Fulbright Announces Award Offerings
Tech Jobs Start to Come Back in U.S. After Three-Year Slump
Technology companies are hiring more than they are firing for the first time in several years, raising hopes for job seekers, recruiters, and employees looking to get raises. Though the gains are small and executives remain wary of a possible drop in sales, staunching the downward ...
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Wringing the Changes
New studies on the intersection of IT and business management show that process innovation and sound management are the real keys to unlocking technology's value. Harvard Business School professor Andrew McAffee was surprised when he visited the offices of European retailer Inditex, ...
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E-Vote Devices Win Partial Favor
The state of California's Voting Systems and Procedures Panel recommended on April 28 that residents in 10 counties be permitted to use existing paperless electronic voting systems in the November election, while the option for paper-based voting should be available ...
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Intelligent Systems Researcher Wins IEEE/ACM Conference Honor
A paper co-authored by USC Ph.D. student Sundeep Pattem, a graduate research assistant in the Autonomous Networks Research Group, was one of three winners of a best paper award at this week's ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks ...
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Finding the Right Fit
Stanford University scientists are piecing together an ancient sculpted map of Rome using a software program designed to mimic the cognitive process a human being uses to reconstruct a jigsaw puzzle, according to graduate student and program inventor David Koller. The challenge is ...
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NASA Develops Decision Support Software for Mars Rover Mission
The Mixed Activity Planning Generator (MAPGEN) software system developed by NASA Ames Research Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has become essential to the success of the current Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission, according to researchers. MAPGEN can organize a potential plan ...
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Scientists Envision Devices, Super Computer From Cutting-Edge Quantum Research
Devices that exploit the stranger qualities of quantum mechanics will revolutionize the world's economy and create unimagined technological applications, according to physicists now studying quantum effects. Interest in quantum technology has been increasing since scientists ...
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Mozilla, Gnome Mull United Front Against Longhorn
Open-source projects Mozilla and Gnome are considering ways to merge their browser and desktop interface technologies in order to meet the looming threat of Microsoft's Longhorn operating system; Longhorn is said to integrate desktop applications and the Web far more powerfully than ever ...
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For a Squeeze Play, Software Seeks Out Game Highlights
Sharp Labs' Dr. Ibrahim Sezan has developed video analysis software that jumps to the highlights of sporting events, shortening a baseball game from three hours to eight minutes, for example. The developer explains that defining the color, shape, and semblance of the playing field was one of ...
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Robotic Traffic Cones Swarm Onto Highways
Roboticist Shane Farritor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has developed self-propelled robot traffic cones that position themselves to mark off repair zones and reduce the need for workmen to put themselves in harm's way by inserting and removing such markers manually. The ...
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Quantum Computers Are a Quantum Leap Closer
Purdue University scientists have produced electron "puddles" or quantum dots in a semiconductor wafer of gallium arsenide that are linked together, allowing them to become part of transistors whereby the electrons' spin can be tapped to make logic gates for next-generation computer ...
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You Call That a Standard?
Veo Systems founder and University of California, Berkeley adjunct IT professor Robert Glushko argues that even the most high-minded--and supposedly impartial--tech standards organizations are vulnerable to corporations that wield money, power, and political influence. Glushko ...
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EC Tells Europe and ICANN to Make Peace
European Commission Internet head Erkki Liikanen gave a recent speech in which he warned both ICANN and European top-level domain owners to settle their differences quickly: ICANN has backed away from unilateralism and made moves to open up its process, but owners of European country ...
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Game Programming Doing Well in Hawaii
Entrepreneurs are hoping to turn the state of Hawaii into a Mecca for the video-game industry that rivals its status as a goldmine for the tourist trade and film industry. A key ingredient of that success will be cultivating a collaborative relationship between University of ...
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In Favor of Open Source in Industrial Systems
The two-year INES project funded by the Information Society Technologies Program is a joint effort to promote the advantages of open source software (OSS) in industrial embedded systems between a half-dozen Technology Expertise Centers based in Belgium, Italy, Romania, Slovenia, ...
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Cognitive Rascal in the Amorous Swamp: A Robot Battles Spam
George Johnson is suitably impressed with the SpamProbe software robot in its ability to weed out junk email using Bayesian inference, a statistical analysis technique. Johnson first trained SpamProbe, an open source program inspired by a spam filtering technique described by Paul Graham, ...
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Solid Money, Worried Minds
This year's InformationWeek National IT Salary Survey finds that the economy is improving: Median base salaries this past year rose 7.9 percent to $68,000 for IT staffers and 7.1 percent to $90,000 for managers, while staff received $71,000 and managers $97,000 in median total ...
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Plug-and-Play Robots
Entrepreneur Thomas J. Burick has designed a mobile "PC-Bot" platform that can mate with commercially available plug-and-play PC peripherals and accessories to customize its functions. "I want people to use this platform like a blank canvas, to let their imaginations run wild," ...
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A Conversation With Matt Wells
Matt Wells, who plans to make a splash in the search engine sector with Gigablast, posits that current search engines face three primary areas of difficulty: Scalability and performance, quality control, and research and development. Wells says the scalability problem stems from the need ...
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Fulbright Announces Award Offerings
The Fulbright Scholar Program is offering 27 lecturing, research, and lecturing/research awards in computer science worldwide for the 2005-2006 academic year. The awards for both faculty and professionals range from two months to an academic year. While many awards specify project and ...
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