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Send Jobs to India? U.S. Companies Say It's Not Always Best
Certain U.S. entrepreneurs and executives think that outsourcing IT jobs to India is not worth the lower labor costs when measured against productivity--and ironically, many of these execs are Indian-born. "[Work] that requires more creativity is more difficult to manage at a distance," ...
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NETI to Examine Net's Strengths
Georgia Tech researchers have embarked on a project to improve the speed and reliability of the Internet by collating data directly from tens of thousands of Internet users rather than tapping into router points along the Internet backbone. Electrical and computer engineering professor ...
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Where Are You Now?
Google's proposed Gmail service has generated tremendous discussion about people's lives recorded digitally, accessible to business, government, and potentially criminals. Computer experts note that worries about privacy in the digital age are nothing new, and that many other online services store ...
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Darpa Looks Past Ethernet, IP Nets
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is moving past Ethernet and Internet Protocol in its vision of cheap, low-power, ad hoc mesh networks that are five orders of magnitude more efficient than 802.11 networks in the enterprise space. To this end, DARPA is contributing at ...
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Is Programming Dead?
Model-driven architecture (MDA) is the next big evolutionary step in programming, now that software has standards for application definition such as the Unified Modeling Language and application architectures such as .Net and J2EE. Over the past decades, programming had advanced ...
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U. of I. Opens Door to Future for Technology
This week will mark the formal declaration of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana's Thomas H. Siebel Center for Computer Science, a 225,000-square-foot facility that is essentially a huge computer where students and faculty connect with a network comprised of computers, ...
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Expert: Gaps Still Pain Bluetooth Security
Bluetooth 1.2 has a glitch that leaves it unsecured in some circumstances, Ollie Whitehouse, a researcher for @Stake, told attendees at the recent CanSecWest security conference. Whitehouse said the way Bluetooth deals with the personal identification number (PIN) used to protect data can be ...
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Opening Opera to the Digital World
The OpenDrama project funded by Information Society Technologies seeks to digitally replicate the experience of an opera performance via an integrated media player platform that can be used for entertainment and learning. The OpenDrama service, which will be available on broadband ...
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Student Develops Innovative Software
University of Oregon senior Anna Cavender was named North America's 2004 Outstanding Female Undergraduate in Computer Science and Engineering by the Computing Research Association for her work on EyeDraw, a computer program co-created with recent graduate Rob Hoselton. EyeDraw was designed ...
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I.B.M. Joins Stanford to Find Uses for Electron Spin
IBM and Stanford University have set up a collaborative spintronics research project dubbed SpinApps. The effort will involve roughly 20 researchers from both IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose and Stanford's nearby Palo Alto campus. The goal will be more innovative uses ...
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World Wide Web Consortium Publishes First Public Working Draft of Web Services Choreography Description Language 1.0
The first draft of Web Services Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL) version 1.0 will enable sustained and secure peer-to-peer e-business transactions over the Web. Released by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), WS-CDL will serve as a modeling tool developers can use to view the ...
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Robots Readied to Take on Search-and-Rescue Duties
The National Science Foundation is investing $2.6 million over five years in an effort to develop cooperative robots that can carry out search-and-rescue duties with minimal human assistance. The project involves the participation of the University of Minnesota, which is ...
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Security From the Inside Out
Cybersecurity experts are coming up with multilayered approaches to protect enterprises against attack, using a combination of patching, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, antivirus software, deep packet inspection, and access controls. However, application-level attacks go around ...
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Mobile Industry Embroiled in Domain Debate
A coalition of companies in the mobile communications industry have applied to ICANN to start a new Internet domain name for mobile services. If granted approval, the group, which includes Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Nokia, plans to form a company that will manage the registry, which will be ...
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Coming--Programmable Matter
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is just one of the research entities pursuing programmable matter--the manipulation of molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles into memories, logic circuits, and even entire computer systems. Programmable matter is based on the ...
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Technological Networks and the Spread of Computer Viruses
By studying how computer virus outbreaks relate to technological networks, effective vaccination measures can be developed and deployed. Many technological networks targeted by viruses are not scale-free, and are therefore unlikely to be effectively protected by targeted vaccination. In ...
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Where The Opportunity Is
CIOs, tech company execs, and computer science educators can offer no single strategy for how IT professionals can become more valuable to a company and thus avoid being outsourced--but they have established the characteristics of an indispensable worker: Such a person will be more ...
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Making Government Accessible--Online
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act requires e-government services to be available to all citizens, including those with disabilities, but this is a tall order for many initiatives, even those with close-to-full accessibility. SSB Technologies' Chris Henderson explains that achieving ...
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Software's future evolution will unfold according to the emergence of seven major trends: The elimination of bloated operating systems; the development of components and objects; the advent of mobile code; the normalization of distributed computation; a shift in payment models; the ...
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