Nano's Road to the Future
Spirit of Innovation Survives the Turmoil
Silicon Valley's creative drive has not been subdued by the dot-com implosion: Area inventors continue to innovate, the number of patents awarded continues to rise, Stanford University researchers continue to churn out new inventions, and federal research funding keeps flowing in. ...
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Snapshots Save Digital Evidence
Computer crime investigations could be aided with a system devised by University of Florida researchers that combines intruder detection techniques with checkpointing methods that take "snapshots" of a computer's state. The process forensics method, which was detailed in the summer ...
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'Oracle' Computer Could Have All the Answers Built In
Duke University researchers envision a computer fabricated from self-assembling DNA molecules that can answer questions instantaneously because the answers are built in. "We call this kind of computer an oracle because, like the oracles of ancient times, the computer is ready to answer ...
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Can a Virus Hitch a Ride in Your Car?
Online message boards recently buzzed with a rumor that Lexus cars and SUVs were vulnerable to a virus that spread via built-in Bluetooth networking, and though the claim has been investigated by parent company Toyota Motors and found unsubstantiated, it has generated scrutiny about whether--or how ...
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A View Into the Future of Computer-Human Interaction
Cross-discipline collaboration will be a focus of the upcoming Computer and Human Interaction conference, ACM's CHI 2005, which will feature keynote speakers who have applied technology in the areas of medicine, art, and entertainment. Carnegie Mellon ...
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Senate Republicans Set High-Tech Policy Goals
Eleven members of the Senate Republican High Tech Task Force (HTTF) announced their policy agenda at a March 9 press conference, citing such goals as patent and telecom regulation reforms; a permanent research and development tax credit for private companies; federal spyware laws to avoid ...
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Feds Line Up Women for ICT Summit
The Australian government has named ICT recruitment industry expert Penny Coulter to an advisory group that will help organize a Women in ICT summit this year. The summit is an effort to raise the number of women working in the ICT industry, says Senator Helen Coonan, Minister for Communications, ...
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Thinking Robots--Not Quite Yet
Sheffield University computer science professor and robotics expert Noel Sharkey doubts that conscious robots will emerge anytime soon, despite assertions from other researchers that artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly. "We are getting on incredibly well mechanically and with ...
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Technology of Tracking
Global Positioning System (GPS) and related technologies are being developed and employed to monitor the location of people, vehicles, and objects, with their accuracy and applicability determined by the technologies' limitations. The satellite-based GPS navigation system, ...
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UF's Virtual Reality 'Patient' Teaches Bedside Manners to Medical Students
Improving doctors' patient interview skills is the goal behind DIgital ANimated Avatar (DIANA), a virtual patient devised by University of Florida researchers as an educational tool medical students can use to practice asking questions that lead to better diagnosis, as well as learn more ...
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A New Paradigm of Human Computer Interaction
In her capacity as Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs' (MERL) senior research scientist and associate director, University of Massachusetts graduate Chia Shen is supervising the research and development of tabletop computer systems that support multiple-user interaction. Shen notes that a ...
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UML Integration Reaches Impressive Degree
Unified Modeling Language (UML) offers software architects, developers, and business process owners the ability to manage both high-level workflows and lower-level implementation details. Supporting collaborative software requires a number of "right-brain" tasks, such as identifying ...
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The Dark Side--Looming Threats for the Future of IT
A group of panelists convened by Computerworld to discuss threats to IT's future finds software quality, notorious for its unreliability, complexity, and insecurity, to be the most pressing issue. Network Services CIO Michael Hugos says the major software vendors are the root cause of poor ...
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Missing the Boat, or Penny-Wise Caution?
Most American colleges are practicing a waiting game when it comes to upgrading their networks to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), in keeping with critics' view that a gradual adoption is cheaper and less disruptive in the long run than a mad-dash transition. Advocates claim IPv6 will ...
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Taming Your Tech
Technology is often a source of frustration for users because of complexity, unreliability, and an overemphasis on frills, but analysts report that entire industries appear to be returning to a simpler and friendlier design paradigm, which could build enough brand loyalty to ...
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Our Frankenputer
Philip E. Ross writes that PCs are insecure because they were not designed with security in mind; PCs prioritize economy and convenience over security and thus incorporate software and data in memory together. Microsoft Research senior researcher Jonathan Pincus supports the separation of data ...
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Nano's Road to the Future
The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), now entering its fifth year, has been a rousing success thus far: It has served as an inspiration for at least 40 similar programs, has come out ahead of some objectives while keeping pace with others, and, most critically, has cultivated true ...
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