Morphware
Live Webcast of Cerf and Kahn's ACM Turing Lecture Tonight
Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn, recipients of ACM's 2004 A.M. Turing Award, will present their lecture "Assessing the Internet: Lessons Learned, Strategies for Evolution, and Future Possibilities" tonight at the University of Pennsylvania's Irvine Auditorum. ACM ...
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Professor Tries to Instill Passion for Math, Science
Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Lenore Blum recently earned the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring for her work to encourage young girls to pursue math and science careers. She believes girls generally spend less time around ...
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High-Profile Online Data Thefts Irk Pols
The recent spate of highly publicized data breaches compromising the personal and financial information of millions of Americans has incited the third piece of congressional legislation addressing the issues of data protection and disclosure since April. The Personal Data Privacy and ...
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When PCs Pollute
Greenpeace has issued a report concluding that the recycling of electronic materials is unregulated and environmentally hazardous, as many workshops overseas where electronic equipment is disassembled contain high levels of toxic materials. Greenpeace advocates takeback programs that would hold ...
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Daisy Has All the Digital Answers to Life on Earth
British researchers have announced plans to build a digital library of all life on Earth using pattern-recognition software. The Digital Automated Identification System (Daisy) combines artificial intelligence and computer vision technology so that naturalists can access detailed information about ...
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VR Goggles Heal Scars of War
An experimental virtual-reality system that vividly replicates combat trauma is being used to treat soldiers suffering from shellshock. The Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California developed the system last year with the U.S. Office of Naval ...
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Tech Beyond Black Boxes? It Just Won't Fly
The recent Greek airplane crash highlights the problem of relying on "black box" flight recorders that are themselves vulnerable to damage or destruction, yet relaying key data from the aircraft to the ground every few microseconds has been deemed too costly and complex an engineering feat ...
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Enhanced: More Women in Science
In the 25 years since the inception of the Women in Science and Technology Act, women have made significant advances into the fields of math and science, though their participation remains disproportionately low in academia. Despite the recent debate over innate intelligence and cognitive ...
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Chinese Developers Should Take Global Open-Source View
Speakers at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Beijing said Chinese companies and developers can and should play a key role in the development of open-source software, both in a technical and non-technical capacity. Novell CEO Jack Messman lauded the Chinese government's support for ...
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Can a Simple Password Stop Domain Name Hijacking?
Using a password at the time of a domain transfer between registrars could safeguard against identity fraud targeting Internet domain names, which has emerged as one of the most significant threats to networks today. Securing the domain name transfer process has been slow, due partially to the ...
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Computer Characters Mugged in Virtual Crime Spree
The increasingly porous boundary between the real and virtual worlds is illustrated by the arrest of a Chinese exchange student in Japan on suspicion of controlling software "bots" to assault and rob game characters of virtual possessions, which were then fenced for real money through an ...
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Software Broadens the Language of Search
IBM has released Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA), open source software for the annotation, searching, and sharing of metadata that IBM and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) expect will implement a new type of software application capable of extracting ...
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Software Development Survey Says People, Not Tools, Matter Most
Management and technology approaches are more significant factors in determining the quality of software development projects than tools, according to a new study from Quantitative Software Management. In its report on "the Best and Worst in Class" projects, QSM found that the best ...
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How Bots Can Earn More Than You
It has been demonstrated, both in simulation and in the real world, that software robots or bots can outperform and even out-earn humans in areas such as the stock market. Such bots vied against each other in an agent trading competition at the International Joint Conference on Artificial ...
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Science Intelligence
Business and science are experiencing a convergence between technologies, architectures, and procedures for information technology, according to Bolder Technology President Richard Hackathorn, who believes business and science can become more intelligent through a unified information ...
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Can Google Stay Google?
The meteoric rise of Google belies fears that it could suffer the fate of many companies in Silicon Valley's unforgiving arena: That competitors will catch up and send Google on a downward spiral into obscurity. Co-founder Sergey Brin says part of the secret to Google's success is the ...
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The African Hacker
Ghanaian software entrepreneur Hermann Chinery-Hesse created his company, Soft Tribe, to capitalize on his epiphany that Africans cannot take advantage of IT by merely importing European or American software--they must customize the programs for local conditions. Chinery-Hesse is a ...
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Morphware
Morphware processors occupy a middle tier between general-purpose processors that execute a broad set of commands and application-specific integrated circuits optimized for speed. Morphware rapidly carries out one application and then reconfigures its wiring in accordance with software ...
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