Beware the March of This IDE: Eclipse Is Overshadowing Other Tool Technologies
NSF Preps New, Improved Internet
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the launch of the Global Environment for Networking Investigations (GENI), an initiative that could yield a better, more secure Internet architecture, on Aug. 24 at a meeting of ACM's Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM). NSF said ...
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Linux Kernel Update Improves Event Monitoring
Though some developers had anticipated it sooner, the next few weeks should see a stable Linux update promising improvements in file system event monitoring, a host of system calls permitting users to load a kernel from the Linux kernel functioning at the time, and the Xtensa architecture. ...
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Intel Opens Doors on Autonomic Computing
Intel's Justin Rattner and IBM's Alan Ganek cited "user-aware" technologies as a critical step toward autonomic computing, which will probably not be realized in a mainstream sense for quite a while. Speaking at the Intel Developer Forum, Rattner said the future of electronics will be fueled by ...
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Squirrel Helps With Mobile Calls
MIT research student Stefan Marti has come up with a unique solution to the irritation of intrusive cell phone calls: An Autonomous Interactive Intermediary (AII) that takes the form of a cute animatronic animal that answers phone calls, determines if its owner is occupied or asleep, ...
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Model-Driven Development Today
Companies such as Borland and Rational envision model driven development (MDD) as a partial solution to the vexing problem of making software development more transparent, predictable, and accountable. The promise of MDD lies in its ability to enable developers to rapidly generate quality ...
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Penn State IST Researchers to Enhance Search Engine
Penn State and University of Kansas researchers have received a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant to augment and upgrade the CiteSeer academic search engine, which has enabled the public to access over 700,000 computer and information sciences documents since its launch ...
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New Cybersecurity Center to Warn Law Enforcement of Critical Infrastructure Attacks
A pilot of the Philadelphia-based Cyber Incident Detection Analysis Center (CIDDAC) is enabling numerous private enterprises to anonymously report cyberthreat and attack data with other enterprises and the government without fear of law enforcement audits. CIDDAC avoids audits by not being ...
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QA Group of W3C Releases Specification Guidelines
The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group of the W3C will complete the Specification Guidelines this month, which will inform writers and editors on how to generate workable technical specifications. Steve Bratt, the W3C's COO, said the creation of standards will help software developers ...
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Play and Learn
The idea of video games as a learning tool is gaining credibility and drawing controversy with the publication of books such as "Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter," by Steven Johnson. Johnson cites scientific studies showing that ...
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Black Hat Work for the White Hat Good
Researchers at Cal State Dominguez Hills believe their cyber monitoring technology will help protect sensitive electronic information from hackers. Using a $130,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense over the next two years, Mohsen Beheshti, a professor and chairman of the computer ...
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Fine Arts Scholars Join Computer Scientists to Explore Cultural Creativity
Longtime strangers creative arts and computer science could share a future together, as a new program at the University of Illinois demonstrates. Jonathan Fineberg, an art history professor at the university's Urbana-Champaign campus, recently partnered with art and design professor ...
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Computer Programmers Need to Speak the Right Language
Many New Zealand computer programmers agree that proficiency in multiple programming languages and other computing fundamentals is necessary in order to find and maintain gainful employment, and they advocate solid technical training. Dave O'Rourke, a systems integration manager for a ...
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A Proposal for Governing the 'Net
The architects of the Internet designed it to be governed by a combination of democratic and free-market principles, which was seen as favorable to the previous "monarchy" of Ma Bell. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) was set up to be a forum where different stakeholders could work ...
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Mesh Scheme Crosses Borders
To widen the scope of a local area network, groups such as the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and the Chinese government are implementing wireless mesh networks. Mesh networks often expand on Wi-Fi technology, and pose a threat to the emergence of the non-certified WiMAX scheme; costs for mesh ...
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It Pays to Be Persistent
The Energy Department's Information Bridge program is seeking to eliminate Document Not Found messages through the use of persistent identifiers, or permanent Web addresses to ensure the future recovery of content. Previously, agencies had posted content on the Web only to see it moved or ...
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R&D in India: The Curtain Rises, the Play Has Begun...
Experts split the evolution of Indian research and development into a three-act play, with advanced product development being the first act, basic research the second act, and the country's transformation into an R&D giant the third act; general consensus is that Indian R&D has just started ...
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>From the Lab: Information Technology
A team of researchers from the University of Southern California has developed a computer graphics technique that will enable filmmakers to alter the lighting conditions of film once it has been shot and to recreate live-action lighting conditions of a setting in which the actors were never ...
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Beware the March of This IDE: Eclipse Is Overshadowing Other Tool Technologies
The Eclipse Foundation reports that the open source Eclipse Project owns at least three-quarters of the development tools platform market for the most sophisticated aspects of its technology, while a survey of over 500 attendees at the March 2005 Java Symposium found that 53 percent of Java ...
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