The New Face of Hollywood
Lawmakers Call for Cybersecurity Enhancements
Reps. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) have introduced the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2004, which expands cybersecurity to include wire communication and gives the DHS the authority to protect telecommunications, in addition to ...
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FP6 Grid Projects Target a Return on Europe's Research Investment
One of the major goals of the European Union's information societies technology program is to build a robust grid research community in Europe, although INRIA's Thierry Priol, coordinator of the CoreGRID Network of Excellence, notes that European investment levels in grid technologies far ...
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Barbarians at the Digital Gate
The proliferation of spyware and adware requires Internet users to take special precautions while online, but growing dissent is prompting some of the companies behind the rise in adware to try more palatable business practices. Advertisers and major Web sites, meanwhile, have become more ...
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Saving the Artistic Orphans
Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle and film collector Rick Prelinger filed a lawsuit against the government in March in an effort to secure permission to digitally archive "orphan" works determined to be commercially nonviable yet restricted from public access by copyright. ...
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CMU Project Envisions Computers Even the Poorest Third World Farmer Could Use
Former dean of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University Raj Reddy is focused on bringing affordable Internet access to poor people throughout the world using the PCtvt, a $250 device that consists of a PC, a telephone that uses Voice over Internet Protocol technology, a color TV, and a video ...
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NEC Extends Quantum Cryptography Range and Speed
Slated for commercial release in the second half of 2005 is a quantum cryptography system from NEC capable of generating keys at 100 Kbps and transmitting them to destinations as far away as 40 kilometers along commercial fiber-optic lines. Earlier NEC "round-trip" quantum ...
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Tim Berners-Lee, Director, W3C
In an interview shortly following his keynote address at the SpeechTek Conference, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) director Tim Berners-Lee argues that software providers ought to take a greater responsibility for security vulnerabilities in their products, and is puzzled that the ...
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Competing for DVD Supremacy
Sony, Panasonic, and other major consumer electronics companies are in a pitched battle with computer firms Toshiba and NEC over the next-generation videodisc format. The Sony-led group supports an entirely new Blu-ray technology that would hold six times more data than current DVDs and would ...
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Hollywood: It's Time to Get Creative, Use the Net
Dan Gillmor laments the apparent subordination of services that offer Internet content downloaded and replayed on television--TiVo, for instance--to the entertainment cartels, which support what he determines to be an outmoded, myopic business model. This business model is based on ...
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Study: IT Job Market Continues to Be Stagnant
A new study conducted by the Center for Urban Economics Development at the University of Illinois in Chicago reveals that the number of information technology jobs has fallen from 2.1 million in March 2001 to 1.7 million in March 2004, and that approximately half of the 403,300 lost jobs came after ...
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Smog-Sniffing Sensors
As part of the Research Councils U.K.'s E-Science program to promote new kinds of research made possible by wireless technology, the Internet, and distributed computing, several British universities are participating in the Urban Pollution Project, an effort to map out pollution over a wide ...
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Technology Can Be the Multiplier
The dividing line between poverty and affluence can be eroded by the proper application of technology, according to executive coordinator of the United Nations Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) Task Force Sarbuland Khan, whose group is tasked with helping to spur economic growth in ...
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Uncle Sam's Semantic Web
The federal government is optimistic about the Semantic Web, but the 2004 Semantic Technologies for e-Government Conference shows that the concept still has a lot to prove. Much of the conference featured introductions and tutorials, and there were only a handful of actual Semantic Web ...
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'Dirty Dozen' Tips From Former Cybersecurity Czar
Richard A. Clarke, the former cybersecurity advisor to President Bush, claims hackers and phishers are keeping e-commerce and e-government from reaching their full potential. Clarke says security worries are the primary factor thwarting the widespread take-up of Internet banking and ...
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Citizen-Scientists
The U.S. Defense Department is attempting to avoid a projected shortage of domestic scientists and engineers through student outreach programs such as Starbase, the Army's e-cybermission initiative, and Materials World Modules. Starbase, which targets students in kindergarten through 12th ...
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Wearable Aid for the Visually Impaired
Guide dogs, canes, and other traditional navigational aids for visually impaired people cannot prevent collisions with certain obstacles, but a team of University of Washington students led by Human Interface Technology Lab assistant director Eric Seibel has invented a cheap wearable device ...
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The New Face of Hollywood
Cutting-edge computer graphics technology tends to rapidly migrate to the film industry, as evidenced by the visual effects houses employing state-of-the art face rendering software to produce more photorealistic virtual characters. Such applications not only help sell the artifice to ...
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