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"White House Urged to Make Cybersecurity a Priority"
Cyber Security Industry Alliance executive director Paul Kurtz, speaking to a House Armed Services subcommittee on Thursday, called for a presidential directive making cybersecurity a top Bush administration objective and encouraging more coordination among the military and the private sector. ...
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"Coming Soon to a Kernel Near You: GPL 3"
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) will unveil the roadmap and process to oversee the first version of the revised GNU General Public License in a few weeks. FSF's Eben Moglen said the first draft of GPL 3 will appear next year, but that he wanted the community to get acclimated to its ...
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"Ruby on Rails Chases Simplicity in Programming"
The simplicity and productivity offered by the Web development framework Ruby on Rails (RoR) have made it an increasingly popular choice among developers and executives. Denmark's David Hansson developed the tools, which he is releasing as an open source initiative. Hansson's strategy in ...
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"IBM Researchers Take Axe to Computer Security"
IBM's Assured Execution Environment (Axe) project was the creation of Amit Singh, who set about looking for ways to simplify security in light of the recognition that the operational effectiveness of a PC was being curtailed by the cluttered multitude of security and management software. The ...
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"UMass Researchers Fight Fraud With Software"
New fraud-detection software is being developed by researchers at the University of Massachusetts in partnership with the National Association of Securities Dealers that promises to improve upon the ability to predict fraud among brokers. Current software focuses solely on the individual ...
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"Spray on Sensors"
Researchers in Scotland are building a programmable network comprised of autonomous sensors that have the ability to perform computations and communicate with one another. The Speckled Computing Consortium plans to develop thousands of "Specks" and scatter the tiny sensors, which will have ...
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"Remote Control Device 'Controls' Humans"
The Japanese company Nippon Telegraph & Telephone is developing video game technology where remote controls guide the movements of people, known as galvanic vestibular stimulation. The subject wears a headset that conveys a low-voltage jolt of electric current to the ears and head, traveling ...
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"ICANN Prez Welcomes New Era of Internet"
ICANN CEO Paul Twomey is heralding a new deal reached between ICANN and VeriSign as a "new era" for the Internet. The deal extends VeriSign's contract to run the .com domain name registry until 2012 and extends VeriSign's presumptive right over the domain past that period as long as ...
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"Deciphering the World of Crypto"
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has turned its attention toward standards for cryptographic algorithms such as Triple-DES and AES. IETF does not research and test cryptographic algorithms, leaving those tasks to government organizations with the council of outside experts, though the ...
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"Bring on the Geekettes"
New research continues to support the belief that environment is more likely to determine the success of an individual in math and sciences than chromosomes. Although research presented at the American Sociological Association meeting in Philadelphia in August showed women were well ...
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"Where Am I, Robot?"
MIT computer science associate professor John Leonard has developed a robot with the watershed ability to create a real-time map of its location based on data collected from its sensors. Simultaneous location and mapping (SLAM) has long been a goal of robotics, as robots can perform their ...
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"Power Search"
The federal government has issued a call for new search technologies to replace its current standards for information management. When the General Services Administration and the Office of Management and Budget consider new search technologies, they will look for those that can perform ...
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"Managing Metadata"
There are various ways to define and maintain metadata, and they come with their own distinct challenges. Programmers incorporate an informal type of metadata known as comments into their source code to help human readers understand the software's design and operations, but comments can also be ...
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"Sweating in the Hot Zone"
Symantec currently owns the bulk of the consumer antivirus software market thanks to its fast response to new viruses, worms, and other kinds of malware. The nature of malware impels Symantec to constantly update its products and collect around 20,000 virus samples a month. The company's ...
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"The Forgotten Era of Brain Chips"
Brain-stimulation research pioneer Jose Delgado's work has faded into obscurity despite the enormous debt modern brain-implant technology owes him. Delgado invented and implanted radio-equipped electrode arrays or "stimoceivers" into animals and humans, and demonstrated that the devices ...
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"Our Broadband Fiasco"
U.S. broadband deployment is being held up, and MIT visiting scholar Charles Ferguson warns that its slow rollout could cost the U.S. economy up to $1 trillion over 10 years. Although the country's size relative to other nations is a challenge for widescale broadband ...
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