China's Tech Revolution
Computer Viruses Become Hacker Informants
Security experts have discovered an emerging class of malware called vulnerability assessment worms that keep hackers apprised of the latest computer-network vulnerabilities so they can refine their cyberattack strategies or even target individual machines. Once the worms contaminate ...
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Still a Proud Papa
ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf and Corporation for National Research Initiatives director Robert Kahn will be honored for their pioneering work in computer-to-computer communication with ACM's A.M. Turing Award at the ACM Awards banquet in San Francisco on June 11. The Turing award ...
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Emotional Intelligence for Computer-Based Characters?
The IST-funded ERMIS project yielded insights into linguistic and paralinguistic cues in human speech that were incorporated into a
sensitive artificial listener," a prototype computer character that can realistically express emotions in human-computer communications. Professor ...
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The Scramble to Protect Personal Data
Recent incidents of identity theft from data aggregators such as ChoicePoint and Citigroup call for the widespread institution of a holistic data security strategy, says Unisys security consultant and former FBI chief cybercrime investigator Mike Gibbons. Such an approach requires the ...
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Using the Next Generation of Gaming & Computer Graphics to Promote Education & Physical Activity in Children
ACM's SIGGRAPH 2005 Educators Program Chair Patricia Beckman-Wells says the purpose of the program this year "is to showcase the 'wonder factor' of current education products and encourage an environment of self-directed learning." Topics to be discussed include ...
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Consumers Suspicious of Sponsored Links
A paper presented at the Sixth ACM Conference on E-commerce by Penn State School of Information Sciences and Technology professor Jim Jansen indicates that consumers exhibit a substantial measure of bias against sponsored links, which appears to negate their viability as a business ...
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Study: IT Pay Rising for Hot Skills
The interest that employers are starting to show toward IT-savvy people who do not have certification could become a trend, says Foote Partners President David Foote. The research firm has released a new study showing that overall pay for noncertified IT workers rose 2.8 percent during the ...
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Innovative Asia: How Spending on Research and Development Is Opening the Way to a New Sphere of Influence
Asian research and development is rapidly maturing, but it is still far from the level of developed Western countries, according to top experts. There is concrete evidence of a research boom in countries such as China and India, where governments are implementing plans to quickly increase ...
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Plugging the Mainframe Brain Drain
BMC Software's Bill Miller says the mainframe, despite its general perception as an obsolete tool, houses more than 70 percent of the world's digital information, and warns that such data will be irretrievably lost if there are no next-generation mainframe specialists to take the reins from ...
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A Large Screen Is in Your Future
Microsoft Research's Visualization and Interaction for Business and Entertainment (VIBE) Group, under the management of researcher Mary Czerwinski, is working on software that exploits larger display and multiple display configurations that are expected to grow in popularity ...
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A Matter of Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Michael Rovatsos with the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics' Center of Intelligent Systems and their Applications attributes the appeal and importance of artificial intelligence research not only to its focus on creating "intelligent" computer systems, but also ...
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Shattering Myths That Women Can't Be Leaders in Science
Spelman College's all-woman SpelBot team will be one of five American teams competing in the RoboCup 2005 tournament in Osaka next month, and its successful qualification is regarded as proof that leadership in the sciences is not dictated by gender. Spelman President Beverly Tatum says ...
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Fostering Diversity and Inclusion for Europe's IT Sector
A recent Information Society Technologies project in Europe studied the factors that keep immigrants, women, and other marginalized groups from joining the science, engineering, and technology sectors. The research is expected to lead to new policy changes and integration efforts on the part ...
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Education Groups Urge Federal Government to Promote High-Speed Internet Access
A higher-education coalition whose members include Educause and the Internet2 high-speed-network consortium issued a statement last week in which they argued for amendments to federal telecommunications law to expand the scope and accessibility of high-capacity broadband Internet ...
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Sun's R&D Spectrum
Sun Microsystems employs some 200 scientists with more than $80 million to spend annually on a wide variety of next-generation computing projects, including a possible 4-PFLOP supercomputer and a Web server the size of a quarter. Sun's Proximity I/O technology, for example, will enable computer ...
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Developers Should Carry the Banner of Software Standards
Computers and the software applications they run are no longer novelties, but critical components in people's lives and work, writes Peter Coffee; as such, commercial software developers should assume responsibility for their products in the same way electricians are held responsible for using ...
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China's Tech Revolution
China's transformation into a worldwide economic powerhouse is chiefly due to its technological awakening. The nation's prodigious and cheap workforce, aggressive industrialization, and burgeoning brainpower has helped coax multinationals to do business with or relocate to China, set up ...
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