Wireless Grids
Stopping Spam at the Source
Driving up the costs of spamming is the goal of new antispam technology standards reviewed this month by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Spammers' profitability depends on them sending the most spam they can in the shortest amount of time for the least amount of money and ...
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Lost Votes in N.M. a Cautionary Tale
A snafu during the 2000 presidential election in which 678 votes cast on computerized voting machines in Rio Arriba County, N.M., were lost illustrates that even the best e-voting systems cannot prevent miscounts due to programming errors caused by inexperienced local election staff. ...
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Computers Can Argue, Researcher Claims
University of Southampton computer science professor Nick Jennings contends that computers are capable of arguing, as well as assessing the most successful conflict resolution strategy. The researcher finds that conflict is unavoidable in systems with multiple computer agents, where ...
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Legal Victory for File Sharing
In a major defeat for the entertainment industry, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Aug. 19 that the companies that distribute Grokster and Morpheus file-sharing software did not violate copyright law, even if their customers did. This decision came in a ...
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Smart Tiles Add Reality to Virtual Worlds
Japanese researchers at the University of Tsukuba and ATR Media Information Research Labs have developed CirculaFloor, a prototype intelligent floor tile system that enables people to travel within virtual environments while staying in one place. Current virtual reality systems are less realistic ...
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Building Peer-to-Peer Applications
The Information Society Technologies program-funded P2P Architect project offers an open source architectural platform for peer-to-peer (P2P) application development. Project coordinator Simela Topouzidou explains that the platform foregoes a client-server model in favor of a ...
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Diverse Sciences Propel Bioinformatics
Whereas two years ago the Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB) Conference was considered a forum for experts in biology and computer science, this year the event has expanded to include chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, and medicine. In a keynote speech at this year's ...
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Where Computers Go to Die
California's new e-waste legislation will require electronics buyers to pay $6 to $10 upfront for recycling costs when they purchase a new computer monitor, flat panel display, or television, a solution that has left electronics recycling advocates only partially satisfied. Critics of the ...
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OSDL Introduces Improved Linux Kernel Development
The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) consortium announced the release of an upgraded version of the Scalable Test Platform (STP) used for Linux kernel development on Aug. 19. OSDL's mission is to boost the adoption of Linux worldwide. Version 3 of the STP boasts new features to enhance ...
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Living Well
Computer makers and research groups are working to create tomorrow's digital home environments, tying together many of the technologies and components that are already available today. The Swiss government's FutureLife project is working out possible kinks and using a real-life ...
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DNA Technique Protects Against 'Evil' Emails
The bioinformatics research group at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center has adapted a algorithm originally developed to analyze DNA to weed out spam emails. The Teiresias algorithm was designed to look for recurring patterns in different DNA and amino acid sequences indicative of important ...
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The Outback, Soccer Robots, & Future Engineers
About 175 middle and high school teachers from around the world have gathered in Austin, Texas, for NIWeek, dedicated to ROBOLAB, a robot development kit combing LEGO pieces and a version of NI's LabVIEW graphics development software that since being introduced 14 years ago has spread ...
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Face Synthesis Technology Makes Waves
XID Technologies CTO Dr. Roberto Mariani has been nominated for this year's World Technology Awards (WTA) for his development of an adaptive face recognition technology that uses face synthesis. Face synthesis is a process in which numerical values are applied to specific points on a face ...
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Internationalizing the Web
The name "World Wide Web" implies that the global network is international at its core, but internationalization to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is about making content more in line with the cultural and linguistic characteristics of its various users. An internationalized Web would ...
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PCAST Will Advise Bush on Nanotech
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) will serve as the presidential advisory panel on nanotechnology-related issues, as stipulated in the nanotechnology authorization bill that President Bush signed into law last December. The law calls for the creation of a ...
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Show Us Your ID
Growth in multi-party, Web-based applications involves identifying users, and the security assertion markup language (SAML) can help. Counties began using imaging technology to archive land documents in the mid 1990s, but title and mortgage companies still deliver them in paper form since there ...
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Don't Just Break Software. Make Software.
Harsh criticism has been leveled against using storytest-driven development (STDD) for creating software systems, despite testimony from advocates that it yields benefits for all parties involved: Industrial Logic XP coach Somik Raha explains that STDD boosts the confidence of customers, prevents ...
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Wireless Grids
Wireless grids link mobile, nomadic, and fixed wireless devices such as sensors and mobile phones with wired grids and each other, and these devices can deliver new resources, locations of use, and institutional ownership and control patterns for grid computing via ad hoc distributed ...
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