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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 577
Date: December 1, 2003
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Top Stories for Monday, December 1, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Dust-Up Over E-Vote Paper Trail"
"Beware the Worm in Your Handset"
"Open-Source Community Defends GNU Against SCO Assault"
"Bandwidth Challenge Teams Push Networking Performance Envelope
at ACM's SC2003 Conference"
"U.S. Considers Turning Scooters Into War Robots"
"On a Cheap Plastic Grid, Gigabytes Galore"
"Internet Mapping Project Weaves Colorful Web"
"Smart Auctions"
"A 20-Year Plague"
"Bridging the Digital Divide, Cheaply"
"Come, the Revolution"
"Keep Kofi Away From the Internet"
"Trouble on the Net"
"Remote Possibilities"
"ACM Extends Award Nomination Deadline"
"The Promise and Pitfalls of Social Networking"
"Germs That Build Circuits"
"Wireless Wearables--Where's the Technology Headed?"
******************* News Stories ***********************
"Dust-Up Over E-Vote Paper Trail"
California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley has mandated
voter-verifiable paper receipts at all e-voting machines in that
state by July 1, 2005, or July 1, 2006, depending on when they
were purchased. But only a few of California's 58 counties have ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1201m.html#item1
"Beware the Worm in Your Handset"
Worms and viruses that proliferate through PCs are commanding
most of the attention, but security experts believe increasing
numbers of hackers are bound to exploit flaws in Internet-enabled
cell phones and other handsets to spread their malware, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1201m.html#item2
"Open-Source Community Defends GNU Against SCO Assault"
IBM responded to SCO Group's billion-dollar lawsuit for alleged
copyright infringement of its Unix source code by filing a
counterclaim arguing that SCO was in violation of the GNU Public
License (GPL) by limiting use of and imposing property rights on ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1201m.html#item3
"Bandwidth Challenge Teams Push Networking Performance Envelope
at ACM's SC2003 Conference"
High-Performance Bandwidth Challenge participants this year
achieved record speeds and advanced networking performance,
showing that networking technologies are keeping pace with the
supercomputing technology also displayed at ACM's SC2003 ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1201m.html#item4
"U.S. Considers Turning Scooters Into War Robots"
Researchers at MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie
Mellon University, and elsewhere have received Pentagon funding
to modify the self-balancing Segway Human Transporter to
autonomously open doors, traverse rough terrain, and chase soccer ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1201m.html#item5
"On a Cheap Plastic Grid, Gigabytes Galore"
Scientists at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and Princeton
University detail a breakthrough "write once, read many times"
memory device they developed from a polymer normally used as an
anti-static coating for computer screens in a recent issue of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1201m.html#item6
"Internet Mapping Project Weaves Colorful Web"
U.S.-based networking engineer Barrett Lyon believes the Internet
can be mapped out within a day using a standard networking
program, and he claims his Opte mapping project has both
practical and artistic merits. Lyon employs a "traceroute" ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1201m.html#item7
"Smart Auctions"
The outcomes of e-commerce transactions could be more efficiently
determined through the use of an approach that taps into
artificial intelligence and operations research methods patented
by Tuomas Sandholm, director of Carnegie Mellon University's ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1201m.html#item8
"A 20-Year Plague"
The scientific community's failure to convince administrators to
seriously consider investigating defenses against computer
viruses back when the threat was a possibility rather than a
reality--or to realize the extent of the threat--has had a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1201m.html#item9
"Bridging the Digital Divide, Cheaply"
America's poor deserve subsidized broadband Internet access,
which would cost the government approximately $4 billion if a
$300 tax credit was offered to each family with less than $25,000
of annual income. With the cost of PCs hovering around $500 and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1201m.html#item10
"Come, the Revolution"
Intel chief strategist and director of strategic initiatives
Chris Thomas believes the world is on the cusp of a "mobility
inflection point" in which vast numbers of wireless devices and
their underlying exigencies will facilitate a dramatic shift in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1201m.html#item11
"Keep Kofi Away From the Internet"
Robert Fulford of the National Post comments that while many
individuals regard the Internet as one of the best inventions in
recent history, the United Nations appears to feel differently.
As a result, Fulford states, they want to regulate it, "and they ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1201m.html#item12
"Trouble on the Net"
Whether enhancing the Internet's core routing systems with
additional intelligence will boost performance and security or
inhibit innovation and endanger end-to-end visibility is a
subject of intense debate. "The thing that has made the Net most ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1201m.html#item13
"Remote Possibilities"
Server-based computing (SBC) can be a boon to businesses because
it can lower hardware, software, and support costs, and secure
application access. The current SBC workhorse is Citrix's
MetaFrame XP Presentation Server, a virtual user interface that ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1201m.html#item14
"ACM Extends Deadline for Award Nominations"
The deadline for nominations for six of the 12 major ACM awards
has been extended to Dec. 31, 2003. The awards are:
ACM/AAI Allen Newell (http://www.acm.org/awards/anaward.html);
Eugence L. Lawler for Humanitarian Contributions to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1201m.html#item15
"The Promise and Pitfalls of Social Networking"
A Working Model managing director Stowe Boyd admits that he is "a
strongly biased advocate" for social networking, and has no
reservations about investors pouring early-stage capital into
social networks. He says the Internet can deepen social ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1201m.html#item16
"Germs That Build Circuits"
Scientists are trying to harness biological self-assembly in an
attempt to eliminate the cost and space requirements of
lithographic fabrication by coaxing viruses, DNA, and other
organic materials to construct electronics on the nanoscale ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1201m.html#item17
"Wireless Wearables--Where's the Technology Headed?"
Wearable computers, as defined by Venture Development (VDC), are,
ideally, "smart fabrics" equipped with sensors to provide
geolocation, biophysical monitoring, and other services; they
should boast always-accessible computers that can either run ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1201m.html#item18
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