A Conversation With Pat Selinger
"Surrendering U.S. Leadership in IT"
ACM's President David Patterson warns that reductions in federal funding for long-term, high-risk IT research could cause the U.S. to lose its status as the world's leading IT innovator. He says the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Defense ...
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"No Real Debate for Real ID"
The Real ID Act met with House approval last week and is expected to pass through the Senate without difficulty this week, despite fierce opposition by civil liberties groups, government associations, and others. Critics say the legislation was slipped into a larger, relatively uncontroversial ...
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"Apache Talks Open Source Java"
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Incubator panel is considering whether to sponsor an open source Java 2, Standard Edition (J2SE) runtime platform. The Harmony project will build on J2SE version 5.0 (Tiger) and be licensed under the Apache License 2.0. The proposal includes a community-developed
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"Internet Attack Is Called Broad and Long Lasting"
A 2004 penetration of a Cisco Systems network that led to the theft of software for many of the computers tasked with regulating the flow of the Internet was recently revealed by federal officials and computer security investigators to be one salvo in an extensive series of breaches that ...
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"A Vision of Terror"
Intelligence officers stand to benefit from new visualization tools that enable them to generate unique representations of digital communications that could help map out terrorist activity. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has developed Starlight 3.0, a new generation of software ...
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"Study: Music Playlists Reveal Character"
Georgia Institute of Technology and Palo Alto Research Center researchers conducted a study revealing that music playlists can yield clues about a person's character, while strong group identities can form around digital music sharing. The research examines computer "discovery capabilities," ...
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"Petascale Computer Architecture: HEC Interviews Sterling"
Thomas Sterling, a faculty associate at the California Institute of Technology's Center for Advanced Computing, discusses in an interview how future high-end computing (HEC) is perceived and what its prospects are. His argument is that general-purpose petascale computing will remain ...
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"NYU's Nadrian Seeman"
DNA computing is more suited for algorithmic assembly and other massively parallel problems than traditional computer processing, says New York University chemistry chair Nadrian Seeman, who has spent his career investigating nucleic acid structure, topology, and nanotechnology. ...
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"A Web of Sensors, Taking Earth's Pulse"
Ecologists are planning to set up more than $1 billion worth of sensor web technology to study diverse environments with an eye toward saving the planet. Dr. Deborah Estrin with UCLA's Center for Embedded Network Sensing says the goal of such deployments is to create the ecological equivalent of ...
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"Experts Work to Aid Compiler Behind Open Source"
The GCC compiler program is employed to generate nearly all programs in the open-source movement, and the latest version, GCC 4.0, features a new optimization architecture created to improve the conversion of source code written by people into computer-readable binary code. Programmers are ...
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"Innovative Instruction"
UCLA electrical engineering professor William Kaiser's Individualized Interactive Instruction (3I) computer program enables real-time anonymous interaction between professors and students, eliminating students' reluctance to ask as well as answer questions out of fear of embarrassment ...
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"Data-Bots Chart the Internet"
Efforts to improve the Internet's stability and security through software design could be significantly aided by a project coordinated by Tel Aviv University computer scientist Yuval Shavitt, which seeks to map out the Internet via a distributed computing model. Scientists from the University ...
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"Symposium Entertains Novel CE Ideas"
The MIT Media Laboratory was the site of last week's Symposium on Personal Entertainment, which focused on how electronic entertainment will be transformed by current and nascent technologies and trends. Moderator and CELab director Michael Bove said devices have become smarter and consumers ...
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"Broadband Over Power Lines"
The entrance of utility companies into the broadband space could help speed up broadband penetration and the emergence of more advanced services in the United States. Although the domestic broadband sector has been expanding by about $3 billion yearly over the past six years and is expected to ...
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"Biometrics: Getting Back to Business"
Biometric identification technology is caught between an eager public-sector market fueled by post-Sept. 11 security fears and immature standards and system scalability. Before Sept. 11, 2001, there was already a growing interest in biometric security solutions in the private sector, ...
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"Rise of the Blog"
Weblogs (blogs) are penetrating corporate culture, and are more widespread than IT managers may realize. Interest in business blogging has primarily concentrated on high-profile blogs open to the public as a pipeline for company/customer communications; meanwhile, internal corporate use of blogs ...
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"A Conversation With Pat Selinger"
In a conversation with James Hamilton of Microsoft's SQL Server Team, IBM Fellow and Database Technology Institute founder Pat Selinger discusses how relational database management technology has progressed. She notes that relational database products have transitioned from a rules-based model to ...
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