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GAO: DHS Cybersecurity Plans Need More Work
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has yet to sufficiently address the nation's cybersecurity needs, concludes a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Although GAO credits the DHS with the establishment of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team and forums ...
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H-1Bs Not Going Like Hotcakes
Congress approved 20,000 new H-1B visas late last year in response to industry pressure, but only 6,400 visa petitions have been submitted to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) since the agency began accepting applications on May 12. "We had anticipated that the petitions ...
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Poland's Minister of Science: HPC Needs Development
High-performance computing (HPC) researchers from government, industry, and academia discussed ongoing and future projects at the 14th HPC User Forum in Warsaw. Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) scientist Dave Doherty noted the large number of chemists who were ...
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What's Next After AJAX?
New Web applications that leverage AJAX (asynchronous _javascript_ and XML) are boosting prospects of more viable Web UIs by providing smoother scrolling, incremental updates, and more interactive input forms. However, fat-client UIs still have the advantage in terms of being able to receive ...
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Bipartisan Group Raises E-Waste Awareness
The establishment of the bipartisan Congressional E-Waste Working Group was announced by Reps. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), Randy Cunningham (R-Calif.), Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), and Mary Bono (R-Calif.) at a May 24 news conference. Thompson said the group would convene regularly to discuss ...
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Collaboration Is a Necessity for a Secure Infrastructure
Now that IT is considered an integral part of the business, it is time for collaboration between industry users and vendors to establish best practices, says Oracle chief security officer Mary Ann Davidson. As one of the 10 charter members of the Global CSO Council, Davidson is taking a lead ...
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House Approves Spyware Penalties
The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of Rep. Mary Bono's (R-Calif.) Spy Act and Rep. Bob Goodlatte's (R-Va.) Internet Spyware Prevention Act on May 23. The anti-spyware proposals are nearly identical, although Bono's bill requires businesses to use an "opt-in" policy in which ...
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New Haptics Systems Challenge Stroke Patients to Grasp, Pinch, Squeeze, Throw and, Yeah, Get Pushy
An interdisciplinary team of researchers is developing and testing cutting-edge haptics technologies designed to aid the rehabilitation of stroke victims at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC). The National Institutes of Health awarded a $1.8 ...
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Smoother Bureaucracy for Europe's Mobile Workforce
The increasing mobility of Europe's workforce requires less expensive and more transparent, efficient, and user-friendly electronic information exchange between public administrations, and the IST-funded INFOCITIZEN project aims to fulfill these requirements with a new platform. The ...
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Watching You, Watching Me
Researchers at Queen's University's Human Media Laboratory are developing technology that has a greater awareness of people, according to lab director Roel Vertegaal. Among the projects under development at the lab is the eyeBlog, a system consisting of special glasses equipped with a ...
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The 2020 Vision of Robotic Assistants Unveiled
The Prototype Robot Exhibition opening next month at the World Expo 2005 in Japan will showcase more than 60 types of robots expected to be commonplace in 2020. Futuristic medical robots sharing the spotlight will include Nagoya University's EVE and Hyper-Finger: The humanoid EVE features ...
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Rethinking the Relational Database
Relational database management systems (RDBMS) are terrific technology, but are increasingly mismatched with the large volumes of business event being data generated today, writes CopperEye CEO Kate Mitchell. Relational database technology offers sophisticated development tools, the ability to ...
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New Rules for the Internet Age: Copy Rights and Copy Wrongs
The Internet age has outmoded traditional forms of distributing copyrighted material, requiring a new type of copyright regime, according to intellectual property experts who back free exchange of information. Lawrence Lessig's Creative Commons project is among several projects that ...
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New Ways to Search, Navigate and Use Multimedia Museum Collections Over the Web
The European Commission IST-funded Sculpteur project has spent the past three years developing new tools and techniques for creating, searching, navigating, accessing, sharing, repurposing, and using multimedia content from multiple sources over the Web, which museums and galleries could use ...
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Students Help Researchers Find Ways to Better Harness Supercomputer Power
A five-university effort funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) could help researchers more effectively tap supercomputer power through the observation of computer-science students as they complete assignments in supercomputing classes. The project involves the recording ...
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Networks Drive Car of the Future
The increasing complexity of automotive electronics is spurring car manufacturers to deploy shared data networks and standard protocols to facilitate high-speed internal communications between control systems, as well as use industry standards such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to support ...
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The Browser Reloaded
Web applications can get a new lease on life through the Asynchronous _javascript_ and XML (AJAX) development model, which unshackles applications from the traditional request/response process and facilitates the asynchronous transaction of network communications. AJAX Web browsers use ...
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Security: More Than Good Programming
A new BZ Research survey of 383 software development managers lists a variety of reasons as to why software applications are so riddled with security holes. Poor programming practices, poor design and architecture, and a lack of developer security training were cited by more than 50 ...
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Fabbers--personal devices that can fabricate useful items on demand from computerized design specs--could give a significant boost to independent design, eliminate a sizable portion of stock and delivery costs, and enable a new level of product customization. Rapid-prototyping systems employed ...
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