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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 551
Date: September 29, 2003
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Top Stories for Monday, September 29, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Europe Shows Little Patience Over Patents"
"Guarding Privacy vs. Enforcing Copyrights"
"IM Worms Pose Growing Threat"
"U.S. Readies Program to Track Visas"
"A Sense of Wonder at MIT Emerging Technologies Conference"
"Circuit Boards are Here to Stay"
"Borg Honored for Breaking Tech Gender Molds"
"Radio Tags Give Guidance"
"In the Wild West of the Internet, There are Good Guys and Bad Guys"
"We Are All Paparazzi Now"
"Samba 3.0 to Be Released Thursday"
"A Vote Against the Computerized Ballot"
"Workers Embrace IT That Fosters Coordination; Reject IT That Controls"
"Feds Should Boost IT Research, Report Says"
"Electronic Paper Reaches Video Speed"
"Privacy, Security on Aust Single-Identifier Group's List"
"The Next Small Thing: Paul Saffo Discusses Microscopic Technologies
and the Local Economy"
"Molecular Memory: Carbon-Nanotube Device Stores Data in Molecules"
"Reinventing the Transistor"
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"Europe Shows Little Patience Over Patents"
The European Parliament recently issued a new software copyright
directive that neither side says clarifies the issue, and many
expect the new directive to be just a middle point in a long
battle over software patents. Unlike Japan and the United ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0929m.html#item1
"Guarding Privacy vs. Enforcing Copyrights"
Clashing ideologies are making it difficult to balance the need
to uphold online privacy with protecting copyrights. Both of
these issues were highlighted in several coinciding incidents:
The wave of anger engendered by the recording industry's lawsuit ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0929m.html#item2
"IM Worms Pose Growing Threat"
Symantec Security Response researchers Eric Chien and Neal
Hindocha reported at the Virus Bulletin conference Sept. 26 that
the fast adoption of instant messaging technology and increasing
numbers of IM security vulnerabilities could give rise to worms ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0929m.html#item3
"U.S. Readies Program to Track Visas"
The Homeland Security Department in November intends to release
plans for the U.S. Visitor and Status Indication Technology (U.S.
VISIT) project, a system that seeks to keep track of every
foreign visa-holder in the United States. The program, which ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0929m.html#item4
"A Sense of Wonder at MIT Emerging Technologies Conference"
Speakers at this week's MIT Emerging Technologies Conference
imparted their predictions on future technological advances and
the strategies companies can follow to maximize innovation and
profitability. Intel's David Tennenhouse led a discussion about ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0929m.html#item5
"Circuit Boards are Here to Stay"
Sun Microsystems' John Gustafson claims his company's
chip-to-chip "Proximity Communication" technology could eliminate
the need for circuit boards, but some industry observers are
doubtful. Proximity Communication involves positioning the chips ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0929m.html#item6
"Borg Honored for Breaking Tech Gender Molds"
Computer scientist and Institute for Women and Technology (IWT)
founder Anita Borg staunchly fought to have equal gender
representation in the technology industry by 2020, a goal that
people are still working toward despite her death in April. Her ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0929m.html#item7
"Radio Tags Give Guidance"
University of Rochester researchers have developed a navigational
aid for the visually handicapped that uses radio frequency
identification (RFID) tags in a unique way. Most of the current
buzz surrounding RFID tags revolves around how the technology is ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0929m.html#item8
"In the Wild West of the Internet, There are Good Guys and Bad Guys"
Dan Gillmor comments that the community spirit of the Internet
endures, despite the medium's commercialization and the
proliferation of exploiters and malicious types who seem
determined to undermine that spirit in the hopes of making money, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0929m.html#item9
"We Are All Paparazzi Now"
Publicly accessible webcams are proliferating throughout the
world, with more than 10,000 webcams found by a Carnegie Mellon
University survey in early September. Paul Lancaster, the
Arizona businessman who operates a publicly accessible webcam ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0929m.html#item10
"Samba 3.0 to Be Released Thursday"
The Samba team is ready to release a new version of Samba, the
Unix and Linux file server software. The worldwide group of
volunteer programmers refers to the Samba 3.0 source code as a
"gold" version, which it stands behind as a sign of its ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0929m.html#item11
"A Vote Against the Computerized Ballot"
Electronic Privacy Information Center executive director Marc
Rotenberg writes that it would be folly at this point to hand
over the vote counting process to electronic systems, in view of
their lack of an audit trail and all the security vulnerabilities ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0929m.html#item12
"Workers Embrace IT That Fosters Coordination; Reject IT That
Controls"
The adoption and overall effectiveness of new IT systems is
dependent on the flexibility those technologies offer workers. A
study by Pennsylvania State University assistant IT professors
shows that IT that imposes strict controls is not as readily ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0929m.html#item13
"Feds Should Boost IT Research, Report Says"
The federal government needs to assume a larger role in
supporting information technology research, according to a new
report by the National Academies' Computer Science and
Telecommunications Board. Researchers are facing new challenges, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0929m.html#item14
"Electronic Paper Reaches Video Speed"
Researchers Robert Hayes and Johan Feenstra at the
Netherlands-based Philips Research laboratory have developed
electronic paper with a switching time fast enough to support
moving video, and have also worked out a method to create ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0929m.html#item15
"Privacy, Security on Aust Single-Identifier Group's List"
The new Australian Communications Authority (ACA)-backed
Australian ENUM Discussion Group is considering privacy,
security, and other aspects of a plan to test ENUM in Australia
in 2004. ENUM would map telephone numbers to e164.arpa IP ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0929m.html#item16
"The Next Small Thing: Paul Saffo Discusses Microscopic
Technologies and the Local Economy"
Institute for the Future director Paul Saffo says Silicon Valley
is well-positioned for the next wave of technological
advancement, which will not be in IT as we know it, but rather in
biotech and nanotechnology. He predicts that the importance of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0929m.html#item17
"Molecular Memory: Carbon-Nanotube Device Stores Data in Molecules"
Chemists at the University of California, Los Angeles, have
created a molecular memory device with carbon nanotubes as an
electrode, an example of the latest research to develop organic
molecules as replacements for silicon to power the electronic ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0929m.html#item18
"Reinventing the Transistor"
Hewlett-Packard's Palo Alto facility is a beehive of blue-sky
research, much of it focusing on molecular electronics and led by
intuitive scientist R. Stanley Williams. Concepts that Williams'
team has worked on or is working on include nano imprint ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0929m.html#item19
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