Decoding Information-Worker Productivity
Drowning in Spam: New Techniques Focus on Identifying Senders
Internet technologists and businesses are working on authentication schemes that would dramatically reduce the amount of spam email, which makes up more than half of all messages sent today and is an incredible burden for companies and users. A survey from the Pew Internet & American Life ...
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Code That Kills, For Real
Software quality is critical to virtually every aspect of modern life, but code quality takes on life-or-death importance in military applications. The Pentagon's Systems and Software Technology Conference examined software development problems unique to the U.S. military, noting that military ...
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Princeton's Image-Smashing Math Whiz
Maria Klawe, dean of Princeton University's School of Engineering & Applied Science and president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), challenges stereotypical perceptions of mathematicians, not least by being a woman. This places her in a unique position to encourage women and ...
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More Cash Flowing to Robotics Research
The U.S.'s leading universities in robotics research are experiencing a big boost in federal funding, much of it from the Defense Department. The funding boost coincides with falling prices for many of robotics key technologies, including charged-coupled devices, sensors, software, and ...
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MIT Aims for the Bottom Line
MIT's Media Lab announced its consumer electronics lab (CELab) program on May 10; Media Lab founder and chairman Nicholas Negroponte said researchers are returning to their roots by focusing on easy-to-use, fun consumer goods. CELab is not an actual facility, but an umbrella term for numerous ...
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AU Computer Program Lures Blacks, Women
Alabama's Auburn University supports the highest concentration of black computer science graduate students and faculty in the United States, and boasts a large number of females enrolled in its computer science graduate program; figures such as these attracted the interest of the National ...
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Good Thinking: Boffins Wow With 'Psychic' PC
Singapore's Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) is conducting research at its NeuroInformatics Lab into improving brain-machine interface (BMI) technology--specifically, thought-controlled computers--through its NeuroComm platform. NeuroComm is built from scratch on a Windows platform, ...
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The Quest to Find a Better Search Engine
The tremendous success of Google has raised the bar for what people expect from search engines, and companies worldwide are struggling to deliver. The search engine's increasing importance as a tool for modern times illustrates the proliferation of "unstructured" data, where critical ...
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E-Serenity, Now!
Information environmentalists, while not yet coalesced into a movement, are developing pointed arguments for limiting the amount of information people are exposed to and take in: A recent conference in Seattle focused on the issue, where University of Washington professor David Levy, a former ...
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Computer Chip Noise May Betray Code
Researchers Adi Shamir and Eran Tromer of Israel's Weizmann Institute have determined that eavesdroppers could theoretically break encrypted computer messages by monitoring the noise generated by computer chips. The researchers sampled the high-frequency audio emitted by computer central ...
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Eye-Tracking Devices Full of Possibilities
Eye-tracking technology has been used by researchers to study how people process visual information since the 1970s, but scientists such as Andrew Duchowski, an assistant professor of computer science at Clemson University, envision even more practical applications. Among the ...
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The Unfolding Saga of the Web
Carnegie Mellon consulting IT professor Stuart Feldman directs a team of young IBM technologists whose task it is to forecast the evolution of the Internet and its effects on people's lives 10 and 20 years hence. The professor, who heads IBM's Internet Technology division and will co-chair ...
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Open Source 'Blending' Into Animation
The latest version of the fully integrated Blender 3D graphics creation suite could help open source software penetrate the animation segment, especially now that the suite comes with features and enhancements previously unavailable because they were originally designed as part of ...
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ASU Advance Could Provide Insight Into Human's Ability to Recognize Patterns
An Arizona State University (ASU) research team led by math and electrical engineering professor Ying-Cheng Lai has devised a mathematical and computational model for oscillatory associative memory networks, a breakthrough that could shed new light on how humans process and recognize ...
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Wireless PDAs and Smartphones: A Hacker's Heaven
Wireless PDAs, Wi-Fi devices, and smart phones are posing security issues, even as they allow users to receive email and text messages while on the go. The devices are open to viruses and password theft, as well as spam, and security experts say they lack the antivirus protection, encryption ...
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Computational Origami
A handful of mathematicians who are also origami experts could aid the next industrial design innovation or help understand how proteins fold. Industrial consultant Robert Lang also considers himself a full-time origami artist, and creates software algorithms that automate the folding ...
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>From Grid to Growth
North Carolina plans to recover from massive layoffs in its chief industries by investing in grid computing and other technologies with the goal of accelerating research and development, cutting costs, and creating new jobs. Former Sun Microsystems grid computing executive and ...
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Clearance Needed
The need for IT workers with security clearances has grown over the past few years, but demand exceeds supply. The federal government wants to break down the information "stovepipes" among agencies and integrate their networks, but this requires outside expertise with security clearance, and ...
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Decoding Information-Worker Productivity
The Information Work Productivity Council (IWPC) is attempting to measure the effects of IT on information-worker productivity by studying three business processes that are relatively unstructured and carried out by autonomous knowledge staff, but are still critical to business success and ...
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