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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 559
Date: October 17, 2003
Top Stories for Friday, October 17, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Octopus or Eagle Eyes? Outfitting a Robot for Its Mission"
"Older IT Workers Becoming Hot Commodity"
"Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom"
"Anti-Spam List Wouldn't Fly, Experts Warn"
"U. Researchers Revamp Credit Card"
"State E-Business Gets a Boost"
"U.S. Admits Convicted Man Is No Hacker"
"Bad Grades for a Voting Machine Exam"
"Cold War Encryption Laws Stand, But Not as Firmly"
"NSF Awards $5.46 Million to UC Berkeley and USC to Build Testbed
for Cyber War Games"
"The Most Popular Operating System in the World"
"WiMax Promises Breakthrough in Broadband Access"
"IT Jobs Contracted From Far and Wide"
"Leading Humanity Forward"
"W3C XForms 1.0 Hailed as Standard"
"Computer Evolution"
"New Scheduling Method Raises Efficiency of Electronics
Recycling"
"Recognizing Excellence: ACM Calls for Award Nominations"
"2003 R&D 100 Awards Celebrate High-Tech: Software"
******************* News Stories ***********************
"Octopus or Eagle Eyes? Outfitting a Robot for Its Mission"
A robot does not necessarily need a sophisticated imaging system
in order to navigate, and some researchers are turning to unusual
real-world examples to develop vision systems that emphasize
practicality and simplicity rather than superior image quality. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1017f.html#item1
"Older IT Workers Becoming Hot Commodity"
Older IT professionals with business skills have become a highly
valued asset in the post-dotcom-bubble era, especially since many
of the now-defunct businesses of that era failed because they
lacked experienced personnel. A new report from Challenger, Gray ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1017f.html#item2
"Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom"
Text-mining software is becoming more powerful and helping
researchers, analysts, and companies find obscure conceptual
links in large collections of material. University of
Pennsylvania cancer researcher Michael N. Liebman, for example, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1017f.html#item3
"Anti-Spam List Wouldn't Fly, Experts Warn"
Experts argue that fundamental distinctions between phone and
email systems and the marketers who use them will be
insurmountable barriers to the usability of a do-not-spam list,
while even antispam advocates admit that such a measure would not ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1017f.html#item4
"U. Researchers Revamp Credit Card"
Penn State University is in the process of obtaining a full
patent on its new "smart card" technology. Unveiled in July at a
European conference on object-oriented programming, the smart
card technology allows users to program spending limits into ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1017f.html#item5
"State E-Business Gets a Boost"
Armed with a two-year, $600,000 grant from the National Science
Foundation, the newly created Wisconsin E-Business Institute will
partner with state plastic companies to develop e-business
strategies. The institute was established to complement the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1017f.html#item6
"U.S. Admits Convicted Man Is No Hacker"
Federal prosecutors this week overturned the conviction of Bret
McDanel, a former employee of Tornado Development who was tried
and convicted as a criminal hacker for warning customers about a
software bug that Tornado had failed to correct. The now-defunct ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1017f.html#item7
"Bad Grades for a Voting Machine Exam"
Computer programmer Jeremiah Akin, a Peace and Freedom Party
representative who witnessed a Sept. 9 logic-and-accuracy test of
Sequoia Voting Systems' touchscreen voting machines in Riverside
County, Calif., says the results did not make him breathe ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1017f.html#item8
"Cold War Encryption Laws Stand, But Not as Firmly"
U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel dismissed a lawsuit filed
by University of Illinois at Chicago math professor Daniel
Bernstein against the federal government for allegedly trying to
stifle his publication of a simple encryption program on the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1017f.html#item9
"NSF Awards $5.46 Million to UC Berkeley and USC to Build Testbed
for Cyber War Games"
Researchers seeking to bolster computer networks' cyber-defenses
will soon start conducting assaults on a cybersecurity testbed
that the University of California, Berkeley, and the University
of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute will ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1017f.html#item10
"The Most Popular Operating System in the World"
The world's most popular operating system is ITRON, a Japanese
real-time OS kernel that can be customized for any small-scale
embedded systems. ITRON, currently found in a score of
electronic gadgets that includes CD players, mobile phones, and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1017f.html#item11
"WiMax Promises Breakthrough in Broadband Access"
WiMax, or 802.16a, is a wireless networking standard that
reportedly eases the provision of broadband access and can help
reduce installation costs for broadband service providers. WiMax
offers higher bandwidth and greater transmission range than ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1017f.html#item12
"IT Jobs Contracted From Far and Wide"
There are two forms of IT offshoring--nearshoring and
farshoring--that present advantages and disadvantages to North
America: The United States appears to be hurting more because
U.S. corporate IT operations are increasingly being ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1017f.html#item13
"Leading Humanity Forward"
Reading University cybernetics professor Kevin Warwick--who
gained notoriety by exploring "cyborg" technology through
surgical implants in his own body--says the purpose of cybernetic
research is twofold: To help disabled people better control ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1017f.html#item14
"W3C XForms 1.0 Hailed as Standard"
XForms is touted as the successor to Hypertext Markup Language
(HTML), adding more functionality and flexibility to the Web.
The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C's) official recommendation
of XForms 1.0 as a standard is seen as a big step forward for the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1017f.html#item15
"Computer Evolution"
Computing's next evolutionary step involves direct
machine-to-machine communication and a melded network
infrastructure that anticipates users' needs. Intel research
director David Tennenhouse spoke at a recent MIT conference about ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1017f.html#item16
"New Scheduling Method Raises Efficiency of Electronics
Recycling"
Purdue University assistant professor of industrial engineering
Julie Ann Stuart has developed a software solution for boosting
the efficiency of electronic recycling operations by improving
the management of incoming products from storage to breakdown. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1017f.html#item17
"Recognizing Excellence: ACM Calls for Award Nominations"
ACM is calling for nominations for its 2003 awards recognizing
outstanding technical and professional acheivements in
computer science and information technology. These awards,
most with cash prizes, offer a unique opportunity to bring ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1017f.html#item18
"2003 R&D 100 Awards Celebrate High-Tech: Software"
Recipients of the 41st Annual R&D 100 Awards in the software
category include NASA Glenn Research Center and ZIN Technologies'
Microgravity Analysis Software System (MASS), which is employed
in the Principal Investigator Microgravity Service Project to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1017f.html#item19
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