VoIP: What Is It Good For?
Next Big Thing: The Web as Your Servant
The next big advance in the Internet, which some experts are calling the world network or Internet 2.0, is a far more interconnected communications network using wired and wireless networks, satellites, and new hardware and software to fundamentally change the way people interact with information. ...
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Genome Model Applied to Software
Open-source developers are looking to genomics research in an effort to reverse-engineer the secrets of private networking software, as explained by security analyst Marshall Beddoe at the recent ToorCon security and hacker conference in San Diego. He described his "Protocol Informatics" ...
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Two Leaders in Their Fields Honored With Anita Borg Awards
The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology will honor Dr. Fran Allen and Karen Banks with the first Anita Borg Awards for Technical Leadership and Social Impact, respectively, at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference Awards Banquet on Oct. 7. Allen--the first woman ...
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Slash of Reality: Computer Graphics Lab Creates the Visual and the Visceral
Montreal is expanding as a center of academic and commercial activity in the area of computer graphics, a field that has exploded in recent years thanks to the increasing popularity and profitability of video games and computer-animated films. Over 700 people in Montreal are employed by video ...
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E-Cyclers Embrace Data Destruction
Computer recyclers are taking measures to verifiably destroy data as well as hardware in order to comply with federal regulations such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which prohibit the public exposure of confidential data ...
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Presidential Candidates Spend Little Time on Tech Issues
Dan Gillmor comments that despite the importance of technology issues such as communications policy and intellectual property, presidential candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry have remained mostly mute on the subject. Although Bush has pledged to extend broadband and eliminate bureaucratic ...
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The Technologist Who Has Michael Powell's Ear
FCC policy development chief Robert Pepper says the abundance of communications technologies could actually lead to a dramatic change in the role of his organization, where the government is less involved in controlling technology than in the past. Currently, however, the FCC is ...
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Microchip Imperfections Could Cut Cloning
MIT electronics engineer Srini Devadas has designed software that can prevent microchip cloning by generating and verifying a unique chip ID code using imperfections that are singular to each chip. The metal tracks that link a chip's transistors boast a unique thickness produced by pressure and ...
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Data Management's Misconceptions
Database expert Fabian Pascal views himself as a contrarian who educates administrators and application developers on the myths and realities of database technology. He says Extensible Markup Language (XML), for example, is not a good technology for data management and is currently ...
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Government Has a Vital Role in IT
IT experts in the United Kingdom said the government's role in the IT sector involves providing access, ensuring proper education, exemplifying IT use, guiding standards, and funding sciences. Experts discussed the variety of responsibilities the government has in a round-table discussion ...
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Akamai Strives for a Safer, Speedier Net
Akamai Technologies co-founder Tom Leighton is very worried about the DNS attack that took place on June 15, significantly slowing traffic for prominent Akamai customers such as Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft. "That was a very sophisticated attack; the nature of it was novel," he says, ...
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Giving Computers the Jitters Helps Explain Human Behavior
Penn State researchers recently presented a paper at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society in New Orleans that details the development of a computer program that simulates how people respond to a task they view as threatening and makes them worry before ...
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App Developers Need to Redouble Security Efforts
The recent Gartner Application Development Summit included new statistics underscoring the need for development and quality assurance teams to increase their security efforts. Gartner research director Theresa Lanowitz says the problems of IT network and physical security have been ...
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Looking for Patterns
The father of object-oriented programming believes teamwork and collaboration, rather than working with an individual tool, will spur software development in the years to come. Grady Booch, chief scientist of IBM's Rational Software unit, says developers will produce "algorithmic ...
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Internet-Era Avionics
Driving the incorporation of information technology into commercial flight deck design is airline customers' desire for cheaper equipment with less wiring, power requirements, size, and weight. Honeywell's Randy Robinson notes that a transition to wireless flight control is being considered by ...
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Keeping Out the Wrong People
The welter of new visa rules and regulations that have sprung up in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has ensnared tens of thousands of foreigners seeking employment in the United States and led to sizable immigration declines. The Homeland Security Department's annual ...
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Reality Mining: Browsing Reality With Sensor Networks
Communications advances and the falling cost of networked sensor technology is driving the development of a global sensor network that can facilitate
reality mining," a concept in which organizations view real-time data gathered by sensor streams to glean usable insights not just about their ...
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VoIP: What Is It Good For?
Voice over IP (VoIP) is setting the foundation for a host of new multimedia applications, driven by the technology's promise to cut costs and boost revenues for network and service providers. VoIP offers more flexibility as a communication services platform than traditional telephony in a ...
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