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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 473
Date: March 24, 2003
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Top Stories for Monday, March 24, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Warfare Enters the Digital Age"
"IT Burnout at Critical Level"
"War Images Give New Purpose to High-Speed Web"
"Military's Use of GPS, A Civilian Mainstay, Is at Core of Its Might"
"Rebuilding Plans for Postwar Iraq Depend on IT"
"Making Senders Pay the Price for Spam"
"On the Backs of Ants"
"U.S. Offers Better Prospects for European PhDs"
"Spider Silk Delivers Finest Optical Fibres"
"Dell Sounds the Death Knell for the Venerable Floppy Disk"
"Why We Should Lose the Back Button"
"Memories as Heirlooms Logged Into a Database"
"Study Suggests Spam-Stopping Tricks"
"The Worldwide Code Rebellion"
"Open Secret"
"Knowledge Managing"
"Taming Traffic"
"The Meaning of Computers and Chess"
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"Warfare Enters the Digital Age"
The U.S. military is vastly changed from the force it was in
1991, when commanders had comparatively little visibility into
the battlefield and ability to coordinate strikes on small,
moving targets. Today, however, the armed forces tout a style of ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0324m.html#item1
"IT Burnout at Critical Level"
Employee burnout stemming from disenchantment, overwork, and the
like, is on the rise in the IT sector, according to analysts. A
Meta Group report authored by Maria Schafer finds that most
surveyed IT managers regard burnout as a major issue, enough so ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0324m.html#item2
"War Images Give New Purpose to High-Speed Web"
Broadband Internet usage is getting a big boost from war
coverage, just as the CNN cable news network did during the first
Persian Gulf war in 1991. Online news organizations such as
Yahoo!, AOL, CNN.com, ABCNews.com, and RealNetworks have ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0324m.html#item3
"Military's Use of GPS, A Civilian Mainstay, Is at Core of Its Might"
The Global Positioning System (GPS), a network of 27 satellites
often dedicated to civilian applications such as location
services, is also a military tool, and a critical component of
the U.S.-led war against Iraq. Thanks to GPS, bombs can hit ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0324m.html#item4
"Rebuilding Plans for Postwar Iraq Depend on IT"
Assuming that the war against Iraq has a successful outcome and
Saddam Hussein's regime is toppled, reconstruction of the
country's infrastructure will follow a plan currently under
development by the Pentagon, the State Department, and the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0324m.html#item5
"Making Senders Pay the Price for Spam"
Scott Fahlman of IBM's Watson Research Center has come up with a
spam solution that he believes will be more effective than
current anti-spam technology and legislative efforts: Making
spammers pay for the right to send unsolicited commercial email. ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0324m.html#item6
"On the Backs of Ants"
Taking a cue from communal organisms such as ants, bacteria, and
slime molds, researchers at Germany's Humboldt University have
developed a system in which electronic agents can assemble
themselves into networks without a centralized communications ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0324m.html#item7
"U.S. Offers Better Prospects for European PhDs"
More and more European science and technology (S&T) graduates are
choosing to live and work in the United States, mainly due to
attractive career and hiring prospects, says EU commissioner of
research Philippe Busquin. The data, from a new European ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0324m.html#item8
"Spider Silk Delivers Finest Optical Fibres"
A team of engineers at the University of California at Riverside
are using spider silk to make finer optical fibers that could be
used to carry light in nanoscale optical circuits. The fibers
are made by first coating the thread with tetraethyl ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0324m.html#item9
"Dell Sounds the Death Knell for the Venerable Floppy Disk"
Dell Computer's announcement last month that it would exclude
3.5-inch floppy disk drives as a standard feature on its desktop
PCs signaled the end of the line for the technology, analysts
say. Eliminating floppy drives can cut approximately $10 to $15 ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0324m.html#item10
"Why We Should Lose the Back Button"
Zanzara owner Richard Mander counsels vendors and user groups on
user interface design. He says Web designers should stop being
dependent on the Web browser's back button and instead
incorporate more obvious navigation links and indicators on Web ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0324m.html#item11
"Memories as Heirlooms Logged Into a Database"
Researchers at Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center are
developing software that would allow users to search out
information on everyday events, keepsakes, and other personal
details archived in a single database, and project originator ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0324m.html#item12
"Study Suggests Spam-Stopping Tricks"
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) concluded in a
recent study that masking or hiding email addresses is the most
effective tactic for avoiding the deluge of junk email, or spam,
that accounts for up to 50 percent of all messages in a given ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0324m.html#item13
"The Worldwide Code Rebellion"
Open-source software has gone from a short-term phenomenon to a
worldwide movement as an increasing number of governments turn to
the technology. Governments in Europe, Singapore, Taiwan, and
China are among those that are encouraging IT managers to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0324m.html#item14
"Open Secret"
Carbon nanotubes' anticipated revolution has been much quieter
than advertised by the hype: They are incorporated in
automobiles as conductive fuel lines insulated against sparking,
as well as protective coating that reduces pollution and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0324m.html#item15
"Knowledge Managing"
The economic downturn has cleared a path for the rethinking of
knowledge management (KM) and how it can be incorporated into the
enterprise. Now companies face the daunting challenge of
investing in KM and reorganizing their workflow and processes in ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0324m.html#item16
"Taming Traffic"
Researchers at the University of Singapore are working on a
computerized traffic management system to facilitate efficient
traffic flow in the event of a car accident or traffic jam. The
system uses enhanced algorithms and data-mining technology to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0324m.html#item17
"The Meaning of Computers and Chess"
The last three major human vs. computer chess matches ended in a
draw, thus demonstrating the continued refinement of software and
human players' inability to modify their strategies against such
programs; it also signifies that either computer intelligence is ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0324m.html#item18
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