The Ninth Annual Search Engine Meeting
"Feds Drag Feet on Cybersecurity"
The Department of Homeland Security has not yet responded to recommendations on beefing up U.S. cyber-defenses that business and government representatives submitted back in March. The recommendations were made by the National Cyber Security Partnership Task Force on ...
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"Patently Unfair"
The issue of software patents is to be decided in the European Commission and European Parliament. Currently, the parliament and council of ministers disagree on changes that would either firmly establish or disallow software patents, which were introduced through a loophole in ...
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"Make Computers More Fun Say Women"
The goal of the Strategies of Inclusion: Gender and the Information Society (SIGIS) study funded by the European Union's Sixth Framework Program (6FP) is to find a way to cross the chasm between genders that has locked many women out of the communication and media technologies sector. The 6FP's ...
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"Copy Crime and Punishment"
Anush Yegyazarian notes how legislation favoring copyright owners and their chokehold over intellectual property continues to gain ground in Congress, while bills that aim to reverse the erosion of consumers' fair-use rights are gathering moss. The Senate has already passed the Protecting ...
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"Electronic Voting Machines Are Still Vulnerable, House Is Told"
A panel of computer experts warned lawmakers in the House of Representatives on July 7 that e-voting systems are too vulnerable to hacking, malfunctions, and fraud to be relied on for the upcoming presidential election. "Given the gravity of the security failings the ...
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"Undergraduates Participate in Collaborative Studies Abroad on Cyberinfrastructure"
The first part of the Pacific Rim Undergraduate Experiences (PRIME) program sponsored by the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering, its Division of Shared Cyberinfrastructure, and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology ...
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"Panelists Push Agencies to Boost Funding for IT Research"
A July 7 briefing for a House Government Reform Subcommittee about the federal government's IT research and development investments illustrates the need for higher funding, according to policy experts and government officials testifying at the conference. Policy expert Edward Lazowska said ...
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"Prosthetics Operated by Brain Activity Move a Step Closer to Reality"
A long-sought goal of neuroscientific research is the development of a "neural prosthetic" that will enable paralyzed people to control artificial limbs by thought through a series of electrodes implanted into their motor cortex. However, this process involves patients laboriously thinking ...
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"A PC Pioneer Decries the State of Computing"
Hewlett-Packard Labs senior fellow Alan Kay, a recent recipient of the Association of Computing Machinery's Turing Award and a pioneer who has made impressive contributions to the development of the PC, PC networks, graphical user interfaces, and object-oriented computer programming, says ...
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"The Dawning Age of "Silver Tech""
Chipmakers, medical-device manufacturers, software developers, and network suppliers are pushing toward the development of technologies that can give elderly patients living at home better care and more independence while reducing costs for health-care providers. One example is a wireless sensor ...
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"Unleashing the Power of Information Technology"
Developing nations did themselves a disservice at the recent World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), where they rallied against the U.S.-backed ICANN Internet authority and passed a noncommittal declaration on open-source software, writes management consultant William Mougayar. ...
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"Accessing and Researching Great Art Online"
The Information Society Technologies-funded ARTISTE project developed content-based retrieval algorithms that enable users to research and find artwork in assorted participating European collections online. The Fax Finder algorithm, for example, can retrieve and rank images that most ...
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"Wireless Project Aims to Net C-U"
Volunteers and community technology activists are working to install a large wireless network over downtown Champaign-Urbana, Ill., that would provide cheap broadband access to schools, businesses, and residents. The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network is pulling ahead of other ...
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"Virtual Camp Trains Soldiers in Arabic, and More"
The University of Southern California's School of Engineering is working on a realistic computer-game environment that can be used to train soldiers to speak Arabic and prepare them for scenarios they may encounter in the Middle East. The game, also known as the Tactical Language Project, uses ...
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"Sharing Lightens the Download"
The entertainment industry has doggedly pursued sanctions against peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks and their users, arguing that this must be done to stave off a digital piracy explosion of epidemic proportions. But this attitude may change with the success of projects ...
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"Where Oh Where Does All the Data Go?"
A report on federal data-mining activities prepared by the General Accounting Office (GAO) and submitted to Congress shows a clear need for oversight and protections, according to Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), who requested the study. The dark side of data mining first appeared in the ...
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"Speak Easy"
The usability of automated speech systems is expanding thanks to technology whose intelligence, ease of use, and integration with other applications is increasing, while products are being introduced that enable mainstream developers to more easily deploy the technology. Speech products have ...
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"The Next Information Superhighway"
Many academic research projects generate a vast amount of data that cannot be processed over existing computer networks, but a coalition of colleges aims to change that with the creation of National LambdaRail, an $80 million national fiber-optic network sponsored by colleges, ...
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"The Ninth Annual Search Engine Meeting"
The ninth annual Search Engine Meeting brought together specialists in search engine research and development, indexing, categorization, natural language, and computer science to network, exchange ideas, and discuss their work, although international delegates far outnumbered American ...
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