Economics, Computer Science, and Policy
Laurels for Giving the Internet Its Language
ACM has named Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn winners of the 2004 A.M. Turing Award for their pioneering work on the design and implementation of the Internet's basic communications protocols. The award, widely recognized as the Nobel Prize of computing, honors ...
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Where Are All the Women?
Women in high-tech positions of power are rare in Fortune 500 companies. Many experts agree that companies with high-ranking women are more profitable, and there is statistical evidence to support this view: A Catalyst analysis found that companies with the most women in top ...
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Adding Semantics to the Web
IST's ESPERONTO project has developed Semantic Web tools that facilitate the upgrading of conventional Web content into machine-readable semantic content and end-user employment of the content. "We developed a knowledge parser that reads texts and finds out what they mean," explains ISOCO ...
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ACLU Says Patriot Act Diminishing Liberties
The ACLU's John Scalise warned that certain provisions of the USA Patriot Act undermine citizen rights guaranteed by the Constitution in his speech at Central Michigan University on Feb. 15. The act, which was passed in late 2001, permits federal agencies to request information from ...
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Valley's Global Rivals Gaining
A Feb. 15 report from the AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association) warns that the country's technological leadership is in jeopardy as overseas competitors make gains in manufacturing and innovation, while nations such as India and China have overtaken America in ...
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White House Eyes NSA for Network 'Traffic Cop'
The White House is debating whether the responsibility of being "traffic cop" for government computer networks that route homeland security data and other sensitive information across federal agencies should fall to the National Security Agency (NSA), reports a senior NSA ...
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Linux License Overhaul--Don't Hold Your Breath
Revamping the General Public License (GPL) that governs the open-source Linux operating system promises to be an uphill climb, with Free Software Foundation legal counsel Eben Moglen not expecting the overhaul to be completed any earlier than 2006. Reaching a unified consensus on the GPL ...
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A New Model Army Soldier Rolls Closer to the Battlefield
The Pentagon expects robots to comprise a substantial portion of the U.S. armed forces as the technology grows more sophisticated and automated. Pentagon officials and military contractors say the ultimate goal is to make warfare unmanned and bloodless, or keep casualties light and ...
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Augmented Reality: Another (Virtual) Brick in the Wall
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology's Augmented Environments Lab have crafted an augmented reality (AR) tour of an Atlanta cemetery that combines elements of both linear and random access audio tours. AR typically involves users ...
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IT Execs Swarm Capitol Hill
The nation's capital was a beehive of dialogue between IT executives and congressional legislators at a series of hearings, trade shows, and other events this past week. The House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet heard testimony from the CEOs of Motorola, Lucent, Alcatel, ...
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Just How Exciting Is It?
U.K. Royal College of Art research fellow Brendan Walker aims to construct a Thrill Measuring Device that can gauge exciting experiences and produce an industry-standard measure that can be applied to the real-time refinement of such experiences. Potential areas of application include ...
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To Start Up Here, Companies Hire Over There
High-tech startups are joining mature multinational companies in adding jobs overseas. However, unlike multinationals, which are moving existing jobs in the United States to other countries around the world, startups are creating jobs abroad that were never here to begin with. According to a ...
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Software Validation Testing Tool Gains Plaudits
The IST-funded MATELO project has developed MaTeLo, a software validation testing tool that project coordinator Patrick Leserf claims can trim about 20 percent off validation's portion of the software development effort. The tool also lets developers improve software quality by enabling them to ...
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New School of Thought
Leading schools have started to offer interdisciplinary programs that blend IT studies with high-demand skills and business courses to produce IT professionals who can more effectively function in an environment where business and technological prowess must be applied in equal measure. The ...
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Do the Locomotion
The two-wheeled Segway scooter may not have lived up to its hype as a product that would revolutionize transportation, but the vehicle's gyroscopic balance represents a critical step forward for robot technology. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency snapped up a fleet of ...
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Service-Oriented Computing: Key Concepts and Principles
Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) tackle the basic challenges of open systems by enabling efficient operation and supporting consistency in the presence of autonomous and heterogeneous components, and service-oriented computing (SOC) provides a standardized approach for building on ...
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Economics, Computer Science, and Policy
University of Pennsylvania computer information science professor Michael Kearns observes that computer science is a major point of interaction between network and economic approaches to scientific and social problems, and this convergence can greatly influence matters of policy. "One of the ...
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