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Right to Vote vs. Right to Secrecy
Experts such as former ACM President and National Committee for Voting Integrity member Barbara Simons warn that a new email voting system the state of Missouri plans to implement for soldiers stationed overseas is vulnerable to tampering because the ballots ...
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XML: Too Much of a Good Thing?
In the six years since the main XML specification was created, hundreds of derivative schemas and dialects have emerged to serve interests ranging from poultry farming to cave exploration. Although some worry that the proliferation of XML formats could lead to compatibility problems, XML ...
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Online Support to Advance Design for All
IST's three-year Design for All (DfA) project promotes universally accessible products and services to ensure that Europe's disabled and elderly population is not left out of the information society. DfA was organized to aid the European Design for All e-Accessibility Network ...
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Automatic Icons Organize Files
A joint project between MIT, the University of Southern California, and ESC Entertainment has yielded VisualID, a system that automatically produces icons for specific computer files and tweaks them to generate icons representing related files. The degree of modification is dictated by how ...
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EU Boost to Open Source Software
Sept. 10 marks the official launch of Coordination Action for Libre Software (CALIBRE), a project funded by the European Union that aims to improve the deployment of open-source software development projects and allow open source to more deeply penetrate the mainstream so that Europe ...
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Purdue, Olympus Corp. Creating Technology for Sensor Networks
Enhancing security and helping elderly and impaired people is the goal underlying a three-year joint venture between Purdue University and Olympus to develop technologies for environmental monitoring via wirelessly networked sensors and ubiquitous cameras. The sensors will be enabled for ...
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E.U.-Backed Group Researches Digital Home
The Amigo research project sponsored by the European Union plans to make devices from multiple vendors interoperable for home networking through the development of open-source middleware. "We aim to use as many of the existing standards and specifications as possible," noted Koninklijke ...
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Computer Scientists at UH Developing 'Nurturing' Computers
The National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems has awarded University of Houston computer science professor Ioannis Pavlidis a $640,169 research grant based on his breakthrough work with the Automatic Thermal Monitoring System, which non-tactilely monitors ...
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So Your Roomba Vacuums...Does It Also Take Pictures?
A growing community of electronics and computer enthusiasts are earning the moniker "hardware hackers" because they like to tinker with existing commercial technologies, expanding or completely changing their functionality. Advocates claim their resurging interest in modifying ...
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UW Computer Scientists Tout Achievements and Explain Industry Shortcomings
University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) computer science and electrical engineering professors said the IT field is driven by academic research into computing techniques, network architecture, and computer security. The UW computer science department was one of the first, having been ...
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Some in Tech Industry Critical of Bush Administration's Cybersecurity Efforts
The Bush administration has not made cybersecurity as critical an issue as many in the technology industry have advocated, and the issue is unlikely to receive significant focus again until after the November election, according to sources. This includes the provision to create a Homeland ...
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Every Move You Make Could Be Stored on a PLR
A personal life recorder (PLR) is a portable device that records everything a person sees and hears via a camera and microphone, while using miniaturized storage technology that requires virtually no power and boasts massive capacity. Stuart Parkin with IBM's Almaden facility believes ...
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Big Tech on Campus
More and more universities are offering students and faculty campus-wide wireless Internet connectivity, distance learning, and other high-tech products and services, but educators note that such tools should be implemented mainly for educational purposes, and caution that some ...
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The Human Factor Trumps IT in the War on Terror
Information technology can be used as an intelligence gathering and analysis tool in the war on terrorism, but the organization of the intelligence community will need to change to make the data as effective as possible, according to industry experts. The place of IT in the war on ...
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Behind in Broadband
The number of broadband connections in the United States continues to rise, but the nation is falling behind in the broadband race in terms of share of population with broadband and speed of connections. Among nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, the United States was ...
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Agents of Change
Computer experts predict autonomous software agents will revolutionize the operation of systems such as financial markets, supply chains, and computer networks. NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite has been testing autonomous agents for the agency over the past year, using the software to keep watch ...
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Robots Creep Into Biomed Landscape
The interface of robotics and bioengineering will spur major advances in the field of nanomedicine, according to experts at a recent biomedical robotics workshop sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Potential technologies discussed at the workshop include ...
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The Democratization of Supercomputing
Accessing the supercomputing power needed to meet major scientific challenges such as protein folding is easier than ever thanks to advances in supercomputer speed and capacity concurrent with falling prices. Developments fueling this trend over the last several years include the ...
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My Oh MIMO
New multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) wireless technology promises to revolutionize the enterprise by making WLANs and other wireless implementations much more powerful and reliable. MIMO systems benefit from the spatial dimension in wireless transmission, such as slightly delayed ...
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