New Technology That Changes How People Interact With Computers
Smalltalk Creator Wins 'Nobel Prize' of Computing
The ACM will honor Dr. Alan Kay with a 2003 Turing Award for his development of Smalltalk, the first complete dynamic object-oriented programming language and the template for Java and C++. Kay is also the recipient of a 2004 National Academy of Engineering Charles Stark ...
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TCP Vulnerable, But Net Won't Go Down
Hackers could cut links between servers and routers by exploiting a basic flaw in the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), according to advisories from the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team and Britain's National Infrastructure Security Coordination Center (NISCC). This announcement has ...
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Linux: Unfit for National Security?
Recent assertions by Green Hills Software CEO Dan O'Dowd that Linux open-source software constitutes a threat to national security were followed up by testimony from Purdue University professor Eugene Spafford and the Naval Postgraduate School's Cynthia Irvine contending that Linux is ...
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Grid Vendors Launch Interoperability Effort
The creation of the Enterprise Grid Alliance, a consortium of some of the IT industry's largest vendors whose goal is to promote enterprise grid computing, was officially announced on April 20. The alliance's members, which include Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, EMC, Novell, Cisco Systems, NEC, and ...
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Researchers Envision the Linux of Routing
Researchers at the International Computer Science Institute are using private and government money to develop the Extensible Open Router Platform (XORP), which they want to become a Linux-like alternative to expensive, proprietary routing software. The first iteration of the software will be ...
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Algorithms That Changed the World
Algorithms describe the way in which our technology works and are the basis for many of today's most important applications, including the Internet, the Web, secure e-commerce, digital music, Web search, and even clocks synchronized via the Internet. MIT computer scientist David Clark says ...
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Teaching Robots to Herd Cats
The National Science Foundation has granted $2.6 million to a multi-university project to develop software that will allow small robots to perform as a unified whole in order to better aid search and rescue missions. The project is led by Nikos Papanikolopoulos, who is ...
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Voters Unable to Have Printed Receipt
Miami-Dade county election officials rejected a proposal on April 19 to equip iVotronic touch-screen voting machines with printers in time for the November presidential election because the technology is not state certified. The iVotronic suppliers must wait for federal and state ...
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Industry May Benefit From First CAD Search System
Purdue researchers have created the first CAD database search tool that allows engineers to search out previously designed parts for reuse or important production information. Purdue mechanical engineering professor Karthik Ramani says companies have short corporate memories, with managers ...
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TeamSpace = Collaboration
Believing that interactive team workspaces will be needed to adapt project collaborators to changes in Stanford University's academic requirements and programs, Armando Fox and Terry Winograd of Stanford's Computer Science Department are supervising the development of TeamSpace, a collaborative ...
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Getting Real With Virtual Reality
Information Society Technologies' BENOGO-Image Based Rendering (IBR) is an important step in the field of virtual reality technology because it allows a photorealistic 3D representation of actual locations to be rendered with fewer photographic images, according to project coordinator Erik Granum. ...
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New Technology Uses 'Glanceable' Objects
Products such as Ambient Devices' Orb are seen as the start of a new form of data presentation, in which computerized information is relayed through objects that more smoothly integrate into people's lives. The Orb is a plastic sphere that changes color and intensity to reflect the Dow Jones ...
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Hollywood's New Lesson for Campus File Swappers
The music and movie industries are promoting a free system for automating network policy enforcement on college campuses: The Automated Copyright Notice System (ACNS) receives copyright infringement notices from the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry ...
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Robo Rehab
Intelligent robotic technology is being employed to help rehabilitate victims of debilitating strokes, sometimes with better results than traditional therapy. Rehab robots have been researched for over 10 years, and are currently being tested on patients in Europe, Asia, and the United ...
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Effort Afoot to Exempt 20k from H-1B Cap
Rep. Lamar Smith's (R-Texas) American Workforce Improvement and Jobs Protection Act aims to increase the number of foreign workers with H-1B visas by as much as 20,000 by exempting those who earn advanced degrees from U.S. universities from the current 65,000-visa cap. Smith's bill is ...
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The Rush to RFID
Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology's purported benefits include more efficient and cost-effective inventory and supply-chain management, less difficult product tracing and recalls, fewer cases of product interference, and reduced labor costs--but only if hardware, ...
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Electronic Waste: Be Part of the Solution
Industry reports suggest that the United States could be inundated by a "tsunami" of electronic detritus, much of it toxic, between 2006 and 2015, and this is prompting manufacturers to pursue the elimination of lead and other hazardous materials by designing more recyclable and environmentally ...
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An Evolving Architecture for the Management of Digital Identity
Security concerns have grown along with the increase in complex network-aware applications, with companies trying to determine how to provide external and internal users controlled access to corporate resources. Identity and access management (I&AM) solutions started with ...
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New Technology That Changes How People Interact With Computers
The separation of user interfaces from computers will revolutionize computer-user interactions and establish portable computing, writes James A. Larson, Intel's manager of advanced human input/output. Expected to emerge in the future is a personal server with built-in computer memory and ...
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