Stopping Spam
Interest in CS as a Major Drops Among Incoming Freshmen
The results of a survey from the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles (HERI/UCLA) estimate a more than 60 percent decline in the number of incoming freshmen thinking they would major in computer science (CS) between the fall of 2000 and 2004. The ...
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U.S. Gets New Cyberterrorism Security Center
April 21 marked the official unveiling of the Cyber Incident Detection Data Analysis Center (CIDDAC) at the University of Pennsylvania; CIDDAC is a private-sector facility set up to monitor America's business infrastructure for real-time detection of cyberthreats. CIDDAC executive director Charles ...
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Overly Smart Buildings
Though new technology is available to create intelligent building systems that monitor and control the building's environment and security, architects and engineers still face problems with complexity, incompatibility, component failure, difficult operation, and outmoded ...
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Researchers Propose Early Warning System for Worms
Professors Shigang Chen and Sanjay Ranka of the University of Florida's Computer and Information Science and Engineering department have written a paper proposing an early warning system for TCP-based Internet worms that promises to eliminate known vulnerabilities in current early warning ...
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Scientists Concerned About Slowdown in U.S. Government Research Spending
Planned cutbacks in federally-funded research could be detrimental to long-term scientific innovation, the United States' readiness for future warfare, and America's international technological dominion, according to an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) report to be ...
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North America to Have Fewer Developers Than Asia/Pacific
The Asia/Pacific region will overtake North America in overall number of software developers starting in 2006, according to new research from International Data (IDC). "For the large economy of North America, which has historically been the home of most developers, program development ...
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After Open-Source Controversy, Torvalds Turns to 'Git'
Linux creator Linus Torvalds last week started "git," a new initiative to develop software that can rapidly make changes to the Linux kernel, following a conflict between open-source developer Andrew Tridgell and BitMover, developer of the BitKeeper software Torvalds had used to manage ...
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Innovation Moves From the Laboratory to the Bike Trail and the Kitchen
In his book, "Democratizing Innovation," Eric von Hippel of the MIT Sloan School of Management's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group writes that many innovative industrial and consumer products are being developed by users first, a conclusion supported by mounting empirical evidence. Users ...
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Designing a Jetson Mobile
As a designer for Ford Motor, Anthony Prozzi is responsible for predicting what consumers will want in the automobile of the future. His Mercury Meta One concept car recently displayed at the New York International Auto Show demonstrated Prozzi's belief that future consumers will want personalized ...
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Map Project Unlocks Europe's Landscape
The IST-funded Geospatial Info-Mobility Service by Real-Time Data-Integration and Generalization (GiMoDig) project could potentially allow limitless numbers of users to access a massive repository of geographic data collated by European mapping agencies for an unlimited ...
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Patently an EU Tangle
The European Commission's directive over the "patentability of computer-implemented inventions (CII)" has been a lightning rod for controversy. The proposal to harmonize CII management throughout the European Union via a comprehensible patent protection system is touted by ...
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Pushing Virtual Reality
An Iowa State University competition for students in the human computer interaction program allows researchers to test the capabilities of the Virtual Reality Applications Center, virtual reality technology that has already been used to study molecular structures and weather patterns. "We ...
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Return of 3-D--and No Goofy Glasses
Three-dimensional imagery is enjoying a resurgence in the entertainment sector, and innovators are furthering the technology for applications in fields that include science, engineering, security, and advertising. After a brief flirtation in the 1950s, 3-D films are generating new interest ...
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Getting Flat, Part 1
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman's new book, "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century," provides unique insight into how the open-source and free software movements fit into the context of other important "flattening" events and movements, writes Linux Journal ...
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Letting the Net Speak for Itself
Stanford University linguist and "Going Nucular" author Geoffrey Nunberg dismisses fears of non-English Web content being crowded out by a domineering Anglo-Saxon viewpoint as groundless. He says native English-speaking Web users have become a minority, while the growth of ...
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UC Berkeley-USC Project to Study "Digital Kids"
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is funding $3.3 million in research that it ultimately hopes will help improve how schools use new digital media as a tool for learning. Over the next three years, Peter Lyman, a professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information Management & ...
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Step Into the Future
Many data centers are planning upgrades to take advantage of new technologies and make their operations more efficient, but an InterUnity Group/AFCOM survey of 161 data-center professionals finds most respondents to be concerned that their companies are purchasing new equipment without ...
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Together--At Last
Billions of dollars in development costs and unrealized potential income are going to waste on late or failed corporate software projects, but application lifecycle management (ALM) vendors are promoting strategies to guarantee more effective collaboration among business application ...
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Stopping Spam
Software programmers and purveyors of junk email are locked in an ever-escalating arms race as the spread of spam threatens to compromise the integrity of Internet communications, write anti-spam experts and research collaborators Joshua Goodman, David Heckerman, and Robert Rounthwaite. ...
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