Seeing Is Not Believing
"Estonia Pulls off Nationwide Net Voting"
Estonia became the first nation to offer voting over the Internet to every citizen in its local elections held last week, though only around 1 percent of the half million votes recorded were cast online. Officials reported no incidents of glitches or attempted hacks. The system uses an electronic ...
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"'4G' Leapfrogs Next-Gen Wireless"
The integration of software-based system-on-a-chip architectures with "4G" networks is anticipated in the next few years. The goal of 4G technologies is to create fully packet-switched networks optimized for data, and many people think the winning technology will be WiMAX, given the rapid success ...
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"Science Finds New Patterns"
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, are exploring pattern recognition as it relates to the disciplines of computer science, statistics, biology, and physics. All of these fields are characterized by vast amounts of data that can be prohibitive to human synthesis unless the ...
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"Codes Make Printers Stool Pigeons"
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has cracked codes used by the Secret Service to monitor the output of select color laser printers to fight currency counterfeiting. The codes are only viewable under blue light or a microscope, and display the date and time of the printing, as ...
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"IBM Looking Ahead at IT for Maturing Workers"
To address the needs of an aging workforce, IBM is devoting a significant portion of its research efforts to the unique needs and limitations of older technology users. Accessibility has become a dominant theme of IBM's research, which it is showcasing on its alphaWorks Web site. Accessibility ...
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"OECD Scoreboard Shows High Degree of International R&D Collaboration in Europe"
Europe is becoming more of a hub for international research and development than its competitors, according to the new "science, technology, and industry scoreboard" of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). For example, foreign companies represent 70 percent of ...
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"Creating New Outsourced Business Applications"
A new open source standard has emerged to assure security, resilience, and quality of service to the smaller application service providers (ASPs) in Europe. ASPs must guarantee access to a broad array of services for hosted applications, regardless of the providing platform or organization. ...
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"Workers Highly Individualistic IT Users in 2015: Gartner"
A recent Gartner study has concluded that the commoditization of IT will be so widespread by 2015 that the key differentiating factor in the workplace will be the way individuals employ technology. Technology will become simply a tool to get the job done, while the human will be the "engine of ...
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"Windows Into the Future"
While Microsoft is still hammering out the details of its forthcoming release of Windows Vista, some of the company's visionaries already have their sights set on the post-Vista operating system. Their main goal is the creation of a fluid computing environment where users can move ...
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"Repro Man"
Hollywood executives claim the flood of Internet-based movie piracy is attributable to one person: 21-year-old Norwegian Jon Lech Johansen, who wrote and published a DVD copying program at 15 that earned him an award for societal contribution from a private school and an indictment from ...
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"Senate Backs More Defense R&D Than Bush Sought"
The Senate has approved a budget that would allow the Defense Department to spend $75.8 billion on information technology systems, aircraft, ships, and other military equipment in fiscal 2006. However, President Bush has requested $800 million more for the Pentagon, and the amount for spending ...
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"Free Ideas"
A group of leading scientists, experts, legal scholars, and artists last week joined the debate over the rise in the number of patents and copyrights in the digital age by introducing a statement called the Adelphi Charter. Britain's Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, ...
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"Even a Chatbot Can Turn Nasty"
It has long been the challenge of software programmers seeking to create devices capable of human interaction to impart to machines the ability to glean the subtleties of human communication, but insults and swear words also pose a unique challenge to make artificial intelligence agents with ...
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"R&D Revival"
Since the bottom dropped out of the IT industry in the late 1990s and early 2000s, there has been a resurgence in research and development, though the atmosphere has become more collaborative and circumspect. Companies are now insisting on proving the value of a technology before it enters ...
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"As Threats Evolve, Defenses Must Adapt"
The effectiveness of anti-virus software is waning as hackers and other online miscreants craft new classes of malware that can work around traditional safeguards, forcing anti-virus experts into a race to develop better forms of protection. The hacking landscape has changed as teenagers ...
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"Optical Disks Used for Long-Term Storage by 2010"
The creation of built-in storage media is being fueled by the growing capacity of Flash memory and the development of communications technology, and optical disks are on track to serve as a medium for long-term storage by the end of the decade. Engineers of optical disks are particularly ...
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"Seeing Is Not Believing"
Inexpensive digital cameras and simple software have made it easy to convincingly doctor photographs, and such fake images can tarnish reputations, manipulate political opinion, fool security, and be mistaken for legitimate evidence in judicial proceedings while discounting the ...
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