T-Engine: Japan's Ubiquitous Computing Architecture Is Ready for Prime Time
Viruses, Security Issues Undermine Internet
The Internet is falling prey to a growing body of security threats, as the network with a billion users but no owner still relies essentially on a global honor system. "The Internet is stuck in the flower-power days of the '60s during which people thought the world would be beautiful if you ...
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Java Faces Open-Source Swarm
In an industry moving inevitably toward open-source sharing, Sun Microsystems holds a tenuous grasp on the Java language it created. At the upcoming JavaOne conference, Sun will unveil GlassFish, which provides non-open-source access to code along with another project of an unspecified ...
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NSF Seeks Broad Internet Research Agenda
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is increasingly focusing on development of the next-generation Internet. Leading the effort will be Massachusetts Institute of Technology research scientist David Clark, the former head of the National Research Council Computer Science and ...
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Building Strength in Computer Science
In order to keep the U.S. technology workforce strong, computer science needs to be marketed to students in such a way as to claim back its eroding popularity and the exclusionary trend that has kept women and minorities out of computer-related fields must be reversed, concludes a new study from ...
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SIGGRAPH 2005 Panels Discuss Future of Computer Graphics & Interactive Technology
The Panels program has been finalized for the upcoming SIGGRAPH 2005, the 32nd International Conference on Computer Graphics & Interactive Techniques being held July 31 to August 4 in Los Angeles. The conference will provide a forum for industry experts to "discuss everything pertinent pertaining to ...
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New Software Changes Wireless Technology Functions on Demand
Researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland have built a test-bed for the low-cost development of software defined radio (SDR), a next-generation of wireless technology that will give wireless devices the ability to perform new functions on demand. The test bed will facilitate ...
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Deafblind Slate 'Senseless' Tech
A new survey conducted by the British charity Sense polled the deafblind community and found that nearly half of the respondents reported trouble using common technologies such as remote controls, mobile phones, and washing machines. Common complaints highlighted the ongoing reduction in ...
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Microsoft Pushing Spam-Fighting System
Despite the fact that Microsoft's spam-fighting technology Sender ID delivers about 10 percent of legitimate email messages to junk folders, the company announced plans to become more aggressive at rejecting mail sent through company or service providers not registered with the Sender ID ...
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'Bionic' Arm Brings Back Sense of Touch
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago director Todd Kuiken has invented a prosthetic arm capable of giving its wearers the sense of feel. The device has been tested on Jesse Sullivan, a former lineman for a power company who lost his arms after grabbing a live high-tension wire. By pulling out the ...
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Warp Speed for Wireless Networks
As new technologies for wireless networks race to speeds significantly faster than Wi-Fi, a gold-rush mentality has created a fiercely competitive market that, having yet to agree on even the most basic standards for the future, will provide users with a dizzying array of options. While ...
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Adding a New Dimension to Television
IST-funded Advanced Three-Dimensional Television System Technologies (ATTEST) has developed a three-dimensional television display that eventually may enable home viewers to feel as if they are right in the center of a movie. To accomplish the feat, a range camera was converted ...
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Report: Tech Jobs Rise on East Coast
Technology-related job postings are up 26 percent to 69,957 on Dice.com so far this year through June 1, 2005, according to the online recruiting company. Three East Coast markets had the strongest gains: Philadelphia, New York, and Boston metropolitan areas, which experienced increases of 41 ...
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The Big Picture
Fours Initiative CEO John Poisson, who spent two years as head of Sony's mobile research and design division in Japan, says that camera phones could revolutionize communications if only their utilization would catch on among the public. As it stands, they are now used mainly to capture an ...
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Patent Reform Hits the Hill
The tech industry has its hands full in trying to get Congress to make injunctions more difficult to obtain, as lawmakers take up the issue of reforming the patent system, writes James V. DeLong, director of the Center for the Study of Digital Property at the Progress & Freedom Foundation. ...
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Real-Time Speech Translation Decreases Language Barriers and Improves Communications in Iraq
The U.S. Joint Forces Command has responded to its shortage of military linguists in Iraq by turning to real-time language translation technology. American soldiers at military checkpoints have been given one-way phrase-based handheld computers equipped with speech-to-speech translation ...
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Flying High With Virtual Airways
Synthetic Vision Systems (SVS) is the latest phase of NASA's Aviation Safety and Security Program, aimed at reducing fatal aircraft collisions with other aircraft and with terrain. SVS hinges on the largest, most detailed map ever created, generated about five years ago using radar ...
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Electric Transformation
A multidisciplinary team of researchers affiliated with the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) is developing a system that will enable Californians to automatically adjust their electricity consumption levels in response to shortages in the ...
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T-Engine: Japan's Ubiquitous Computing Architecture Is Ready for Prime Time
Japan's T-Engine is a ubiquitous computing architecture that is arguably more advanced than any other platform in the world, supporting software resource distribution, tamper-proof network security, and standardized hardware. Developers can use T-Engine to quickly construct ubiquitous ...
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