Total Recall
"Who Has the Right to Control Your PC?"
The revelation that 4.7 million Sony CDs distributed to stores contained rootkit software that embeds itself in the depths on a computer's operating system, rendering the machine vulnerable to viruses, has not only caused Sony to undertake a massive recall and exchange program, but has touched ...
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"War-zone Test for Babel-fish Tool"
DARPA has developed a translation tool that would enable soldiers to communicate in Arabic via a laptop containing software for voice recognition and translation. While it is not designed to completely replace human interpreters, the system will facilitate rudimentary ...
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"Sun Exec Calls for a Net Summit of Engineers"
The World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, Tunisia, has brought governments, educators, civil rights activists, and other nontechnical people together to discuss the future of the Internet, but a global gathering for technical people also could be beneficial, says Sun ...
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"Are We Losing the Global Race for Talent?"
In the last few years, immigration barriers have caused the influx of highly skilled, legal workers entering the country to decline at a far faster rate than has the flow of largely unskilled, illegal immigrants. The failure of Congress to pass the legislation that would triple the ...
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"Two Thumbs Up"
"Sentiment analysis" has the potential to transform a simple Internet search by determining whether a return is positive or negative, similar to the way in which a dictionary indicates a word is used in the wrong context. Researchers are compiling thousands of indicator words--words ...
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"Eye Recognition"
Researchers from England's University of Bath have developed improved an computer algorithm that could enable identification through the iris of a person's eye. University of Bath electronic and electrical engineering professor Don Monro says the algorithm was 100 percent accurate in ...
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"Iowa State IT Students Try Their Luck Against Hackers"
College students will go head-to-head this weekend at the 2005 Cyber Defense Competition, held at Iowa State University, for a $100 gift certificate to the school bookstore in a competition designed to see who has the best defense for hackers. The event was started two years ago at a ...
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"Corporate Ethnography"
More than 200 corporate ethnographers from high-tech companies, specialist shops such as IDEO, and tech-intensive businesses such as Wells Fargo attended the first-ever Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC) at Microsoft's campus Nov. 14-15, 2005, to celebrate the growth of their ...
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"Our Challenge: Find Talent to Replace Software Pioneers"
Santa Clara County and the rest of the state of California could face some serious economic difficulties if the software industry's pioneers are not replaced as they reach the age of retirement in the next few years, writes IBM Software Group senior VP Steve Mills. The baby boomer ...
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"Ethernet's Inventor Sounds off"
In an interview, Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe, currently at Polaris Ventures, shared his thoughts on the current state of optical, wireless, and supercomputing technologies. Metcalfe sees video and location technologies as especially promising, and is actively pursuing alternative ...
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"Spray-On Computers Reach Hard Places"
The Speckled Computing consortium is notable because of the interdisciplinary course of action the researchers have taken, according to Roger Meike, senior director at Sun Microsystems Laboratories. "Other people may just be focused on wireless communication or the sensor and ...
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"MyTea: Connecting the Web to Digital Science on the Desktop"
The traditional tool for recording the process of experimentation, the lab book, is poorly suited to bioinformatics, given the field's in silico nature. A fast experimentation cycle is encouraged by the low cost of bioinformatic experimentation, but tracking back the methods and/or ...
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"Next Leg for W3C, Semantic Web"
The Rule Interchange Format (RIF), a new Semantic Web group, was recently founded by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to standardize the rules that drive information across the Web, without regards to format so it can start the integration and transformation of data from several different ...
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"Sputnik, Races, and the State of U.S. Education"
Results from ACM's International Collegiate Programming Contest prove one of the signs the U.S may have already lost its leads in science and technology, writes Intel Chairman Craig Barrett. The comptetion has come to be dominated by Asian and Eastern European colleges and universities ...
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"Fixing the Requirements Mess"
Software projects can be undone by a requirements process in desperate need of repair, and some CIOs are trying to implement fixes by rewriting the process and convincing both the business and development sides to support the rewrites. Not every CIO takes the same approach, but all concur that ...
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"China Design"
China's design business is undergoing a transformation driven by Chinese firms eager to build global brands and foreign companies seeking more mainland sales revenues. Concurrent with improvements in local design is the growing realization that multinationals must offer products with a ...
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"OWL Exports From a Full Thesaurus"
Software applications are currently incapable of even the most basic forms of analysis and processing, such as fundamental interpretation of information and the postulation of keyword context. Semantic Web initiatives such as the Web Ontology Language (OWL) seek to enable such ...
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"Total Recall"
Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell maintains a record of his daily activities through MyLifeBits, a system in which his routines are captured by a wearable camera and sensors, and indexed in a PC database. The SenseCam around the wearer's neck snaps pictures in response to changes in lighting, ...
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