A Conversation With Roger Sessions and Terry Coatta
"E-Voting Report Could Push Audit Trails"
Electronic voting machines should be equipped with voter-verifiable paper audit trails, says a recent report from an election commission headed by former President Jimmy Carter and former secretary of state James Baker III. The report claims such a measure would enable recounts when required, ...
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"Text Hackers Could Jam Cellphones, a Study Says"
Metropolitan cell phone networks could be crippled by hackers who launch denial-of-service attacks against the phones' Internet-accessible text-messaging services, according to a study from Pennsylvania State University researchers. The study's lead researcher, computer science and ...
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"3-D Movies Piggyback on Digital Cinema Supply Chain"
Popular filmmakers are pushing for a return to 3D cinema thanks to the emergence of more advanced technologies that promise to make the dubious 3D experience of yesterday obsolete. Standards are currently lacking, but 3D film technology has hitched itself to the supply chain for digital cinema. ...
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"Female Equation"
There are fewer women professionals in the math and computer science fields because fewer female college and university students are pursuing studies in those areas. Jill Landsman, with the Technology Student Association in Virginia, attributes this downward trend to a lack of female role models. ...
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"The Time Is Now: Bust Up the Box!"
Thanks to the millions of miles of fiber-optic cable telecom companies have laid, the vision of seamless and inexpensive interconnection among computers is fast becoming a reality. The era of integration is exemplified by Google, which holds an inordinate network capacity to power ...
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"USC's Michael Arbib"
University of Southern California Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science Michael Arbib describes the exchange of ideas between brain studies and machine design as his area of interest. He believes exploiting advances in data collection as they take place will help us better ...
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"A New Battlefield: Ownership of Ideas"
The generation of ideas is an essential component of economic growth and competition, but experts in the governmental, academic, and corporate domains agree that this concept is under threat as ideas are redefined by governments and companies as assets that must be jealously guarded. The ...
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"Emotional Intelligence May Be Good Predictor of Success in Computing Studies"
The emotional intelligence of students plays an indirect role in how well they excel in information technology studies, according to a study by researchers at Virginia Tech's Pamplin College of Business. The study involved the participation of more than 600 undergraduates, both minorities ...
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"This Laser Trick's a Quantum Leap"
Researchers at the Australian National University's Laser Physics Center haves successfully slowed down a pulse of laser light, trapped it within a praseodymium-doped silicate crystal, and released it. ANU's Dr. Matthew Sellars says this represents a milestone in the quest for quantum ...
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"Linus Torvalds Outburst Sparks Fierce Debate: Does Open Source Software Need Specs?"
In a recent posting on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, Linus Torvalds blasted specs as a method for developing software, claiming they pay more attention to theory than reality and introduce a needless level of abstraction that often falls flat when put into practice. Torvalds cited ...
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"Looking Into the Future"
University of Texas at Arlington professors Diane Cook and Larry Holder have been awarded a $500,000 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant for SUBDUE, a project to develop a computer program that perceives interesting patterns in data presented in graph form. The ...
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"E-Voting Experts Call for Revised Security Guidelines"
The National Science Foundation-funded A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections (ACCURATE) saved its suggested reforms to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission's recommended process for assessing electronic voting system security for the last day of ...
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"Can Sun, or Anyone, Make DRM Better With Open Source?"
Sun Microsystems is looking for partners for its open source digital rights management (DRM) initiative aimed at fostering innovation and compensating rights holders, though some are concerned about the restrictions Sun's DReaM (DRM everywhere available) Project could entail. Sun's Open Media ...
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"Cray's Rottsolk: HPC's 'Eternal Optimist'"
James Rottsolk recently relinquished his position as CEO of Cray, though he intends to stay involved in the company he co-founded, as he will serve on the board and remains committed to making it profitable again. Since posting $21 million in profits in 2003, Cray has fallen on hard times, ...
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"IT Groups Push Congress to Raise H-1B Visa Limits"
High-tech industry organizations such as the Information Technology Association of America are pushing for Congress to raise the H-1B cap, which reached its 65,000-annual limit two months before the beginning of the 2006 fiscal year, while industry lobbyists and other reform advocates ...
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"The WiMAX Wait Is Over"
WiMAX is set to move beyond the design stage and into the world of real products in the coming months. Initially developed for metro-area networks and standardized as 802.16d, WiMAX can be deployed on both licensed and unlicensed spectra, with the most common bands being 3.5GHz in Europe and ...
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"Fortifying DOD's Network Defenses"
As attacks on Defense Department (DOD) computer networks increase, Purdue University computer science professor Eugene Spafford calls for the creation of a new generation of computer systems and security tools. However, such a project will require long-term research. Meanwhile, ...
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"Are Attackers Winning the Arms Race?"
The severity and speed of malware attacks as well the skill of those who orchestrate them is increasing as hacking becomes more professional and profit-oriented. Forty-nine percent of 474 individuals surveyed in this year's InfoWorld Security Research Report said increasingly sophisticated ...
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"A Conversation With Roger Sessions and Terry Coatta"
In a discussion moderated by Sendmail CTO Eric Allman, ObjectWatch CEO Roger Sessions and Silicon Chalk VP Terry Coatta converse in depth about objects, components, and Web services. Sessions and Coatta agree that the CORBA architecture failed due to its low support of interoperability in ...
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