The Evolving Wireless Landscape
Open Wallets for Open-Source Software
Venture capitalists are once again investing in open-source software technology companies despite the sometimes colossal failures of the late 1990s. This resurgence of interest is partly attributable to two developments: Increased adoption of open-source software by corporate ...
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Grids Get Down to Business
Grid computing for businesses is getting a big boost with new guidelines from the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA) and the Globus Toolkit 4 from the Globus Alliance; the guidelines provide help with technical details such as security and utility pricing schemes, and is part of the year-old group's ...
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Feds Rethinking RFID Passport
On the heels of heavy criticism from computer professionals and civil libertarians, the U.S. State Department is considering adding previously rejected privacy protections to federally mandated radio frequency identification (RFID) passports, according to deputy assistant secretary ...
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Getting the Feel of Virtual Reality
The IST-funded RealReflect project is expected to deliver the first extensive industrial modeling application for Bidirectional Texture Function (BTF) image acquisition. "RealReflect is a major advancement over traditional virtual reality modeling, which basically relies on ...
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Dropping Out and Booting Up
Silicon Valley is currently dominated by a mind-set that firmly believes technology should be protected as a wealth-generating asset, but a second culture advocating the unrestricted sharing of technology has even deeper roots that can be traced back to the counterculture movement of the 1960s ...
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Open Source Developers Provide 'Glimmer of Hope'
DAFCA object architect and software design expert James Coplien said in an interview at the ACCU conference that companies' rush to bring software to market is fueling a decline in product quality, noting that the open source community subscribes to higher quality software standards. "The one ...
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High-Tech Industry Employment Slowly Turns the Corner, Says New Report
The AeA's annual Cyberstates 2005 report reflects a generally positive development in U.S. high-tech industry employment, with job losses slowing down considerably in 2004: The high-tech industry lost 25,000 jobs last year, compared to 333,000 jobs lost in 2003 and 612,000 lost in 2002. The ...
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Encryption: The Key to Secure Data?
Data encryption technology is now a mature market with infrequent updates, but the failure of public key infrastructure (PKI) to take off in the commercial sector has left a gaping hole in the encryption framework. Encryption comes in two flavors: Traditional symmetric encryption and ...
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Net Becomes Domain of Its Cofounder
TCP/IP co-author Vint Cerf compares the introduction of TCP/IP to the then-embryonic Internet in 1983 to the ongoing switch from IPv4 to IPv6, though the later move is vastly more complicated because of the hundreds of millions of computers now connected to the Internet; back in 1983, TCP/IP ...
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Municipal Wireless Networks Generating Controversy
Advocates of municipal wireless networks being built by local governments in Europe and the U.S. support them for their quick and easy deployment for use by city employees and safety personnel, which lowers telecom costs overall. Philadelphia government officials recently ...
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Closing the Gender Gap
With a $12,000 grant from Texas Instruments and the Dallas Women's Foundation, the University of Texas at Arlington has developed the Metroplex Area Gender Equity Institute with the goal of boosting the number of girls pursuing math and science careers. Attaining this goal requires ...
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Center Aims to Improve Cybersecurity in Higher Education
Indiana University is a hub for higher education cybersecurity efforts: In addition to hosting the Indiana Higher Education Cybersecurity Summit this week, the school is home to the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR), an expanding information assurance program committed to improving ...
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The Blind Leading the Blind
The Disability Discrimination Act requires U.K. Web sites to be accessible to visually impaired users, and a recent Disability Rights Commission (DRC) survey found that 97% of major online organizations were cognizant of the Web accessibility problem; but although more than two-thirds of ...
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Building Robots With People in Mind
NASA computer scientist William Clancey has long advocated the view that cross-disciplinary research with emphasis on the humanities is critical to the development of artificial intelligence, and is putting his theories into practice as he tests the use of robots in expedition scenarios ...
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Animal Behavior: When Robots Go Wild
Robots modeled after animals are migrating from the laboratory to the wild to participate in previously unworkable animal behavior research and experimentation. University of California, Davis, behavioral biologist Gail Patricelli studied the courtship rituals of satin bowerbirds using a ...
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Staying Out in Front
HP Laboratories receives just 5% of Hewlett-Packard's research budget, but is working on important breakthrough technologies that aim to revolutionize IT. Unlike in the past, many of the projects pursued today are focused on high-level system optimization and not improving discrete ...
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AI's Next Brain Wave
IBM's Watson Laboratory, Microsoft Research, Intel, and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) are all engaged in artificial intelligence research that could pave the way for computer systems capable of learning from their users as well as their surrounding environment. IBM Watson's ...
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Blow the Lid Off Automation
The dynamic nature of many business processes necessitates adaptable support systems, writes Delphi Group chief analyst Nathaniel Palmer, noting that business process management (BPM) software derives its optimal value from its ability to insert a layer between users and IT infrastructure to ...
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The Evolving Wireless Landscape
For wireless broadband communications to equal wired communications in terms of reliability and coverage, three key innovations must take place: An increase in bandwidth, better modulation schemes and associated elements, and more advanced wireless network protocols. Short-range, ...
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