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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 534
Date: August 18, 2003
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Top Stories for Monday, August 18, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"The Bits Are Willing, But the Batteries Are Weak"
"Cybersecurity Chairman: Infosec Mandates May Be Needed"
"IT Leads Recovery After Regional Power Failure"
"Linux Hits Landmarks in Los Alamos Supercomputer Deals"
"A Spray-on Computer Is Way to Do IT"
"Indy Know-How to Be Feature of CMU Entry in Robot Racing"
"DNS Inventor Says Cure to Net Identity Problems Is Right Under
Our Nose"
"Smart Chips Making Daily Life Easier"
"Keeping the Net Neutral"
"Researcher Invents New Graphing Method"
"CMU Professor Wins Award for Program That Aids Decision-Making
Process"
"Data Search Stirs Concern"
"Postal Service Pursues 'Intelligent Mail' Despite Privacy
Concerns"
"A Glimpse of IBM's Future"
"Quantum Computer Keeps It Simple"
"Saturday Light Fever"
"The Myth of Generation N"
"The Great Debate Over Software Patents"
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"The Bits Are Willing, But the Batteries Are Weak"
The recent blackout proved that the sea of digital data created
with cell phones, digital cameras, email, the Web, and connected
computers is not entirely independent of real-world constraints.
Despite the robust performance of the Internet itself, e-commerce ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0818m.html#item1
"Cybersecurity Chairman: Infosec Mandates May Be Needed"
House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Science, Research and
Development Chairman Rep. William Thornberry (R-Texas) says he is
considering legislation that would require private industry to
improve cybersecurity. His influence over federal cybersecurity ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0818m.html#item2
"IT Leads Recovery After Regional Power Failure"
The massive power outage that blacked out Manhattan and other
northeast regions on Aug. 14 was not a crippling blow against
Wall Street and other area businesses thanks to backups and
data-recovery systems, many of which had been installed as a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0818m.html#item3
"Linux Hits Landmarks in Los Alamos Supercomputer Deals"
Linux Networx has forged a $10 million deal with Los Alamos
National Laboratory to build a Linux cluster supercomputer known
as Lightning, which will encompass nearly 3,000 AMD Opteron
processors and theoretically boast a peak performance of 11.26 ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0818m.html#item4
"A Spray-on Computer Is Way to Do IT"
Edinburgh University researchers have received a grant of 1.3
million pounds from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council
to develop ubiquitous computing technology in which mote-sized
computers can be sprayed on objects and communicate their ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0818m.html#item5
"Indy Know-How to Be Feature of CMU Entry in Robot Racing"
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has
organized the Grand Challenge, in which robot vehicles will race
from Barstow, Calif., to Las Vegas for a $1 million prize on
March 13, 2004. The chief purpose of the Grand Challenge, from ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0818m.html#item6
"DNS Inventor Says Cure to Net Identity Problems Is Right Under
Our Nose"
Paul Mockapetris, chairman of Nominum and the writer of the DNS
protocol, is focused on addressing the problem of identity theft
on the Internet. Considering possible solutions to identity
issues on the Internet, Mockapetris declares, "We can use ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0818m.html#item7
"Smart Chips Making Daily Life Easier"
European researchers with the Smart-Its Project continue to make
progress on "ubiquitous computing." During the recent computer
graphics Siggraph exhibition in the United States, Smart-Its
Project researcher Martin Strohbach explained that his colleagues ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0818m.html#item8
"Keeping the Net Neutral"
The so-called "Net neutrality" proposal the Coalition of
Broadband Users and Innovators submitted to the FCC in July wants
the federal government to regulate the broadband Internet in
order to ensure that cable companies do not discriminate between ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0818m.html#item9
"Researcher Invents New Graphing Method"
Dr. Alvaro Munoz of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health has determined three major flaws with the 3D bar graph
method used to present financial, medical, and other information
in many computer programs, newspapers, and scientific journals. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0818m.html#item10
"CMU Professor Wins Award for Program That Aids Decision-Making
Process"
Artificial intelligence can be used to find the best overall
solution in a competitive decision-making environment, according
to work done by Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist
Tuomas Sandholm; those decisions include real-life political ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0818m.html#item11
"Data Search Stirs Concern"
The war on terrorism and the homeland security push have made
citizen cross-checking and profiling a government priority, which
is in turn fostering the creation of companies that wish to sell
private and public data to federal agencies. There is, however, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0818m.html#item12
"Postal Service Pursues 'Intelligent Mail' Despite Privacy
Concerns"
The President's Commission on the U.S. Postal Service has thrown
its support behind the idea of developing sender identification
technology for U.S. mail. The presidential commission has
recommended that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), which has ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0818m.html#item13
"A Glimpse of IBM's Future"
New computing applications designed and developed by interns at
IBM's Industry Solutions Lab were recently spotlighted at the
Extreme Blue Technology Showcase. One application, Blue Fusion,
is a supply-chain simplification tool that utilizes Web services ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0818m.html#item14
"Quantum Computer Keeps It Simple"
Quantum computer researchers at the University of Oxford and
University College London have proposed a radically different
quantum computer design that broadens the horizon of possible
implementations. Instead of relying on metal electrodes to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0818m.html#item15
"Saturday Light Fever"
Scientific research of microscale objects could advance
significantly thanks to a combination of optical tweezers and
holograms developed by University of Chicago physicist David
Grier. Optical tweezers invented by Bell Laboratories ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0818m.html#item16
"The Myth of Generation N"
"Database Nation" author Simson Garfinkel challenges the popular
assumption that all young people possess a natural aptitude for
technology, which puts a crimp in social scientists and
technologists' projected emergence of a Net generation, despite ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0818m.html#item17
"The Great Debate Over Software Patents"
Gray, Cary, Ware & Freidenrich partner Mark Radcliffe and Open
Source Initiative general counsel Lawrence Rosen offer differing
views of how the U.S. patent system is being affected by the
growing viability of software patents. Radcliffe posits that the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0818m.html#item18
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