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Presidential Panel Recommends Steps to Promote Computational Science
The President's Information Technology Advisory Panel on April 14 unanimously championed the draft version of a report recommending the restructuring of universities and federal agencies to promote multidisciplinary research using computers to stimulate the growth of ...
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How Vulnerable Is the 'Net?
The Internet is vulnerable to hacker-induced disruption, but some points are more prone to attack than others, according to experts. The DNS core infrastructure has been significantly strengthened since a major denial-of-service attack hit the system in October 2002; at that time, DNS ...
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Can the U.S. Still Compete?
Charles Cooper writes that the U.S.'s poor performance ACM's recent International Collegiate Programming Contest (it tied for 17th place) reflects the declining quality of the country's technical talent. He hopes this incident will help spur U.S. ...
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Kernel Changes Draw Concern From Open-Source Community
Concern is brewing among members of the open-source community that the features of the Linux 2.6 kernel are being changed so quickly that the kernel could become excessively large, while the changes themselves are too desktop-oriented. Computer Associates International VP Sam Greenblatt says ...
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Congress Moving to Tackle Spyware Problem
Several anti-spyware bills have been introduced in Congress so far this year, all of which focus on the most objectionable spyware practices; but they differ dramatically in their definition of spyware, which is a source of contention in the high-tech industry. It is the industry's concern that ...
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U.S. Military's Elite Hacker Crew
U.S. Strategic Command (Stratcom) leaders disclosed the existence of the Joint Functional Component Command for Network Warfare (JFCCNW) at a March meeting of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee. The JFCCNW is a team of hackers responsible for the safeguarding of all Defense Department (DOD) ...
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Computer Science Students Receive Top Honor for Research
A team of computer science students at Fitchburg State College has an opportunity to compete in the grand final of the ACM's International Student Research Competition after placing third at the recent St. Louis event. Matthew Glover, Joshua McKinnon, Duane ...
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Tech Grads Face Strongest Job Market in Five Years
The information technology industry, along with many other industries, will be looking to hire people with computer, engineering, and IT experience by the time students graduate in June, according to a survey from Michigan State University. For tech graduates, the job market will be the best it ...
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As New Technology Draws in the Animators
New software from IST's Custodiev project could help make 3D animation of stylized strip cartoons found in comics and graphic novels a reality. "The strip-cartoon effect cannot be mimicked in 3D animation because the 3D model forces its unique geometry while in drawn animation the artist can, ...
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Tech-Savvy Women Seek Support in Classroom and Newsroom
Both online and print media are suffering from a shortage of female IT professionals, which is partly attributed to a perception of IT as a boring or geeky field, a lack of encouragement from educators and parents, and the attitude that the reigning authorities are dedicated to marginalizing or ...
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Stanford Joins Multi-Institution Center on Research in Cybersecurity and Computer Trustworthiness
Leading security experts from eight universities will join forces under the Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST), funded for five years with about $19 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The University of California-Berkeley will lead the effort, joined by other ...
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Gordon Moore Looks Back, and Forward, 40 Years
Intel founder Gordon Moore, who four decades ago wrote a groundbreaking paper that has become a roadmap for the electronics industry, reflects on how well that document, now known as Moore's Law, has held up. Moore's Law dictates that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles ...
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Automated Mining Still a Dream
Autonomous mining machinery that has the common-sense reasoning of a human is some decades away, said artificial intelligence expert Marvin Minsky in an address at the International Symposium on Mine Mechanization and Automation. Before such intelligent machines are possible, researchers ...
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The Liquid Information Project Is Hyper2
University of College London researcher Frode Hegland says the Liquid Information project's Hyperwords technology provides a simple way to dramatically increase the interactivity of Web information. Web pages with Hyperwords provide users with a menu when they mouse over a word, allowing ...
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Eye, Robot
BAE Systems and a number of British universities are involved in a project to develop multitasking robots that can respond to events that register in their peripheral vision. The reverse-engineering the vertebrate brain (Reverb) project seeks to understand the multitasking mechanisms in the ...
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Sector-wide ISACs Have Both Critics and Advocates
Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs), formed to share information between government and industry sectors, lack support from government agencies and private-sector members, according to some business executives. The groups were created in the late 1990s to coordinate ...
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The Next Wave in J2EE Deployment
There is no panacea to fully eliminate the headaches associated with J2EE deployment, but network attached processing technology shows promise as a tool for lowering the cost and complexity of distributed J2EE application development, implementation, management, and provisioning. Network ...
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La Vida Robot
The third annual Marine Advanced Technology Remotely Operated Vehicle Competition was remarkable in that the winning entry--which beat well-funded competition from MIT and other vaunted institutions--was designed, built, and operated by four Phoenix high schoolers with minimal ...
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3-Deep
LightSpace Technologies President Alan Sullivan writes that new volumetric displays from his company and others will generate 3D imagery that frees users from the eyestrain, headaches, and other irritants that have limited the use of stereoscopic, autostereoscopic, and holographic display ...
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