How to Ride the Fifth Wave
"The Battle for Control of the Internet"
Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law expects the conflict over Internet governance to reach a climax at ICANN's final 2005 meeting in Vancouver. ICANN was originally set up with the promise that the United States would eventually relinquish control of the domain name ...
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"Keeper of Expired Web Pages Is Sued Because Archive Was Used in Another Suit"
The Internet Archive, a searchable online repository of defunct Web sites and other multimedia content, has been targeted by a copyright infringement suit filed by Healthcare Advocates, which claims that access to its old Web pages in the archive was unlawful and unwarranted. Named as co-defendant ...
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"New E-Mail Authentication Spec Submitted to IETF"
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has received new email authentication specifications from a coalition of technology companies that includes IBM, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, and Microsoft. DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), which integrates Yahoo!'s DomainKeys technology and Cisco's ...
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"Computer Scientists Focus on Developing Programs That Can Learn Game Rules"
Stanford Logic Group computer science professor Michael Genesereth and doctoral student Nathaniel Love contend in AI Magazine's summer 2005 issue that more intelligent game-playing computer programs should be capable of winning more games as well as provide programming insights. Genesereth ...
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"Laptops Are Hot; Maybe Too Hot"
Though laptops are generally cooler than they were five years ago, making allowances for more powerful components that generate additional heat is an increasingly formidable challenge for designers and manufacturers. Hewlett-Packard mechanical-development engineer Jeff Lev says CPU ...
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"Tapping Into Tinkering"
Some electronics companies are starting to reevaluate those who tinker with their products as a source for new ideas--and indeed, promote those enthusiasts' modifications or incorporate them into their wares. Institute for the Future director Paul Saffo says watching what tinkering users do is ...
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"Apache Falls Victim to OASIS Shelter"
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) operates under the pretense of open standards, though in reality OASIS specifications often render services unwieldy and inaccessible, writes David Berlind. Many open source promoters held a boycott of OASIS ...
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"Turning Your Life Into Bits, Indexed"
Vannevar Bush's vision of Memex, an electronic archive of a person's entire life, is becoming a reality some 60 years after the science advisor penned his provocative article "As We May Think" in a 1945 issue of the Atlantic Monthly. Microsoft distinguished engineer Gordon Bell has developed ...
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"New-Age Keyboard: Trace, Don't Write"
IBM Almaden Research Center scientist Shumin Zhai promoted the experimental Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding (Shark) system at the New Paradigms for Using Computers conference on July 11. Shark is a pen-based shorthand technique whereby users enter words into mobile devices by tracing them ...
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"DHS Information Security Plans Lacking, GAO Says"
A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report determined that the two-year-old Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has struggled to comply with the 2002 Federal Information Security Act and stills lacks an adequate information security program. The 36-page report, requested by Sen. Joseph ...
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"The mSpace Classical Music Explorer: Improving Access to Classical Music for Real People"
The mSpace Classical Music Explorer is designed for classical music enthusiasts who lack domain expertise and therefore derive little value from common Web search tools such as keyword search, and the mSpace framework can be extended to apply to virtually any domain of interest. ...
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"New Battle Brews Over UCITA, Software Licensing Terms"
Although state-by-state adoption of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) was shot down by heavy resistance, critics contend that the act is still very influential, and the software users who led the opposition are developing their own model software-licensing law. "If ...
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"Many Minds, One Goal: Curb Bad Traffic"
More than 50 academic and commercial experts convened at the Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI) workshop last week to discuss new approaches to fortifying the Net against malware, spam, and other forms of network-strangling traffic. MIT professor and SRUTI ...
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"The Internet's Next Evolution Beckons"
Internet traffic is increasing exponentially thanks to expanding IP video, Internet audio, and Voice over IP (VoIP), as well as the Net's status as a leading news source. An even bigger explosion in Internet traffic and data will stem from machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, which any ...
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"Quantum Computing: Teaching Qubits New Tricks"
One of the long-perceived obstacles to building a practical quantum computer was the apparent inability to correct errors in quantum information without destroying the information itself. The very act of measuring a quantum object wipes out the original as its information is ...
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"What Will Top the IT Agenda in 2010?"
In a recent roundtable discussion, IT experts at work in different industries outlined their visions of how the IT world will develop in the next five years. Tom Miller of FoxHollow Technologies believes service-oriented computing will be a key driver, so that infrastructures ...
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"Assertive Debugging: Correcting Software as If We Meant It"
Programmer/software designer Mark Halpern describes the Assertive Debugging System (ADS) as a scheme that will abridge the current debugging process and enable the systematic, documentable debugging of software objects, which he believes will soon become a legal requirement. ADS deals with ...
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"The Call to eConnect"
President Bush wants electronic medical records for most Americans within the next 10 years, but a considerable amount of financial investment and cooperation is necessary. To make the private sector more accepting of health-information technology, Bush administration officials will probably ...
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"How to Ride the Fifth Wave"
Computing is poised for a fifth wave of evolution, impelled not by a single invention or its manner of corporate deployment, but by the convergence of inexpensive computing devices, ubiquitous bandwidth, and open tech standards that will together make computing universally accessible. The ...
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