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June 13, 2005

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HEADLINES AT A GLANCE:

  • College Students Continue to Shun Computer Science
  • Fields of Learning Theory, Machine Learning Grow Together at University
  • Report on DHS Cybersecurity Initiatives Expected Next Month
  • Roadcasting: A Potential Mesh Network Killer App
  • Robots Dance, Play at World Robot Expo in Japan
  • Summer Students Bring Professor's Ideas to Life on the Web
  • Flocks of Flying Bluetooth Bots
  • Indian Scientist Develops New Tech for Data Transfer
  • Microsoft Research Awards New Faculty Fellowships for 2005
  • Nature Spies
  • New Standards for Voting Equipment in Development
  • Automatic Source Code Review Is Development Tools' Next Frontier
  • OASIS to Tackle SOA Definition
  • Internet Security...Writ Very Small
  • The Looming Threat of Pharming
  • The Hum and the Genome
  • Mobile Media: Making It a Reality

     

    College Students Continue to Shun Computer Science

    UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute estimates that the percentage of incoming college students interested in studying computer science fell 60 percent between fall 2000 and fall 2004, and is now 70 percent below its peak in the early 1980s. The percentage of prospective female computer ...

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    Fields of Learning Theory, Machine Learning Grow Together at University

    The University of Chicago recently played host to workshops on learning theory and machine learning, two disciplines that are increasingly intermixing, according to Toyota Technological Institute (TTI)-Chicago professor John Langford. The learning theory workshops involved the ...

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    Report on DHS Cybersecurity Initiatives Expected Next Month

    Before the end of this month, the Homeland Security Department (HSD) will release an update to its cybersecurity response plan that further maps the cyberdefense capabilities of the department and determines what capabilities need alignment with the Computer Emergency Readiness Team ...

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    Roadcasting: A Potential Mesh Network Killer App

    Five students in Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute Masters Program have developed a working software application for roadcasting, a concept that integrates mesh computer networking, personalized digital music, and open-source software to give motorists a ...

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    Robots Dance, Play at World Robot Expo in Japan

    A wide variety of prototype robots on display at the World Expo in Japan illustrate their potential as tools for entertainment, care-giving, lifesaving, and information processing, although researchers say safe and reliable public use is several years away. The most human-like robot at ...

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    Summer Students Bring Professor's Ideas to Life on the Web

    The Knapp Instructional Technology Summer Internship program at Wellesley College gives students an opportunity to put their computer skills to work, and helps professors offer a better learning experience in the classroom. Nine students at the all-women's college in Wellesley, Mass., have been ...

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    Flocks of Flying Bluetooth Bots

    Roboticists at the University of Essex plan to present a scientific paper on their efforts to combine swarm intelligence and cluster computing during the 2005 IEEE Swarm Conference in Pasadena, Calif., this week. The project involves the development of a wireless network of a swarm of miniature ...

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    Indian Scientist Develops New Tech for Data Transfer

    MatrixView Technologies in India has developed a new compression technique that offers huge improvements in data transfer and management. Adaptive Binary Optimization (ABO), using simple repetition coding, can capture and store large volumes of data and images at lower processing power, and ...

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    Microsoft Research Awards New Faculty Fellowships for 2005

    MIT computer science and computer graphics professor Fredo Durand is among the 2005 winners of faculty fellowship awards from Microsoft Research University Relations. Durand will receive a cash grant of $200,000 for his work involving realistic image synthesis and computational photography, in ...

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    Nature Spies

    Computer scientists and biologists have outfitted 30 acres in the James San Jacinto Mountain Reserve with an array of automated sensor devices in order to gather more environmental data faster and with less impact on the ecosystem. Most of the sensors use wireless technology, and some cameras ...

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    New Standards for Voting Equipment in Development

    The implementation deadline of January 1, 2006 for satisfying the voting equipment standards mandated by the 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA) is an unrealistic goal for many states, according to the Information Technology Association ...

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    Automatic Source Code Review Is Development Tools' Next Frontier

    Automatic source code review, in which a programmer's work is compared against an expanding archive of coding standards, is increasingly necessary for those with the responsibility of equipping development teams. Managers should make an effort to include convenient customization and extension of ...

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    OASIS to Tackle SOA Definition

    A new Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) committee is tackling the definition of service-oriented architecture (SOA) in order to facilitate more detailed cooperation on specialized SOA implementations. Another OASIS committee, the ebSOA ...

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    Internet Security...Writ Very Small

    Iowa State University researchers have developed a version of the Internet in microcosm to be used as a cyber-defense test bed, according to computing professor and project leader Doug Jacobson. The Internet-Simulation Event and Attack Generation Environment (Iseage) was funded primarily by a ...

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    The Looming Threat of Pharming

    Pharming exploits the requirement that all URLs must be converted into IP addresses via the domain name system (DNS), and the hacker who successfully poisons" a DNS server will cause that server to respond to an authentic URL request with a bogus IP address. Upon arriving at the phony site, the ...

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    The Hum and the Genome

    The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the United Kingdom is busy expanding its computing infrastructure in order to keep up with the exponential increase in genome sequencing data, which has thus far yielded about 1.2 billion bases from the human genome sequence alone. "We're falling behind ...

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    Mobile Media: Making It a Reality

    Fred Kitson with Hewlett-Packard's corporate research labs details two prototype mobile media applications--personal context-aware mobile services that tap radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and an interactive mobile gaming system--and goes into the system and software ...

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