Bringing Network Effects to Pervasive Spaces
"Paper Trail Urged as E-Voting Fix"
The Commission on Federal Election Reform concluded five months of deliberation this week by recommending a congressional mandate for the inclusion of voter-verifiable paper audit trails (VVPATs) in electronic voting machines by 2008. At the same time, the commission recognized that ...
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"Demonstrating Ambient Intelligence Tools and Techniques"
The IST-funded OZONE project explored, developed, and deployed a generic architecture for consumer oriented ambient intelligence applications that was tested in demonstrations designed to provide seamless content access, in-home content distribution, and an extended home environment. The first ...
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"Battling Google, Microsoft Changes How It Builds Software"
To protect its market share from emerging rivals, Microsoft is revisiting its formula for developing software. The new market environment sees the rapid introduction of software over the Internet while the provider watches ...
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"Name That Worm--Plan Looks to Cut Through Chaos"
Last month, a worm with various names wreaked havoc on Windows 2000 operating systems, abetted by the chaotic and fractured attempts to identify it. To address that issue the CME naming system has emerged, which tags a given piece of malware with a unique identifier. The United ...
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"Cell Phones Could Send Real-Time Safety Data"
A team of UC Berkeley researchers led by computer science graduate student R.J. Honicky are designing passive sensors that can turn cell phones into transmitters of environmental and geospatial data that could be critical to first responders and others. The information collected by the sensors ...
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"Wearable Technology to Aid Disaster Relief"
For more than seven years the University of South Australia has been developing a wearable augmented reality (AR) system whose potential applications include disaster relief operations, according to professor Bruce Thomas of the university's wearable computer laboratory. The system ...
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"By George, You've Won!"
Computer scientist Rollo Carpenter won the 2005 Loebner prize for George, a software program that was deemed the year's most convincing conversationalist. George differs from most previous programs in that its responses are not based on a few preprogrammed language rules; rather, it ...
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"Firefox Faces Challenges as It Matures"
In its first year, Mozilla's Firefox has achieved a more significant share of the Internet browser market than any of Internet Explorer's other competitors, though its future will not be without its share of challenges, most notably issues concerning security, expanding its user base, and ...
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"New Technology Aims to Improve Internet Access for the Impaired"
The government, standards bodies, and companies such as Microsoft and IBM are working to improve the accessibility of computer programs and the Internet to disabled users through new technologies. IBM has contributed software programming that will allow assistive features to be incorporated ...
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"Perpetual Stumbling Block: Battery Life, Storage Capacity"
Battery life and storage capacity lag behind the increasing capabilities and sophistication of consumer electronics, a problem compounded by the sheer diversity of batteries and storage products available. The basic structure of battery technology has remained unchanged for over 60 years. ...
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"The Next 50 Years of Computer Security: An Interview With Alan Cox"
EuroOSCON keynote speaker and Linux kernel developer Alan Cox describes computer security as "basic" and "reactive," but starting to show signs of improvement. He says the interim between the discovery of bugs and the aunch of exploits has shrunk, and exploits will improve in tandem with ...
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"New MPEG Standard Starts to Take Shape"
With the number of HDTVs worldwide expected to increase from about 10 million to 52 million by 2009, a new video codec standard has emerged: MPEG H.264 is used to deliver broadband programming, and could eventually govern the video transmissions of cell phones, desktop PCs, and portable ...
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"Talking in the Dark"
The recent of experience of Hurricane Katrina was an excruciating lesson in the utter dependence we have on our communications systems: The panic and chaos that followed the storm were exacerbated by the failure of our communications networks, as the only devices that still worked for the week ...
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"New Technology Aims to Making Academic File Sharing Easier"
A new peer-to-peer network that would allow academic researchers to share photos, research, class materials, and other types of information more easily is expected to be available for general use on Sept. 30. Mike Halm, director of the LionShare project at Penn State University, describes the ...
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"NSA Granted Net Location-Tracking Patent"
The National Security Agency has received a patent for a technique that can be used to determine the geographic location of an Internet user. Although NSA does not offer any specifics about the potential uses of the geo-location technology, the method could be used to enhance the agency's ...
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"A Sci-Fi Future Awaits the Court"
The possibility of John Roberts being confirmed as chief justice for the Supreme Court concerns Counterpane Internet Security CTO Bruce Schneier, because technology-driven privacy challenges currently in the realm of science fiction will likely go before the court in the next several ...
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"Clarkson University Wins First TuxMasters Invitational"
Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y., recently took first and second place in the first TuxMasters Invitational coding contest, a competition sponsored by Unisys and the Open Source Development Labs' (OSDL) Data Center Linux Initiative aimed at promoting Linux and the general open ...
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"IT Pros Aid in Search for Katrina Victims"
Individual IT volunteers and nonprofit organizations have pitched in to help locate missing victims of Hurricane Katrina with Web sites, hotlines, and computing resources. Technology For All, based in Houston, set up a computer center at the Astrodome to help evacuees register as survivors and ...
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"Bringing Network Effects to Pervasive Spaces"
A team of researchers from the Georgia Tech College of Computing and the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) has developed the Obje Interoperability Framework, middleware technology that facilitates interaction between networked applications and services, even in instances where they know next ...
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