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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 548
Date: September 22, 2003
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Top Stories for Monday, September 22, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"New Sun Chip May Unseat the Circuit Board"
"Technology Recycling Costs and Consequences"
"Focus at DemoMobile Show Is New Uses for Wireless"
"Chatbot Bids to Fool Humans"
"Grid Promises Next Leap in Computing Power"
"Music's Struggle With Technology"
"Net-Linked Appliances Have Their Place"
"Got Extra Horsepower in Your System? Not for Long"
"CMU Scientist Takes Lead Role in Rewiring America for a Faster
Internet"
"Computing About to Take a Giant Step in Tiny World"
"Cheaper Alternative Fails to Take Hold"
"Flawed Code Leaves Phones Wide Open to Eavesdroppers"
"Talking on Air"
"Taking Back the Net"
"The Evolution of a Cryptographer"
"Handicaps in CAPPS"
"Can Anyone Make Wireless Work?"
******************* News Stories ***********************
"New Sun Chip May Unseat the Circuit Board"
Sun Microsystems researchers have come up with a way for chips to
communicate without a circuit board and accompanying wires. The
closer, more numerous connections mean data transmission speeds
60 to 100 times faster than with conventional architecture. The ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0922m.html#item1
"Technology Recycling Costs and Consequences"
The EPA estimates that over 4.6 million tons of electronic waste
was dumped in U.S. landfills in 2000, and e-waste volume is
projected to increase 400 percent over the next several years.
Meanwhile, the financial risk and liability associated with tech ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0922m.html#item2
"Focus at DemoMobile Show Is New Uses for Wireless"
Boosting the entertainment value, communications efficiency, and
business uses of wireless technology were major themes at the
annual DemoMobile show, which promotes itself as an
non-extravagant event where both major firms and small-scale ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0922m.html#item3
"Chatbot Bids to Fool Humans"
The sole British finalist in the 2003 Loebner Prize for computers
with advanced conversational skills is programmer Rollo
Carpenter's Jabberwacky, an artificial intelligence chatbot that
will compete against eight other finalists in October to see ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0922m.html#item4
"Grid Promises Next Leap in Computing Power"
Grid computing is the next evolution in the global computer
network, which began in the1960s with work on the Internet and
blossomed in the 1990s with the World Wide Web. Experts say that
in the near future users will be able to tap limitless amounts of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0922m.html#item5
"Music's Struggle With Technology"
Experts say the entertainment industry's battle against
peer-to-peer (P2P) software, which allows users to copy and
exchange digital content over the Internet, is a case of history
repeating itself: Prior to P2P, FM radio and videocassette ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0922m.html#item6
"Net-Linked Appliances Have Their Place"
Dan Gillmor learned the hard way that a more intelligent,
networked home has its benefits. Upon coming home after a
prolonged trip only to discover that the food in his fridge had
gone bad because of a malfunctioning electrical circuit, Gillmor ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0922m.html#item7
"Got Extra Horsepower in Your System? Not for Long"
Security programs will require much more system resources in the
future as computer makers find ways to defend against malicious
attacks, writes David Berlind. A single perimeter defense alone
is no longer adequate since now individual computers need ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0922m.html#item8
"CMU Scientist Takes Lead Role in Rewiring America for a Faster
Internet"
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Carnegie Mellon
University computer scientist Hui Zhang $7.5 million to redesign
the communications infrastructure of the United States so that
broadband Internet access can penetrate practically all American ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0922m.html#item9
"Computing About to Take a Giant Step in Tiny World"
Molecular electronics will make the existing microprocessor
industry obsolete, according to experts working on the concept.
For the past several decades, computing has advanced in lock-step
with Moore's Law, doubling transistor density every 18 months and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0922m.html#item10
"Cheaper Alternative Fails to Take Hold"
Wide Australian adoption of Internet Small Computer System
Interface (iSCSI) technology has been held up for a number of
reasons, including the lack of a formal standard, which was
finally approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force in March. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0922m.html#item11
"Flawed Code Leaves Phones Wide Open to Eavesdroppers"
Israeli cryptologists have uncovered security holes that could
enable practically anyone to eavesdrop on mobile phone calls
using comparatively inexpensive computing and monitoring gear.
The global system for mobile communications (GSM) is set up so ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0922m.html#item12
"Talking on Air"
Although business have been slow to implement wireless LANs,
emerging voice over wireless LAN (VoWLAN) technology could spark
wider adoption of such systems. VoWLAN promises to eliminate
phone tag in companies, and SpectraLink's Ben Guderian says ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0922m.html#item13
"Taking Back the Net"
Hackers are threatening the security of the Internet with viruses
and worms, while spammers are clogging email with unsolicited ads
that take time and money away from businesses. Major
technologists argue that this could wake up enterprises, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0922m.html#item14
"The Evolution of a Cryptographer"
In his book, "Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an
Uncertain World," Counterpane Internet Security CTO Bruce
Schneier argues that physical security followers must adopt a
systems perspective of security, and notes that the same methods ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0922m.html#item15
"Handicaps in CAPPS"
The proposed second-generation Computer-Assisted Passenger
Pre-Screening System (CAPPS II), in its current draft, would act
as an automated "threat-assessment tool" to evaluate risks posed
by air travelers by comparing their names, birthdays, home ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0922m.html#item16
"Can Anyone Make Wireless Work?"
An eight-person panel debated the future of wireless technology
at a symposium hosted by the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, and noted the poor quality of cell-phone
coverage in the United States, compared to Europe or Japan. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0922m.html#item17
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