The Changing Role of Software as Hardware
"Who Best to Avert Disaster: Government or Business?"
Paladin Capital Group principal Ken Minihan has had first-hand experience in the role both government and the private sector play in protecting the nation's digital infrastructure: Being a former director of the National Security Agency (NSA) made him realize the government's responsibility in ...
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"A Wireless Web for Ocean Waters"
The health of the Gulf of Farallones National Marine Sanctuary is continuously monitored by a network of floating sensors set up by San Francisco State University (SFSU), but uploading the sensors' data to the main computer was a time-consuming affair in which researchers ...
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"Professor Wants to Put Your Toaster on the Internet"
University of Arizona systems and industrial engineering professor Fei-Yue Wang envisions a system in which household appliances and other devices are remotely controlled by computers through software agents; such a system would reduce the cost and boost the efficiency of such devices. His ...
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"Lawmakers Will Seek a Federal Study of Colleges' Success at Stopping File Swapping"
At a congressional hearing on Thursday concerning the file-sharing habits of college students, two prominent representatives announced their intention to request the Government Accountability Office to commission a study exploring the relative success of antipiracy measures among colleges ...
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"From Shared to Distributed Memory Systems for Applications"
The goal of the IST-funded POP project was to produce an environment where shared-memory applications designed using the OpenMP application program interface can run on distributed-memory systems. OpenMP was crafted by a consortium of computer vendors to facilitate the uncomplicated creation of ...
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"Professor David Haussler to Receive Carnegie Mellon's Dickson Prize"
University of California-Santa Cruz biomolecular engineering professor David Haussler has won Carnegie Mellon University's Dickson Prize in Science for his contributions to bioinformatics and computational learning theory. His introduction of hidden Markov models and related techniques to ...
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"Data Encryption About to Make Quantum Leap"
Quantum cryptography promises to deliver unbreakable encryption because of its reliance on subatomic particles whose state can be detectably altered by the act of observing them. A quantum encryption key is relayed over optical fiber, or potentially through the air as a light beam; ...
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"Making the Internet Wicked Fast"
The Internet2 consortium is developing advanced, high-speed uses for the next-generation Internet. One such application is remote high-definition videoconferencing, which was demonstrated this week at the consortium's fall meeting. Pure HD video consumes too much bandwidth to be viable for ...
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"Towards the Narrative Annotation of Personal Information and Gaming Environments"
University of Southampton researchers propose a technique for enabling the dynamic generation of narratives from available knowledge bases using the Semantic Web (SW) publishing paradigm. The authors refer to Bal's three-layer view of narrative consisting of, in ascending order, the fabula ...
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"SPARQL: Web 2.0 Meet the Semantic Web"
To provide the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 with a standard query language, the Data Access Working Group developed SPARQL, an RDF query protocol and language. The REST protocol that is involved in most Web 2.0 applications contains a standard set of operations, but lacks any form of a standard ...
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"Implementing Accessibility Standards"
Writing software has become much easier for disabled users thanks to more ubiquitous tools and standards, but such benefits are only available if universal access standards are implemented into the application from the start. This implementation can vary across different companies, but ...
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"Better by Design"
More and more major firms are embracing product life-cycle management (PLM) software that helps companies design, build, and manage products, thus playing a critical role in their operation, expansion, and profitability. PLM's many benefits include minimization of new parts and suppliers, ...
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"NARA: New Archive System Could Change Records Management"
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) expects its Electronic Records Archive (ERA) program to fundamentally alter the way federal records are presented to agencies for the foreseeable future. The ERA program, recently awarded to Lockheed Martin, is scheduled to become ...
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"It's a Whole New Web"
An entirely new Web is emerging, one that re-casts users as active participants and customized content creators. Media organizations, online retailers, and tech companies will need to adapt their business models to the increasingly user-centric, do-it-yourself Web. Audience participation ...
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"Basic Training for Anti-Hackers"
The threat of terrorists penetrating computer networks and wreaking havoc prompted the creation of the Cyber Security Boot Camp, an intense 10-week summer program hosted by the U.S. Air Force and Syracuse University in which participating college students study and practice hacking so that ...
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"The Virtues of Virtualization"
The enormous potential of virtualization software lies in its ability to fill in for physical computing components, removing the drawbacks and risks such elements present. Projects that have opted for virtualization have enjoyed substantial gains in implementation, uptime, and, perhaps most ...
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"On the Data Road"
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) project seeks to create a wireless "network within the road network" that communicates safety, commercial, and mobility data among vehicles and the highway infrastructure by connecting cars, public-transit vehicles, and ...
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"The Changing Role of Software as Hardware"
Hardware and software have historically been kept separate, with hardware traditionally providing integration, differentiation, defined system economics, and product practicality. But software will increasingly facilitate the gruntwork that used to be the exclusive domain of hardware ...
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