Conceptual Data Modeling Patterns: Representation and Validation
An Endless Frontier Postponed
The United States risks losing leadership in IT development unless significant investments are made to bolster long-term, academic IT research, writes ACM's President David Patterson and University of Washington computer science and engineering chair Edward Lazowska. ...
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NSF Sets New Strategy to Improve Nation's 'Cyberinfrastructure,' But Details Are Lacking
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has formulated a strategy to bolster the U.S.'s cyberinfrastructure, said NSF director Arden Bement Jr., speaking to the Internet2 consortium spring meeting on Tuesday. The national cyberinfrastructure is as critical as the interstate highway ...
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At 10, Java's Wild Success, Missed Chances
Sun Microsystems' Java programming language celebrates its 10th birthday this month, having grown from a language aimed at Web developers to a much broader collection of software and specifications used on mobile phones and mainframe computers. "It's been a rocket ride that nobody expected would ...
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Bluetooth Tech to Interoperate With UWB, Future Radios
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) says it will include "command and control" functions for different types of wireless radios in the Bluetooth specification, boosting Bluetooth technology into a new role as a universal wireless interface. Both the UWB Forum and WiMedia Alliance, the ...
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IEEE-USA Reports Gigabit Networks Should Be U.S. Priority
The United States lags behind other countries in network capability and is endangering its global lead in the knowledge economy, according to a new white paper from the IEEE-USA Committee on Communications and Information Policy. Information is the main driver behind modern economic growth and ...
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Feds to Release 20,000 H-1B Visas Next Week
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) department announced yesterday that an additional 20,000 H-1B visas would be made available to foreign workers with at least a master's-level degree from a U.S. school, starting May 12. The visas were approved by Congress last year amid ...
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Summit Calls for 'National Software Strategy'
A national software strategy is needed to improve software trustworthiness, empower the U.S. software workforce, reinvigorate software research and development, and encourage software industry innovation, according to a report from the 2nd National Software Summit (NSS2). Software is of ...
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Electronic Medical Records Seen as Worthy Goal
The federal government aims to transition most patients to electronic medical records in an effort to lower costs and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the U.S. health care system. Electronic medical records within a decade is the goal of a federal plan President Bush introduced ...
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Evaluating a Patent System Gone Awry
Traction for major patent system reforms is starting to build on Capitol Hill as overwhelmed patent examiners approve applications for dubious patents and infringement lawsuits snarl the courts. The system in its current form has also encouraged a new kind of entrepreneur, or "troll," ...
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The Speedy Way to Capture a City
University of California, Berkeley, engineer Avideh Zakhor has devised a way to quickly generate an accurate 3D model of an urban area, with potential applications for the military, urban planning, emergency services, and the tourist trade. Zakhor's "virtualized reality" technique ...
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Mining for Information
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) director of computing services Richard Mount envisions moving data storage another rung up the evolutionary ladder with his Huge Memory System, a memory-based system that would allow researchers to access vast amounts of data at unprecedented ...
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The No-Computer Virus
The sorry state of IT in the health care industry is reflected in the scores of hospitals and offices that lack electronic medical records--and more importantly, the glaring absence of interoperability between computer systems. Health care IT expert David Bates with Brigham and Women's ...
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Get BUFF
The U.S. military's transition from a monolithic entity to a collection of "light" and "agile" units that can be rapidly deployed anywhere in the world is accompanied by a growing hunger for real-time battlefield information. Dealing with the overwhelming amounts of data is the goal of ...
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Born Again
Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial spirit is being rekindled by new startup vendors committed to the development of better, faster, and less expensive IT infrastructures through greater discipline, global connection, and dedication than their forebears. Many of the Bay Area's leading companies ...
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Blades Have the Edge
Compact blade servers that are more power- and space-efficient than conventional servers benefit IT by reducing clutter and simplifying installation, management, and repair. A blade server is stripped down to the bare necessities--a processor-equipped motherboard, memory, networking ...
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Conceptual Data Modeling Patterns: Representation and Validation
Florida International University professor Dinesh Batra defines design patterns in the context of data modeling as descriptions of objects, relationships, and attributes that are customized to address a generalized conceptual or logical database design problem. He examines a number of ...
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