Prototypes in Pervasive Computing
"9/11 Panel Faults Government on Cybersecurity"
The 9/11 Public Discourse Project has charged that the government is making insufficient progress in defending the Internet, communications networks, and other critical elements of infrastructure. The bipartisan organization, composed of former members of the Sept. 11 commission, gave a ...
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"High Energy Physics Team Captures Network Prize at SC/05"
The international team of researchers that won the Bandwidth Challenge at last month's SC05 broke the world record for network speeds with an official peak of 131.6 Gbps. In addition to their ability to sustain data throughput, entries in the Bandwidth Challenge were judged by their ...
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"New Algorithm Improves Robot Vision"
A team of Stanford computer scientists has developed an algorithm that will improve machine vision by enabling robots to gauge distances from a singular image. Poor depth perception is the principal reason robots have such difficulty maneuvering, though their ability has improved considerably ...
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"UNSW Develops Kids' Programming Language"
The University of New South Wales has used an open source license to create a programming language for schoolchildren based on Robolab, the language used to program Lego robots. Professor Paul Compton, head of UNSW's School of Computer Science and Engineering, believes students will find the ...
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"Researchers Developing Technology to Protect Children's Online Privacy"
A group of researchers from Virginia Tech's business and engineering departments is developing technology to safeguard the privacy of children on the Internet. Children are often prompted for their personal information when using the Internet for games, interactive learning, or Web ...
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"Photo Chop Shop"
Digital forensics has emerged as a growth industry to combat the ease with which skilled users can manipulate and alter images with software programs such as Photoshop. Recent cases of newspapers doctoring photos, coupled with the concern that digitally altered images could be used as court ...
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"Free Speech Under Net Attack, Study Says"
A recent report alleging that fair use rights are imperiled by vague copyright laws has called for a six-point program for reform, including such measures as moderating infringement penalties and increasing the pool of pro bono lawyers available to represent those accused of violating fair ...
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"Carnegie Mellon to Showcase New Security Research at Taiwanese Innovation Technology Symposium"
A group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) are due to unveil a new software security toolbox with a host of capabilities, such as conducting surveillance at transportation centers and alerting parents to a teenager ...
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"Fab Lab Designs Virtual Flights of Fancy"
The Fabrication Labs that MIT has set up around the world are allowing people to use technology to solve their own problems. Makeda Stephenson, 13, decided to use a teen learning program at a Fab Lab to create a flight simulator program because her local computer stores did not offer any ...
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"Microsoft Partners With C.U. for Research on Computing"
Cornell University and nine other universities worldwide will get significant funding from Microsoft to pursue high-performance computing (HPC) research. Microsoft announced the new grants at the recent international Supercomputing 2005 conference. Cornell was one of the 10 ...
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"Congress to Explore National E-Waste Standard"
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) believes lawmakers should set an example for the rest of the nation in recycling computers and other electronic waste. In November, he proposed a bill that would provide a standard for how Congress gets rid of its electronic devices. The House is expected to ...
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"Blue Skies Ahead for IT Jobs"
U.S. students are laboring under the false assumption that IT jobs are scarce, dull, and antisocial, and this misperception must be corrected if the decline of U.S. computer science majors and the IT workforce is to be reversed, writes Maria Klawe, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied ...
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"The Cyber Sleuth"
DePaul University computer scientist Tom Muscarello has developed the Classification System for Serial Criminal Patterns (CSSCP), a computer system designed to help police investigate violent crimes, especially serial crimes. Due to go live as early as next year, CSSCP employs ...
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"Tell Laura I Love Her"
Affective computing systems can read users' emotional states and adjust their operations to accommodate those states. One example is Laura, an "emotionally intelligent" virtual fitness trainer that encourages users to stick with an exercise program via a combination of friendly gestures and ...
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"Rise of a Powerhouse"
The many triumphs of Central European computer programmers in international contests underscores the region's growing status as a hotbed of exceptional technical talent, whose appeal to knowledge-driven industries is increasing thanks in part to cheap labor costs and the increasing turnout of skilled ...
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"Demon in the Machine"
Congress is expected to pass privacy legislation in 2006 to fight the ongoing problem of identity theft, which the American government estimates costs as much as $50 billion a year. Laws aimed to protect privacy in America are gaining support from lawmakers and businesses alike. At the ...
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"Prototypes in Pervasive Computing"
Pervasive computing in automobiles, a hybrid form/function rapid prototyping environment, recognition of situations and recurring contextual data, and high-level workflow paradigms for device interactions are areas of research in the building of pervasive computing prototypes. Students at ...
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