The Fading Memory of the State
"ACM Past President Maria Klawe and Bill Gates to Address Importance of Academia/Industry Collaboration"
ACM Past President Maria Klawe, Dean of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University, will join Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect, to discuss opportunities and challenges facing academic researchers and the technology industry on a live webcast at the sixth annual Microsoft ...
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"Open-Source P2P Projects Keep Swapping"
Independent open-source file-swapping projects have not been muzzled by the Supreme Court's recent ruling that commercial file-trading companies that encourage copyright infringement by users could be liable for digital piracy, although the court case has been a topic for discussion among ...
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"Gap Emerges Between High-Performance Computing Hardware, Software"
A new report from IDC indicates a widening gap between the capabilities of high-performance computing (HPC) systems' hardware and software: Hardware vendors can assemble HPC systems with hundreds or thousands of processors in parallel, while independent software vendors are producing HPC ...
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"Weka's Winning Ways"
The ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) will honor Waikato University's Computer Science Machine Learning Group with its highest honor, the 2005 SIGKDD Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Service Award, at the 11th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on ...
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"E-Voting: Paper Trail Versus Transparency"
Johns Hopkins University computer science professor Avi Rubin and VerifiedVoting's David Dill discuss the relative value of transparent e-voting systems and a verifiable voter paper receipt (VVPR), the latter of which has been receiving most of the attention. Dill ranks publicly ...
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"DHS Reorganization Creates New Cybersecurity Position"
A restructuring of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced by DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff on July 13 will involve the establishment of a position of assistant secretary for cyber and telecommunications security. IT groups have been advocating for such a move, as have several ...
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"Computer Science Enrollment Lulls After End of Tech Boom"
In an effort to boost computer science enrollment, the University of Maryland has developed several outreach programs to champion the field of computer science. The University has seen an overall decline in enrollment in its College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences of about 33 ...
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"UN to Propose Global Internet Council"
The United Nations' Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) is set to release a report next week that will recommend the creation of a new governing body to replace ICANN, which is affiliated with the U.S. Department of Commerce. The report, which has yet to be published but was ...
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"Study Shows Promise of Entry-Level IT Jobs for Low-Wage Workers"
Karen Chapple, an assistant professor of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley, has found that despite all the warnings about offshore outsourcing, there are many IT jobs available for entry-level, low-wage workers. Her research suggests that workers enjoy ...
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"Panama Gets Software to Assess Students"
The Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition is giving its Cmaps concept mapping software to schools and teachers in Panama and elsewhere as a learning enhancement tool. The software was created partly as a knowledge preservation system that represents information as a diagram of ...
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"Simulated Society May Generate Virtual Culture"
Researchers participating in the New and Emergent World Models Through Individual, Evolutionary and Social Learning (NEW-TIES) project are developing a society of virtual characters that can eat, reproduce, communicate, and learn through interaction. The scientists hope the ...
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"Reading Phone Text One Word at a Time"
Stanford University researchers have tapped the concept of Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) to create BuddyBuzz, software that makes reading text on cell phones easier. BuddyBuzz flashes just one word at a time in the center of the display briefly before proceeding to the next word, ...
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"Poker-Playing Robots Battle for $100,000 Pot"
Participants in the World Series of Poker Robots believe the tournament say programming a robot to play mathematically perfect poker is easy, but it also demands new levels of artificial intelligence research that address issues such as luck and reading an opponent, as well as presenting the ...
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"Robo-Soccer Teams Shoot for Big Goals"
The development of technologies and methodologies to enable automated teamwork between robots is the goal behind RoboCup, the annual international contest in which teams of robots compete against each other in soccer tournaments. The performance of RoboCup teams has improved ...
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"Argonne Wins Four R&D 100 Awards for Scientific, Technological Innovation"
The MPICH2 software from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has been recognized with a R&D 100 Award from R&D magazine. Application developers will be able to use MPICH2 to program parallel computers, including clusters of laptops and workstations working together ...
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"'Hard Fun' Yields Lessons on Nature of Intelligence"
Co-director of MIT's Future of Learning Group David Cavallo says revolutionary insights about human intelligence can be produced through "hard fun" projects that apply technology creatively, methodically, and assiduously. He explains that early artificial intelligence research did ...
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"Software Under Scrutiny"
Software inspection processes are the best way to lower development costs, abbreviate delivery schedules, and make operational software products more trustworthy in the field. Software inspection process expert Edward Weller III says experience and discussions with industry fellows indicate that ...
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"Weather Forecasters Turn to High Technology"
Weather forecasters are embracing advanced data fusion, software, and computationally efficient technologies in order to make faster and more accurate broadcasts, which are critical to both military and civilian operations. The "nowcast" data-fusion system being developed by the U.S. ...
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"The Fading Memory of the State"
Archives such as the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will need to be staffed by librarians who are proficient in metadata, computer scientists who are skilled in storage technologies, and experts who have the eye of a historian in order to preserve the electronic records ...
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