State of the Art: How We Measure Up
Plan by 13 Nations Urges Open Technology Standards
A group of government officials from 13 nations will present a 33-page report at the World Bank calling for the international adoption of open-information technology standards, which are seen as critical to the expansion of economic growth, innovation, and efficiency. Several ...
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High-Tech Goes Into Action in Disaster Zone
Rescue and relief operations in the region devastated by Hurricane Katrina are getting a boost from robots, interactive maps, meta-search engines, and other experimental high-tech tools. Lois Clark McCoy of the National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue says the response to the catastrophe ...
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Vint Cerf: Google's New Idea Man
Google has scored a major coup with its hiring of Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf as its "chief Internet evangelist." Cerf, who will continue to serve as chairman of ICANN and as a visiting scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is considered one of the Internet's founding fathers because of ...
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Grammar Lost Translation Machine in Researchers Fix Will
The effectiveness of a computer translation system created by the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) hinges on the brute force correlation of massive volumes of pre-translated text from media that are published in multiple languages, but ISI machine ...
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Women Are 'Put Off' Hi-Tech Jobs
An Intellect report finds that the British technology industry must make a better effort to recruit, persuade, and retain women in the high-tech work force, which is characterized by a bias toward males and a lack of female role models. The Office of National Statistics estimates that the ...
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New Search Engine 'Revolutionary'
University of New South Wales Ph.D. student Ori Allon has developed a new search engine designed to enhance searches carried out on Yahoo!, Google, or other popular services. Search engines retrieve Web pages where specific keywords are found, but these pages are not always relevant to the ...
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Coming to Grips With Robot Learning
The IST-funded ArteSImit project has yielded a visual-motor system that controls an artificial hand via learning through mimicry. The project's goal was to uncover the neurophysiological underpinnings of finger and hand movements in humans and primates, and apply them to the design of a ...
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IU Researchers Develop Technology to Better Predict Storms
Indiana University is one of nine academic institutions participating in the National Science Foundation-funded Linked Environments Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD) project, whose goal is to develop a high-speed computing and network infrastructure for more accurately predicting and tracking ...
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Academics, Industry Launch Internet Innovation Symposium
The upcoming Seattle Innovation Symposium will focus on how academic researchers and private-sector IT leaders can collaborate to identify important emerging technologies and rapidly develop them into the Internet's next billion-dollar market segments. The University of ...
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Report: IT Blueprints Should Address Privacy Issues
The academic Task Force on Protecting the Homeland and Preserving Freedom has released a report recommending the employment of IT tools such as data mining, link analysis, biometrics, and data integration for homeland security, provided they address privacy issues in advance. "This paper is ...
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Free Access Service Allows Remote Networking
Washington University has unveiled its Open Network Laboratory (ONL), providing its students with a free and remote networking service that will hopefully spur innovation and enhance the capability of the Internet for its users. The computer scientists who developed ONL created their own ...
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Early in the Game: RPI Creates Video Game Major
Starting next fall, a video game development major will be available to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students, who will be required to take courses not only in computer programming and simulation, but in psychology, calculus, and Shakespeare as well. Director of RPI's Social and Behavioral ...
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Women in IT: How Are We Doing?
In her book, "Doing IT: Women Working in Information Technology," Krista Scott-Dixon describes IT as a blend of both positive and negative that is alternately stifling, liberating, limiting, and vitalizing for women. "The mundane minutiae of people's daily experiences with information ...
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Automated Code Inspection at Early Stages Can Reduce Software Failures
The market for static testing tools stands to grow considerably as a result of the focus on testing free software at the coding stage in India. The Indian software industry views static testing as a way to save costs by improving productivity as compensation expenses continue to escalate. In ...
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The Changing User Interface
The importance of improved user interfaces becomes clear as the Web grows more diffuse, and users try to organize a burgeoning number of digital files and companies attempt Web-based brand promotion. Perhaps the most dramatic changes to the desktop look and experience will come from ...
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Science Fiction?
As businesses are slow to return to pre-dot-com bust spending levels, electronics manufacturers are targeting the individual consumer, though their vision of the digital home fails to resonate with many; a number of technology companies are placing their bets on that sector, though, and ...
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Lab Steps Up to Challenges of RFID Tech
The RFID Lab at the University of Wisconsin is working to resolve a litany of challenges standing in the way of the commercialization of RFID (radio- frequency identification) technology. Difficulties involving logistics, signal strength and consistency, and everything in between are preventing ...
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Digital-Divide Efforts Are Getting More Attention
Excitement is building over large-scale and small-scale efforts to bridge the digital divide between technology haves and have-nots around the world, although these initiatives have their share of skeptics. Perhaps the most ambitious project is the MIT Media Lab's program to fabricate and ...
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State of the Art: How We Measure Up
High-tech luminaries such as Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates have called attention to an apparent decline in the performance of U.S. students in math and science that could threaten America's competitive edge in the global economy. Yet there is no assurance that the standard measures of ...
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