The Reincarnation of Virtual Machines
Exceeding Expectations, ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Brings 27,825 to Los Angeles for the 31st Annual International Conference & Exhibition
Dena Slothower from Stanford University declared that this year's ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 conference, which hosted 27,825 attendees and 229 exhibiting companies, surpassed expectations and boasted a 14 percent growth in attendance over 2003 as well as a nearly 5 ...
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Students Saying No to Computer Science
Declining numbers of university computer science enrollments are generating concern that America's technology leadership could be endangered. New fall undergraduate majors in MIT's electrical engineering and computer science department have plummeted from about 385 in 2001 to less than 200 this ...
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Aust Comms Body Looks at Possible Futures
The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) is preparing a futures report for the national communications industry that depicts five scenarios set in the year 2020. ACA senior policy advisor Belinda Lester presented the preliminary findings to the ACA Self-Regulation Summit in Sydney, which she ...
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When Machines Breed
Applying principles of biological evolution to the creation of self-designing machines lies at the core of evolvable hardware, an emergent field whose development stems from advances in computational power and the advent of field programmable gate arrays and other reconfigurable devices. ...
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New Middleware Platform for Roaming Mobile Users
European researchers have developed communications middleware that allows the integration and ad hoc construction of various mobile services, regardless of the network or hardware platform. The NOMAD project funded by the Information Society Technologies program is due for completion in ...
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Cell Phone Melds Video and Data
Bauhaus University researchers are trying to bring augmented reality technology to the mainstream with a system for mobile phones that interpolates computer-generated 3D models into real-time video on the phone's screen while calibrating the models with physical markers in the ...
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Race to Link Wi-Fi, Cellphones Picks Up Speed
Handsets that integrate cellular and Wi-Fi technology are under development, most notably in Japan, where NTT DoCoMo and Fujitsu are planning to roll out products that bundle the convenience of cellular access with the low cost and high speeds of Wi-Fi. DoCoMo's Hitoshi Yasuda ...
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Industry Coalition Floats Proposal for 802.11n
The World Wide Spectrum Efficiency (WWiSE) consortium introduced a proposal for an 802.11n standard Thursday, on the heels of Agere Systems' July disclosure of its own 802.11n proposal. The IEEE 802.11n working group requires that 802.11n throughput surpass 100 Mbps, and the industry expects ...
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Computers to Restore U.S. Glory?
The U.S. supercomputing industry had become moribund by the time the Earth Simulator from NEC in Japan captured the crown as the world's fastest machine, but Cray, IBM, and Sun Microsystems are competing for a government contract to create a supercomputer that overtakes the Earth Simulator, ...
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Carnegie Mellon Researchers to Demonstrate Autonomous Robot That Will Soon Be Sent to Seek Life in Chile's Atacama Desert
Zoe, an autonomous, solar-powered rover programmed to look for life in hostile environments, will be demonstrated by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) robotics and life sciences researchers on Aug. 12 prior to its deployment in Chile's arid Atacama Desert, where it will seek out and ...
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Unprecedented Security Network for Olympics
Security at the Olympic Games in Greece this month will include street surveillance cameras, paired with sophisticated software, that will act as digital security guards collecting intelligence. The $312 million system was developed by a consortium led by Science Applications International and ...
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The Patent Slowdown
Software patent applications continue to take longer to process while the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office works on solutions that would only alleviate pressure slowly over the next few years. Patent industry experts warn that the increasingly lengthy patent process in the United States ...
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Amid the Cacophony, a Quiet Conversation
Parham Aarabi of the University of Toronto has developed a technology for masking background noise on cell phone calls so that conversations are clear. The researcher claims his two-microphone system facilitated gains of approximately 30 percent in speech recognition over several other ...
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Robotic Soccer Moms Also Do Windows (CE)
The goal of the annual RoboCup competition is to develop autonomous robot soccer teams that can win a tournament, and Cornell University decided this year to embed more intelligence in its robots with the help of an Innovation in Excellence award from Microsoft Research. The additional ...
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BREW vs. Java: Neither Good Enough
A Zelos Group study published in June draws comparisons between Sun Microsystems' Java programming language and Qualcomm's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW), and finds both platforms wanting. Zelos senior analyst and study author Seamus McAteer concludes that BREW's lack ...
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The Feds Are Watching. Are You Ready?
Companies are fraught with confusion over the myriad federal regulations they must comply with, and this has spurred business and IT to develop extensible compliance frameworks that can handle any number of regulatory mandates and facilitate reusability that lowers implementation costs and ...
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How Can We Ensure a Strong IT Labor Pool?
IEEE R&D Policy Committee Chairman and Rochester Institute of Technology professor Ronil Hira and Campus IT Solutions CEO Bob Denis offer differing strategies on how to strengthen the U.S. IT workforce: Hira calls for reforms to guest-worker visa programs, while Denis thinks close ...
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3D Searching Starts to Take Shape
Conventional Web-searching applications are ill-equipped to accurately store, index, and search files of three-dimensional objects because they can usually only focus on textual components, but university researchers are working on search engines that can sift through databases of 3D objects ...
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The Reincarnation of Virtual Machines
In the 1960s sense of the term, a virtual machine is a software abstraction that resembles a computer system's hardware, whereas the current definition covers a diverse array of abstractions that are all connected by their use of software written to run on the virtual machine. Virtual machines are ...
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