The State of Social Tools
"For Hackers, Shop Talk, a Warning and Advice"
This year's Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference featured speakers such as Apple Computer founder Stephen Wozniak, who bemoaned that people today consider hackers to be synonymous with terrorists to such a degree that the government has instituted excessively harsh penalties against ...
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"IT Jobs Slowly Grow, Wages 'Still Settling'"
There is definite, albeit slow, growth in the IT job sector, according to findings from the ComputerJobs.com job-placement firm, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Challenger Gray & Christmas, and this is a positive development after dramatic layoffs and a surge in high-tech offshoring over ...
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"Doubts Over Touchscreen Tech Choice for Venezuela Recall"
Venezuela will use untested touchscreen e-voting systems for its recall referendum on Hugo Chavez's presidency, in spite of general consensus among computer scientists that such machines are vulnerable to tampering and malfunction, and while the wounds of an embarrassing Venezuelan e-voting ...
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"Linux Helps Make Weather Forecasts More Accurate"
Climatologists and other scientific researchers are increasingly adopting Linux as a way to both reduce high-performance computing (HPC) costs and improve speed. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is using a new 456-processor, Linux-based Altix system from SGI to simulate the weather: ...
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"Glimmer of Hope in Copyright Measures"
Dan Gillmor is heartened by congressional legislation concerning copyright, specifically Rep. Rick Boucher's (D-Va.) Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act and growing criticism against Sen. Orrin Hatch's (R-Utah) Inducing Infringement of Copyright Act. Boucher's bill seeks to restore people's ...
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"Cell Phone Mission Connects FAU Team, Motorola Vision"
Student researchers at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton are developing fast-prototyping technology and techniques that will enable Motorola to produce new cell phone designs in a matter of days. FAU computer science director Ravi Shankar says the electronics industry has ...
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"Easy Authoring for Mixed Reality"
The European Union-funded AMIRE mixed reality (MR) project has completed a toolkit that enables people without development expertise to create MR applications quickly and professionally. MR applications enable users to receive relevant, real-time data based on their location, and requires a ...
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"Can Computers Argue?"
Computers can not only argue, they can evaluate conflict-resolution strategies that include reformulating actions or evading confrontation, according to a new paper co-authored by professor Nick Jennings of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of ...
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"Cybersecurity Research Underfunded, Executives Say"
The National Science Foundation (NSF) can only fund about 10 percent of the research proposals it receives in regards to improving IT security, according to testimony at a House Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census ...
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"Transparent Desktop Opens Doors"
Facetop is a videoconferencing system that enhances collaboration by combining a live video feed of users with a shared, transparent image of the desktop on one screen. The position of the users' fingertips is tracked, and collaborators can use natural pointing gestures to open and ...
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"How the World Is Learning to Love ICANN"
The international community is softening somewhat to the new ICANN management, as that team tries to rally support for itself before the "memorandum of understanding" it has with the U.S. government expires on Sept. 30, 2006. Anger over past neglect and bullying tactics from ICANN ...
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"Corporate Governance Task Force Pushes Security Best Practices"
A new report from the National Cyber Security Partnership's (NCSP) corporate governance task force says getting executives involved in security is the best way to protect the nation's critical infrastructure. The report, "Information Security Governance: A Call to Action," suggests ...
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"The New Geek"
A new breed of IT professional is emerging, one with a technical background who can channel his skills into multiple disciplines: These so-called "New Geeks" are expected to help usher in what IBM's Irving Wladawsky-Berger calls the "post-technology" era, in which technology tools are applied to ...
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"Semantic Web Is 2 Steps Closer"
At ACM's 13th International World Wide Web Conference in May, World Wide Web Consortium leader Tim Berners-Lee declared that the Semantic Web is now ready for its second phase of development thanks to the ratification of the Resource Description Language (RDL) and the Ontology Web Language (OWL). ...
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"Wireless Mesh Links Everyday Devices"
Low-cost radio-frequency integrated chips (RFICs) plus control software imbue everyday objects with the ability to network with one another, transmitting control and sensing data. New embedded RFIC technology is best used with mesh networking techniques, as opposed to the star ...
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"Putting Rules Engines to Work"
A business rules management system (BRMS) enables business analysts to translate business rules into a simple programming language similar to English, giving them direct control over the rules that determine enterprise application behavior and granting them the power to change ...
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"Under Attack"
The growing threat of malware means more expensive downtime for businesses, as demonstrated by the results of the InformationWeek Research 2004 Global Information Security Survey. The percentage of companies reporting between four and eight hours of downtime and between eight and 24 hours of downtime ...
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"The State of Social Tools"
Corante Research managing director and software researcher Stowe Boyd predicts that social software tools designed to influence culture will undergo considerable convergence because they share similar core benefits. "The tools that we will use to make sense of the world must be far more ...
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