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Researchers Develop Computer Techniques to Bring Blacked-Out Words to Light
Gemplus information security lab director David Naccache and Dublin City University computer science graduate student Claire Whelan developed a software program that identified words that were blacked-out in several confidential documents using computer-based techniques. The Eurocrypt ...
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Intel's Next Challenge: Mastering Physical World
Intel is researching proactive computing, in which technology is employed to solve common societal problems by collecting, filtering, and transmitting data with a minimum of human intervention. An example of Intel's proactive computing effort is IrisNet, a joint Intel/Carnegie ...
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E-Postmark May Thwart Cyber Crooks
Penn State University researchers George Kesidis and Ihab Hamadeh have created an "e-postmark" that could be tagged to all Web-delivered packets, adding an extra layer of security against hackers, spammers, and digital pirates. Spoofed email and data packet addresses, though outlawed in the ...
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Aging in Place With Technology
Preliminary findings of a Georgia Institute of Technology study presented at the Association of Computing Machinery's CHI 2004 conference indicate that older adults are willing to accept monitoring to a certain degree in order to extend their independence rather than move into assisted-living ...
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The Next Battlefields for Advanced Technology
Many American corporate and political leaders contend that focusing more resources and policy into research and development is essential if the United States is to remain at the forefront of technological innovation, especially in the face of offshore outsourcing and increased competition ...
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DARPA's Grand Challenge: Looking to Next Year
To help realize its vision of battlefield operations carried out by autonomous vehicles, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sponsored the Grand Challenge, an offroad race between unmanned vehicles developed by various teams, with the winning team receiving $1 million if ...
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Will Your Next Display Be 3D?
The 3D Consortium (3DC), whose members include Sharp, Sanyo Electric, Samsung Electronics, Sony, and Toshiba, was created to promote next-generation 3D display technologies. Sharp has developed a liquid-crystal display (LCD) that can be switched between 2D and 3D: The ...
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Search Engine Tackles Tricky Lists
A researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle is developing new search engine technology that could, for example, produce a list of the 50 best-selling blues guitarists, even though the information does not exist on a single Web page. Oren Etzioni is developing the KnowItAll search ...
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Wake Up to Ethics Question
The computer scientist community continues to struggle with the nature of intelligence and the consequences of current technology becoming exponentially smarter. Retired computer scientist and science fiction writer Vernor Vinge presented the concept of Singularity at a NASA ...
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For Technology, No Small World After All
Intel's product design cycle starts with a forecast of potential markets, followed by in-depth analysis of the people who make up those markets; the resulting information is translated into individual user "personas" whose projected needs form the basis of the concept device's configuration and ...
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Computing, Complexity and the Human Factor
University of Victoria computer science professor Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey is directing the efforts of an interdisciplinary research team in the computer-human interaction and software engineering lab (CHISEL) to develop software that can help people manipulate large bodies of data to carry out ...
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Chaos Seems to Aid Learning
Scientists at Japan's Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST) say that their research into the theory of chaotic resonance could accelerate electronic communications and lead to improvements in robotic learning technology and artificial intelligence. The researchers ...
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SMTP Authentication Hits Standards Track
Experts believe that SMTP authentication will help battle spam by allowing Internet mail servers to confirm that messages come from the domains they say they come from. Major recent SMTP initiatives include Microsoft's Caller ID for E-mail, the Sender Policy Framework (SPF), and Yahoo's Domain ...
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Research Points Computer Users Toward Fewer Aches and Pains
Two mechanical engineering researchers at the Iowa State University have developed a hand held mouse for computers and video games that doesn't generate strain on a user's arm, wrist, shoulder, neck or back. The ergonomically friendly pointing device is spongy and fits in the palm of ...
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Breach of Trust
Companies are in danger of losing customer trust because of the constant threat of data breaches, which are far more common than the public is aware of. Sensitive customer data can be compromised by hackers who penetrate corporate networks, insiders who steal information, and identity thieves, ...
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The Secret Life of Birds
Great Duck Island off the coast of Maine serves as a testbed for "mote" technology--wireless networked sensors that in this case are employed to monitor the nesting behavior of Leach's storm petrels. Each mote is made from off-the-shelf parts, and includes environmental sensors, a battery, ...
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Math Lab
The computer has emerged as the definitive laboratory tool for the field of mathematics, and mathematicians such as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's David Bailey and Dalhousie University's Jonathan Borwein contend that math is being revolutionized by computer experimentation. ...
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A team of researchers with the European Space Agency, GMV Sistema, and Telespazio SpA evaluated a prototype receiver designed to boost the positioning accuracy and availability of satellite-based augmentation systems by integrating European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service ...
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