IT Jobs Show Promise for Workers with Disabilities
Justices Agree to Hear Case on File Sharing
The Supreme Court has agreed to examine the case of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios v. Grokster, and its ruling could determine whether online file-sharing services are complicit in acts of copyright infringement. Four years ago, the entertainment industry filed a lawsuit that ...
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Cyber-Security Office Calls for More Clout
The Cyber-Security Industry Alliance (CSIA) recently issued recommendations calling for the reorganization of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Directorate of Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection, with particular emphasis on elevating the rank of the National ...
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Mind Over Matter: Brain Waves Guide a Cursor's Path
Scientists at the New York State health department's Wadsworth Center have developed a noninvasive brain-computer interface that can translate mental impulses into cursor movements. Lead researcher Jonathan Wolpaw's wearable "thinking cap" is studded with sensors that record electroencephalogram ...
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The Image Masters
Hebrew University computer scientists have developed a number of technologies that advance computer displays and imaging, such as an algorithm that automatically colorizes black-and-white movies with only cursory guidance, or 3D photography made using just a single digital ...
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The Need for Transparent, Accountable, and Verifiable U.S. Elections
The United States should set standards for federal elections, including paper records for all votes, public verification of computerized vote counts, and rules managing the use of electronic voting machines, writes California Voter Foundation President Kim Alexander. The recent ...
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Computer Modeling Lets Scientists Make Virtual Re-creations of Ancient People, Things
Ancient objects, people, and locations are being virtually reconstructed through computer modeling, and these reconstructions are seen as a complement to museum exhibits as well as an aid to anthropological and archeological research. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center ...
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No End to His Imagination
The groundwork for the computing era was laid down by British mathematician, cryptographer, and logician Alan Turing, who formulated the basic theories behind what was to become the electronic computer. In 1936, Turing envisioned a device capable of solving any problem expressed as a ...
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Tweaks to High-Tech Visas Revive NSF Scholarships
The new omnibus spending bill for 2005 includes a provision that reforms the process for allowing foreign workers to hold high-tech jobs, and revives the National Science Foundation's Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarships (CSEMS) program. The NSF introduced the CSEMS ...
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Robotic Pods Take on Car Design
Toyota will spotlight prototype "personal mobility devices" as well as other assistive robotic machines and concept vehicles at the Expo 2005 next March. The prototypes exemplify the state of the art in wearable exoskeleton technology: The four-wheeled "i-unit" vehicle, which is ...
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Innovative Take-Off System Could Lead to Safer, Cleaner Air Travel
Computer scientists at the University of Nottingham are developing a system that uses sophisticated computer models to assist runway controllers with the scheduling of aircraft for takeoff. Runway controllers primarily rely on their own observation and mental calculations in performing their jobs. ...
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Intelligence Platform at AI Conference
Next week will mark the launch of the NeuroComputing Environment for Evolving Intelligence (NeuCom2004) software platform for commercial and educational use at the Neurocomputing and Evolving Intelligence conference. NeuCom is the brainchild of the Auckland University of Technology's ...
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Adapt or Die
Speakers at the Enterprise Architecture: Blueprinting the Future conference, which was held in Johannesburg in November, sounded a theme of "adapt or die." Meta Group's Willie Appel described an adaptive organization as one that "simultaneously evolved with the demand and ...
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Ex-CIA Chief Gates Warns on Cyberterror
Cyberterrorism is the most potent weapon for terrorists, said former CIA director and current Texas A&M University President Robert Gates, speaking at a two-day, Texas-based terrorism conference. Gates pointed out recent incidents where massive harm was inflicted by relatively simple incidents; ...
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Opening Up the Code
Major software vendors are offering open-source products and services, although not every effort is consistent in terms of approach or motive. Microsoft allows select customers to access the source code of certain products under a "look but don't touch" scheme; IBM has made its Eclipse ...
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A New Metrics System for IT
Improving IT productivity--and by extension business value--by measuring IT's "true" merit is a formidable challenge for CIOs, given that there are no standard IT performance metrics, although CIOs expect such standards to emerge within the next five years or so. A cross-departmental council at ...
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'DETER' Fills IT Security Testing Void
The federal government devised the Cyber Defense Technology Experimental Research (DETER) Network to address a shortage of independent testing and assessment of security technologies as they move from academic labs and small businesses to market. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...
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Are Web Services Finally Ready to Deliver?
Standards organizations and industry consortia are working on Web services specifications, but without the presence of an all-encompassing authority, developers are unsure of what standards they will support in the long term, according to Evans Data analyst Joe McKendrick. Groups include the World ...
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Creating a More Intelligent Future
The theme of last summer's 2004 World Future Society conference, which covered subjects ranging from brain/mind studies to machine intelligence, was that foresight is essential to mankind's future, and is an attainable goal. Trends projected by futurologists at the conference included a ...
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IT Jobs Show Promise for Workers with Disabilities
Workers with disabilities face a number of challenges in finding work, especially due to the fact many employers do not know how to accommodate an employee's disability. But according to disability experts, the IT industry holds promise for workers with disabilities because of the variety ...
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