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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 552
Date: October 1, 2003
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Top Stories for Wednesday, October 1, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Foreign Workers Will Soon Get Fewer U.S. Visas"
"ACLU Steps Into DMCA Subpoena Controversy"
"UN Summit Tones Down Open-Source Stance"
"Apple Posts Darwin Source Code, Pulls OS X Update"
"Sneak a Peek at Next Year's Tech Tools"
"Web Searches Tap Databases"
"Nanotech Boom Expected to Force Legal Scrambling"
"Researchers Look for Ways to Protect Privacy of Electronic
Information"
"Software Utilizes Unique Typing Styles to Identify Individual
Users"
"Author, Alumnus Discusses Internet Future"
"Johns Hopkins APL Creates System to Detect Digital Video
Tampering"
"IBM Stops to Reinvent the Zeal"
"Tech-Job Certifications That Still Matter"
"The Sharer"
"Innovation Interruptus"
"Unleashing UWB"
"The Smart Sensor Web"
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"Foreign Workers Will Soon Get Fewer U.S. Visas"
The maximum yearly number of H-1B visas issued to foreign workers
so they can enter the United States to fill mostly high-tech jobs
drops from 195,000 to 65,000 on Oct. 1. An Intel representative
warns that the reversion will be inadequate to deal with a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1001w.html#item1
"ACLU Steps Into DMCA Subpoena Controversy"
The ACLU is taking the Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA) to court over the constitutionality of subpoenas obtained
through Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) provisions. The
ACLU, together with a Boston law firm, is representing a Boston ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1001w.html#item2
"UN Summit Tones Down Open-Source Stance"
The UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) will
reflect growing unease among some governments over open-source
software, and the business lobby response to earlier proposals.
The WSIS is jointly run by the International Telecommunications ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1001w.html#item3
"Apple Posts Darwin Source Code, Pulls OS X Update"
The most recent source code for Apple Computer's Darwin
open-source project, Darwin 6.7 and 6.8, was made available for
download by Apple this week, while version 10.2.8 of the Mac OS X
operating system was temporarily pulled due to user complaints ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1001w.html#item4
"Sneak a Peek at Next Year's Tech Tools"
Forthcoming PC products on display at the recent Computex
exhibition in Tapei included novel hardware configurations, new
notebooks from Acer, Athlon 64 motherboards, and minuscule
components for handhelds and small computers. Intel exhibited a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1001w.html#item5
"Web Searches Tap Databases"
Richard Wheeldon of London's Birkbeck University reports that
software he co-designed enables users to search through different
types of data sources--text documents, the Web, local databases,
etc.--simultaneously. He says the software, DbSurfer, allows ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1001w.html#item6
"Nanotech Boom Expected to Force Legal Scrambling"
The emerging field of nanotechnology has massive potential, but
overcoming the myriad legal and ethical barriers associated with
nanotech will be a formidable challenge. Recent nanotech
breakthroughs include atomic-scale switches, molecular motors, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1001w.html#item7
"Researchers Look for Ways to Protect Privacy of Electronic
Information"
Lawyers, technologists, policy proponents, and domain specialists
will collaborate in a National Science Foundation (NSF)
initiative whose goal is to build an infrastructure that allows
sensitive personal data to be mined by organizations while ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1001w.html#item8
"Software Utilizes Unique Typing Styles to Identify Individual
Users"
Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have
created "behaviometric" technology in the form of software that
can accurately identify computer users according to their unique
typing styles. Technion Professors Ran El-Yaniv and Ron Meir ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1001w.html#item9
"Author, Alumnus Discusses Internet Future"
Internet expert John Patrick recently spoke at Lehigh University,
where he described how the Next Generation Internet is expected
to be as ubiquitous and dependable as electricity or plumbing.
Professor Roger Nagel noted that Patrick said the "Internet is ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1001w.html#item10
"Johns Hopkins APL Creates System to Detect Digital Video
Tampering"
A Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)
project for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service has yielded a
system that can detect attempts to doctor digital video, a
breakthrough that could help allow reliable digital video to be ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1001w.html#item11
"IBM Stops to Reinvent the Zeal"
IBM's seven-day "Innovation Days" event in September was a time
for 3,000 company researchers worldwide to pause and reflect on
their jobs in order to figure out how to keep scientists both
creative and capable of producing short-term results on targeted ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1001w.html#item12
"Tech-Job Certifications That Still Matter"
Experts say IT certification is important to job marketability,
but in a down economy some certifications benefit job seekers
more than others; Foote Partners President David Foote says
project management and security are now two of the most popular ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1001w.html#item13
"The Sharer"
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has tried to remove himself from SCO
Group's fight to demand royalties from Linux users on the grounds
that open-source Linux software uses copyrighted SCO code, but
says that he may be forced to take legal action as tension ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1001w.html#item14
"Innovation Interruptus"
Industry observers report that IT budget cuts extending over the
past few years have dampened innovation, but this has allowed
other types of innovation to come to the fore, according to
experts such as Computerworld columnist Paul A. Strassmann. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1001w.html#item15
"Unleashing UWB"
Allied Business Intelligence expects ultra-wideband (UWB)
technology to generate sales revenues in excess of $1 billion by
2008, but the chances of this happening would greatly improve if
the industry can resolve the standardization issue. Most ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1001w.html#item16
"The Smart Sensor Web"
The Sensor Web, which author Neil Gross describes as "an
electronic skin" through which all earthly activities can be
sensed and monitored, will revolutionize the collaborative,
consistent, and consolidated collection, fusion, and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1001w.html#item17
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