What Are You Afraid Of?
Gartner: 1/4 of U.S. IT Jobs Offshored by 2010
One quarter of traditional U.S. IT jobs will have migrated overseas by the end of the decade, predict industry analyst researchers, but this migration may not necessarily entail layoffs of American workers in every case: Some of those positions will be created by American firms setting up shop in ...
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National Security Spec Advances
This week will mark the unveiling of the Open Specification for Information Sharing (OSIS) by Regional Alliances for Infrastructure and Network Security (RAINS), a consortium of technology companies, critical infrastructure providers, universities, and public agencies. OSIS is ...
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Congress Moves to Criminalize P2P
Legislation circulating in Congress would significantly stiffen the penalties for illegal file-sharing as well as make it easier for the Justice Department to sue copyright pirates. A draft bill under consideration by the House subcommittee on intellectual property would mean ...
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Can India Plug Its Brain Drain?
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) are setting up startup incubators to encourage the country's best and brightest engineers to stay and make their fortune at home. The list of IIT graduates who fill major positions in the technology industry is impressive, given that just about 3,000 new ...
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Extra Headaches of Securing XML
Web services pose a serious security threat to enterprise networks given the lack of understanding about XML among security professionals and the low profile security has played in Web services deployment to date. Current Web services implementations are not much of a threat since ...
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Human Studies Show Feasibility of Brain-Machine Interfaces
With funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Institutes of Health, Duke University Medical Center researchers have embarked upon initial human feasibility studies into a way to control external devices by thought via a series of electrodes implanted within a ...
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IT Security and Software Development
As hardware and software proliferates, there is a pressing need to address interoperability and security issues, such as whether the technologies will interoperate reliably under all potential test scenarios. Unfortunately, the number of software combinations that need to work together in a secure ...
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Rising to the Software Challenge
A major challenge for scientific research in computing is establishing a connection between the theory of programming and the products of software engineering practice, writes Microsoft Research professor Sir Tony Hoare; he says this task could be accomplished by organizing a grand challenge ...
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Rules for Effective Source Code Control
Larkware lead developer and author Mike Gunderloy believes every software developer should use some form of source code control, which promotes more harmonious collaboration between team members and provides a secure back-up file of code as well. When choosing the best source code control system, ...
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Beyond VoIP
The Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center at Texas A&M University is working to build next-generation voice-over-IP (VoIP) technologies. Walt Magnussen, director of communications for the university, says the center's Internet2 Voice Over IP Working Group is concerned with issues such as ...
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The Dating Game Goes Wireless
Researchers at MIT's Media Lab have developed software that would allow cell phones to exchange photos and personal information about singles in bars, cafes, shopping malls, and workplaces who are likely to make a good match. Developed by Nathan Eagle, Pedro Yip, Steve Kannan, and Doochan ...
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Government IT Must Consider Privacy, Ethics
The nonprofit group Association for Federal Infraction Resources Management (AFFIRM), which works to improve U.S. government information management, sponsored a panel at the recent FOSE government computing trade show to inspire discussion on privacy and other technology-related ethical issues. ...
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Future Tech: Trends for the Coming Year
Augmented reality systems are being used by the armed forces to train people in dealing with dangerous situations. Unlike virtual reality, in which the user interacts with an artificial environment, augmented reality puts users in a real environment and superimposes digital images over their ...
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SANs Come Up to Speed
The 10Gbit Fibre Channel products due out by the end of this year are likely to be undercut by a 4Gbit standard that is less expensive and compatible with existing technology. The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) approved the 4Gbit standard last June before approving ...
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Positive Prognosis
The increasing digitization of medical data and the incorporation of electronics into medical equipment is spurring a new focus on early diagnosis and prevention of ailments. The growing availability of diagnostic imagery carries with it the danger of medical-data overload, ...
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Bigger & Better
AT&T, Land Registry, Boeing, Experian Information Solutions, and the U.S. Defense Department are pushing the envelope in terms of database technologies. AT&T has compiled two years of telephone records into a 26.3 TB data warehouse used by 3,000 staff for marketing analysis, pricing ...
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Spam-Busters
Unspam CEO Matthew Prince, one of the top spam fighters in the United States, argues that for spam to be curtailed several things must happen: Technology that can help establish and confirm a sender's identity must be developed, which will allow anti-spam laws to be more enforceable and ...
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What Are You Afraid Of?
Virtual reality (VR) systems are being used to treat eating disorders, post-traumatic stress, phobias, addiction, and other conditions that are often psychological in nature. VR therapy is also being explored to reduce physical discomfort by evoking peaceful or soothing moods within patients. ...
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