Dearth of a Nation
A Supreme Court Showdown for File Sharing
The U.S. Supreme Court may decide to reshape copyright law for the digital age with the upcoming MGM v. Grokster case, but either way file-sharing systems will remain functioning on the Internet, says Lime Group owner Mark Gorton, whose firm publishes LimeWire software. But if the Supreme Court ...
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Stemming the Tide of Women Leaving I.T.
The percentage of women in IT fell by about half between 1985 and 1995 to just 20 percent, and this number continues to decline, says Meta Group analyst Maria Shafer. Shafer and University of Arkansas professor Deb Armstrong attribute this erosion of female IT professionals and IT-related ...
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Breakthrough Paper Presented at HPCA
A collaboration between Xyratex and Spain's Universities of Valencia and Castilla-La Mancha has yielded a solution to the problem of scalable congestion management across lossless multistage interconnection networks (MINs), as detailed in a paper presented at the recent International ...
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GPL 3 Not Expected to Split Free-Software World
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has assured developers that there is no reason to think that the third incarnation of the GNU General Public License (GPL) would fragment free software projects. Debian Linux distribution maintainer Matthew Palmer concurred with OpenOffice.org ...
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New Virtual Reality Chair to Explore Frontier of 'Telepresence'
University of Alberta computer scientist and TRLabs new media principal investigator Dr. Pierre Boulanger is the recent recipient of a $1.7 million iCORE/TRLabs Industrial Research Chair to develop collaborative virtual environments that employ "telepresence" to facilitate activities between ...
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Robot Guide Dog Picks Up Where Man's Best Friend Left Off
Visually impaired people could find their way in places where guide dogs are of little use with the help of the Robotic Guide developed by Utah State University computer science professor Vladimir Kulyukin and his team of grad students. The device marries radio frequency technology with a ...
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Q&A: Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf on Grid Computing
MCI technology strategy VP and IP networking trailblazer Vint Cerf explains in an interview with Globus Consortium board member Ian Foster that grid computing, as with the Internet, contains a standardization layer that allows the many different participating computer systems to interoperate. ...
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Japanese Robot Expo Will Wow the Crowds
Numerous state-of-the-art robots will be on display at Japan's six-month-long Expo 2005, but though these machines can perform impressive feats, robotics experts say their applicability in real-world situations is debatable. The Expo will spotlight instrument-playing robots from Toyota, ...
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Profs Study Robotic Soldiers of the Future
The Defense Department will allocate a five-year, $5 million grant to the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory to investigate biology-inspired swarming behavior in robots for possible military applications. Penn engineers, ...
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Transparent Interaction; Dynamic Generation: Content Histories for Shared Science
Integrating and sharing data on the progress of wholly digital or in silico experiments is even more difficult for scientists than it is for researchers who carry out paper-bound experiments, but the authors propose that context histories can be applied toward the creation of transparent ...
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Face to Face--in Realistic 3D
A team of researchers at Cardiff University that developed software that can mimic facial movement based on speech has now turned its attention to the new video camera technology from 3dMD. After taking 2D technology as far as they could, the computer science department researchers are putting ...
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Powerful Query Technology Will Optimize Knowledge Management for Project Managers
Next-generation knowledge management (KM) capabilities will be embedded in work applications and automatically gather relevant information so that users spend less time searching. Project managers in large firms, for instance, often cannot find project documentation because they use the ...
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Terror Plot to Cripple UK in Cyber Attack
Due to a growing dependence on electronic networks in Britain and throughout the world and increasing technological sophistication of terrorists, Britain's counter-terrorism coordinator David Omand issued an alert that both government and private sectors need to ramp up electronic ...
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Security Counterattack
Experts warn that new data center technologies and Web services will increase security burdens because of the added complexity; instead of guarding a perimeter and managing internal application security, IT managers will have to be able to secure every node on their network and ...
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Glooper Computer
Light-catalyzed Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reactions can be harnessed to solve problems, such as determining the shortest route through a maze, and this capability has inspired researchers such as Andrew Adamatzky of the University of the West of England to explore the possibilities of chemical ...
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Buetow: A Force in the Battle Against Cancer
National Cancer Institute (NCI) bioinformatics director Kenneth Buetow is leading an unprecedented effort to link biomedical research disciplines and IT assets through the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG). First conceived in 2004, the grid has gained the backing of much of the fractious ...
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Dearth of a Nation
The United States' economic leadership has become increasingly reliant on technological innovation, just as international competition is heating up. Competitors have adopted the U.S. innovation model and established research centers that rival American counterparts in terms of cutting-edge tech ...
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