Programming Languages for Library and Textual Processing
Is the U.S. Protecting Crucial Networks?
Executives from the power, communications, and other critical infrastructure industries told the House Science Committee on Thursday that they have enacted measures to guard against cyberthreats; the hearing came from the widespread fear that neither government nor industry is adequately ...
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Patent Reform Debate Gets Heated on Hill
The original Patent Reform Act of 2005 introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) featured a provision that would restrict patent holders' ability to obtain court orders to halt the sale of products that potentially infringe on their patents. This was one of many reforms desired by the ...
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Let's Talk Xanga: Capturing Gen-Z's Computational Imagination
Purdue University's Krishna Madhavan, Sebastien Goasguen, and Gary Bertoline concur with the authors of a recent HPCWire article that U.S. computational science education is in a sorry state. They advocate a bottom-up educational overhaul in light of the ubiquitous presence of ...
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Will Web Users 'Flock' to Social Surfing?
Bart Decrem, formerly with the Mozilla Foundation, has created Flock, a "social" Web browser designed to make it easier and faster to write, edit, share, and present Web content. He hopes Flock will satisfy the requirements of the "Web 2.0" Web user community with its seamless ...
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Georgia Tech's Ronald Arkin
Georgia Institute of Technology professor and IEEE Fellow Ronald Arkin, who also was a member of the National Science Foundation's Robotics Council, says the field of robotics lacks fundamental knowledge about intelligence mechanisms. He says truly intelligent machines will have a better chance ...
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Smart ID Card Advocates Call for Government Action
Supporters of the Real ID Act Congress passed in May say the legislation mandates minimum standards states must comply with to ensure that driver's licenses will remain legitimate federal IDs, while insisting that the law will not set up a national ID card that could infringe on citizens' privacy ...
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Hacking's a Snap in Legoland
Lego executives responded with surprising enthusiasm when adult Lego aficionados hacked and modified one of its development tools for digital designers. Lego's Ronny Scherer says the company welcomes and encourages modifications that show them how to adapt their software to users' needs. ...
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Delivering on Digital Content's Full Potential
Yael Lapid, coordinator of the IST-funded TIRAMISU project, says the project's goal is to investigate, develop, exploit, and integrate technologies that enable home users to easily and cheaply access protected multimedia content on everyday appliances such as mobile phones, PCs, and ...
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Dartmouth Researchers Build World's Smallest Mobile Robot
The world's smallest mobile robot has been created by Dartmouth College researchers led by computer science professor Bruce Donald. The prototype 60 micrometer by 150 micrometer robot is controllable in the sense that it can be steered on a flat surface, and is untethered, meaning it can move ...
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Wireless Sensor Could Reduce Traffic Congestion
Federal and state transportation departments monitor traffic using wired loop detectors that are costly to replace and often do not last as long as they are expected to, according to University of California-Berkeley computer science professor Pravin Varaiya. He and his colleagues have ...
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'Magic Brush' Paints Visual World
MIT Media Lab researcher Kimiko Ryokai's I/O Brush enables users to capture colors and textures within their environment and "paint" them onto a back-projected touch screen. Ryokai, a member of MIT's Tangible Media Group, believes the device can give users, particularly children, an ...
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MIT Researchers Map City by Cellphone
Computer-generated images of real-time cell phone use in a metropolitan area will be on display at an exhibition in Austria's second-largest city from Oct. 1 through Jan. 8. The M-City Exhibition at the Kunsthaus Graz will feature the Mobile Landscape project, the work of MIT researchers that ...
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A Human Connection to Intrusion Detection
Researchers at the University of Nottingham want to use the human body's immune system as a model for protecting computer systems. Computer science professor Uwe Aickelin and his colleagues are collaborating with immunologists at the University of the West of England in Bristol to build ...
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Virtual-Reality Game Seeks to Defeat Pain
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County's Pediatric Psychology Lab is testing virtual-reality games designed to ease or eliminate pain for children as they endure often uncomfortable medical procedures. One such game is "Free Dive," which presents a colorful and relaxing underwater ...
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IBM Sets Real-Time Tempo for Java Code With Metronome
A group of IBM researchers has created a real-time Java platform with maximum delays of 2 milliseconds positioned in direct competition to a similar effort launched by Sun Microsystems. The Metronome technology is still being tested, and is expected to be presented to the public in a ...
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Mainframe Programmers Wanted
Mainframe technology still pervades the industry, flouting the oft-repeated prediction that its days are numbered: Indeed, roughly 70 percent of corporate data are stored on mainframes. As the baby-boomers near retirement, businesses are seeing a shortage of programmers proficient with ...
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Fleet-Footed Worm Blocker
Microsoft Research is developing software designed to defend networks from fast-replicating computer worms. Vigilante can spot even unknown worms in network traffic, erect "filters" against them, and notify other machines on the network so quickly that the worms can be impeded before humans are even ...
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Holographic Memory
InPhase Technologies is spearheading the commercialization of holographic storage, a technique that allows data to be stored in three dimensions by encoding bits in a light-sensitive material, vastly increasing storage capacity and access speed. Potential applications of holographic storage ...
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Programming Languages for Library and Textual Processing
Determining a programming language's suitability for library and information science (LIS) depends on how adeptly that language processes text, as indicated by program size, simplicity, maintainability, and ease of enhancement; the occurrence of errors is also an important measure. ...
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