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July 11, 2005

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HEADLINES AT A GLANCE:

  • U.S. Losing Lead in Science and Engineering--Study
  • Industry Looks Into Cloudy Future for Authentication
  • Will RFID-Guided Robots Rule the World?
  • Robot Lends 'a Seeing Eye' for Blind Shoppers
  • Academia Seeks to Join Global Elite
  • Legislation to Elevate Cybersecurity Post May Die in Senate
  • Irish Researchers in Third World IT Initiative
  • Views From the Smartest People in Sun's Orbit
  • Broadband's Power-Line Push
  • Mind the Semantic Gap
  • ICANN's Man in Europe Bows Out
  • Love That 'Legacy'
  • Head of the Class: The Future of Open Source in the Enterprise
  • Conquest of Space
  • Steal This Software
  • Lose the File Cabinets
  • High-Performance Mesh Networking Makes Its Mark on M2M
  • What Lies Ahead for Cellular Technology?

     

    U.S. Losing Lead in Science and Engineering--Study

    The United States is in danger of losing its more than five-decade-long global dominance of science and engineering as the percentage of American science and engineering graduates starts lagging behind that of Europe and developing countries, according to a study written by Richard Freeman of

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    Industry Looks Into Cloudy Future for Authentication

    It is hoped that the Email Authentication Implementation Summit in New York will revive waning interest in adopting email sender authentication technology in order to bring spam and email viruses under control. Enterprise adoption of email sender authentication in the past year has ...

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    Will RFID-Guided Robots Rule the World?

    >From factories to playgrounds, researchers are envisioning an ever-increasing array of applications for radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies: Secom has developed a robot that monitors children at play and sends a warning to a control center if a child wanders off or a ...

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    Robot Lends 'a Seeing Eye' for Blind Shoppers

    Using a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Utah State University computer science professor Vladimir Kulyukin and visually impaired colleague Sachin Pavithran have built a prototype Robotic Guide (RG), a device designed to help blind people gain some measure of autonomy ...

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    Academia Seeks to Join Global Elite

    As the Asian position in the global IT marketplace strengthens, its academic institutions have failed to keep pace. In particular, Indian and Chinese firms are looking to hire graduates from European and North American universities, who typically have worked in more advanced labs, ...

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    Legislation to Elevate Cybersecurity Post May Die in Senate

    Due to debates over Bush's nominees and other legislative work taking precedence, legislation promoting the Homeland Security Department's cybersecurity division director to the assistant secretary level for increased cybersecurity importance will likely not receive a vote in the ...

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    Irish Researchers in Third World IT Initiative

    Researchers in Europe are studying how to improve the usability of new technology in indigenous communities in India. The goal is to make it easier for someone who has no concept of a touch screen interface to use kiosks that software engineers in India have developed, for example, with ...

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    Views From the Smartest People in Sun's Orbit

    The future of Google, biotech, programming models, and other technologies was the subject of a JavaOne panel consisting of some of Sun Microsystems' biggest brains. Sun Fellow Guy Steele discussed his Fortress language project, which is designed to more tightly integrate mathematical and ...

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    Broadband's Power-Line Push

    Google, Hearst, and Goldman Sachs' recently announced investment in Germantown, Md.-based Current Communications Group is generating renewed interest in broadband over power lines (BPL), a technology that might make electric companies viable as providers of high-speed Internet access. ...

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    Mind the Semantic Gap

    University of Southampton researchers note that a tension in hypertext system design exists between machine-manipulable formalized knowledge representations and less highly structured hypertext representations created and read by people, and their primary area of concern is the ...

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    ICANN's Man in Europe Bows Out

    Upon his departure from ICANN, former ICANN vice president for Europe Paul Verhoef predicts that the World Summit on the Information Society later this year will make general pronouncements about Internet governance that cast ICANN in a favorable light. In his role as the first ICANN staff ...

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    Love That 'Legacy'

    Defined variously as obsolete and reliable, and referred to with both admiration and scorn as Cobol or mainframe code, legacy systems still occupy an important position in today's programming landscape. Despite poor documentation and the melting pot effect that has come from many ...

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    Head of the Class: The Future of Open Source in the Enterprise

    CollabNet CTO and leading figure of the open source movement Brian Behlendorf recalls in an interview that his interest in open source was first sparked when he realized that software innovation comes about through a collaborative network of people. He says the bottom-up approach for open ...

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    Conquest of Space

    Grid computing offers a myriad of possibilities for businesses and researchers, but the term can mean different things to different users. Grid speeds and capacities increase when systems are linked, and both grow as the grid expands. The San Diego Supercomputer Center's (SDSC) largest ...

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    Steal This Software

    China is one of the world's fastest-growing technology markets, but an entrenched culture of intellectual property theft is proving to be a difficult issue, not only for foreign software firms but also for the Chinese government. With improved bandwidth, the Internet has usurped ...

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    Lose the File Cabinets

    The new PDF Archival (PDF/A) standard, recently approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), is the result of an effort to manage and archive the preponderance of documents Enron and other fallen companies left in the wake of their collapse. The standard was ...

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    High-Performance Mesh Networking Makes Its Mark on M2M

    Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication via mobile broadband mesh networking has great potential as the next major wireless revolution. M2M communications systems facilitate the provision of critical data for real-time process control applications by sensors, streamlining the ...

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    What Lies Ahead for Cellular Technology?

    As wireless companies gird themselves for the transition from third-generation (3G) cellular service to 4G, some carriers are investigating new technologies, but most are upgrading existing wireless technology to avoid infrastructure overhauls, a decision that only serves ...

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