E-Gad!
A Techie, Absolutely, And More
Computer majors are finding that technical skills alone will not ensure steady, well-paying work as the offshoring of tech jobs to lower-wage countries increases due to advances in the Internet and low-cost computing. They are therefore boosting their chances of landing secure and ...
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Sun Unveils Plans for Open-Source DRM Project
Speaking at the Progress and Freedom Foundation Aspen Summit, Sun Microsystems President Jonathan Schwartz revealed the Open Media Commons, an open-source project to develop a royalty-free standard for digital rights management (DRM). He cited explosive growth in demand for new ...
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Professor Studies Electronic Voting
University of Iowa computer science professor Douglas Jones' five-year, $800,000 National Science Foundation grant to study the use of electronic voting systems is seen by his peers as an acknowledgement of his accomplishments in the area of secure elections and voting systems. Jones ...
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CMU's Brad Myers
In a recent interview on the current state and future of technology, Carnegie Mellon computer science professor Brad Myers immediately identified the problem of information overload, noting that the proliferation of informative Web sites and email as well as the growing ...
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IBM, Users Work to Attract Young Mainframers
IBM has entered into a partnership with the Share user group to offer support for IT students eyeing mainframe computing as a career through the zNextGen project. The potential market for mainframe-savvy people is growing as mainframe experts approach retirement age, while companies in ...
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The Struggle Over Science
Just as Great Britain witnessed a chill in government interest in science after World War II, the United States appears to be in a similar state of decline, writes Harold Evans. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Vinton Cerf, the former Defense Department scientist who is often credited as one ...
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Technology to Mimic Mother Nature
Thanks to an influx of new technologies and increased collaboration among biologists, computer scientists, and chemists, biomimetics, or the imitation of biological processes, is shrinking down to the micro and nano levels, ushering in a host of new applications. The biomimetics formula ...
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Hacker Underground Erupts in Virtual Turf Wars
Hacker turf wars sparked by the increasing strategic and monetary value of compromised computers have usually simmered out of the public eye, but such skirmishes were in plain view last week when the Zotob worm infected computers at a major airport, media outlets, and industrial companies, and ...
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Open-Source Mambo Project Faces Rift
The content management system Mambo could be headed for a fissure, as developers of the open source application are dissenting from the Mambo Foundation and Miro International, which oversee the project. The split comes as the two sides vie for control of the project's direction, and the ...
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Wireless Wiretapping
The FCC's recent proposal to expand the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) to certain broadband and voice-over-Internet (VoIP) providers has sparked protest from civil rights advocates as well as allied broadband suppliers and Internet associations concerned that such a ...
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What Price Homeland Security??
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a study earlier this year concluding that the nation is ill-prepared to deal with threats to its critical Internet infrastructure, and increasing numbers of computer-security experts believe a catastrophic cyber-infrastructure ...
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DHS Looks at Bigger Picture for Infrastructure Protection R&D
The recently released National Plan for Research and Development in Support of Critical Infrastructure Protection creates nine sector-wide themes that include both physical and cybersecurity concerns. The nine themes, which will be integrated with other national security strategies and focused on ...
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Enterprise Service Bus Effort Under Apache Incubation
Synapse is an effort to create an open-source implementation of a Web services broker/enterprise service bus (ESB) as an alternative to existing commercial ESB/broker/gateways founded on proprietary protocols. The project is being incubated by the Apache Software Foundation with support ...
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Technology's Human Need
The IT industry's resurgence has been slow in coming partly due to offshoring and productivity trends, as well as the IT job market's precipitous decline following the dot-com implosion. But fewer college students enrolling in computer-science courses means that companies may ...
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I See What You're Signing
A gesture interface is being developed by Georgia Institute of Technology researchers as a tool for communication between the hearing and the hearing-impaired. The Georgia Tech team is collaborating with cognitive scientists at the University of Rochester and engineers at George ...
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The Net's Next 10 Years
Just as the Internet has had a major impact on everyday life over the last 10 years, the next 10 are also likely to be equally transformative. Internet2, currently the exclusive province of research and educational institutions, offers unparalleled speed; though Internet2 CEO Doug Van ...
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Congress Faces Renewed Fight Over H-1B Visa Limits
The U.S. government's declaration that the H-1B visa cap for fiscal year 2006 has already been reached--the first time the application process has been closed before the start of a fiscal year--is likely to prompt high-tech trade organizations to lobby for additional visas beyond the ...
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Will the Build Bottleneck Put the Brakes on Agile?
Some software vendors and consultants foresee agile software development getting waylaid by a bottleneck in the build management process as sophisticated development organizations strive to make integration automated and continuous. "Teams that want to be more agile are headed for ...
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E-Gad!
Electronic waste is a growing problem, and action is being taken--and not being taken--to address the issue. E-waste is comprised of electronic devices (TVs, PCs, etc.) rife with hazardous materials that are being discarded in vast quantities, oftentimes for being obsolete rather than ...
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