Open Calendar Sharing and Scheduling With CalDAV
Paper Makes a Comeback as Electronic Elections Spur Opposition
The last two presidential elections, with their close, highly contested outcomes, have convinced voting-rights organizations and computer scientists that a paper trail must be established to ensure the validity of the final numbers and voters' protection against electoral fraud or ...
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American Universities Fall Way Behind in Programming
American universities hit an all-time low in the world finals of the ACM's International Collegiate Programming Contest, with the University of Illinois tying for 17th place. The top four spots were captured, in descending order, by Shanghai Jiao Tong ...
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Sharing the Wealth at IBM
The business world's eyes are focused on IBM's move to make patents available for free, which the company hopes will be an even more profitable strategy than keeping them to itself. The move started in January when IBM declared that it would freely release 500 software patents for use in ...
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Rules Aimed at Digital Misdeeds Lack Bite
With ongoing cybersecurity breaches at large consumer-oriented firms, federal and state lawmakers are working on new laws that would mete harsher punishments to online criminals and make legal prosecution of online crimes easier. At least a dozen federal and state bills have been proposed ...
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MIT, Quanta Cook Up Devices of Tomorrow
MIT and Quanta Computer signed a five-year, $20 million agreement on April 8 to develop designs for next-generation computing and communication devices through the integration of research from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Quanta's hardware marketing ...
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Database Sea Change Drawing Near
Database vendors are battling to consolidate transaction and analysis capabilities and offer improved total cost of ownership and the ability to handle unstructured data in a relational database. Vendors are eager to sell database products that will give them leverage to sell other products ...
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The Battle Between Tinseltown and Techville
The debate before the Supreme Court over whether file-trading networks such as Grokster and Streamcast should be legally liable for digital piracy brings the battle between the entertainment and tech industries into sharp focus, with the former arguing that the future of creativity is at stake ...
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Collar Cultivates Canine Cliques
Dog owners can track their pets' activities, map out their social networks, and network through their pets with a wearable computer system developed by MIT researchers engaged in the Social Networking in Fur (SNIF) project. The scientists have developed a prototype collar and leash equipped with an ...
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Hoping Girls Get a Kick Out of Computers
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County's Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT) this weekend will hold its annual Computer Mania Day, an event designed to fuel an interest in information technology among young girls. Computer Mania Day is expected to draw more than 600 ...
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UCD Scientist Patents 'Smart' Email
Email could become more of a business application if the communications tool had intuitive capabilities, believes Dr. Nicholas Kushmerick, a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at University College Dublin. Kushmerick, also a part-time visiting scientist for IBM's Center ...
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A Law Mandating Music File Compatibility?
Reps. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Howard Berman (D-Calif.) advocate a proposal to establish a national interoperability standard for all online music platforms that was unanimously rejected by music industry and consumer groups at an April 6 congressional hearing. The motivation behind ...
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Permanent Record
Government agencies can learn a valuable lesson from the life work of Frenchman Jean-Francois Champollion, who deciphered the markings on the Rosetta Stone, making it possible to finally read Egyptian hieroglyphics. In Australia, the National Archives of Australia (NAA) has taken the ...
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Software Agents Give Out PR Advice
Corporations and governments constantly monitor Web sites, blogs, and news reports concerning their organizations in order to counter negative views, otherwise known as engaging in media spin. A British software firm says it has created a program that can automatically assess the tone of a document ...
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In the Internet's High-Speed Lane
Broadband Internet is changing the social, educational, and economic activity of young people, and savvy companies are exploring how best to take advantage of the new connectivity. Half of U.S. households with teenagers now have broadband Internet connections compared with 35 percent ...
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If You Build It, Will They Come?
Undergraduate humanities and social science faculty often do not make use of available digital resources because of the worries technology introduces in the classroom, the time involved, and the lack of technical support, according to an ongoing study at the University of California at Berkeley's ...
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Professors Join the Fray as Supreme Court Hears Arguments in File-Sharing Case
Scholars and technology experts are worried that making peer-to-peer (P2P) file swapping networks accountable for copyright infringement would hurt technological innovation, threaten free speech, and limit scholarship, and they filed legal briefs recommending that the Supreme Court avoid such a ...
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Open Source to the Rescue
Open source software became Friendster's savior when heavy traffic threatened to overwhelm the wildly successful social networking Web site. The service was originally driven by a Java back end running on Apache Tomcat servers with a MySQL database, but this architecture could not deal ...
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Web Mobs
Web mobs are criminal organizations that operate exclusively online, selling stolen and counterfeit credit card numbers, email accounts, and other forms of personal ID. EBay chief security strategist Howard Schmidt warns that Web mobs can destroy the carefully cultivated trust between ...
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Open Calendar Sharing and Scheduling With CalDAV
Open Source Application Foundation development manager Lisa Dusseault and University of California-Santa Cruz computer science professor Jim Whitehead write that the desire for a calendar access protocol supporting standard within-organization meetings, collaborative calendar sharing, and ...
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