A Conversation With James Gosling
Effort Afoot to Address E-Voting at Convention
A spokesman for the office of Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) says she plans to spotlight the issue of e-voting security, reliability, and integrity at the Democratic National Convention, while an anonymous IT industry source reports that the Kerry campaign is thinking about ...
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Psst. This Is Your Sensor. Your Grapes Are Thirsty.
Intel's Hans Mulder predicts that wireless communications between sensors and machines will be ubiquitous in two decades, while ON World estimates that sales revenues generated by wireless networks will skyrocket from less than $150 million in 2003 to more than $7 billion by 2010. Driving these ...
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Xerox PARC Makes Big Leap to Innovation in Medicine
Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) has entered into a partnership with the nonprofit Scripps Research Institute to develop new technologies that could revolutionize medicine and medical research. One tool yielded by the joint effort is the nanocalorimeter, a device that can detect ...
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PDAs and Databases Join the Race to Woo Swing-State Voters
Political parties have gotten a lot of mileage out of blogs, candidate home pages, and Web-based fundraising when it comes to linking candidates with their core support base--but as the presidential election approaches, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and databases are coming to the fore as ...
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New Ways of Identifying and Using Organisational Information
Hewlett-Packard researcher Bernardo Huberman is conducting research on how information flows within an organization in order to understand how those flows can be harnessed to predict business events. Huberman's research team studied HP Labs' global email network for three months and used a ...
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Interactive Social Robots to Participate in AAAI's Annual Mobile Robot Challenge
Carnegie Mellon University's Grace and George robots are tackling the Open Interaction Task at this week's Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition, sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in San Jose, Calif. The robots, developed in collaboration with researchers ...
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Humanitarian Effort Yields Brilliant Technology, Teamwork
The purpose of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-funded Strong Angel II project is to set up a communications system for efficient collaboration between military and civilian personnel to enhance the coordination of disaster relief efforts. Dan Gillmor reports that a recent ...
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An Automobile With Feelings
A patent has been awarded to a team of Toyota inventors in Japan for an automobile that can reproduce facial expressions to communicate the driver's moods to other drivers. The inventors write in the patent that "as traffic grows heavier and vehicle use increases, vehicles having ...
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Wanted: Cybersecurity Experts
The federal government was urged to make a greater commitment to cybersecurity and to have cyberspace experts take on a larger role in Homeland Security efforts during a hearing before the House Science Committee on July 21. Cybersecurity experts said more educational programs ...
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MP3 Creator Returns With 3D Sound
Technologists from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Media Technology this month showcased their new 3D audio technology to Hollywood movie studios. MP3 co-developer Karlheinz Brandenburg led a team to develop the new audio technique, which requires abundant processing power, a sophisticated ...
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Asian Linux Gaining Momentum
Asianux says it will get its first South Korean endorsement soon, a key development if its server operating environment is to become a Linux Standard in Asia. At the Oracle OpenWorld conference in Shanghai, Chris Zhao, acting president of China's Red Flag Software, said he expects a ...
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An Eye Opener on Open Source Internet Security
The purpose of the Information Society Technologies program-funded SECRETS project was to assess the advantages and disadvantages of open source software for Internet security for the benefit of the public and private sectors, and its evaluation of the toolkit for deploying OpenSSL's Secure ...
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A Vote for IT
Both the Democratic and Republican rivals for the presidency have made IT's role in business, the economy, and the upcoming election abundantly clear. Democratic candidate John Kerry and President Bush agree that U.S. companies should have a global presence, while broader and more affordable ...
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System X Designers Beat the Odds
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University hosts System X, the third most powerful supercomputer in the world according to Top500.org. System X cost $10 million to build and install, a mere fraction of other leading supercomputing projects thanks to its use of 1,100 commercially ...
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The Network Is Not Enough
As part of its push to fully realize network-centric operations, the U.S. Department of Defense is calling for more sophisticated sensor technology to support persistent surveillance and other operations to ensure fewer casualties and more efficient military operations. Achieving this goal ...
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Interview to Dr. T.V. Raman by Paolo Baggia
IBM Almaden researcher T.V. Raman says multimodal computer applications are gaining ground with the convergence of best-of-breed voice and visual language standards. Raman focuses on integrating speech into Web applications and is one of the inventors of the XHTML+VoiceXML (X+V) ...
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Rethinking the Computer
Project Oxygen is a five-year, $50 million interdisciplinary program managed by MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to design pervasive computer systems that people can easily communicate with, and that can be seamlessly woven into households and workplaces to the ...
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A Conversation With James Gosling
Sun Microsystems fellow James Gosling, who is credited with creating the original design of Java and the Java Virtual Machine, puts security issues with virtual environments into perspective by stating in an interview with Sendmail founder and CTO Eric Allman that security problems are the result ...
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