[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
ACM TechNews - Friday, July 25, 2003
Dear ACM TechNews Subscriber:
Welcome to the July 25, 2003 edition of ACM TechNews,
providing timely information for IT professionals three times a
week. For instructions on how to unsubscribe from this
service, please see below.
ACM's MemberNet is now online. For the latest on ACM
activities, member benefits, and industry issues,
visit http://www.acm.org/membernet
Remember to check out our hot new online essay and opinion
magazine, Ubiquity, at http://www.acm.org/ubiquity
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 524
Date: July 25, 2003
Top Stories for Friday, July 25, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Computer Voting Is Open to Easy Fraud, Experts Say"
"Report: Inadequate IT Contributed to 9/11 Intelligence Failure"
"Touch Technology: Internet May Let Us 'Feel' the Stars"
"Socially Intelligent Software: Agents Go Mainstream"
"Don't Break Email to Save It"
"Group Pushes UWB for Low-Power Networks"
"P2P Hide-and-Seek"
"Manufacturing Technique Offers Possibilities for Electronics Industry"
"Symposium Extends Embedded Linux"
"MRAM Promises "Instant-On" Computing--But When?"
"Wheelchair Moves at the Speed of Thought"
"Cracking Technique Highlights Password Concerns"
"Australia's Government Will Ban Unsolicited Commercial Email Later This
Year"
"DNS Root System in Rapid Expansion"
"In the Lecture Hall, a Geek Chorus"
"MIT's Tablet Tech Gets a Look-See From Microsoft"
"Canning Spam"
"The New Geography of the IT Industry"
"They Know Where You Are"
******************* News Stories ***********************
"Computer Voting Is Open to Easy Fraud, Experts Say"
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say software in Diebold
Election Systems' voting machines could allow multiple fraudulent
votes or let election workers rig the systems. Johns Hopkins Information
Security Institute technical director Aviel D. Rubin has published the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0725f.html#item1
"Report: Inadequate IT Contributed to 9/11 Intelligence Failure"
Lack of IT integration and official cooperation kept U.S. intelligence
agencies from preventing the Sept. 11 hijacking plot, according to
a joint inquiry by House and Senate Select Committees on Intelligence.
Sens. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) both felt the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0725f.html#item2
"Touch Technology: Internet May Let Us 'Feel' the Stars"
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the State
University of New York at Buffalo are developing and experimenting
with network and sensor technologies designed to allow people to
experience virtual tactile sensations. Adriane Hooke of the Jet ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0725f.html#item3
"Socially Intelligent Software: Agents Go Mainstream"
Companies that wish to make customer service more efficient
and effective are using software agents that interact with clients
in order to identify and solve their problems faster, but the technology's
applications are not restricted to consumer interfaces--the U.S. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0725f.html#item4
"Don't Break Email to Save It"
Anti-spam solutions should leverage the existing constraints of
spam operators rather than impose radical new changes in the
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) standard, writes
Cloudmark chief scientist Vipul Ved Prakash. Spammers must ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0725f.html#item5
"Group Pushes UWB for Low-Power Networks"
Consumer electronics firms and wireless networking companies
are pushing for a special ZigBee, or 802.15.4 standard that would
enable location applications with a new alternative physical layer
(PHY). Applications would be able to locate a single tagged product ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0725f.html#item6
"P2P Hide-and-Seek"
Copyright holders' determination to clamp down on digital file-swapping
with threats of litigation is prompting swappersto seek out more private
networks, while developers are devising new technology to avoid
traffic bottlenecks and other problems plaguing older networks. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0725f.html#item7
"Manufacturing Technique Offers Possibilities for Electronics Industry"
As transistor density in electronic circuits increases and the
transistors themselves decrease in size, lithographic manufacturing
becomes increasingly expensive. An alternative technique,
molecular self-assembly, is cheap and methodical, but can lead ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0725f.html#item8
"Symposium Extends Embedded Linux"
The potential for Linux to serve as an embedded operating system
was the topic of discussion during a presentation at the 2003
Linux Symposium at Ottawa's Congress Center. Tim Riker, the
senior Linux technologist for Texas Instruments, suggested that ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0725f.html#item9
"MRAM Promises "Instant-On" Computing--But When?"
Magnetic RAM (MRAM) technology is expected to become
commercially available in the next two to three years, but industry
experts are unsure about its exact uses or in which devices the
technology will first appear. MRAM potentially combines the best
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0725f.html#item10
"Wheelchair Moves at the Speed of Thought"
Researchers at Switzerland's Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual
Artificial Intelligence, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
and Barcelona's Center for Biomedical Engineering Research
have developed a noninvasive, electroencephalographic ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0725f.html#item11
"Cracking Technique Highlights Password Concerns"
Recent studies show Microsoft's Windows password-encoding
schemes allow cracker programs to identify alphanumeric passwords
in less than 14 seconds, though experts say the finding is not the
most imminent danger to password-only security. Previously, the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0725f.html#item12
"Australia's Government Will Ban Unsolicited Commercial Email Later This
Year"
The Australian government plans to introduce legislation this year
to ban unsolicited commercial email in response to a National
Office for the Information Economy report, which suggests a multilayered
approach to preventing spam, says Richard Alston, minister for ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0725f.html#item13
"DNS Root System in Rapid Expansion"
The Internet Software Consortium is leading an effort to rapidly
expand the Internet's domain name root server system. Currently,
there are 13 server sites--comprising many servers--that manage
all domain lookups, but the root server system is quickly being ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0725f.html#item14
"In the Lecture Hall, a Geek Chorus"
Using Instant Messaging software, wireless laptops, and other
communications technologies, attendees at conferences and
other presentations are setting up back channels--sometimes
with the conference organizers' authorization--to make useful ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0725f.html#item15
"MIT's Tablet Tech Gets a Look-See From Microsoft"
MIT researchers are exploring ways to radically change the
computer interface. The person who integrated typewriter functions
with the computer made one of the worst mistakes in computer
engineering, according to MIT computer science professor ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0725f.html#item16
"Canning Spam"
The optimal strategy an organization can follow to effectively reduce
the amount of junk email it receives combines sender ID-based
and message content-based antispam solutions whose deployment
models can also be integrated. DNS-based blacklists (DNSBLs) track ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0725f.html#item17
"The New Geography of the IT Industry"
A geographical migration is occurring as the IT industry shifts
from innovation to execution, and companies outsource IT
operations to services in India, China, and elsewhere. Silicon
Valley is in the midst of a downturn and has lost many tenants, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0725f.html#item18
"They Know Where You Are"
New wireless, location-tracking technologies that can be embedded
into practically everything are expected to emerge over the next
few years, but there is concern that their benefits--greater
convenience and safety, cheaper and more efficient inventory ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0725f.html#item19
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- To review Wednesday's issue, please please visit
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0723w.html
-- To visit the TechNews home page, point your browser to:
http://www.acm.org/technews/
-- To unsubscribe from the ACM TechNews Early Alert Service:
Please send a separate email to listserv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
with the line
signoff technews
in the body of your message.
-- Please note that replying directly to this message does not
automatically unsubscribe you from the TechNews list.
-- To submit feedback about ACM TechNews, contact:
technews@xxxxxxxxxx
-- ACM may have a different email address on file for you,
so if you're unable to "unsubscribe" yourself, please direct
your request to: technews-request@xxxxxxx
We will remove your name from the TechNews list on
your behalf.
-- For help with technical problems, including problems with
leaving the list, please write to: technews-request@xxxxxxx
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
Site Sponsored by IBM (<http://www.ibm.com>)
Ask for a free CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combination Drive with
the purchase of select NetVista or ThinkCentre A Series
tower. Call 1-800-426-7235, ext. 4098 or visit us online at
www.ibm.com/businesscenter/acm. <http://www.ibm.com/businesscenter/acm>
Shipping and handling not included. CD-RW/DVD-ROM
Combination Drive added in second bay. Limit 10 per
customer. Cannot be combined with other offers or
promotions. Offer valid from IBM in the US only from
7/15/2003 through 8/04/2003; while supplies last.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -