Cyber Crumbs for Successful Aging With Vision Loss
"Programming Doesn't Begin to Define Computer Science"
Jim Morris, computer science professor and Dean of Carnegie Mellon University's West Coast Campus, writes that the fall-off in college-level computer science enrollments is chiefly due to a misrepresentation of the field's goals: The computing industry's cyclical boom-bust pattern owes a ...
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"Activist: E-Voting to Be a 'Train Wreck'"
E-voting reform crusader Bev Harris is the bane of politicians, company executives, and election officials that support electronic voting: Working for free out of Seattle, she has pursued the issue of insecure e-voting with a passion for the last two years. She was the person who first ...
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"New on Campus: Faster Network for File-Sharers"
Students are making use of file-sharing programs that run on restricted networks such as Internet2, which offer better security and faster speeds than open networks such as Kazaa. One such service is i2hub, which works only at Internet2-connected schools, making students' activities more ...
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"Smarter Spacecraft: Science-Hunting Software for Robotic Explorers"
The goal of NASA's Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment (ASE) is to enable spacecraft to carry out scientific investigations without human assistance, and project participants such as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Arizona State University (ASU), and the University of Arizona are making ...
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"Knowing Their Politics By Their Software"
Both Republican and Democratic parties are relying more on the Internet to advance their political causes, and in the process are adopting either proprietary or open-source technology according to their ideological affiliation. Both President Bush's re-election Web site and the Republican ...
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"Digital Evolution Reveals the Many Ways to Get to Diversity"
Using powerful computers, a team of researchers at Michigan State University (MSU), Keck Graduate Institute (KGI), and the California Institute of Technology have focused on solving the riddle of how evolution leads to species diversity by studying the evolution of artificial life ...
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"Evolution Could Speed Net Downloads"
Caching data at different locations can lower costs and boost download speeds, but determining where data should be stored and for how long is a difficult proposition. Frederik Theil and Jurgen Branke of the University of Karlsruhe and Pablo Funes of Icosystem employed "genetic algorithms" to ...
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"Getting Better...Virtually"
Psychotherapists see value in treating patients through virtual reality--specifically, computer animated characters representing patient and doctor that interact in adaptable artificial environments, which experts believe is conducive to a more relaxed and open doctor-patient ...
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"Virtual Project May One Day Let Your Work Jump From Computer to Computer Without Interruption"
Intel Research Pittsburgh's Internet Suspend/Resume project is supposed to enable users to transfer their work from computer to computer without interruption using the Net, distributed file systems, and virtual machines. Such a concept is expected to be particularly appealing in a world where ...
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"Memory Cards Make Connections"
Sony Computer Science Laboratories researchers have converted Sony's Memory Stick flash memory card into a virtual wire that enables people to link two networked devices by simply plugging in a matched pair of cards that share the same ID and key. These so-called TranStick cards are visually coded ...
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"Early Row Signals Challenges for Next Net Summit"
Although committees tasked with focusing on Internet governance and funding were established at the first World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva last year, and certain goals--such as ensuring that at least half the world's population had access to some form of electronic ...
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"Idle Computers Are a Researcher's Dream"
Boise State University (BSU), in collaboration with Micron Technology, has set up a grid computer network on campus that so far links together almost 100 classroom desktops into a supercomputer using a program known as Condor. When the machines are not in use by students, they are busy ...
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"CERN Openlab Adds a New Dimension to Grid Computing"
The server and storage technical results of the first global science Grid, also known as the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid project (LCG), was announced by the CERN openlab for DataGrid applications at the facility's annual sponsors meeting on June 22. The successful meshing of the LCG with ...
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"Battlefield Robots Leap From Science Fiction to Reality"
The U.S. military is deploying and testing robots in combat situations in the hopes that such machines will reduce casualties by performing dangerous tasks such as explosives placement, mine disposal, nuclear and biological agent detection, and hazardous material cleanup. Robots currently being ...
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"Thought for Food"
University of Southern California (USC) computer scientists and nutrition experts have teamed up to provide a system that boosts the use of fresh produce at community food pantries. Low-income people often lack the culinary knowledge or time to prepare vegetable dishes, and food pantries ...
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"Not the Usual Channels"
Error-correcting codes allow the Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting Saturn to transmit images back to earth with antennae using just a bit more power than a light bulb. Since Cassini was built in the mid 1990s, such codes have improved dramatically, and promise to not only revolutionize ...
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"OGC Looks to Enable the Sensor Web"
The Open GIS Consortium (OGC) Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) effort seeks to make sensor networks available over the Web, using existing OGC registry standards as well as new encoding and interface standards for discovery of and interaction with sensor networks. Sensor networks already affect ...
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"The H-1B Cap: Friend or Foe?"
The maximum limit on new H-1B visa applications permitted annually reverted to 65,000 in September 2003, and opinion is split on whether this is a positive or negative development. The cap has already been reached less than halfway into fiscal 2004, and Information Technology Association of ...
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"Cyber Crumbs for Successful Aging With Vision Loss"
Researchers at the Atlanta VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Center have collaborated with Charmed Technology to develop Cyber Crumbs, an electronic system that functions like a trail of bread crumbs to help visually impaired people efficiently navigate through unfamiliar ...
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