The Power Inside
"Study Shows Software Makers Supply Tools to Censor Web"
The OpenNet Initiative has recently issued a report detailing the supply of filtering software programs by Western technology companies to autocratic governments that use them to censor content on the Web. The report identifies Myanmar, China, Iran, and Singapore, among others, as recipients ...
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"Yahoo Aims to Be Research Powerhouse"
In the sparring match that has pitted Google, Yahoo, and MSN against each other for dominance in the search industry, Yahoo has fallen behind in developing new technology. Both Google and Microsoft have embedded research into the core of their operations, but it had never been a ...
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"Silicon Valley Grows Up"
The slowing rate of corporate spending and the plateau that venture-capital investment and tech employment have reached foreshadow a more mature, subdued IT industry that had long been characterized by meteoric growth and precipitous decline. As the industry evolves, many tech companies are ...
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"Location Tracking--for People, Products, Places--Is Fast Coming Into Its Own"
After having long failed to realize their potential, location tracking technologies are venturing into the mainstream in a variety of arenas, including college campuses and elder care facilities. Falling costs have led to the pervasiveness of GPS chipsets and other similar technologies in ...
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"High-Tech Consortium Seeks Supercharged Wi-Fi Networks"
The Enhanced Wireless Consortium, a group of 27 tech companies, has proposed a method of increasing Wi-Fi connection speeds to over 200 MB. The proposal is the latest in the wireless industry to attract the attention of antitrust advocates, as well as the ire of the consortium's ...
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"On the Road to Networked Vehicles"
At the recent Congress on Electronic Systems for Vehicles in Germany, the focus was on innovation in areas such as electronic braking and steering systems, as well as new hybrid drives. New technologies, such as an air-conditioning system activated by cell phone, would demand considerable ...
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"Road to Secure US Drivers' Licenses Looks Chaotic"
The passage of the Real ID Act last May mandated that a secure digital driver's license system be in place by 2008, though there are concerns that such a system could entail massive costs and lead to unforeseen chaos. Under the legislation, licenses would have to include anticounterfeiting ...
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"Stopping a Computer Revolt"
Washington State University researcher Scott Wallace has recently been recognized for his work on the practical implications of artificial intelligence. While most artificial intelligence applications have yet to live up to the far-flung world depicted in movies, the field is building on ...
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"National Science Foundation Ramps Up Studies of Nanotechnology's Social Implications"
Critics have called on the National Science Foundation to contribute more federal dollars to studying the social implications of nanotechnology, and the organization has responded by awarding $6.2 million to Arizona State University at Tempe and $5 million to the University of California at Santa ...
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"IBM Research Turns 60"
IBM Research marks it 60th anniversary Tuesday with a celebration at the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, N.Y. Paul Horn, senior vice president of research, Nick D'Onofrio, executive vice president of innovation and technology, Bob Dennard, inventor of the DRAM cell, and Fred ...
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"Champions of Web 2.0 See a Shift to More Participation by the Public"
The Web 2.0 Conference held last week in San Francisco was predicated on the notion that the Internet as we know it is on the verge of a major jump off, similar to that experienced in the late 1990s. Conference organizers John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly believe the new era of the Web will be ...
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"Net Power Struggle Nears Climax"
The battle over control of the Internet is threatening to eclipse all other issues pertaining to Internet technology at the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which is set to take place next month in Tunisia. Viviane Reding, the European commissioner in charge of ...
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"Wi-Fi May Make Cars Smarter"
Vehicles equipped with Wi-Fi systems could become a reality within five years, helping drivers avoid accidents by enabling their cars to communicate with each other on the road. The systems would capitalize on Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) technology, which will be ...
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"Planet-Scale Grid"
In 2007, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator being assembled near Geneva, will be used to produce unprecedented volumes of data to simulate the conditions of the universe fractions of a second after the Big Bang. To cope with the 10 PB of data expected to be produced ...
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"IETF Effort Promises Fewer Net Failures"
The IETF is nearing completion on a protocol that seeks to address the problem of misconfigured equipment, which it has identified as the central cause of network breakdowns. The protocol, known as NetConf, could be adopted by the end of the year, and will minimize the programming ...
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"DARPA Takes Another Look at Improving Machine Learning"
The goal of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Integrated Learning project is to create computer software that can learn by combining knowledge taken from various sources as well as through reasoning. DARPA's intent is to position the software as an enabling ...
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"Chip on Your Shoulder"
Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology remains a hard sell in the United States regardless of its efficiency, reliability, and simplicity because of its alleged potential for privacy infringement. Yet RFID's possible benefits, which range from the acceleration of tedious chores to ...
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"The Power Inside"
Microsoft Research's (MSR) attraction to researchers lies in its ability to translate their work into features in actual products, which distinguishes it from the academic research community. Much of what comes out of MSR labs may not be immediately obvious, but MSR head Rick Rashid says the ...
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