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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 569
Date: November 10, 2003
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Top Stories for Monday, November 10, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Europe Exceeds U.S. in Refining Grid Computing"
"Caught in Pull of Globalization"
"Survey: Biggest Databases Approach 30 Terabytes"
"The Push for Aspect-Oriented Programming"
"I Link, Therefore I Am"
"Ethics Center a Small Obstacle as Senate Nears Nano Bill Passage"
"No Place to Hide From Hunters of the Voice Print"
"Web Game Reveals Market Sense"
"Spammers Can Run But They Can't Hide"
"War Driving No Game to IT Managers"
"Let Reverse-Engineering Go Forward"
"From the Data Center to the Desktop: Linux Grows Up"
"NU Program 'Watson' Could Speed Searches"
"Pitt Research Delves Into Amazing Shrinking Computer Chips"
"Search Gets Serious"
"Ethernet: Every Little Gigabit Helps"
"No One Understands Me as Well as My PC"
"An Army of Small Robots"
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"Europe Exceeds U.S. in Refining Grid Computing"
European grid computing efforts have surpassed those of the
United States to gain a competitive advantage, according to Peter
A. Freeman of the National Science Foundation; in fact, European
companies such as the Novartis pharmaceutical firm have adapted ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1110m.html#item1
"Caught in Pull of Globalization"
The outsourcing of white-collar technology jobs to cheaper
overseas workforces has become a flashpoint for grass-roots
activists in the United States, while many academics, economists,
and business executives take a contrarian position, arguing that ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1110m.html#item2
"Survey: Biggest Databases Approach 30 Terabytes"
The Winter database consulting company's fifth survey of the
world's 10 biggest decision-support and transaction-processing
databases indicates that data analysis is of growing importance
for enterprises as they seek to outline trends and patterns ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1110m.html#item3
"The Push for Aspect-Oriented Programming"
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) was developed to handle
cross-cutting concerns and furnish a level of flexibility not
found in today's complex programs by allowing programmers to
devise aspects of an object so single-point rather than ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1110m.html#item4
"I Link, Therefore I Am"
MIT Media Lab media arts and sciences head William Mitchell says
society will increasingly take on the characteristics of a
network, where each individual is considered a node linked to
other information. In his latest book, "Me++," Mitchell argues ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1110m.html#item5
"Ethics Center a Small Obstacle as Senate Nears Nano Bill Passage"
The U.S. Senate is on the verge of passing the 21st Century
Nanotechnology Research and Development Act, which would allocate
over $2 billion to a three-year nanotech R&D initiative and
establish a center to focus on the technology's societal and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1110m.html#item6
"No Place to Hide From Hunters of the Voice Print"
Students at Monash University are building on their research into
pervasive computing to deliver computing access on the fly. The
researchers have developed a project called SoundHunters, which
uses software agents to lock in on the voice of a user, and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1110m.html#item7
"Web Game Reveals Market Sense"
Swiss researchers are using the Internet to study how humans make
decisions in market situations, such as in financial markets.
Using a Web-based game, the researchers studied how humans
interact with 94 computer-controlled players in a simple game ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1110m.html#item8
"Spammers Can Run But They Can't Hide"
The Spamhaus Project, based in England, is a nexus in the battle
against spam: Founded by activist Steve Linford in 1998,
Spamhaus.org compiles the most reputable nonprofit list of known
spammers and is used by many second-tier and smaller U.S. ISPs to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1110m.html#item9
"War Driving No Game to IT Managers"
Wayne Slavin has given computer users access to software that can
be used to determine whether companies have secure Wi-Fi wireless
networks. There have been 5 million downloads of the NetStumbler
wireless LAN discovery tool at Slavin's NetStumbler.com Web site, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1110m.html#item10
"Let Reverse-Engineering Go Forward"
Interoperability will likely be one form of permissible
reverse-engineering under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright
Act (DMCA). The U.S. Copyright Office ruled on Oct. 27 that
Static Control Components has the right to break down the chip ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1110m.html#item11
"From the Data Center to the Desktop: Linux Grows Up"
Linux's suitability for the enterprise is no longer in question,
and companies need to begin seriously considering how they can
best utilize the technology. Despite its pervasiveness, Linux
does not meet every need but performs well under certain ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1110m.html#item12
"NU Program 'Watson' Could Speed Searches"
The "Watson" software tool developed by Northwestern University
professors and students is designed to narrow the search for
information online by continuously scanning the Internet for data
related to text documents and other files on the user's PC. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1110m.html#item13
"Pitt Research Delves Into Amazing Shrinking Computer Chips"
As computer chip transistors shrink in size, their functionality
will be determined by quantum physics rather than classical
physical laws. Hrovje Petek of the University of Pittsburgh is
conducting research into this phenomenon--his latest project, as ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1110m.html#item14
"Search Gets Serious"
A growing number of enterprises are exploiting more and more
sophisticated search technology to manage the rising tide of
corporate information, a trend that analysts such as Jupiter
Research's Matthew Berk say is extending search's range into the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1110m.html#item15
"Ethernet: Every Little Gigabit Helps"
The penetration of Gigabit Ethernet into the mainstream and
enterprises will be driven by cost trends rather than application
requirements. Steven Shalita of Cisco Systems expects bandwidth
needs to rise as software trends such as automatic updates and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1110m.html#item16
"No One Understands Me as Well as My PC"
The goal of IBM's "superhuman" speech recognition initiative is
to develop superior speech recognition in which computers can
easily accommodate natural language by the end of the decade,
although reaching this objective will require an enormous effort. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1110m.html#item17
"An Army of Small Robots"
A challenge set forth by the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency for roboticists to develop diminutive reconnaissance
machines has led to a focus away from bulky multi-sensor
platforms and toward small fleets of simple robots that can ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1110m.html#item18
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