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HEADLINES AT A GLANCE:
Internet Voting System Set for Upcoming Elections Not Secure, Computer Experts Say
ACM Members Voice Support for Policy Against Expanding Protections For Scientific Data
Easing of Internet Regulations Challenges Surveillance Efforts
Foreign Tech Workers Finding Jobs Stateside in Healthier Economy
Security Pros Question Flaw Find
NASA's New Anti-Terrorism Mission
Desktop Computers to Counsel Users to Make Better Decisions
Consumers Deluged as Fake E-Mails Multiply
Mutating Software Could Predict Hacker Attacks
Flexible Screen Technology Ready to Roll
Perens: New Patent-Suit Threats Poised to Strike
Now Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites
NT Trains Students to Oppose Net Threats
Linux Takes on the Windows Look
Big Brother in the Passenger Seat
Listening For a Buzz
The Next Big Thing?
Internet-Era Democracy
Opening Up Online Education
RFID: A Key to Automating Everything
Internet Voting System Set for Upcoming Elections Not Secure, Computer Experts Say
Four prestigious cyber-security experts--former ACM President Barbara Simons, Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins University, David Wagner of USC Berkeley, and David Jefferson of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory--have concluded that the U.S. Defense Department's ...
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ACM Members Voice Support for Policy Against Expanding Protections For Scientific Data
ACM Council has approved a policy statement that opposes new restrictions on access and use of data collections, concluding that current U.S. laws provide adequate protection for this information. In a unanimous vote reflecting opinion poll results of ACM members, ACM's governing body said pending U.S. legislation ...
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Easing of Internet Regulations Challenges Surveillance Efforts
The FCC and law enforcement agencies are embroiled in a dispute that pits two central tenets of Bush administration policy against each other: On the one hand, FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell is working to loosen regulations on high-speed cable services that would foster emerging ...
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Foreign Tech Workers Finding Jobs Stateside in Healthier Economy
Despite the fact that companies continue to cut IT jobs, some industry observers see a need for skilled foreign workers, especially specifically trained programmers. Congress' H-1B visa cap has dropped regularly over the last few years from a peak of 195,000 in 2001 to just 65,000 for this ...
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Security Pros Question Flaw Find
A pair of Internet software developers recently claimed that they discovered a method to freeze or shut down entire computer networks and created a program for doing so, but Computer Coordination Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center security researchers say the exploit is nothing ...
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NASA's New Anti-Terrorism Mission
The Electronic Privacy Information Center used the Freedom of Information Act to pressure NASA to disclose a homeland security program for anticipating terrorist threats known as Data Mining and Aviation Security. The project takes advantage of NASA's extensive data-mining expertise, but ...
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Desktop Computers to Counsel Users to Make Better Decisions
A human being's decision-making is affected by the various physiological and psychological pressures he or she encounters; Sandia National Laboratory researchers are working on desktop computers that can read users' vital signs and advise them--or their teammates--on the proper ...
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Consumers Deluged as Fake E-Mails Multiply
"Phishers" are attempts to scam consumers by making them think they are receiving helpful email from well-known Internet sites or companies; the Anti-Phishing Working Group reports that about five new phishing attempts occur every day, while as much as 5 percent of recipients respond. ...
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Mutating Software Could Predict Hacker Attacks
Cambridge, Mass.-based Icosystem claims to have developed an intrusion detector that can anticipate hackers' future tactics by mutating the software they use to attack computers into their most deadly possible iterations. These future attack strategies would be produced at a central ...
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Flexible Screen Technology Ready to Roll
University of Toronto engineers have successfully constructed flexible organic light emitting devices (FOLEDs), a breakthrough that could pave the way for next-generation elastic display technology. "It opens up a whole new range of possibilities for the future," declares Zheng-Hong Lu of the U ...
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Perens: New Patent-Suit Threats Poised to Strike
Desktop Linux Consortium executive director Bruce Perens told attendees at this week's LinuxWorld Expo that a critically flawed patent system is responsible for a sorry state of affairs in which vendors can extort licensing fees by filing or threatening to file lawsuits for alleged ...
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Now Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites
Electronic bookmarks were hailed as a premier tool for recalling Web sites and pages important to users, but their use has fallen by the wayside. The University of Maryland's Ben Bederson calls the bookmark concept fatally flawed, "because it assumes in advance that this is a page that you want to ...
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NT Trains Students to Oppose Net Threats
The University of North Texas has established a new center that will teach students how to protect computers and information networks from Internet viruses, worms, and other online threats such as Trojans, logic bombs, and SQL poisoning. The Center for Information and Computer Security will teach ...
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Linux Takes on the Windows Look
Products showcased at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo indicate that the open-source Linux operating system appears ready to move onto the desktop and give Windows a run for its money, even though Linux interfaces bear a striking resemblance to Windows. The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) ...
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Big Brother in the Passenger Seat
Variants of "black box" technology common in aircraft have begun showing up in automobiles, the most sophisticated being memory units embedded in airbags that store critical information--engine running speed, seatbelt status, etc.--gathered by sensors in the last five seconds before the ...
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Listening For a Buzz
Linux, grid computing, and robotics are just some of the technologies expected to make significant progress in terms of development or commercialization in 2004. Customers will be able to run the Linux open-source operating system on larger servers thanks to this year's ?
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The Next Big Thing?
An invisible, ubiquitous computing infrastructure in which computing is provided to users on an as-needed basis like any other utility is within the realm of possibility, but determining when such a breakthrough will emerge is difficult to pin down, even as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, ...
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Internet-Era Democracy
The presidential candidates are putting the Internet to greater use, but electronic populism is often limited to efforts that will get more people out to vote. For example, Howard Dean has implemented Web-based grassroots fund-raising efforts, and campaign supporters are using the ...
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Opening Up Online Education
A coalition of 10 universities, industry vendors, and education organizations are promoting the Open Knowledge Initiative, an open-standards approach to learning-management systems. The Open Knowledge Initiative was conceived by MIT academic computing director ...
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RFID: A Key to Automating Everything
The development and implementation of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology is seen as an important step on the road toward ubiquitous computing. RFID tags are already employed in automatic toll systems, ID cards, and anti-theft devices, among other things; their inventory and ...
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