Cosmopedia: Tomorrow's World of Learning
Association for Computing Machinery's New Elected Leaders Aim to Improve Computing's Image
Newly elected Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) President David Patterson, a University of California, Berkeley professor and developer of the Reduced Instruction Set Computer, promised to make ACM more effective by enlisting new IT professionals, improving high-school students' ...
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Nanotechnology Patents Surge as Companies Vie to Stake Claim
Universities and corporate research laboratories are furiously filing nanotechnology patents, hoping to get in at the ground level of what many experts say will be the next transformational technology, worth $1 trillion by 2015, according to government figures. But the rapid number of nanotech ...
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DMCA Foes Find Allies in House
It is doubtful that a bill sponsored by Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) that seeks to overturn the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) ban on the circumvention of digital copyright controls will be passed by Congress this year, but its support in the House of Representatives is giving advocates a ...
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Computers Chase the Checkered Flag
Computers are becoming so deeply embedded into Formula One racing that the result is practically a cyborg, but this trend is provoking intense debate among regulatory bodies as to how big a role computing should play in the sport, especially since it is encouraging the wealthiest racing teams to ...
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Fresh Mesh: A New Route to Smaller 3D Files
University of Southern California (USC) computer science researcher Mathieu Desbrun has developed an algorithm that enables 3D files to be compressed much smaller than before; although video, audio, and other file formats have been successfully compressed, effective 3D file compression has eluded ...
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Team of ORNL 'Agents' Working to Keep People Safe
Unearthing information that could signal a threat to national security by combing the Internet, satellite images, newspapers, and electronic databases is the job of thousands of intelligent software "agents" created by researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Thomas Potok of ...
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The New Face of Gaming
Computer game graphics technology is improving at an accelerated rate, but with audiences craving more photorealism--spurred in part by advanced special effects in motion pictures--the race is on to develop even more lifelike renderings of people in games. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney ...
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Why Scientists Must Dispel Our 'Gray Goo' Fears
The nanotechnology industry has reached a turning point, where public perception of nanotech is highly susceptible to potentially industry-killing mass hysteria generated by overzealous media coverage. David Rejeski, director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for ...
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Linux's Next Frontier: Embedding in Gadgets
The open-source Linux operating system is being touted as a new development platform by makers of embedded software, who are promising gadget manufacturers lower costs, faster development, and no dependence on Microsoft. However, most gadgets' memory, power, and storage capacity is ...
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Fragments Boost 3D TV
The video equivalent of the Holy Grail is a system capable of real-time 3D image rendering and viewer-controlled perspective shifts, but the network bandwidth required to transmit the massive volume of data contained in the video stream is formidable. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) ...
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Art Unfolds in a Search for Keywords
Northwestern University computer science doctoral candidate Ayman Shamma and Intelligent Information Laboratory director Kristian J. Hammond have collaborated on an art project entitled "Imagination Environment" that explores a possible link between free association and Internet search. The ...
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Ars Technica Sits Down With Scott Collins From Mozilla.org
Software engineer Scott Collins believes that the Mozilla browser will flourish on Linux, and the chief driver of its prosperity will be the fall of Microsoft, due to the company's overbearing pride and belief that it cannot make mistakes, even as marketplace backlash grows. ...
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ChatNannies' AI Credentials Still on Hold
A March story in New Scientist focusing on conversational software that uses artificial intelligence to uncover pedophiles in Internet chat rooms provoked criticism that prompted a demonstration to more firmly establish whether the program, "ChatNannies," was indeed as good as its creator, Jim ...
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Privacy Czar Balances Needs of Nation, Citizens
Nuala O'Connor Kelly, the chief privacy officer of the Homeland Security Department, says the United States has to work out its response to terrorism without devastating citizens' privacy rights. She is responsible for the agency's privacy policies as it identifies airplane passengers and ...
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Leading America's National Cybersecurity Effort at Carnegie
Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) CyLab initiative involves the participation of government and industry to help secure the Internet and telecommunications infrastructure, shield the personal privacy and identity of all computer users, and thwart malware; the brainpower behind CyLab ...
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Alan C. Kay, Personal Computing Pioneer and UCLA Computer Scientist, Wins Kyoto Prize
The 2004 Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology has been bestowed upon UCLA adjunct professor of computer science Alan C. Kay for "creating the concept of personal computing and contributing to its realization." The prize is the third major scientific award Kay has received this year: In February, ...
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Embedded Developers Do Some Sole Searching
Adidas, VectraSense Technologies, and MIT are among the outfits developing embedded intelligence for footwear, and analyst Rob Enderle believes it marks the beginning of a trend to incorporate microcontrollers into apparel, which has the potential to generate a multibillion-dollar market ...
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A Change for the Better
The 2004 InfoWorld Compensation Survey of approximately 1,100 IT professionals indicates a slowdown in the downward trend in salary and overall compensation, and most respondents anticipate stabilized or increased IT expenditures from their companies. The percentage of ...
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Cosmopedia: Tomorrow's World of Learning
Former Global/Pacific Electronic University Consortium VP Parker Rossman envisions a Cosmopedia--a multimedia resource containing the sum total knowledge of mankind--that revolutionizes the research, recording, and exchange of information, and fosters new forms of learning and ...
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