Managing Semi-Structured Data
"Researchers Look to Create a Synthesis of Art and Science for the 21st Century"
Larry Smarr, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), believes that artists will be central to the future of computing technology. The fusion of aesthetics and science is readily evident in the design of the building that is home to ...
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"Internet Fathers Get Presidential Medal"
Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their work in developing the TCP/IP protocols that power communication across the Internet this Wednesday at the White House. Earlier this year, they were awarded ACM's 2004 A.M. Turing Award, considered by some to be ...
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"Fab Labs Unshackle Imaginations"
MIT has established seven Fab Labs around the world that bring expensive design tools within reach of the amateur inventor, such as Makeda Stephenson, a 13-year-old who used the resources to design a flight simulator program. Each lab contains toolsets that would cost roughly ...
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"High-tech Industry in High Spirits"
Lobbyists predict a strong showing of support for the tech industry when the House and Senate agree on their budget terms for deficit reduction. While many other industries can expect to see funding cuts, the tech sector is likely to enjoy comparatively strong support due to the impending ...
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"US Business: New Internet Governance Not Needed"
The argument over U.S. Internet governance will come to a head on Nov. 16 in Tunis, Tunisia. The World Summit on the Information Society, sponsored by the United Nations, will attempt to restructure Internet control. Several countries want to take away U.S. control over ICANN, which manages ...
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"EA Tank Contest Seeks AI Talent"
Electronic Arts believes artificial intelligence will be a major determining factor in which games stand out from the rest of the pack over the next five to 10 years. Games are no longer differentiated by realistic graphics, which are starting to be produced by specialized hardware. As a ...
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"The Private Spy Among Us"
Congress has joined privacy advocates in expressing concern about how the federal government is using data on U.S. citizens and foreigners gathered and analyzed by ChoicePoint in Georgia. Although existing laws prohibit the government from keeping tabs on citizens and foreigners, the FBI and ...
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"'Next Big Thing' May Be Process, Not a Product"
The next revolution to transform the global technology landscape will not be a specific product, but rather what IBM calls business process transformational services (BPTSs), says IBM Research director Paul Horn. IBM is betting that the next engine for growth will be streamlined ...
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"Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center Develops Peacemaker Videogame"
Students and faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Master of Entertainment Technology program have created PeaceMaker, a new videogame simulation developed as an alternative to today's increasingly violent video games. It was tested in Pittsburgh with focus groups from two local ...
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"ACLU Challenges Patriot Act"
The ACLU is asking the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold two separate lower court rulings in Connecticut and New York that reduced the scope of the U.S. Patriot Act's provision regarding an FBI mandate to secretly demand public information from libraries and Internet service and other ...
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"US Youths Use Internet to Create"
The popularity of Web tools as instruments for creating and sharing online content among American teenagers should serve as a wake-up call to traditional media companies, which should reconsider their relationship with this increasingly powerful demographic, according to Pew Internet and ...
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"Redefining Cool"
Since 1996, Hewlett-Packard has devoted a team of engineers known as the Cool Team to develop innovative approaches to reducing the heat in data centers. As computer densities have increased, heat management has become a more pressing concern, said Cool Team founder Chandrakant Patel, who ...
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"Serious Games, Serious Computing"
In a nod to the enduring influence gaming has on the development of advanced computers, the 2005 High Performance Computing Users Conference featured a session entitled the "science of games." While they are often enormously complex environments with elaborate rule systems, games offer a ...
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"Where's MIMO?"
Those who are looking to buy standards-based, Wi-Fi Alliance-approved, enterprise-ready 802.11n Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MIMO) gear will have to wait while the competing vendor groups resolve their differences. Although the 802.11n effort has been ongoing within the IEEE for three ...
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"The Open Source Maturity Model"
In his book, "Succeeding With Open Source," Navica CEO Bernard Golden details the Open Source Maturity Model (OSMM), a tool designed to help organizations determine whether open source products under consideration can satisfy their unique support, training, documentation, integration, and ...
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"Frontiers of Search"
As the gatekeepers to information, search engines are of paramount importance to any Web user. Today's search engines must wrangle not only with the question of pairing results of optimal relevance with a user's query, but also of combating the manipulative search engine optimization ...
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"Managing Semi-Structured Data"
Oracle's Daniela Florescu writes that managing information today is complicated by the fact that the semi-structured data most information consists of defies quick and efficient modeling with traditional schema tools, techniques, or software. Most automatic information processing ...
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