The Ascent of the Robotic Attack Jet
Lively Debate as Justices Take on File Sharing
The case of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios v. Grokster, which is before the Supreme Court, has become a flashpoint between the entertainment industry and technology companies over whether file sharing services should be liable for digital copyright infringement committed by customers. Lawyers ...
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Even Tech Execs Can't Get Kids to Be Engineers
Technology executives are stressing the United States' need to step up its efforts to get more young people interested in engineering so that an engineer shortage can be mitigated and the country can maintain its global competitiveness. The decline in interest in engineering careers hits close ...
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Wordspotter Searches Historical Documents
University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) computer science professor R. Manmatha has developed a computer interface that can search handwritten documents for information in a manner similar to the Google search engine. Toni Rath, a UMass grad student who helped create a demo of Manmatha's ...
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Why IT Workers Are Lying About Their Age
The IT industry is riddled with ageist recruitment policies, according to over-40 IT professionals who have often had to lie about their age to attract interest from prospective employers. Unemployed IT veteran Tony Wells, 49, claims these practices are partly responsible for a shortage in ...
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Laying the Foundation for the Next-Generation Web
The core element of the next-generation Internet envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee is the Semantic Web, and the IST-funded WonderWeb project has made significant contributions to the Semantic Web's ongoing development by fulfilling and in some cases surpassing its goals. A major achievement is ...
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The U.N. Thinks About Tomorrow's Cyberspace
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) wants a greater say in Internet governance, including allocating IPv6 address blocks, overseeing top-level root servers, and coordinating spam fighting and law enforcement cooperation, says ITU telecommunications standardization bureau director ...
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Secure Flight Faces Uphill Battle
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has only fulfilled one of 10 requirements set by Congress for the Secure Flight passenger screening system, set to launch in August. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says the TSA has set up an oversight committee for the Secure Flight ...
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Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend
Brazil is becoming free software's largest benefactor with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's mandate that government ministries and state-run businesses transition from expensive proprietary operating systems to free operating systems in an effort to save millions of dollars in royalties and ...
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Going for the Code
Stepping up to the plate for the University of Wisconsin-Madison at ACM's International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals this year are the Harmless Fluffy Bunnies, a team of graduate and undergraduate students that will vie with 77 other teams to ...
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Rolling Out Next Generation's Net
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large, globe-spanning community of network designers, operators, researchers, and vendors that collectively oversee the workings, expansion, and evolution of the Internet by developing free and open standards and protocols to ensure ...
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VeriSign Poised to Retain Operation of ".Net" Domain
Telcordia Technologies, an outside firm hired by ICANN, has recommend that VeriSign be given a new six-year contract to continue running the .net registry, the Internet's third-most popular suffix. VeriSign, which already generates $200 million annually operating the .com registry, is ...
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Identity Theft Made Easier
Identity thieves made headlines with security breaches at ChoicePoint and LexisNexis, but common search engines provide a much easier route to obtaining illicit personal information. Google hacking, the practice of crafting specific search queries using special commands to find sensitive ...
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Report: P-Languages Better for Enterprise
A Burton Group report finds that P-Languages such as Perl, Python, and PHP have come a long way over the last several years thanks to their ability to complement the use of G-Languages such as Java, C++, and C#, and suggests that P-Languages should be favored over G-Languages because of their ...
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Cars Are Getting Computer-Jacked
The presence of automotive electronics is expanding both in the dashboard and under the hood, reducing clutter and freeing up designers to experiment aesthetically. "Everything is blending into one unified theme," notes Ford Motors designer Anthony Pozzi, who designed the Meta One concept sports car ...
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Quantum Computing Scheme Cuts Errors
In a recent issue of Nature, National Institute of Standards and Technology physicist Emanuel Knill details a proposed quantum computing architecture that could make large-scale quantum computers tolerant of the faults that might crop up in practical quantum circuits. Up to now, all proposed ...
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Intel Goes to School
Intel Research is funding a quartet of university "lablets" to identify and investigate technologies that merit "acceleration and amplification," according to company representative Kevin Teixeria. He says Intel has no claim on the intellectual property produced by the labs, because it is ...
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Internet Governance Issue Heats Up as Next World Summit Nears
The second phase of the conference of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is scheduled for Nov. 16-18 in Tunisia, and is a follow-up to the December 2003 gathering in Geneva. The first phase produced the WSIS Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action, and has resulted in the ...
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Agile CMMI: No Oxymoron
Mike Konrad and James W. Over with Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (SEI) write that Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), a combination of Software CMM and Carnegie Mellon's other primary maturity models, should be reconsidered as an agile software ...
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The Ascent of the Robotic Attack Jet
The U.S. military already uses unmanned drone aircraft for surveillance, but a new generation of autonomous aircraft capable of flying in coordinated groups and identifying and attacking targets is being developed and tested. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has made ...
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