Does Trusted Computing Remedy Computer Security Problems?
House Signs Off on Supercomputing
This week the U.S. House of Representatives approved the High-Performance Computing Revitalization Act of 2005, which calls on the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation to ensure the availability of supercomputers to American engineers and scientists, and names the director ...
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Adventures in the Skin Trade
Nearly 10 years after MIT Media Lab researchers Thomas Zimmerman and Neil Gershenfeld created a prototype intra-body communication network that tapped the naturally-occurring electrical fields of human skin to transfer data between devices, NTT Labs in Japan has developed an application based ...
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NCSA Allows Faster, Better, Cheaper Engineering
Large construction projects such as highway improvements involve high costs, traffic disruption, and worries over quality, but civil engineering researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), have created software to help optimize those projects. Faster, cheaper, and ...
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Bringing the Internet to the Whole World
Advanced Micro Devices intends to bridge the digital divide between computing haves and have-nots by making computers with Internet access available and affordable to half the world's population by 2015 through the distribution of low-cost PCs. AMD's Personal Internet Communicator (PIC), ...
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License Proliferation: When More Is Less
With more than 50 open source software licenses available, developers are often at a loss when deciding on which license to use. Nobel Laureate Herb Simon says an abundance of options leads to people choose less optimal options for the sake of minimizing risk; in the open source licensing ...
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Mining Reality
As a participant in MIT Media Lab's Reality Mining project, graduate student Nathan Eagle has compiled about four decades' worth of continuous data on human behavior using communication, location, activity, and proximity information taken from 100 cell phone users, and this data could ...
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New Intelligent Dictionary Searches Make Sense
The IST-funded BENEDICT project has yielded a semantic context sensitive dictionary lookup that can facilitate more intelligent online dictionary searches. The BENEDICT dictionary does more than scan the text around the search word and provide the proper base-form and syntactic category; it ...
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IT Industry Seeks to Set Parameters for Growth
Russian President Vladimir Putin has a vision to transform Russia into an IT giant, and he recently disclosed that this vision involves creating 10 Russian IT parks aided by tax breaks by the end of the decade; Russian IT and communications minister Leonid Reiman says the state is planning a ...
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Just Like the Real Thing
The National University of Singapore's (NUS) Mixed Reality Lab (MRL) and Nanyang Technological University's Center for Advanced Media Technology (CamTech) are engaged in research into "mixed reality" technologies that enhance real-world views with virtual object or data overlays. One project ...
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Speech Recognition Software Slowly Making Progress
The future of speech recognition is promising if not spectacular, as the technology is experiencing gradual but steady growth. "Because of the growing emphasis on customer service recently, many companies have become interested in speech recognition systems," says Datamonitor analyst Daniel ...
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Florida Planning Son of Matrix
Florida officials have put out a request for information on a sequel to the controversial Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange (Matrix) project, which combined government and commercial personal data to help track down terrorists and other criminals. The document outlines a more ...
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A Crisis of Prioritization
A new report from the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (Pitac) warns that the emphasis on bolstering national security in the wake of the 2001 U.S. terrorist attacks has left a critical element--cybersecurity of civilian technological infrastructures--severely ...
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What Does the Future of Communications Hold?
Communications channels are merging with one another, as well as with new search capabilities, says INBOX conference chair Martin Hall, whose gathering features discussion and exhibits about enterprise messaging. With email now a mission-critical business application, companies need to ...
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Software to Simulate Human Heart
A cross-disciplinary team of university researchers has created the first-ever computer simulation of the human heart's fluid dynamics using algorithms developed at the University of New York and computer software developed at the University of California, Berkeley. UC Berkeley computer ...
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Biotech Data's Big Bang
The automation of biochemistry is fueling an explosion in biotech data worldwide, shrinking the time it takes for such data to double in volume from 18 months a few years ago to six to three months today. Organizations charged with biotech data management are using a broad spectrum of new ...
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Presidential Panel Recommends Steps to Promote Computational Science
The President's Information Technology Advisory Committee recommended in an as-yet-unreleased report a restructuring of universities and federal agencies to promote multidisciplinary computational science, which plays an "integral role" in solving a multitude of problems ranging from traditional ...
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Satisfied But Uncertain
The 2005 InformationWeek Salary Survey of 12,158 IT professionals finds an overwhelming degree of job satisfaction among respondents, although approximately two-thirds do not think an IT career and the potential for salary advancement is as promising today as it was five years ago. This is ...
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Whatever Happened to Machines That Think?
The excitement generated by the field of artificial intelligence, and the support it garnered, waned dramatically in the 1990s as AI projects that promised to deliver convincing computer conversationalists, autonomous servants, and even conscious machines failed to pan out because their core ...
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Does Trusted Computing Remedy Computer Security Problems?
Rolf Oppliger and Ruedi Rytz with the Swiss Federal Strategy Unit for Information Technology weigh the benefits and drawbacks of trusted computing, and conclude that the technology is unlikely to completely inoculate PCs against the threat of malware. Trusted computing initiatives ...
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