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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 554
Date: October 6, 2003
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Top Stories for Monday, October 6, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Spam Fighters Turn to Identifying Legitimate E-Mail"
"With Software Jobs Migrating to India, Think Long Term"
"Vote, With No Confidence"
"EU Directive Could Spark Patent War"
"Buggy Software Taking Toll"
"Becoming a Security Guru Without Breaking the Law"
"Pushing Peer-to-Peer"
"Advanced Chip Opens Door to Software Choice"
"Researchers Say They're a Few Years Away From Self-Healing
Electrical Grid"
"Playing With Technology"
"Q&A: Congressman Explains His Opposition to H-1B Visas"
"Huge Computing Power Goes Online"
"Innocent File-Sharers Could Appear Guilty"
"Online Registries: The DNS and Beyond"
"Fighting Talk"
"DHS Initiates Real-Time Cybersituation Project DHS Initiates
Real-Time Cybersituation Project"
"Outwitting Spammers"
"Ruling Over Unruly Programs"
"Rethinking Software Testing"
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"Spam Fighters Turn to Identifying Legitimate E-Mail"
Many email experts think that a system to identify legitimate
email rather than spam will be a more effective strategy for
controlling the spread of unsolicited commercial messages. This
would entail the development of an email version of caller ID ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1006m.html#item1
"With Software Jobs Migrating to India, Think Long Term"
Computer guru Ed Yourdon's performance as an IT job forecaster
has been marked by peaks and valleys: In his 1992 book "Decline
& Fall of the American Programmer," he prophesied that American
programmers will lose their jobs to cheaper Indian professionals, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1006m.html#item2
"Vote, With No Confidence"
Electronic voting systems, such as the touch-screen machines that
will replace traditional punch-card machines in California for
the Oct. 7 recall election and the 2003 presidential primary, are
problematic for several reasons: They lack a printed audit trail ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1006m.html#item3
"EU Directive Could Spark Patent War"
The Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented
Inventions recently approved by the European Parliament contains
several amendments that Gartner states could create significant
disparities between European and American software patenting ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1006m.html#item4
"Buggy Software Taking Toll"
Software is increasingly pervasive in modern products, as are the
glitches that inevitably show up in growing pools of code.
Unlike relatively lithe programs that operated computers years
ago, many of today's software programs have millions of lines of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1006m.html#item5
"Becoming a Security Guru Without Breaking the Law"
Computer security is a hot area for students, especially those
looking for a lucrative career after they graduate. There is a
wealth of courses and resources offered by higher-education
institutions for the prospective IT security expert: Agnes Chan ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1006m.html#item6
"Pushing Peer-to-Peer"
Peer-to-peer networking is a powerful concept that has never
really taken off on the Internet, even though the Internet itself
was originally intended to be peer-to-peer; instead, most of the
Internet uses a client/server architecture that is simpler to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1006m.html#item7
"Advanced Chip Opens Door to Software Choice"
Intel recently announced plans for Vanderpool, a next-generation
computer chip that will be capable of running multiple operating
systems simultaneously. System crashes are typically the result
of conflicts between several operating systems running on the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1006m.html#item8
"Researchers Say They're a Few Years Away From Self-Healing
Electrical Grid"
Software designed to anticipate future electrical power
consumption by analyzing patterns of past electrical usage is
undergoing testing at Argonne National Laboratory, where
researchers believe such technology would be a cheaper and better ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1006m.html#item9
"Playing With Technology"
Iowa State University held an open house to show off some
advances in human-computer interaction (HCI). Faculty, staff,
and students attending the open house were able to personally
experience HCI, take a quiz by pointing lasers at a large screen ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1006m.html#item10
"Q&A: Congressman Explains His Opposition to H-1B Visas"
The issue of immigration reform has put Rep. Tom Tancredo
(R-Colo.) at odds with the Republican Party. Tancredo, chairman
of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, in early July
introduced a bill that seeks to repeal H-1B visas for temporary ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1006m.html#item11
"Huge Computing Power Goes Online"
A new computer project by the Cern labs in Geneva could have a
profound impact on the world of computing in the years to come,
Cern says. Cern will link computers from 12 countries around the
world in an effort to test the Big Bang theory, a scientific ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1006m.html#item12
"Innocent File-Sharers Could Appear Guilty"
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks might be vulnerable to attacks in
which an unsuspecting party is tricked into downloading
copyrighted files, according to computer experts, who were
responding to "Entrapment: Incriminating Peer to Peer Network ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1006m.html#item13
"Online Registries: The DNS and Beyond"
Esther Dyson has completed a report examining ICANN and the DNS
in relation to all the developing active registries in the
digital sphere, and a CircleID piece highlights some of the
report's findings. Dyson contends that registries offer the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1006m.html#item14
"Fighting Talk"
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is
credited with the creation of the Internet, NASA, Stealth
aircraft, and other technologies and services originally designed
for military use that have had a huge impact on civilian life as ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1006m.html#item15
"DHS Initiates Real-Time Cybersituation Project DHS Initiates
Real-Time Cybersituation Project"
The National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) of the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) is leading an effort to create a national
cybersituation-awareness system capable of real-time analysis of
cyberattacks, according to DHS executive Sallie McDonald. She ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1006m.html#item16
"Outwitting Spammers"
The growing spam glut is a source of frustration for enterprises,
which lose precious productivity in order to deal with unwanted
emails. Spam filters are a popular anti-spam tool, but they come
with their own drawbacks: Keeping networks up-to-date with the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1006m.html#item17
"Ruling Over Unruly Programs"
Sandstorm Enterprises CTO Simson Garfinkel writes that technical
rather than legal issues make it theoretically impossible to
write a program that can analyze any given suspect program to
ascertain whether it contains friendly or unfriendly code. He ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1006m.html#item18
"Rethinking Software Testing"
Buggy software, products that fail to function as they are
supposed to, and lost profits are the result of developers not
testing their software until very late in the development
process, and rushing through testing in order to get products out ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1006m.html#item19
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