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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 578
Date: December 3, 2003
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Top Stories for Wednesday, December 3, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Computer Security in Focus"
"Software Patents Face-Off Delayed Until Spring"
"IT Job Market: Things Can Only Get Better"
"Privacy Concerns Mount Over Retail Use of RFID Technology"
"Rules to Address Holes in Software"
"A Two-Pronged Approach to Cybersecurity"
"ISU Researchers Make Artificial Neural Network Discovery"
"Gizmo Puts Cards on the Table"
"Panel: U.S. Science Leadership at Risk"
"Intel Scientists Find Wall for Moore's Law"
"Game Design Initiative Will Use Gaming as Motivation"
"Bluetooth and the Quest for a Wireless World"
"Internet2 Takes Shape in Michigan"
"Think Web's Virtually Government Free? Think Again"
"Fighting the Worms of Mass Destruction"
"It Came From Hollywood"
"Time Warp"
"The Trouble With ROI"
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"Computer Security in Focus"
Lobbyists, elected representatives, business leaders, and
security experts are worried that the White House has lost focus
on the implementation of its National Strategy to Secure
Cyberspace, and plan to use the National Cyber Security Summit on ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1203w.html#item1
"Software Patents Face-Off Delayed Until Spring"
Last week's vote by the European Commission's Competitiveness
Council on the European Union's controversial draft Directive on
Computer Implemented Inventions has been postponed until April
2004 due to the lobbying efforts of European mobile phone makers ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1203w.html#item2
"IT Job Market: Things Can Only Get Better"
Despite the current shortage of available and lucrative IT
positions, many people inside and outside the IT industry believe
the job market is poised for a resurgence, a hope that appears to
be borne out by statistical data. A 7.2 percent quarterly ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1203w.html#item3
"Privacy Concerns Mount Over Retail Use of RFID Technology"
Privacy concerns could hamper the growth of radio frequency
identification (RFID) technology in the retail market, warn
experts at MIT's RFID Privacy Workshop. Consumer advocacy groups
such as Customers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1203w.html#item4
"Rules to Address Holes in Software"
Major technology companies, working under the aegis of the
Organization for Internet Security (OIS), are formalizing rules
to determine the best time for hackers and researchers to
publicly disclose software bugs so that vendors should not have ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1203w.html#item5
"A Two-Pronged Approach to Cybersecurity"
Amit Yoran, who was recently appointed director of the National
Cyber Security Division of the Information Analysis and
Infrastructure Protection Directorate at the Department of
Homeland Security, plans to bolster the security of the United ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1203w.html#item6
"ISU Researchers Make Artificial Neural Network Discovery"
A new algorithm was recently discovered by Idaho State University
researchers Vitit Kantabutra, Elena Zheleva, Angela Hillier,
Batsukh Tsendajv, and Steven Miller that can train artificial
neural networks quickly and reliably without getting stuck. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1203w.html#item7
"Gizmo Puts Cards on the Table"
MIT Media Lab Europe's Habitat project includes equipping kitchen
tables with radio frequency identification (RFID) tag readers,
projectors, and computers to establish a two-way,
Internet-enabled communications system in which people separated ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1203w.html#item8
"Panel: U.S. Science Leadership at Risk"
The United States' leadership in science and innovation is
eroding, according to findings from the National Science Board,
which recommends that the government devote more funding to the
training of science and math teachers and sponsorship of college ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1203w.html#item9
"Intel Scientists Find Wall for Moore's Law"
A paper authored by Intel researchers and published in last
month's Proceedings of the IEEE theorizes that transistor
shrinkage will reach its limit by 2021, which means that
chipmakers will have to devise alternate methods to build more ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1203w.html#item10
"Game Design Initiative Will Use Gaming as Motivation"
For five semesters, Cornell University professor David Schwartz
has been teaching an experimental interdisciplinary course in
game design as part of his Computer Game Design Initiative, whose
overall goal is to spark interest in science and technology among ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1203w.html#item11
"Bluetooth and the Quest for a Wireless World"
Bluetooth is inside about 1 million consumer electronics devices
shipped each week, but only a small number of people seem to know
what the wireless technology is or what it can do. Bluetooth
special interest group executive director Mike McCamon estimates ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1203w.html#item12
"Internet2 Takes Shape in Michigan"
A next-generation Internet is being developed by the Internet2
consortium as an antidote for the slowdown of information flow
between universities caused by the deluge of commercial traffic
online. Some 70 corporations and around 40 organizations and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1203w.html#item13
"Think Web's Virtually Government Free? Think Again"
The upcoming World Summit on the Information Society will involve
6,000 delegates and a number of issues, including the contentious
one of Internet governance. Many nations would prefer ICANN to
turn over administration of the domain name system to all ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1203w.html#item14
"Fighting the Worms of Mass Destruction"
A lot of fear is circulating that viruses and worms could be used
by terrorists to threaten entire societies with destruction and
anarchy, but fewer than 1 percent of recent cyberattacks
originated from terrorist-sympathetic nations, and the majority ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1203w.html#item15
"It Came From Hollywood"
Oscar-winning special-effects maestro Stan Winston, whose
animatronic creations have dazzled movie goers in such films as
"Aliens," "Jurassic Park," and the "Terminator" series, teamed up
with MIT roboticist Cynthia Breazeal to collaboratively develop ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1203w.html#item16
"Time Warp"
An unusual practice of modern timekeeping is the insertion of a
"leap second" into the calendar, which occurs less than once a
year on average; this is done to make up for the discrepancy
between international atomic time and solar time, which is ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1203w.html#item17
"The Trouble With ROI"
An August roundtable of CIOs, financial executives, and business
management experts convened to discuss the problem of measuring
IT's return on investment (ROI) and whether alternate ways of
determining IT's value to the enterprise are worth pursuing; many ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1203w.html#item18
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