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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 415
Date: October 25, 2002
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Top Stories for Friday, October 25, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Net Attack Could be First of Many, Experts Warn"
"Tomorrow's Tech: The Domino Effect"
"GAO: Visa Fees Boost IT Industry"
"Letter: Free Software Hurts U.S."
"Copyright Fights Slowing Broadband Growth"
"Tech Helps Blind 'See' Computer Images"
"Encryption Method Getting the Picture"
"Thinking of Radio as Smart Enough to Live Without Rules"
"Physicists Flip a Qubit"
"X Marks the Spot"
"Purdue Researchers Build Made-to-Order Nanotubes"
"Q&A: Internet Pioneer Stephen Crocker on This Week's DDOS Attack"
"Brave New World"
"TeraGrid Receives $35 Million From National Science Foundation"
"Toward a More Flexible Future"
"Sensors Gone Wild"
"Hot Research"
"Life By the Numbers"
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"Net Attack Could be First of Many, Experts Warn"
Although the Oct. 21 cyberattack on all 13 of the Internet domain
name system (DNS) root servers fizzled, several experts warn that
more sophisticated and successful attacks could follow, and are
urging the federal government take action to shield the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1025f.html#item1
"Tomorrow's Tech: The Domino Effect"
Taking a cue from falling dominoes, scientists at IBM's Almaden
Research Center have built digital logic elements that are
260,000 times smaller than those currently used in today's most
sophisticated semiconductor chips. They created the circuits by ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1025f.html#item2
"GAO: Visa Fees Boost IT Industry"
Employers who wish to hire foreign workers for IT jobs must pay a
$1,000 application fee for H-1B visas, and the government is
channeling the money collected from these fees into training
programs for American workers, according to a recent report from ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1025f.html#item3
"Letter: Free Software Hurts U.S."
Reps. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Ron Kind (D-Wis.), and Jim Davis
(D-Fla.) urged 74 Democrats in Congress to support a letter that
Reps. Tom Davis (R-Va.) and Jim Turner (D-Texas) sent to White
House cybersecurity advisor Richard Clarke, suggesting that his ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1025f.html#item4
"Copyright Fights Slowing Broadband Growth"
Technology and telecommunications companies need to help resolve
copyright disputes over digital content in order to make
broadband attractive to consumers, according to Bruce P. Mehlman,
advisor to the President and assistant secretary of technology ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1025f.html#item5
"Tech Helps Blind 'See' Computer Images"
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has
developed a tactile display designed to enable the visually
impaired to feel digital images. The prototype device, which
will be tested by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1025f.html#item6
"Encryption Method Getting the Picture"
Xerox and University of Rochester researchers have devised a
method, known as reversible data hiding, that can be used to
encrypt digital images and later retrieve them without causing
data loss or distortion. Both partners will share patent rights ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1025f.html#item7
"Quantum Scheme Lightens Load"
Johns Hopkins University researchers have devised a scheme that
would involve the construction of a linear optical quantum
computer with a lot less equipment than previously thought. The
scheme involves basing the computer on the manipulation of single ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1025f.html#item8
"Thinking of Radio as Smart Enough to Live Without Rules"
Although the FCC has recently allowed for more technologies to
make use of unlicensed swaths of bandwidth, such as Ultra
Wideband technology and the spectrum near 2.4 GHz for Wi-Fi
connectivity, others envision the creation of a wireless network ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1025f.html#item9
"X Marks the Spot"
Widespread adoption of wireless technologies is a foregone
conclusion, according to those in the emerging location-based
Internet industry. A number of companies are working on Internet
technologies that draw on location-based information to provide ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1025f.html#item10
"Purdue Researchers Build Made-to-Order Nanotubes"
Using what professor Hicham Fenniri describes as "a novel dial-in
approach," scientists at Purdue University have developed
application-specific "rosette nanotubes" that feature unique
physical, chemical, and electrical traits. Rosette nanotubes ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1025f.html#item11
"Q&A: Internet Pioneer Stephen Crocker on This Week's DDOS Attack"
Internet pioneer Stephen Crocker, who chairs an ICANN security
committee, says that this week's distributed denial-of-service
(DDOS) attack on the Internet's 13 Domain Name System (DNS) root
servers has both positive and negative aspects, and discusses ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1025f.html#item12
"Brave New World"
Belgium-based IMEC's M4 is a 10-year initiative that aims to
marry several disciplines to facilitate the convergence of
semiconductor, software, and micro-electromechanical systems
(MEMS) technology into wireless body-area networks (WBANs) that ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1025f.html#item13
"TeraGrid Receives $35 Million From National Science Foundation"
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has approved an additional
$35 million grant to the TeraGrid project, extending the
infrastructure to five sites and joining it with the TCS-1
supercomputing project at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1025f.html#item14
"Toward a More Flexible Future"
Lower corporate spending on IT coupled with a drive to squeeze
existing servers for efficiency are pushing server vendors to
change their sales strategy to emphasize cost savings through
more flexible products that offer easy management. Blade servers ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1025f.html#item15
"Sensors Gone Wild"
Uses for intelligent sensors and ways to improve them are the
goal of several research projects, including one at southern
California's James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve, where dozens of
devices have been distributed to track animal movements and plant ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1025f.html#item16
"Hot Research"
Keeping data centers cool so that system failures can be averted
is a heavy area of concentration in IT research efforts, and
Hewlett-Packard is working on a variety of solutions using a
holistic approach, according to HP Labs researcher Chandrakant ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1025f.html#item17
"Life By the Numbers"
The convergence of biology and computer science into
bioinformatics follows the principle that all natural systems
adhere to a mathematical model, and life itself can be broken
down mathematically through the understanding of DNA, the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1025f.html#item18
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