625w.html#item6
"Quantum Computing Is Out There, and It Just Got Funding"
Venture-capitalist firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) has funded
Canada-based D-Wave Systems, the only startup in the world that
aims to build a working quantum computer. Quantum computers,
which rely on the quirky science of quantum mechanics to operate, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0625w.html#item7
"Software Referees Group Calls"
A collaboration between researchers at Palo Alto Research Center
(PARC), Carnegie Mellon University, and Stanford University has
yielded a prototype audio interface featuring software that
mediates group teleconferencing with more flexibility by ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0625w.html#item8
"Exhibiting Technology"
Museums and tourist exhibits are providing cutting-edge
technology with an incubator of sorts, and emphasize experiences
rather than the return-on-investment demanded in the wider
business world. Seattle museum planner Howard Litwak explains ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0625w.html#item9
"New Bill Injects FBI Into P2P Battle"
The Piracy Deterrence and Education Act of 2003 presented to
Congress by Reps. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Howard Berman
(D-Calif.) on June 19 this year would command the FBI to organize
a program to investigate and prosecute online copyright ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0625w.html#item10
"Researchers Demonstrate Tunable Schottky Barrier, Aim for
Ferroelectric"
Scientists have redefined one of the tenets of electronic
computing with the discovery of a flexible Schottky barrier, the
intersection of semiconductor and oxide material regulating the
flow of electrons from one to the other. Named for Siemens ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0625w.html#item11
"Virtual Voting"
The Department of Defense will use the general and presidential
elections of 2004 as a testbed for its Secure Electronic
Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE), an e-voting project
designed to streamline the absentee voting process for Americans ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0625w.html#item12
"Mentors Help Students Build a Better Robot"
The For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
(FIRST) robotics competition, now in its 11th year, pits teams of
students against each other in the design and performance of
robots, and assigns science and engineering professionals as ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0625w.html#item13
"In Search of Africa's Silicon Valley"
Several countries in Africa are attempting to follow India's lead
by developing high-tech hubs and become the African equivalent of
India's Bangalore. The African nations of Uganda, Togo, Senegal,
and Ghana, for example, are trying to break into the global ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0625w.html#item14
"The Sentient Office Is Coming"
Sentient computer systems that can perceive their environment and
intuitively anticipate users' needs are expected to become
ubiquitous due to a number of factors. Usability is one reason,
since consumers desire an easier way to program and operate ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0625w.html#item15
"How Do I Know Who You Are?"
Biometrics advisor James L. Wayman of San Jose State University
argues that biometrics security popularized in recent years is
deeply flawed for a variety of reasons, including a lack of
standards, legal controversy, and the current level of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0625w.html#item16
"Defensive Postures"
The growth of computer system vulnerabilities and hacking
incidents is boosting the popularity of intrusion prevention
systems (IPSes), which are split into two general categories:
Host-based intrusion prevention (HIP) systems that shield servers ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0625w.html#item17
"From Virtual Communities to Smart Mobs"
In his book, "Smart Mobs," author Howard Rheingold envisions how
group and individual interactions can be revolutionized through
Web-connected cell phones that can wirelessly transmit and
receive content. Text messaging via cell phones removes ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0625w.html#item18
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