Technology Trends Now Shaping the Future
Bluetooth Gear May Be Open to Snooping
The Bluetooth wireless communication standard is vulnerable to being cracked by eavesdropping devices, according to a presentation unveiled by two researchers at Mobisys2005, ACM's International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services. Counterpane Internet Security CTO ...
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Lawmaker Revs Up Fair-Use Crusade
In an interview with Wired News, Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), an outspoken advocate of consumers' rights in the debate over media piracy, outlined his vision for a resolution to the contentious issue of online file sharing. One of very few legislators to land on the consumer side of the issue, ...
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Momentum Builds for Election Reform
Voting problems associated with the elections of 2000 and 2004 have sparked a movement among dozens of states to enact changes to their election processes. A task force composed of local and state election officials has issued a 72-page report recommending several changes to the election ...
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Competition with Asia Prompts United Effort in Robotics
Robotics researchers in the U.S., hampered by dwindling funding for their causes, have agreed to pool their efforts and focus on developing robots capable of moving and accomplishing useful tasks in a bid to compete against heavily funded groups in Asia. The decisions were made at last ...
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Minorities Make Small Gains in Science Jobs
Hispanics now account for 5.3 percent of the total number of science professionals in the U.S., compared with 3.7 percent 10 years ago, while blacks now account for 6.2 percent, compared with more than 7 percent in 2000, according to a new study from the Commission on Professionals in ...
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>From BitKeeper to Latest Linux Kernel
The 2.6.12 Linux kernel has been released, featuring 36 MB of data, including native support for virtualization and SELinux. Kernel developer Chris Wright made the announcement about the release instead of Linux creator Linus Torvalds, who had made the previous announcements about the ...
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New Virtual World Order
Alterne is an Information Society Technologies (IST) project that is working to make virtual reality technology more powerful, more flexible, and less expensive. Alterne coordinator Marc Cavazza says the project team wanted to revisit the original concept of virtual reality, which was to ...
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FP6 Project Aims to Increase EU Competitiveness in Software Systems Development
The European initiative to boost the continent's competitiveness in software system development has embarked on its first common project, Eclipse Model Driven Development integration (MDDi), an effort to reach a standard for software development. "Within two to three years, we should ...
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Sony Researchers Create 'Curious' Aibos
Researchers at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris have announced the possible creation of synthetic curiosity in the form of the Aibo ERS-7 robot dog. Advances in computing power have led to systems that appear to have the ability to react based on pre-programmed, task-defined algorithms, ...
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Testing, Testing, One to Three, Testing
Software development in the past was typically driven by consumer demand and business requirements, but, fueled by best practices and codification, it is now heading toward a stage where testing for bugs or a lack there of has become the top priority. The testing process has been helped by ...
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Computer Graphics Card Simulates Supernova Collapse
Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in California have developed a programming language called Scout that enables complex mathematical calculations to be run on a computer's graphics processing unit rather than its central processing unit (CPU). In a simulation of a ...
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Touch Screens Jog Social Memories
The Computer Interactive Reminiscence and Conversation Aid (Circa) system groups pieces of old movies, music, and photos that can be played on a touch screen. While reminiscence therapy is vital for individuals with dementia, they are frequently led and controlled by the caregiver. ...
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Demystifying Cyberinfrastructure: When the Computer Becomes Just Another Problem-Solving Tool
San Diego State (SDSU) has partnered with the National Science Foundation (NSF) on a new initiative that aims to raise awareness of cyberinfrastructure among students and business professionals. Engaging People in Cyberinfrastructure (EPIC), a national alliance of K-12 teachers, ...
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Data With a Human Touch
In the ongoing effort to increase the portability and privacy of data, several companies are developing technologies that use the electric field in human skin to transmit information. Matsushita's "Touch Communication System" transmits data from an external device to one worn on a wristband ...
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Beyond Paper
Xerox Innovation Group President Herve Gallaire discusses what his division has been up to lately. Gallaire says Innovation Group plays an important role at Xerox Corp., since the technology that goes into the products are being done at his division. Gallaire explains that documents have less to ...
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Body Double
Computer scientists Seth Goldstein and Todd Mowry are pursuing the next best thing to teleportation in using smart nanodust and an Internet connection to project your image around the world. Goldstein, of Carnegie Mellon University, and Mowry, director of Intel's research labs in ...
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Technology Trends Now Shaping the Future
Forecasting International President Marvin Cetron and science writer Owen Davies list expected future technological trends and their implications. Breakthroughs expected in the next 10 years or so include computers' deeper penetration of the environment, greater automation, the commercial use of ...
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