Speech Technologies Impact the Accessibility Market
"How Secure Is Federal 'Cybersecurity'?"
Although the protection of America's cyber-infrastructure has been of primary concern since 9-11, official reports and industry experts concur that the U.S. government's cybersecurity effort comes up drastically short, focusing on short-term "band-aid" solutions instead of a long-term ...
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"E-Vote Guidelines Need Work"
Critics say new voting system guidelines developed by the Technical Guidelines Development Committee for the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) are an improvement over earlier guidelines, but are still inadequate when it comes to addressing many of the security issues that ...
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"U.S. Lacks Initiative on Broadband Innovations"
Due to a failure to encourage research and development at an institutional level, the United States is losing traction in the global broadband competition, writes Stevens Institute of Technology President Harold Raveche. He says foreign developers, particularly in Europe and Asia, are ...
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"Internet2 and LambdaRail, 2 Leading Groups in High-Speed Academic Networks, Discuss Merger"
National LambdaRail (NLR) and Internet2 are considering a merger following a recommendation from a panel of networking experts, although leaders in both organizations caution that financial and bureaucratic concerns could bog down discussions. The panel's report concludes that the integration of ...
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"Tech's Part in Preventing Attacks"
The terrorist bombings in London will undoubtedly make the development and deployment of preventative technologies even more imperative, and numerous companies are offering or developing products with attack deterrence in mind. Many intelligence agencies face a shortage of speakers of ...
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"American-Style Patents Won't Cross the Pond to EU"
The European Parliament's July 6 vote to discard the European Union's IT patenting proposal is sparking debate on how the decision will affect business and open source. The defeat of the law means the EU's patenting practices will not be aligned with those of the United States and Japan, ...
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"Schools Looking for Ways to Lure More Minorities"
Undergraduate enrollments in computer science programs, which have tended to lean toward the white male demographic, are shrinking. This is spurring computer science departments to study their student populations in order to ascertain the reasons why they are failing to lure minorities, so that they ...
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"Professor's Computer Search Work Turns Heads"
Personalizing Web searches to retrieve desired information faster and more accurately without being swamped by data is one of University of Illinois computer science professor ChengXiang Zhai's goals. His research has earned him a National Science Foundation-sponsored 2005 Presidential Early ...
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"Video Robots Redefine 'TV Doctor'"
Physicians in dozens of U.S. hospitals are using robots to remotely make their rounds, consult with colleagues, respond to emergency calls, and monitor intensive-care units. One such device is Dr. Robot, a wheeled machine controlled by a joystick and equipped with a camera, speaker, and ...
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"Television That Leaps Off the Screen"
Stereoscopic television that displays three-dimensional imagery without the need for special eyewear is the ambitious goal of many companies, but Deep Light in California has made a major breakthrough: Their HD3D technology allows different programs to be shown to different viewers on one screen ...
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"Geocoding the World of Weblogs"
Researchers at the University at Buffalo School of Informatics are conducting a project that models the demographics of bloggers throughout the United States. To create an index of 300,000 blogs and pair them with a regional identity, communications professor Alexander Halavais and ...
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"The Leader of the Robot Pack"
IRobot CEO and co-founder Colin Angle admits that the robotics industry is still young, and cites a U.N. report's prediction that the robot population will expand by a factor of seven between 2004 and 2007. IRobot was spun off from MIT, but Angle believes the company's future competitors will ...
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"Experimental Software"
Microsoft Research scientists in Cambridge have developed C Omega, an experimental software language based on C# that offers features for writing concurrent programs. "We have a simple model of concurrency that works both for multiple threads on a single machine and for dealing with ...
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"Entering a Dark Age of Innovation"
Despite those heralding ours as an age of unparalleled technological advancement, an historical perspective paints a gloomier picture. Physicist Jonathan Huebner with the Pentagon's Naval Air Warfare Center has mapped out the history of invention and concludes that we are entering a ...
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"What Are the Limits of Conventional Computing?"
Mathematicians have demonstrated that any of the hardest computational problems--also known as NP problems--could be solved through a quick and easy shortcut to answering just one of them. However, the existence of such a shortcut is unproven, and generally doubted by scientists. One of ...
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"Plotting Your Future in the Global IT Job Market"
Adaptability is key if U.S. technology workers are to have gainful employment in the face of globalization and companies' increasing reliance on offshore IT outsourcing. Alsbridge's Ed Rankin says creativity and the ability to innovate will continue to be a prized quality for employees, but ...
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"Inside Purdue's Envision Center"
The National Science Foundation is funding Purdue University's Envision Center as an interdisciplinary, high-performance platform for discovery and learning that applies the principles of data perceptualization. Data perceptualization involves the translation of large volumes of data into ...
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"Inaction on Offshoring Will Hurt U.S. IT, Author Says"
As the IT landscape globalizes in scope, the growing tendency of companies to look overseas for low-cost labor poses significant challenges to U.S. hegemony in the industry. Ron Hira, an assistant professor of Public Policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, believes the sizeable ...
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"Speech Technologies Impact the Accessibility Market"
Speech technologies are being mainstreamed often to the exclusion of users of assistive technology (AT), which include the dexterity, sight, hearing, cognitive, and speech impaired--and this is ironic, given that handicapped users frequently drive technology development. Market drivers for speech ...
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