Is
China the Next R&D Superpower?
"How to Make Safer Software"
As software has filtered down to virtually every aspect of our lives, developers have begun to realize that the bells and whistles that used to drive sales of their products must take a backseat to fundamental security and quality provisions. In a recent interview, Cigital CTO Gary McGraw ...
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"OMB Seeks R&D on Supercomputing, Cybersecurity"
A July 8 memo from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) calls for greater priority on federal research and development for supercomputing and cybersecurity, but policy analysts lament the memo's implication that R&D budgets will remain ...
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"N.J. to Get E-Voting Paper Trail, But Not Until 2008"
Acting New Jersey Gov. Richard Codey last week passed a new law requiring all electronic touchpad voting systems in the state to provide a voter-verifiable paper record, but critics complain the law does not go into effect until Jan. 1, 2008. "That doesn't protect people for the next ...
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"Getting More Girls to Study Math, Tech"
A July 19 panel discussion on "Women and Girls in Science, Math, and Technology" in Alameda, Calif., will address the wide gap between the percentages of men and women in science, engineering, and technology, which panelist Donna Milgram with the National Institute for Women in Trades, ...
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"Open Source Rules Campus Programs"
Web developers in Portland, Ore., are finding it difficult to hire computer science graduates with experience in Microsoft's .Net Web site development environment, because most college graduates are trained on open-source systems, according to Mark Brody of Opus Creative. Portland State ...
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"Could Cars That Read Minds Save Drivers From Themselves?"
The use of driving simulators by the automotive industry has yielded important information about drivers that is being applied to vehicular systems. For example, to handle drivers' tendency not to apply their car's maximum braking power in a panic stop, engineers have developed electronic ...
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"Linux Lays Groundwork for World's Top Supercomputers"
Increasing numbers of the highest-ranking machines on the Top500 Supercomputer List are using open-source Linux operating systems, reports list editor Erich Strohmaier. This reflects the larger part Linux is playing in high-performance computing (HPC), and Strohmaier projects that ...
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"Father of Java Talks Futures"
In a recent interview, Sun Microsystems fellow and Java creator James Gosling outlines his thoughts on the future of the language. Central to Sun's work on Java has been integration with other languages, including one complex, ongoing project that has numerical computing and multithreading ...
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"Picking Apart the PITAC Report"
The point of the recent U.S. President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) report is that the scientific community has not been able to take full advantage of computational science because of inadequate and outdated software systems and models, write the authors. The authors say ...
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"Augmented Maps"
Researchers at England's University of Cambridge have devised a system that facilitates the enhancement of printed maps with digital graphical information. The dynamic paper map system developed by Dr. Tom Drummond, Dr. Gerhard Reitmayr, and Ethan Eade is designed so that the printed map is ...
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"Algorithms Take a Back Seat as the Machine Learns to Thrive in the Age of Uncertainty"
The issue of uncertainty has prompted some machine learning researchers to focus less on programming solutions and pursue new approaches to their work, said Microsoft Research Cambridge's Christopher Bishop while presenting the 2005 BCS Lovelace Lecture. Though researchers have had a ...
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"Google Raises the Profile of Geospatial Information"
Keyhole general manager John Hanke discusses how the public has received the Google Earth product line, as well as its effects on geographical information system (GIS) vendors and other geospatial technology industry players. Keyhole, which was acquired by Google last October, is chiefly ...
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"Missing Link: Augmented Reality Technology May Bridge Communication Gap in Poultry Processing Plants"
A research team at Georgia Tech has developed augmented reality technology that aims to improve efficiencies in poultry plants. The researchers designed two different methods of projecting graphical images onto a bird that show trimmers which parts are to be removed and which products are ...
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"New Search Engine to Help Thwart Terrorists"
An anti-terrorism search engine based on Unintended Information Revelation (UIR) is being developed by researchers at the University of Buffalo's Center of Excellence in Document Analysis and Recognition with funding from the National Science Foundation and the FAA. The principle behind UIR is ...
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"For Linux, the End-to-End Is Near"
The mainstreaming of the Linux operating system has substantially changed the makeup of the Linux market, leading to more commercial tools for Linux developers as well as improvements to open-source tools, writes Pacific Data Works analyst Andrew Binstock. With Linux included in new development ...
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"Take It to the Limit"
Computer speed may continuously improve, but the codes computers use to transmit data are unlikely to advance much further. The upper limit consists of turbo codes and low-density parity check (LDPC) codes, which facilitate perfect fidelity even over noisy lines because they are designed ...
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"Can You Hear Me Now?"
Two recently introduced voice recognition products, Dragon NaturallySpeaking and IBM's ViaVoice, offer new applications for a technology that is widely used for transcription in law and medicine. Dragon NaturallySpeaking targets a corporate audience with features such as ...
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"Is China the Next R&D Superpower?"
Concurrent with declines in America's science and engineering graduate output and U.S. government spending on research and development in the physical sciences is China's dramatic uptick in both these areas, leading industry observers to predict its rise into a major R&D power. The ...
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