The Dawn of Digital TV
"New Tech Speaks Many Languages at Once"
Carnegie Mellon computer science professor Alex Waibel has developed software that will enable people to communicate with each other in different languages through the real time translation application known as Lecture Translation. Another of Waibel's technologies beams translations ...
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"From Jets to Potato Chips, Q-Bits to Hobbits, the Experts Are Speaking at SC05"
This November's Supercomputing 2005 conference (SC05), sponsored jointly by ACM and the IEEE Computer Society, will host technology experts at work in a variety of industries, such as Procter & Gamble's Thomas Lange, who is using modeling and simulation technologies to determine the effects of a ...
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"Women Valued for Technology Roles"
The overall prize at the first Blackberry Women and Technology Awards went to Jackie Edwards, a lecturer at De Montfort University, for her use of a robotic dog to generate enthusiasm for careers in IT and bridge the gender gap by making technology more approachable. The awards were held in London ...
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"Nokia, MIT Team on New Research Lab"
MIT and Nokia have announced their plans to jointly open the Nokia Research Center Cambridge, a facility that will integrate 20 researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Laboratory (CSAIL) and 20 from the Nokia Research Center. There are already projects for the new center in ...
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"Budget Forecast Predicts More U.S. R&D Cuts"
The U.S. high-tech industry will have to be creative in finding money to fund research and development over the next 10 years and beyond. The Government Electronics & Information Technology Industries Association presented a Pentagon budget forecast at a conference this week in Falls ...
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"Open Source Group to Be Formed for Storage Infrastructure Software"
Several major storage companies have formed an alliance aimed at providing customers with greater choices in storage infrastructure software based on open standards. The project will be known as Aperi, and will count Cisco Systems, Computer Associates, IBM, and Sun, among others, as its members. ...
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"Who Owns XML?"
XML has become ubiquitous among Web programmers, powering data description and structuring to enabled its sharing across the Internet, software developer Scientigo claims that it holds two patents covering the concept of formatting data in a self-defining package to ensure correct display ...
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"Microsoft to Offer Online Book-Content Searches"
MSN Book Search marks Microsoft's entry into the online book-search market that has seen increased interest since the inception of the Open Content Alliance, an organization formed to support the digitization of the contents of millions of books. Microsoft intends to join the alliance, and ...
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"Web 2.0 Cracks Start to Show"
Troubles with Web 2.0 technologies such as Flickr, BitTorrent, tagging, and RSS syndication have started to emerge, though backers claim Web 2.0 is hardened to prevail against the kinds of problems that affected free email, BBSes, and Usenet. Wikipedia is a frequent target of critics, who claim ...
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"Internet to Ask, 'How May I Serve You?'"
The Internet is transforming into an "interactions Web" as the boundaries between the Web, the computer, and users blur, the Internet's penetration into everyday life deepens, and Web site content is increasingly generated by users. "We believe the first 10 years of the Internet were a warm-up ...
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"Privacy Survey Puts Online Policies to the Test"
The Privacy Place, a three-year-old Web site created by privacy researchers to make information about policy issues available to policy makers, software developers, and citizens, is conducting an online survey to test customer knowledge and comprehension of corporate privacy policies ...
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"Gadgets Drive Extreme Data"
Businesses today have to contend with extreme data, an enormous volume of real-time and around-the-clock, unstructured data employees and consumers generate in the form of short-hand text messages, pictures, voice snippets, and video clips, says a new report from the Leading Edge Forum, the think ...
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"STEM Employment and Salaries, 1994-2003"
A recent GAO report shows that employment rose 23 percent in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from 1994 through 2003, and mathematics and computer science-related jobs rose 78 percent during the 10-year period. In comparison, employment in other fields ...
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"Festival Promotes High School Females' Interest in Math, Sciences"
Organizers of the seventh annual Sonia Kovalevsky festival at Syracuse University are calling the Saturday event a success. Named after the first female to receive a doctorate in mathematics, the festival is designed to encourage local high school girls who have an interest in math or science ...
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"College of Computing at Georgia Tech Creates Language Development Technology to Help Hearing Impaired Children"
Scientists in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology have used sophisticated gesture recognition technology to develop a new learning tool for hearing-impaired children. As part of the CopyCat project, the researchers have created a sign language development ...
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"Foresight to Forge Strong ICT Future for Europe"
The IST-sponsored FISTERA project conducted an analysis of future scenarios that could play out in Europe's information communication technologies (ICT) segment laid against a global backdrop. FISTERA examined the results of national foresight activities in nine EU countries, Israel, Japan, the ...
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"Shrinking Degrees of Separation"
Cornell University computer science professor Jon Kleinberg has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his research involving computer and social networking, genomics, and network routing and search. Kleinberg's research in such diverse fields has found connections that can link ...
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"The Arms Race"
Intellectual property is now regarded as a business asset throughout the tech sector, and this is fueling a surge in patents and patent enforcement as tech companies seek out royalties. The trend adds to the difficulty of creating new products without unintentionally infringing other patents, ...
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"Ask the Professor: Reconfigurable Programming"
The advent of FPGAs has been marked by wildly different estimations of performance improvements, which George Mason University computer engineering professor Kris Gaj attributes to the individual nature of a given task, namely how easy it is to divide one task into smaller, ...
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"The Dawn of Digital TV"
Efforts are underway around the world to phase out analog television in favor of digital over-the-air transmission. Applications and services promised by digital TV include a sharper picture, improved cell phone reception, cell phone-downloadable video, mobile broadband Internet, ...
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