OGC's OWS-3 Initiative: An Interview with OGC's George Percivall
"Brazilians Blazing Trails With Internet Technology"
Despite crippling levels of poverty and violence, Brazil is home to some of the world's most innovative technology, and plays host to some of the most sophisticated hackers. Brazil often finds itself the locus of international debates over intellectual property rights and private media ...
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"U.S. Insists on Keeping Control of Web"
Ambassador David Gross, the State Department's coordinator for international communications and information policy, called appeals for the United States to cede control of the computers that manage the Web to a U.N. group "unacceptable." He cited the issue as non-negotiable and "a ...
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"A New Way to Stop Digital Decay"
As new digital technologies continue to develop, the specter of obsolete applications threatens to render much of the content produced today unreadable. Libraries cannot keep a working sample of each iteration of hardware, and the traditional method of transferring a file into the next ...
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"Joy: Future of the Web Is Mobile Devices"
Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy said at Technology Review's Emerging Technology Conference that the tech industry is experiencing dramatic changes as wireless, Web-connected devices such as personal digital assistants and cell phones proliferate. The mobile device explosion is ...
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"The Future of Embedded Platforms"
Next-generation embedded system software tools are expected to boost developer efficiency by forsaking bells and whistles in favor of greater support for debugging and troubleshooting, as well as platform independence. "To speed up the debugging, code integration, and ...
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"Trials, Traps of Reinventing Patent Law"
The prospect of legislation that would protect large corporations from patent litigation has some concerned about the stifling effect on innovation such a move could have as a byproduct. The pending legislation introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith (R.-Texas) seeks to address the trend of ...
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"Robot Race Hits the Tracks"
Results of the semifinals for the second annual Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grand Challenge competition would seem to indicate that this year's entrants will perform significantly better than last year's. The inaugural Grand Challenge pitted robotic vehicles against each ...
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"Anti-Spyware Gets HIP"
Anti-spyware software is expected to transition from threat-specific technologies to Host-based Intrusion Prevention Systems (HIPS) as vendors deploy proactive solutions that block new and unknown spyware programs from PCs. Such solutions are likely to be increasingly compelling for security ...
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"Audio Networking: The Forgotten Wireless Technology"
Audio networking has been eclipsed by high-profile wireless communication devices such as infrared or Bluetooth, even though it supports reliable data transmission with less complexity and power consumption by exploiting existing programmable smart phone interfaces. Modern smart phones use the ...
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"Finding a Way"
One in five public sector employees will retire in the next five years in over half the U.S. states, according to a report from the Government Performance Project. Their imminent retirement not only constitutes a loss of personnel, but the potential loss of institutional knowledge, ...
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"'Opening' a Digital Library"
The proliferation of new information forms, coupled with its sheer volume, is a pressing challenge confronting today's librarians. Even as Stanford partnered with Google to digitize its collections, the university's Victoria Reich was developing the open source LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep ...
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"A Case Load of Tests"
Niall Murphy, author of "Front Panel: Designing Software for Embedded User Interfaces," says it is possible to create strong tests that catch actual glitches without angering the design team. He recommends that testers start out by checking the parts of the system responsible for checking and ...
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"Understanding Linux"
In an online question-and-answer session, Linux experts and authors Marcel Gagne and Peter van der Linden discussed a wide range of topics concerning the Linux operating system. Questions regarding Linux's benefits prompted the experts to list such things as ease of use and installation, ...
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"Design of $100 Laptop for Kids Unveiled"
Making the Internet's educational and communications advantages accessible to children everywhere is the goal behind MIT Media Lab director Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child initiative, which seeks to produce between 5 million and 15 million $100 laptops within a year. The device, ...
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"Destructive Power of Mobile Viruses Could Rise Fast, Experts Say"
As the interconnectedness central to the dream of the digital home rapidly becomes a reality, a host of security and privacy concerns arises. The same Web cams that alert users to suspicious activity within their homes can also be used by hackers seeking to break in to determine if anyone is ...
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"Maths and Science Education Gets Animated and Collaborative Online"
The WebLabs project, sponsored by the IST program, has developed an approach to teaching young people math and science that employs virtual models of abstract ideas and Web-based collaboration. The project involved the participation of technologists and educationalists who worked with ...
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"Google, NASA Sign 'A Very Big Deal'"
Google and NASA announced an alliance to establish a research complex at NASA's Ames Research Center and collaborate on mutually beneficial projects at a Sept. 28 press conference. Research center director Scott Pace cited Google's ability to organize massive volumes of information for public ...
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"OGC's OWS-3 Initiative: An Interview with OGC's George Percivall"
The latest initiative from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), OWS-3, promises greater geospatial interoperability through the acquisition of geospatial data from sensors and the enabling of decision support by the definition of a common infrastructure, according to OGC executive director ...
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