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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 511
Date: June 23, 2003
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Top Stories for Monday, June 23, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Congress Finds Rare Unity in Spam, to a Point"
"This Is Your Life--In Bits"
"Tech Comes Out Swinging"
"Building a Better Bug-Trap"
"E-Mail Swindle Uses False Report About a Swindle"
"High-Tech Workers Fight New Threat of Foreign Replacements"
"McCain Promises Review of DMCA Subpoena Power"
"Smart Bricks, or a Dumb Idea?"
"Apple in 2008"
"CERT, Adobe Address PDF Vulnerability"
"A Survey of Next-Generation Storage System Architectures"
"McCarthy Wins Major Award"
"Movement Brings Computer Images to Life"
"Researchers Take Initial Step Toward Much Faster Computing"
"The Centrifuge Moves You"
"Eight Questions for George Dyson"
"Watching Him Watching You"
"An Uncertain Future for the IT Workforce"
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"Congress Finds Rare Unity in Spam, to a Point"
Congressional members, interest groups, and industry are largely
agreed that legislation is required to stop the rising tide of
spam, which is estimated to account for 40 percent of all email.
Because the debate focuses on consumer and marketing tensions, it ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0623m.html#item1
"This Is Your Life--In Bits"
Efforts are underway at Microsoft and the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop tools that record and
store all facets of an individual's experience to serve as
electronic memory aids. DARPA's LifeLog project aims to build a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0623m.html#item2
"Tech Comes Out Swinging"
The 100 leading technology firms are hoping to knock out their
competition, reestablish industry credibility, and reinvigorate
the U.S. economy through aggressive and risky investments, a
strategy that has paid off in the past. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0623m.html#item3
"Building a Better Bug-Trap"
The significance and pervasiveness of programming errors are
growing as software becomes more deeply integrated and embedded
within society, which in turn makes traditional bug-finding
methods less effective. Software that can detect bugs early in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0623m.html#item4
"E-Mail Swindle Uses False Report About a Swindle"
An email message sent out on Wednesday, June 18, 2003, with the
subject heading, "Fraud Alert," warned of a scam related to Best
Buy's Web site, but the email actually was a scam itself. The
unsolicited message was sent to as many as 1 million Internet ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0623m.html#item5
"High-Tech Workers Fight New Threat of Foreign Replacements"
American high-tech workers are protesting the increased use of
L-1 visas--which are less restrictive than H-1B visas--to replace
them with cheap foreign labor, and are mobilizing to curb such
practices. For example, unemployed IT worker Glenn R. Dawson ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0623m.html#item6
"McCain Promises Review of DMCA Subpoena Power"
Verizon was recently forced by court order to reveal the
identities of several subscribers suspected of online music
piracy to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA),
which leveraged a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0623m.html#item7
"Smart Bricks, or a Dumb Idea?"
There is a movement to develop "smart buildings" that can perform
routine maintenance tasks automatically and monitor their
structural integrity in real time. One innovation along these
lines is a "smart brick" from researchers at the University of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0623m.html#item8
"Apple in 2008"
To remain significant, Apple needs to continue leading the PC
industry forward in other areas besides hardware, according to
analysts. The company's marginal market share has always belied
its influence on the industry, and Apple has been able to set the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0623m.html#item9
"CERT, Adobe Address PDF Vulnerability"
The CERT Coordination Center verified that Portable Document
Format (PDF) readers for the Unix and Linux platforms suffer from
a security vulnerability on June 18, less than a week after this
information was disclosed online by someone using the alias ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0623m.html#item10
"A Survey of Next-Generation Storage System Architectures"
Storage architecture is just as important to consider as the
storage devices themselves; so while storage devices are
advancing rapidly, it is reasonable to expect improvements in
storage architecture. As Harvard professor Clayton Christiansen ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0623m.html#item11
"McCarthy Wins Major Award"
Philadelphia's Franklin Institute recognized Stanford University
computer science professor John McCarthy for his pioneering work
in the field of artificial intelligence by awarding him the
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science on ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0623m.html#item12
"Movement Brings Computer Images to Life"
University of California-Davis graduate students Eric Lum and
Aleksander Stompel collaborated with computer science professor
Kwan-Liu Ma to develop kinetic visualization, a computer graphics
technique in which the shape and structure of stationary objects ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0623m.html#item13
"Researchers Take Initial Step Toward Much Faster Computing"
University of Chicago researchers have built genetically
engineered fibers that could bind to gold nanoparticles to form
tiny conducting wires, a breakthrough that could lead to
super-fast optical computing. The fibers are fabricated from ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0623m.html#item14
"The Centrifuge Moves You"
Computer technology is becoming more decentralized with wireless
technology and is the process of its most profound transformation
in nearly 25 years, writes economist and author Arnold Kling.
The previous focus on the PC and document creation has given way ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0623m.html#item15
"Eight Questions for George Dyson"
George Dyson, historian and director's visitor at the Institute
for Advanced Study (IAS), speaks about his keynote address at the
upcoming O'Reilly Open Source Convention, where he will talk
about the beginnings of digital computation in the early 1950s. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0623m.html#item16
"Watching Him Watching You"
The Pentagon's Terrorism Information Awareness (formerly Total
Information Awareness) project, or TIA, is supposed to help
authorities track down terrorists by mining databases of
commercial transactions, credit card bills, online news releases, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0623m.html#item17
"An Uncertain Future for the IT Workforce"
Results of the InfoWorld 2003 Compensation Survey seem to mirror
the findings of an Information Technology Association of America
(ITAA) study released in May. InfoWorld found that only 15
percent of respondents foresee their companies increasing their ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0623m.html#item18
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