Internet Measurement
"Panel: Kerry Would Take New Approach to Tech Issues"
Policy analysts discussed the different approaches to technology espoused by President Bush and Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry (D.-Mass.), and what those philosophies would mean for broadband adoption, cybersecurity, and IT jobs. Kerry would get government more involved, offering tax breaks ...
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"Online Extra: Industry and Academia Weigh In (Extended)"
The goal of the Council on Competitiveness' National Innovation Initiative is to outline an action plan to maintain the United States' vanguard position as an innovator in the global economy. Georgia Institute of Technology President G. Wayne Clough and IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano, who ...
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"Experts Envision Taillights That Talk"
Trapped people calling for help by bringing their cell phones near a ceiling light to relay their location to emergency workers and cars exchanging information about road conditions via their headlights and taillights are just some of the applications envisioned by the Visible ...
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"Peer-to-Peer Comes Clean"
Simson Garfinkel envisions many positive applications for peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, despite the bad rap it has received for underpinning notorious file-sharing networks such as Morpheus and Kazaa. Emerging P2P systems of interest include Penn State University's LionShare, a series of ...
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"Connecting Paper and Online Worlds by Cellphone Camera"
Researchers at an Intel-funded lab at England's Cambridge University and elsewhere aim to turn camera-equipped cell phones into multifunctional handhelds that gather information in public settings, relieving users from the burden of working with impersonal, sometimes faulty public kiosks. The ...
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"Page Layout Drives Web Search"
Deng Cai of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign notes that search engines could become more accurate if they performed block-level rather than page-level analysis of the Web. This technique would eliminate errors resulting from following two assumptions that often prove false: ...
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"Adaptive Refinement Promises Faster Rendering on Graphics Chips"
University of California, San Diego computer scientists have found a way to inexpensively speed up the rendering of realistic, computer-generated scenes by several orders of magnitude by applying adaptive refinement to graphics processing units (GPUs) for the first time. Jacobs School of ...
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"Data Visualization: Virtual Geographic Environments Combining AES and GIS"
Virtual geographic environments (VGEs) effectively combine the data of geographic information systems (GIS) and architecture/engineering/construction (AES) fields. By presenting data in a 3D format with audio, haptic, and other multisensory augmentation, VGEs ...
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"RFID: Getting From Mandates to a Wireless Internet of Artifacts"
Supplier mandates from Wal-Mart, the Department of Defense, and others have made radio frequency identification (RFID) technology a priority project for many companies, but the tight timetable for deployment has led many vendor firms to adopt a "slap-and-ship" model that does not bring any ...
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"Access to All Europe's Websites"
A trio of European projects have made important contributions to the adoption of the international Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines by public Web sites. Under the auspices of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the WAI effort calls for sites to be universally accessible from any ...
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"Where's the Simplicity in Web Services?"
A small group of programmers says Web services specifications are growing out of control and overcomplicating development, but other experts note that the added overhead is worthwhile, considering the interoperability challenges many companies face. Most recently, Sun Microsystems Web ...
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"Device Translates Spoken Japanese and English"
A handheld device that facilitates Japanese-to-English and English-to-Japanese translation of spoken language is expected to make its Japanese debut in the coming months. The NEC gadget uses a speech recognition engine to identify spoken English or Japanese and convert it ...
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"Click to Touch"
Nicola Davison is commercializing Click 2 Touch, a software program developed at Nottingham Trent University that allows people to virtually examine the quality of various fabrics. She believes such a tool will help dramatically reduce the volume of returned items purchased online, and ...
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"The Need to Keep Congress Fully Informed"
ICANN is not living up to the requirements of its MOU with the U.S. Department of Commerce, according to one Internet governance expert. ICANN's MOU agreement with the Commerce Department requires that the Internet body reach certain goals by specific dates; among the requirements ...
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"Security Flaws in Popular Chess Web Site Found by University of Colorado Team"
University of Colorado at Boulder students hacked the 30,000-plus-member Internet Chess Club as part of research funded by the National Science Foundation. With guidance from University of Colorado at Boulder computer security researcher John Black, two students reverse-engineered the service ...
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"Center for the Digital Future Identifies the 10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet's First Decade of Public Use"
The USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future recognizes 10 key trends demonstrating the Internet's impact on America during its first 10 years of public use. The report for Year Four of the Digital Future Project indicates that both Internet access and the number of hours spent ...
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"Mission: Critical"
An Information Security survey of professionals in the financial, energy, transportation, telecom, and government sectors highlights the vulnerability of the U.S. critical infrastructure to online attack: Fifty-one percent of financial services professionals say their industry is ...
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"The Time Is Now"
More timely responses to events as varied as market fluctuations, disease outbreaks, environmental changes, natural catastrophes, and security threats can be effected through the proper incorporation of spatial and temporal change information into models. A study sponsored by the National ...
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"Internet Measurement"
Key to sustaining the health of the Internet is network measurement, the process of understanding its growth mechanisms and the factors that can inhibit this growth on both a global and local level, write Nevil Brownlee of the University of Auckland and kc claffy of the Cooperative Association
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