A Conversation With Donald Peterson
Let a Thousand Ideas Flower: China Is a New Hotbed of Research
The world's multinational companies are setting up as many as 200 new research laboratories in China each year, according to that country's Ministry of Commerce. China offers a huge reservoir of skilled and inexpensive researchers and proximity to what is the largest and fastest ...
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Pentagon Revives Memory Project
Enabling soldiers on patrol to keep a diary of their activities through cameras, global positioning system locators, and audio recorders for analysis by commanders to better understand battlefield tactics is the goal of the Advanced Soldier Sensor Information System and Technology (ASSIST) ...
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Linux Backers to Support Standard
In a move characterized as vital in open-source Linux software's push to compete against Microsoft, the Free Standards Group today is expected to announce that major Linux backers--as well as vendors of Linux-based hardware, software, and services--have agreed to support Linux Standard ...
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Mainstream Companies Seek Charming Programmers
Seventy-nine percent of IT workers hired from 2003 to 2004 were recruited by non-IT companies, according to the Information Technology Association of America's (ITAA) Annual Workforce Development Survey, which also found that the overall size of the IT workforce increased from about 10.3 million in ...
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Nanotechnology-Based Data Storage on Rise
Analysts are predicting a huge market for magnetic RAM (MRAM) and other exotic technologies that could yield nonvolatile, low-power, and low-cost nanostorage devices with dramatically larger memory and faster response times than current technologies. The most commonplace nanostorage ...
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Microcontrollers Go Generic
Commercial microcontrollers, also called computers-on-a-chip, suffer from low production volumes and high design and assembly costs because, while they often boast a generic central processing unit (CPU), their CPU peripherals are customized. A possible solution to this problem is to ...
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Speech Code From I.B.M. to Become Open Source
IBM today will announce the donation of some of its proprietary speech-recognition software to the open-source Apache Software Foundation and Eclipse Foundation in an effort to ratchet up speech application development and outflank Microsoft and other competitors in a market that ...
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Tech Industry Presents Less-Than-Unified Defense
Microsoft, ISPs, and anti-virus firms need to stop relying on users to secure their computers and instead come up with uniform strategies to implement default protections, experts say. Nassau-based ISP Cable Bahamas has seen a dramatic decrease in the amount of virus infections for its ...
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Self-Sustaining Killer Robot Creates a Stink
Self-powered robots are a critical step toward fully autonomous machines, and robotics experts at the University of the West of England (UWE) are working to tackle this problem with EcoBot II, a device designed to capture and digest flies using a series of sewage-filled microbial fuel cells ...
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Searching for Substance: The Road to Safe Software
Nigel McFarlane writes that commercial software providers offer no guarantee of a software's quality--its reliability, security, usability, etc.--to consumers, but he sees a ray of hope in open-source software development practices. He notes in his study of the closed commercial ...
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Malware Writers Using Open-Source Tactics
Malware writers have adopted open-source software development techniques to help them create zombie networks of remotely controlled PCs, which are estimated to generate between 25 percent and 30 percent of all spam. There's a community of worm builders creating, almost in an open-source ...
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Better Safe: Steven Cooper, CIO, Dept. of Homeland Security
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) CIO Steven Cooper, who has the formidable responsibility of meshing the department's 190,000 federal employees and 22 member agencies, is convinced that the information infrastructure of the United States is even more threatened than it was ...
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Presence Applications Poised for Takeoff
Presence awareness is the next killer application, and will see industry-wide adoption after standards gaps are closed, management tools are developed, and user acceptance increases. Most businesses currently use presence in instant messaging, but experts say it has a vast range of ...
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Clean Machine
Electronics and electric motors will transform the automotive industry over the next 10 years. Among the changes will be a more robust electrical system than the current 12-volt standard, the use of telematic systems, increased electronic engine controls, and drive-by-wire systems that ...
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Staying Power
A projected shortage of IT professionals spurred by the impending retirement of baby-boomer employees is a clear reason why companies should make a stronger effort to entice skilled veteran workers to stay on, according to experts. Reinforcing this conclusion is research from the ...
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Next Stretch for Plastic Electronics
Semiconducting plastics could usher in a new age of pervasive computing by helping electronic paper, chemical sensors, wearable computers, flexible displays, low-end, high-volume data storage, and other technologies move out of the laboratory and into consumer and household markets. Organic ...
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Enabling Enterprise Wi-Fi
Despite expectations of ubiquitous wireless LAN (WLAN) deployments in the corporate sector, enterprise adoption of Wi-Fi has been slow because of concerns related to security, security complexity, scalability, and return-on-investment. However, new products, services, and standards are ...
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A Conversation With Donald Peterson
Avaya Chairman Donald Peterson, in an interview with Lucy Sanders, executive in residence at the University of Colorado's ATLAS (Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society) Institute, envisions the meshing of voice and data communications with business applications, which will result in ...
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