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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 573
Date: November 19, 2003
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Top Stories for Wednesday, November 19, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Intel, Clusters on the Rise in Top 500 Supercomputer List"
"Hackers Live by Own Code"
"Computer Science Is More Than Programming"
"The Phone With a Brain"
"Analysis: Is U.S. Tech Self-Destructing?"
"The End User: EU Leads Spam Fight"
"Teaching Computers How We Sing"
"Will That Be Cash, Fingerprint, or Cellphone?"
"Ever-Present LEDs and the Future of Light"
"Virtual Voters Pick Best Teams"
"A Lifetime of Memories...In a Nutshell"
"Keeping Watch for Interstellar Computer Viruses"
"MIT Team Mines for New Materials With a Computer"
"IETF's Quest to Be Quicker Moves Slowly"
"The Programmer's Future"
"Defining the SOA"
"Shrink-Wrapping the World"
"Trash Your Desktop"
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"Intel, Clusters on the Rise in Top 500 Supercomputer List"
Intel processors and clustered systems made huge headway on the
most recent top 500 list announced at ACM's Supercomputing 2003
Conference in Phoenix this week: Intel is inside 189 of the listed
machines, up from 119 spots in the June list and 59 spots last year. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1119w.html#item1
"Hackers Live by Own Code"
Hackers follow an ethical code that varies according to each
hacker's motivations, and what they consider courteous behavior
can seem eccentric--even threatening--to others: One Middle East
hacker alerted an Oracle security officer of a software flaw he ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1119w.html#item2
"Computer Science Is More Than Programming"
James H. Morris, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of
Computer Science, argues that prospective computer-science
students should know that such a course of study prepares them
for a lifetime career by arming them with basic skills beyond ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1119w.html#item3
"The Phone With a Brain"
Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) researchers have created a
prototype context-aware cell phone called SenSay, which combines
a global positioning system, sensors, and a personal digital
assistant to gather information about the user, his location, and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1119w.html#item4
"Analysis: Is U.S. Tech Self-Destructing?"
There is evidence suggesting that the technology leadership of
the United States is on the road to long-term decline with the
growth of offshore outsourcing and the rise of "poles" of
excellence in overseas regions. The increasing outsourcing of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1119w.html#item5
"The End User: EU Leads Spam Fight"
Victoria Shannon writes that the European Union's recently
enacted anti-spam directive will ultimately do little to stem the
tide of junk email, for a variety of reasons. Only two EU member
countries--England and Italy--have adopted laws that support the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1119w.html#item6
"Teaching Computers How We Sing"
Key to the challenge of effecting smooth human/computer
communications on a par with the interplay regularly depicted in
science fiction films is teaching computers to distinguish
between when someone is speaking and singing, according to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1119w.html#item7
"Will That Be Cash, Fingerprint, or Cellphone?"
Large credit card companies, big IT vendors, and technology
startups foresee an imminent change in the way people use bank
and credit card accounts. Currently, three technologies are
vying to replace the credit cards bulging in people's wallets: ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1119w.html#item8
"Ever-Present LEDs and the Future of Light"
Light emitting diodes (LEDs), which offer less heat output and
greater electrical efficiency than traditional lighting
technology, have made significant headway in the consumer market
in recent years--but LEDs' true advancement lies not in the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1119w.html#item9
"Virtual Voters Pick Best Teams"
Researchers at Georgia Tech University in Atlanta have developed
a computer program that is designed to select the two best
college football teams to play in the national championship game.
Peter Mucha and his colleagues view the program as a more ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1119w.html#item10
"A Lifetime of Memories...In a Nutshell"
Rapid advancements in hard disk drive technology will pave the
way for commercial products that consumers can use to store a
lifetime's worth of personal data, such as TV programs they have
watched, articles and books they have read, and phone calls they ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1119w.html#item11
"Keeping Watch for Interstellar Computer Viruses"
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory physicist Richard Carrigan,
Jr., believes it is within the realm of possibility that signals
from extraterrestrial beings could be similar to malware, and he
calls for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1119w.html#item12
"MIT Team Mines for New Materials With a Computer"
A team of MIT researchers and engineers is using data mining to
set up an online public database that could become an invaluable
resource for designers trying to develop novel materials for
practically any purpose. The method could be used, for example, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1119w.html#item13
"IETF's Quest to Be Quicker Moves Slowly"
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) realizes its plight as
administrators struggle under a growing load of proposals, and
the informal system set up to deal with a research project now
has to deal with time-sensitive production issues. IETF Chair ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1119w.html#item14
"The Programmer's Future"
The growth of cheap overseas competition and packaged
applications are reducing the job opportunities for corporate
programmers in the United States, giving rise to a new worker
model that stresses productivity and business acumen over pure ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1119w.html#item15
"Defining the SOA"
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has emerged over the past
year as perhaps the next distributed computing model, although
its definition and distinction from earlier distributed computing
implementations are somewhat vague. ZapThink senior analyst ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1119w.html#item16
"Shrink-Wrapping the World"
The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
has abandoned its effort to have states pass the Uniform Computer
Information Transaction Act (UCITA), but opponents believe the
group's effort still could have an impact on information ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1119w.html#item17
"Trash Your Desktop"
An intuitive software interface called Chandler being developed
by software designer Mitch Kapor's Open Source Applications
Foundation seeks to spare users the headache of laboriously
sifting through programs to find related material by placing all ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1119w.html#item18
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