Magnetic Field Nanosensors
Nanotechnology Precaution Is Urged
A joint report by Britain's Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering warns that nanoparticles carry enough potential risks to health and the environment to legitimize sanctions against certain cosmetic products for now, as well as prohibitions against the deliberate release of ...
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E-Voting Debate Shifts Focus to Reliability, Accessibility
Critics of electronic voting systems complain that the emphasis on security problems is drawing attention away from equally important issues of accessibility and reliability, and grass-roots organizations have been pursuing court action to address these issues. The ACLU of Florida and the ...
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Sandia Supercomputer to Be World's Fastest, Yet Smaller and Less Expensive Than Any Competitor
The Red Storm supercomputer to be installed at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories will be the fastest machine in the world while remaining smaller and less costly than any preceding supercomputer, according to researchers. Red Storm, which is ...
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NSU to Host ACM International Programming Contest
The annual Asia Regional Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is scheduled to take place on the campus of North South University (NSU) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Oct. 8, 2004. Interested participants have until Sept. 25 to register ...
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Tinkering With Their Minds
A summer program at MIT's Research Science Institute has given more than 50 high school seniors the opportunity to participate in research projects at local labs in the hope of encouraging them to pursue research careers at a time when the United States is in desperate need of domestic brainpower. ...
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Virtual Worlds Meet the Real One
This summer's Digital Day Camp (DDC), a program sponsored by the nonprofit media arts organization Eyebeam, brought together Manhattan high-school students and computer professionals to develop computer games that model urban renewal projects, which will be showcased in an art gallery from July ...
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A Few Cars Controlled By Computer Can Keep Rest of Traffic Flowing
University of Michigan physicist L. Craig Davis postulates in the June issue of Physical Review E that many traffic jams could be avoided if just one in five vehicles on the road employed adaptive cruise control (ACC). "With ACC, by eliminating the spacing you need because of driver reaction ...
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Wiring a Convention, Version 2004
The Democratic National Convention this year is awash with wireless signals, but only those approved by wireless enforcement head Louis Libin, who sits in a pavilion skybox monitoring the crowd with binoculars and advanced detection equipment. In the first two days, Libin shut down ...
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Networking Tech Promises Speedy Set-Ups
In a July 28 disclosure to the FCC's Technological Advisory Committee, Dan Stevenson of the MCNC Research & Development Institute announced a "Just in Time" (JIT) signaling protocol that simplifies and speeds up the installation of connections on large-bandwidth networks employed by ...
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Democrats Pledge Their Tech Support
The Democratic National Convention held several sessions this week focusing on the Democratic Party's stance on technology. In one session, a panel of government and industry representatives advocated the continued support of open trade policies as well as higher funding for science and technology ...
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Amplified Intelligence
Dr. Ken Ford, director of the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), is focusing on the two-way interaction between people and machines, and a key field of study in this area is Amplified Intelligence, which is chiefly concerned with improving how ...
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U. of Tokyo, Fujitsu Advance Towards Quantum Cryptography
Japanese scientists have developed a new photon generator that can send single photons reliably over regular telecommunications networks for use in quantum cryptography. Public key encryption schemes rely on a private key that encodes the public one, but transmission over telecommunications lines ...
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Internet Snagged in the Hooks of 'Phishers'
Phishing attacks are occurring more frequently, worrying the e-commerce and banking industries. According to Gartner, some 57 million U.S. adults have received a phishing email, and nearly 11 million clicked on a false link, while 1.8 million actually gave out personal information. The Federal ...
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'Wiki' May Alter How Employees Work Together
A number of startups offering wiki online collaboration products are gathering venture capital money in a sign that the mid 1990s technology may be finally coming into its own. Business technology experts have long touted the benefits of online Web collaboration, and major IT vendors have ...
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New OGC Digital Rights Management and University Working Groups
The OGC has two new Technical Committee working groups in the Geospatial Digital Rights Management (GeoDRM) Working Group and the University Working Group. The GeoDRM Working Group was created in response to the need to protect the rights of producers of geographic content and users, as the ...
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Caging Wireless
The management of wireless local access networks (LANs) is a tricky business: CIOs must make sure they have the proper management systems in place before setting up a wide-scale wireless LAN. Security shortcomings in early wireless equipment convinced CIOs to keep initial wireless LANs ...
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War of Machines
Increasing military applications for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)--many of which were used to find enemy targets and scout for advancing troops in the Iraq campaign--are a sign of the technology's maturation, and more sophisticated sensors, new wireless and network communication technologies, ...
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The Humanoid Race
Advances in computer speed, hardware miniaturization, software capability, and battery capacity are bringing the world closer to robotics' Holy Grail of a bipedal android capable of walking, speaking and feeling emotions; MIT roboticist Cynthia Breazeal predicts that robots will make the leap from ...
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Magnetic Field Nanosensors
Nanoscopic devices could be used to harness the phenomenon of extraordinary magnetoresistance (EMR) in faster computer disk drives with denser data capacity as well as many other applications involving magnetic field detection. EMR is a variant of magnetoresistance (MR)--the increase or ...
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