First ASE Fellows Honored at 20th ACM/IEEE Automated Software Engineering Meet
"Electronic Voting Under Scrutiny as Federal Compliance Date Looms"
As a Jan. 1 e-voting compliance date approaches, election officials are scrambling to ensure that their machines are reliable and immune to viruses and hackers, as well as capable of providing a paper recording mechanism, though it remains unlikely that the required improvements will ...
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"Secure DNS Faces Resistance"
Members of the domain name industry are expressing skepticism about the deployment and adoption of a security enhancement to the domain name system (DNS) that would combat various phishing or pharming attacks. The security enhancement, DNSsec, was a topic of discussion at ICANN's annual meeting ...
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"Calculating Wow!"
Through the application of first principles of probability theory to a technological framework, two University of California engineers have developed a mathematical theory of surprise. Their work collected data by recording eye movements of volunteers while watching a video. USC's ...
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"In Silicon Valley, Job Hopping Contributes to Innovation"
In attempting to explain the extraordinary resilience of the Silicon Valley economy, analysts identify the area's fluidity and flexibility. Computer industry employees change jobs with far greater ease and frequency than in any other market, and the economy is built on a loosely affiliated network ...
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"Tech Security Day Teaches Computer Safeguarding Systems"
Computer security was the focus of the Nebraska Information Technology Security Day held this week at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Local experts in areas such as identity management, secure communications, and biometric security came together to educate the public on computer-related ...
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"The End User: Internet for the Small Screen"
Mobile phone company representatives met with researchers, academics, and technology experts affiliated with the World Wide Consortium (W3C) in London last month to devise a plan for making the mobile Internet more like using the Web on a personal computer. One focus of their Mobile Web ...
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"Morphome Project Researching Proactive Computing in Homes"
Academy of Finland Research Director Frans Mayra's Morphome project indicates that fear of technology would be a central concern among homeowners when considering the prospect of a smart home in which computers play a significant role. Many test subjects reported the concern that ...
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"Air Guitarists' Rock Dreams Come True"
Researchers at the Helsinki University of Technology have developed a system that applies music to the motions of playing air guitar. In the Virtual Air Guitar project, a computer monitors a player's movements through a video camera, and instantly matches them with riffs and licks to ...
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"Modern Tools to Unlock Ancient Texts"
The CHLT project has developed tools that can provide access to vast repositories of historical texts buried in museums and libraries. The project generated a host of morphological analyzers, citation databases, and tools for clustering and visualization, and augmented them with ...
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"Beyond Gender"
Female participation in computer science at Utah State University hovers below the national average of 17 percent, as there were only 17 female computer science majors compared with 207 males at the school this spring. Roughly 10 percent of USU's computer science graduates are women, though ...
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"No Train No Gain"
On the heels of a recent drop in participation among students in technology courses, the Australian Computer Society has called a meeting of deans and professors to deliberate on the future of technology education. One rumor they will seek to dispel is that the field is all about programming, a ...
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"The Internet's Third Wave"
Although the United States was able to maintain control of the Internet through ICANN during the global summit on the information society in Tunis last week, a more pressing issue than which government controls the Internet is whether the commercial or the non-profit segment of the private ...
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"Built to Last"
The life cycles of servers, desktop PCs, and laptops are a lot longer than they used to be, which is putting pressure on vendors to build equipment that will stand the test of time. "There's more pressure on us to make the boxes last a longer period of time," says Lenovo Group's Bill Owens. ...
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"Computer Science R&D Goes Begging for Funds"
A report issued by the Defense Science Boards earlier this year describes computer science as having outgrown the Defense Department's capacity to support and fund the industry it largely created. In the absence of a transition strategy, the possibility of the United States losing its ...
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"Security Expert: More Sophisticated Net Attacks Likely"
Hackers nowadays are becoming more sophisticated than ever and are teaming up to do more damage, which may prove to have a devastating effect on a nation's economy, says Scott Borg, director of the Department of Homeland Security's supported U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit. Borg predicts attacks ...
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"A Risky Gamble With Google"
Though Google's effort to digitize and offer free online access to millions of books from major English-language libraries is an exciting prospect, New York University professor Siva Vaidhyanathan contends that the initiative could compromise much of the freedom and integrity that libraries and other ...
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"Is There Anybody in There?"
Stephen Wolfram's concept of an abstract "computational universe" informs his theory that extraterrestrial life--indeed, all conceivable knowledge--can be found by plumbing this universe. The premise hangs on the assertion that all phenomena, no matter how complex, are produced by ...
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"Open Source Lights Up"
Industrial-grade open-source business intelligence (BI) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications have started to emerge, and Forrester analyst Michael Goulde urges CIOs to "sync up with their development teams to see [where such applications] might have payback to ...
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"The Legal Landscape of MGM v. Grokster"
The Supreme Court's decision in the case of MGM v. Grokster carries significant implications for file-sharing services and other defendants accused of secondary liability for copyright infringement. The Court ruled that defendants may assume a secondary liability if they "distribute a ...
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"First ASE Fellows Honored at 20th ACM/IEEE Automated Software Engineering Meet"
The steering committee of the ACM/IEEE International Conferences on Automated Software Engineering has established the honorary designation of "ASE Fellow" to be bestowed on those who have rendered significant and sustained contributions to the ASE community through their scientific
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