ACM Professional Development Centre Adds Online Books Program
"E-Voting Backup Is Demanded"
Some 23 "Computer Ate My Vote" rallies were held across the United States on July 13, where advocates clamored for the deployment of voter-verifiable paper ballots to ensure accurate recounts because of a lack of security with electronic-voting systems. In Salt Lake City, Utah election officials ...
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"Hacktivism and How It Got Here"
The term "hacktivism" was not coined until 1998, when several members of the Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) hacker organization held an online discussion of how hacking could be used to promote political freedom in China after the Tiananmen Square incident. Professor Ronald Diebert of the ...
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"Computer, Heal Thyself"
Berkeley researcher and ACM President David Patterson and Stanford scientist Armando Fox's Recovery Oriented Computing (ROC) project focuses on the design of computer systems that can can rapidly bounce back from malfunctions. The initiative is ...
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"Erecting Borders on the Web"
Improving geolocation technology is enabling companies to divide the Web and control its accessibility by detecting users' whereabouts with greater accuracy, but privacy advocate Jason Catlett is most concerned that the technology will encourage Web sites to deceive visitors. "The technical ...
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"'Virtual Clay' Brings the Act of Sculpting to the Virtual World"
A virtual clay sculpting system invented by researchers at the University of Buffalo's Virtual Reality Lab will give product designers or artists the power to sense 3D virtual objects through touch, and shape and manipulate them in real time as if they were actual material, according to lab ...
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"Messenger Taps Social Nets"
University of Michigan researcher Jun Zhang noticed that when he queried friends and colleagues via instant messaging and email to get answers to questions, they would often defer to one of their friends or colleagues; with funding from the National Science Foundation and Intel, Zhang has ?
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"UW Professor 'Knows It All' About Search Engines"
KnowItAll is a search engine currently under development by professor Oren Etzioni of the University of Washington-Seattle's computer science and engineering department that seeks out data on the Web and arranges it in a list. Etzioni explains that "KnowItAll extracts information on your ?
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"France Lends Support to New Open-Source License"
French government researchers have created the first in a family of open-source software licenses they say will better fit the needs of the French legal system than do current U.S.-centric open-source licenses. The CeCILL license serves the same purpose as the Free Software Foundation's ...
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"Movie and Software File Sharing Overtakes Music"
A July 12 report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) suggests that more video and software files than music files are being swapped over the Web, although audio files are still the most frequently traded kinds of files: 49 percent of the data traded ...
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"We, Robots"
Researchers at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) International's Artificial Intelligence Center are working on robots that can swim, run, jump, and climb using artificial muscles, which are thought to be less computationally taxing and more efficient than mechanical limbs. These ...
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"New Tools to Study Forest Fires, Traffic Jams, & Other Problems"
Researchers at Carleton University in Ottawa are refining the simulation of complex physical systems such as forest fires and traffic flow. A new toolkit developed at the university takes bulky software code used in another application and shrinks it, allowing new parameters to be factored ...
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"Framing the Reuse of Digital Cultural Heritage"
The Information Society Technologies program-funded European Museums' Information Institute Distributed Content Framework (EMII-DCF) project sought to determine the needs of digital content users and to illuminate requirements related to intellectual property rights and unified technical ...
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"Mind Power: Scientist Turns Thoughts Into Actions, Literally"
Researchers were impressed with the results of an experiment conducted by Brigham and Women's Hospital scientist Seung-Schik Yoo in which people moved a computer cursor through a maze by their thoughts, which were read by a powerful MRI scanner. The scanner picks up changes in blood oxygen ...
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"Social Lives of a Cell Phone"
A number of researchers around the world are taking advantage of the ubiquity and capabilities of mobile phones: The free Dodgeball service that has already taken hold in New York City is poised to spread to nine other U.S. locales, enabling people to move the type of social networking ...
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"Computer Design Approach Scraps Quest for Perfection"
Computer scientists in California are working to make computer systems more resilient to failure so that users will not be significantly affected by glitches. The Recovery-Oriented Computing (ROC) effort takes a much different approach to computer science than traditional reliability efforts ...
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"No Where to Hide"
The spread of effective and cost-efficient database technology means that more and more personal information is becoming available, which can be both a benefit and hazard: On the one hand, technologies that keep tabs on us can increase the convenience of our daily lives, but at the same time they ...
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"The Coming Robot Revolution"
In this article a panel of experts discusses how robot technology will continue to progress, and the technological difficulties that need to be surmounted. Chuck Thorpe, director of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, says it is a tricky proposition to get robots to ...
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"Redefining Radio With Software"
Non-interoperability between radios is a staggering problem for the U.S. military and an even tougher dilemma for thousands of local public safety agencies lacking the benefit of central organization. Software-defined radio (SDR) is being pursued by both military contractors and electronics ...
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"MDA: Revenge of the Modelers or UML Utopia?"
Bedarra Research Labs and OpenAugment Consortium co-founder Dave Thomas writes that model-driven agile development can be an effective software development technique, although he is uncertain about the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) proposed by the Object Management Group (OMG); Thomas ...
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"ACM Professional Development Centre Adds Online Books Program"
ACM's Professional Development Centre has introduced a new online books service powered by Books24x7®. Student and professional members now have free, unlimited access to 395 online volumes, selected from the ITPro Collection. Members can look for books to help with their PD Centre online courses or to read ?
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