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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 583
Date: December 15, 2003
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Top Stories for Monday, December 15, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Criticism of Electronic Voting Machines' Security Is Mounting"
"In India, a High-Tech Outpost for U.S. Patents"
"NASA Takes the Internet Into Space"
"Renovating E-Mail With Identity in Mind"
"High Tech's Government Dilemma"
"China Tries to Establish Homegrown Tech Rules"
"Will Open Source Be Forced to Go Proprietary?"
"A New Standard for Fabric Intelligence"
"Electronic Voting No Magic Bullet"
"World ICT Rankings: US Stays at Top, UK Falls to 15th"
"Cluster Crunchers Take the Biscuit"
"Hard Disks Go Home"
"Beyond Wi-Fi: A New Wireless Age"
"How Will Web Services Ultimately Change Business?"
"Seeing the Road Ahead"
"Contagious Media"
"More Than Videoconferencing"
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"Criticism of Electronic Voting Machines' Security Is Mounting"
Controversy continues to simmer over how secure direct recording
electronic (DRE) voting machines currently being deployed or
planned for deployment in various U.S. states are. Spurring
these installations is the Help America Vote Act of 2002, in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1215m.html#item1
"In India, a High-Tech Outpost for U.S. Patents"
U.S. technology companies are increasingly investing in Indian
research and development operations, with the total number of
internationally employed engineers in India expected to double in
the next 18 months, according to personnel experts. As thousands ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1215m.html#item2
"NASA Takes the Internet Into Space"
One of the experiments carried out on the ill-fated Columbia
mission in early 2003 could pave the way for Internet
communications in space: The Communications and Navigation
Demonstration on Shuttle (CANDOS) project employed a low-power ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1215m.html#item3
"Renovating E-Mail With Identity in Mind"
Internet firms are beginning to coalesce around a technical
solution to spam that would involve setting up an identity
verification scheme, possibly tied to a reputation rating.
Yahoo! recently proposed a system called DomainKeys that would ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1215m.html#item4
"High Tech's Government Dilemma"
Michael Kanellos writes that a dichotomy about the government is
pervading the high-tech community: Some technologists and CEOs
view federal legislators as bunglers who ruin innovation and
promising new technologies because of their failure to understand ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1215m.html#item5
"China Tries to Establish Homegrown Tech Rules"
China is attempting to break away from its reliance on Western
technology standards--and the royalties Chinese companies must
pay--by establishing domestic tech specifications in diverse
areas, much to the chagrin of American and other Western ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1215m.html#item6
"Will Open Source Be Forced to Go Proprietary?"
Open-source's mainstream adoption requires interoperability with
proprietary applications, and such a development is taking place;
as this trend continues, there are worries that open source could
be forced to abandon its openness in response to competitive ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1215m.html#item7
"A New Standard for Fabric Intelligence"
The multi-vendor fabric application interface standard (FAIS)
promises to allow enhanced storage services that are simple to
manage from the user's standpoint. Virtualization and other
services using FAIS hide complexity from the user and embed ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1215m.html#item8
"Electronic Voting No Magic Bullet"
Election officials are encountering flaws in high-tech electronic
voting equipment, even though many have supported e-voting as a
way to get past the voting debacle of the 2000 presidential
election. With problems occurring this year in California, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1215m.html#item9
"World ICT Rankings: US Stays at Top, UK Falls to 15th"
The World Economic Forum's Global Information Technology Report
assesses the impact of information and communications
technologies on economies around the world, and its Networked
Readiness Index measures how prepared each economy is to benefit ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1215m.html#item10
"Cluster Crunchers Take the Biscuit"
According to the latest supercomputing TOP500 speed chart, NEC's
Earth Simulator in Japan--a dedicated machine used to simulate
climate with unmatched detail--is the most powerful supercomputer
on the planet. But just two places below the Earth Simulator is ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1215m.html#item11
"Hard Disks Go Home"
Consumer electronic devices that accommodate hard disks are
experiencing rapid growth: InStat/MDR estimates that about 9
million such units were sold last year, with almost 90 million
expected to be sold by 2007. The increasing appropriateness of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1215m.html#item12
"Beyond Wi-Fi: A New Wireless Age"
Intelligent network technologies under development at academic,
corporate, and military research facilities aim to improve the
range, efficiency, and services of Wi-Fi and allow wireless
innovators to access the mostly vacant radio spectrum they need ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1215m.html#item13
"How Will Web Services Ultimately Change Business?"
Web services will not only allow computer systems to share a
common language, but also enable them to create solutions
independent of humans: This ability promises to change how
companies operate in ways unforeseen today, almost certainly ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1215m.html#item14
"Seeing the Road Ahead"
Road safety could be dramatically improved with in-vehicle
augmented reality (AR) systems that keep motorists aware of road
conditions and other vehicle positions despite poor visibility,
and an Australian-designed prototype system promises such ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1215m.html#item15
"Contagious Media"
John Patrick claims that blogs can reinvigorate corporate
knowledge management with their potential to "deliver the
grassroots discussions and knowledge-sharing that top-down,
corporate-sponsored efforts never could." The Attitude president ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1215m.html#item16
"More Than Videoconferencing"
Hewlett-Packard Labs research fellow Norm Jouppi is developing
the Surrogate, a remote-controlled robotic technology designed as
an alternative to videoconferencing that could have further
applications outside a conference environment. The ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1215m.html#item17
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