An Animation Celebration
Report Faults Cyber-Security
The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general yesterday released a report citing poor coordination, communication shortcomings, and a lack of prioritization as the chief reasons why the department's efforts to shore up the nation's cyber-infrastructure have been less than ...
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Democratic Platform Cites Outsourcing, Broadband Issues
The Democratic Party's 2004 platform echoes the Republican position that broadband services should be made universally available, although it differs with the Republicans as to how this goal should be reached. Republicans wish to eliminate telecommunication and broadband regulation, ...
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Is Your Computer a Loaded Gun?
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear testimony today on the Induce Act, which aims to ban technologies that enable copyright infringement and allow civil penalties for users that intentionally assist a third person in violating copyright. Although the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act ...
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UWE Scientists Help Bring Computers and Robots to Life
The U.K. government has awarded 1.8 million pounds to the University of the West of England (UWE) and a quartet of research partners to investigate biologically-inspired computers, which is at the center of five nationally funded projects. UWE will play a major role in two of these initiatives: ...
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Tech Science: Out on the Nano Frontier
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has allocated $70 million to 13 U.S. universities to make their labs and equipment available to companies and individuals who are developing nanotechnology, which NSF senior engineering advisor Lawrence Goldberg believes will play an essential role in ...
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Computer Scientist Defends Security Community Stance on E-Voting
Johns Hopkins University computer science professor and outspoken e-voting critic Aviel Rubin testified before the House Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census on July 21 that policymakers foolishly neglected to consult with security experts ...
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For Doctored Photos, a New Flavor of Digital Truth Serum
Distinguishing between authentic digital photos and doctored images is critical for law enforcement, the military, and newspapers and magazines, to name just a few affected areas. Dartmouth College computer science professor Hany Farid has developed algorithms that can tell the difference ...
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Facing the Future of Intuitive Interfaces
The COMIC project funded by the Information Society Technologies program has developed a prototype multimodal user interface stemming from the project's combination of fundamental cognitive research and technology to make computers capable of comprehending and generating cognitive behavior. ...
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Robots Get Bookish in Libraries
Robotic technology has generally come up short as a tool for enhancing people's daily lives, but researchers at Spain's University Jaime I are developing a mechanized librarian that can find and retrieve books using a combination of sensors, cameras, and gripping appendages. Professor Angel ...
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Apprentice Plan Aims to Close IT Skills Gap
Neill Hopkins of the Computer Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) observes that a wide gap exists between the IT skills employers need and the skills workers actually have, and he thinks the solution is the National IT Apprenticeship System (Nitas) CompTIA kicked off in March, ...
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Multi-Lingual Web Addresses? Not Very Soon
Discussions at ICANN's sixth annual meeting in Kuala Lumpur have centered on multilingual domain names. Finding a technical way to accommodate non-Roman characters in Web browser spaces is a daunting task, Internet experts agree. Despite the enormous difficulties foreseen in developing ...
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When Technology Imitates Art
The creation and duplication of sculpted objects is being transformed by technology such as scanners, computer-aided design (CAD) software, and automated milling equipment. Studio Roc, for instance, can create near-perfect copies of items by laser-scanning them and having the milling ...
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A Wireless Revolution
San Diego is touted as the wireless capital of the world thanks to the formidable concentration of academic and commercial wireless projects and companies that have accumulated there. California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology founding director Larry Smarr ...
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The Outsourcing Hole
Legislators and industry insiders are worried offshore software development could compromise the Department of Defense's (DOD) IT security, given its predilection for purchasing commercial off-the-shelf software. Software vendors save money by sending a lot of their software development overseas, ...
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Engineering Schools Abrim With Talent
Graduate engineering enrollment in the United States reached an all-time high in 2002 with nearly half a million students, according to a National Science Foundation (NSF) report. Though the overall increase in college enrollment helps the trend, double-digit increases in fields such as ...
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Waiting for the Big Gig
Vendors are planning to leverage the wide-scale implementation of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GE) outside of the network core so that the technology is more cost-effective than Fibre Channel and similar links. There is only so much data that users can consume, and there does not appear to be a ...
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Universities to Release Free Course-Management Software
Four American universities--Stanford, MIT, the University of Michigan, and the University of Indiana--are leading the Sakai Project, a cooperative effort to develop and distribute free course-management software, the first version of which was issued on July 15. Sakai is an amalgam of computer ...
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An Animation Celebration
Some 643 entries were submitted to ACM's SIGGRAPH 2004's Computer Animation Festival (CAF), and of the 83 that passed muster, around 50 percent were the work of international animators and one-third were student projects. Diversity also extended to the festival jury, which included ...
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