Talent Exodus
"Silicon Valley's Call: Smarten Up, America!"
Technology leaders gathered Wednesday in San Jose for a summit hosted by TechNet and called for a change in government policies to encourage innovation, citing the widespread concern that the United States is falling behind its international competitors. Venture capitalist John Doerr ...
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"Politicos Wary of Changes to Copyright Law"
Members of a House subcommittee on trade, commerce, and consumer protection expressed their reluctance to revise the copy restrictions on software and CDs spelled out in the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act for the sake of fair use. The debate pits consumer advocates, who argue that the right ...
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"Top Researchers, Projects in High Performance Computing Honored at SC/05"
Researchers were recognized for their achievements this week at the SC05 conference, sponsored jointly by ACM and IEEE. The rewards are an annual event to honor innovation among participants at the conference, and include the Gordon Bell Prize, the Bandwidth Challenge, and the HPC Analytics ...
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"Negroponte: Laptop for Every Kid"
MIT Media Lab's Nicholas Negroponte unveiled a prototype of the $100 laptop at the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society this week in Tunisia. The Linux-based laptop features a swiveling seven-inch screen and a hand crank that will power the machine for 40 minutes from one minute of ...
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"A Tough Code to Crack the Market"
While quantum cryptography shows the greatest promise of meeting the emerging security needs for government and enterprise, commercial development of the technology has been fraught with setbacks. Current security techniques use keys for the encryption and decryption of ...
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"Supercomputers Wasted Without Trained Users"
A host of commercial applications has helped supercomputing to emerge from the lab as a field with viable practical applications, such as simulating the motion of a golf swing and the effects of the impact with the ball when designing a golf club. Enterprise applications include sophisticated ...
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"Online Learning's Frontier"
Florida State University associate professor of instructional systems Amy Baylor is working to humanize computers to make them more useful educators. The educational ability of PCs has historically been limited by the absence of human features, and Baylor's research has shown that humanizing ...
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"'Tagging' Gives Web a Human Meaning"
An increasing number of Web services are being defined by tags--the searchable keywords that describe the images of Yahoo's Flickr photo sharing network and the content of many other online applications. Sometimes referred to as folksonomies, tagging systems greatly simplify the ...
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"Tokyo Prof: All the World's a Computer"
Since his creation of the Real-time Operating System Nucleus (TRON), University of Tokyo professor Ken Sakamura has been involved in numerous projects to expand the applications of the technology, such as the T-Engine Forum, which Sakamura established in 2002 to encourage TRON-based embedded ...
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"US 'Relying on Private Companies to Counter Cyber-Terrorism'"
Many experts say the government is not doing enough to fight cyber-terrorism, which has become a major responsibility for the private sector. Dan Verton, executive editor of Homeland Defense Media in the United States and author of "Black Ice: The Invisible Threat of ...
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"Home Sweat Home"
Microsoft has taken more than just a hands-on approach to research: They are actually going inside customer's homes to make observations that will benefit modern technology. Anthropologist Anne Kirah performs field research for Microsoft in Australia by traveling to different families' ...
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"Velocity Java Engine Picks Up Speed"
A new version of the open source Java solution for the Velocity template engine is now available for download from Apache Jakarta Velocity. The ability to configure tool parameters via the toolbox definition file is one of the major improvements in infrastructure offered in VelocityTools 1.2, ...
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"Machines and Objects to Overtake Humans on the Internet: ITU"
Machines and objects will one day overtake human beings as the biggest users of the Internet through a pervasive network that can provide connectivity "anytime, anywhere, by anyone and anything," predicts a new report from the U.N. International Telecommunications Union. The ITU ...
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"Esperanto for Toasters"
Electronic manufacturers involved in the ZigBee Alliance believe they have a home networking standard that will enable a swarm of sensors to communicate with each other and turn the sensors into an intelligent network for the home that home automation advocates have fantasized about ...
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"Kramer Spearheads Impressive SC05 Showing"
The SC05 conference, sponsored jointly by ACM and IEEE, generated an impressive turnout this week, said William Kramer, who is chairing the event. Kramer noted that the strong showing among vendors is reflective of the thriving technology industry, though government participation has also been higher ...
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"It Takes a Hacker to Catch One"
Thinking like a criminal may actually lead to catching one, according to several companies that are now training IT professionals to take a hands-on approach to learning security in the fight against hackers. Several commonly used hacking tools include using a reverse shell, which tricks a ...
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"Driven by Design"
DARPA's Grand Challenge is an open invitation to college research teams and others to develop unmanned, self-navigating robotic vehicles that compete against each other in a race, and this year's competition was won by a modified Volkswagen Touareg designed by a Stanford University team led ...
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"Smart Houses Close to Reality With New Wireless Sensors"
Researchers in Japan are starting to focus more on sophisticated applications for sensing technology that could finally lead to the emergence of the smart house. The use of sensors to open doors as people approach them or turn on lights when someone enters a room is already a ...
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"Talent Exodus"
The United States is losing intelligent foreigners in droves to their home countries, according to former Citigroup executive David Heenan, whose recent book, "Flight Capital," details the importing and exporting of international scholars that are needed for science and technology jobs in ...
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