Kryder's Law
How High-Tech Is Coming to the Rescue
Catastrophes, such as Hurricane Katrina, are raising the profile of new search-and-rescue technologies. The researchers developing the technologies say they are not trying to supplant emergency-response workers: "It's us getting the technology to the people who will use it to save people," ...
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Open-Source Projects Intertwine for Integration
In a direct challenge to IBM and other commercial vendors, three open-source initiatives--ServiceMix, Apache Synapse, and Celtix--have joined forces with the goal of producing more fluid and integrated middleware. The partnership aims to address the growing demand of businesses for linking software that ...
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TechScape: Vint Cerf on the InterPlanet
Vint Cerf envisions an interplanetary Internet, or InterPlaNet, as a communications network for people or devices in space or on other planets. Key challenges for realizing this vision include reducing or minimizing "flow control," or the delay in communications across space; the ...
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Time-Saving Tool: Google Galvanizes Invention by UCSD Student During Summer of Code
The University of California, San Diego's James Anderson has invented a technique that allows a file to be transferred automatically from one computer to other devices. The graduate student's invention, known as transparent synchronization, or Tsync, has drawn the attention of Google, ...
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Spotlight on Copyright Piracy
The U.S. Commerce Department estimates that American companies lose $250 billion in annual sales globally due to copyright piracy, and China is considered one of the worst offenders due to its slipshod enforcement and undependable judicial system. Pressuring China to correct these deficiencies ...
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Computer Program Learns Language Rules and Composes Sentences, All Without Outside Help
Cornell University psychology professor and computer scientist Shimon Edelman and Tel Aviv University researchers have developed Automatic Distillation of Structure (ADIOS), a technique enabling a computer program to scan text, then autonomously extract language rules and compose new ...
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The Internet: What Lies Ahead?
ICANN Chairman Vinton Cerf, who is often credited as one of the Internet's founding fathers, anticipates that the Net of the future will allow users to operate and manage other Internet-enabled equipment with mobile devices, while further out he envisions an interplanetary network connecting ...
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AIMing for Business Innovation
The IST-funded AIM project has developed a software platform designed to facilitate business innovation by encouraging the exchange of knowledge among an organization's various employees and departments. AIM coordinating partner Alvaro Gorostiza says employees are typically discouraged from ...
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U.S. Tests $3.5m Computerized Lie Detector
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will apportion $3.5 million to Rutgers University researchers to develop next-generation computerized lie detectors that can analyze the veracity of statements by studying subtle facial expressions, hand gestures, and other body language cues. Rutgers ...
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Predicting How You're Going to Shop Online
IBM Haifa Laboratories researcher Amit Fisher has combined data mining, operations research, artificial intelligence, and economics to take a more sophisticated approach to predicting the long-term behavior of online shoppers so the most valuable customers can be identified and given ...
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Chair Shines in World Wide Web Consortium
Wayne Dick, chair of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at California State University, Long Beach, is involved in the World Wide Web Consortium's Educational Outreach Working Group. The group is a component of the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), and Dick, who is visually handicapped, ...
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Microsoft Claims Secure Development Success
Microsoft says its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), created to ensure that developers are writing secure code, is showing early indications of success. The program was developed in the wake of a series of publicized vulnerabilities, and Microsoft's Rick Samona notes that each of the ...
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Starting a New Digital Chapter for Historical Documents
The IST program-funded MEMORIAL project has developed a method for processing digital images of paper documents to the degree where portions of text can be identified by special software and rendered as electronic text by commercial optical character recognition (OCR). The software component of ...
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The Technology Dream Deferred
America's increasing dependency on "temporary" guest-worker programs and the export of technology-related jobs to countries where labor is cheaper constitute a serious blow to African-American tech professionals, particularly those in rural communities and central cities. The Bureau of ...
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Foreign Workers First?
The U.S. Department of Labor's refusal to disclose job openings submitted by U.S. employers seeking to hire workers on H-1B visas so domestic workers might have a fair shot at them is a sign of disrespect to American labor, according to University of California, Davis, computer science professor ...
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BLAST
Since it was first developed 15 years ago, the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) has revolutionized bioinformatics by providing a way to clarify gene sequence data to uncover sequence homology. BLAST has no direct applications, but sequence homology informs gene function, which ...
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The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies (And the Man Who Tried to Stop Them)
The revelation that a ring of Chinese hackers, collectively known as Titan Rain, has been launching coordinated attacks on sensitive and seemingly secure U.S. networks to steal data for some time has unsettling implications for U.S. security. The Department of Defense issued a warning that Titan ...
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The Threats Get Nastier
Business technology and security professionals are confident their IT systems are adequately protected against cyberthreats, according to InformationWeek Research's U.S. Information Security Survey 2005, but this attitude belies the fact that worms, viruses, and other forms of malware are ...
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Kryder's Law
Seagate Technology CTO Mark Kryder, who founded and directed Carnegie Mellon University's Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC), believes new products and applications have made the increasing information storage capacity of hard drives even more important than the expanding power and ...
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