Better Displays With Organic Films
U.S. Firms' Outsourcing to India Reaps Big Savings, Political Heat
U.S. companies see undeniable financial rewards from moving their IT and business services work overseas, especially to India: Brean Murray & Co. senior vice president Ashish Thadhani says the general rule is that firms save between $20,000 and $30,000 per worker based in India, while also ...
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University Unveils Chatty 'Roboceptionist'
Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's computer science and drama departments have created a robot receptionist named Valerie that exhibits her own personality in an effort to develop an engaging machine with social skills. In addition to practical operations--giving directions, answering ...
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Scientists Tweak Robots
University of Memphis professors Stan Franklin and Robert Kozma are working on "biologically motivated" computer software that could make next-generation interplanetary rovers more intelligent and less dependent on human operators. Rick Welch of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory notes ...
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Inventors Strut Stuff at Demo Show
Dozens of high-tech innovations, ranging from small PCs to blogging tools to "augmented reality" software, were spotlighted at the Demo conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. Perhaps the most incredible product on display was Total Immersion's D'Fusion software, which uses Windows XP hardware to render ...
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This Humvee Is Car and Driver
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Grand Challenge competition on March 13 will pit robotic vehicles in a race to see which machine can cover over 200 miles of rough desert the fastest without human intervention, with the winner receiving a $1 million prize. The entrant ...
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Perl's Extreme Makeover
Programmer Larry Wall and the Perl development community are performing a dramatic facelift of the Perl high-level programming language, known as Perl 6. Perl Foundation President and Perl 6 core developer team member Allison Randal characterizes Perl 6 as "a complete rewrite of the internals ...
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For the Multitasking Motorist, a Third Eye
MobilEye Chairman Amnon Shashua used his experiences with computer vision and machine learning at MIT's artificial-intelligence lab to design a computerized camera system that can enhance road safety by alerting motorists to potentially hazardous situations, such as lane drifting or ...
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Facing Up to New Technology
University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. candidate Tamara Miller and computer science professor David Forsyth have invented a system that automatically correlates 45,000 face images extracted from online news articles with the names of the people in the photos, and relays information ...
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2 Brothers' High-Tech History in California
In every field of study there is some unsung genius that is well regarded by peers but not known by outsiders: Ivan and William "Bert" Sutherland are the computer science field's "engineer's engineers," having been involved in nearly every major computer innovation to date. Ivan helped ...
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View From the Alpha Geek
Programmer Rael Dornfest keeps track of IT innovation and innovators as part of his job putting together O'Reilly & Associates' Emerging Technology Conferences. He says the key to understanding technology trends is to find the trend-setters, or alpha geeks, that are widely recognized by their ...
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Coincidences Set Up Mental Error
Researchers at the Universities of York and Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom believe airplanes and other machines could be made safer with human-computer interfaces designed to bypass people's penchant to assume causal relationships between a sequence of events if those events ...
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Interplanetary International Internet Launched
A Feb. 6 "pioneering demonstration" of what is coming to be called the Interplanetary Internet (IPN) involved NASA mission controllers relaying instructions to the Spirit rover on Mars via a European spacecraft in orbit around the red planet. "This is the first time we have had an in-orbit ...
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Se Habla Open Source?
Developing countries without basic desktop software in native languages are turning to open-source solutions, jeopardizing Microsoft's long-term interests in those potential markets. Proprietary software vendors usually wait until a market is well-enough developed economically before localizing ...
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Flurry of Worms Hits Companies Already on Guard
A number of smaller, less vicious worms--such as Netsky-B and Bagle-B--are causing problems all over the world, spreading rapidly even if they are not shutting down networks or using too much bandwidth. They are nuisances to IT and security managers watching for major viruses to attack using a ...
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Converging on Network Security
Solving the most formidable network security problems is one of the goals of the National Security Agency (NSA), which has launched programs to address Internet interoperability, network convergence, and wireless security bugs. The convergence of different networks and appliances has ...
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Spam-Busters Sort Out the Fakes
Email authentication strategies announced to delegates at the annual Spam Conference could be a more effective measure against the growth of unsolicited commercial email than content filters or anti-spam laws. Most spammers resort to spoofing, a tactic in which their junk email pretends to ...
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Valid Voting?
Stanford University computer science professor David Dill says a major flaw in electronic voting systems is the voter's inability to observe the votes that are recorded, and argues that e-voting machines should be enhanced with voter-verifiable audit trails. Such a feature would support accurate ...
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Better Displays With Organic Films
Organic light-emitting diode (OLED)-based displays offer a far more radiant, energy-efficient, and flexible alternative to liquid crystal displays (LCDs), and promise to increase the convenience and pervasiveness of electronic viewing. The organic materials used in OLED displays are ...
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