Streamlined Databases Drive Military Simulation
"Tech Group Blasts Federal Leadership on Cyber-Security"
The Cyber Security Industry Alliance on Tuesday lambasted the Bush administration for its failure to address the proliferation of online crime, arguing that the absence of leadership and accountability endangers the economic and national security of the U.S. The group called ...
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"Can State Ignore Its E-Vote Laws?"
North Carolina election officials will appear in court this week to defend against allegations they ignored the state's laws on the certification of e-voting machines. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has leveled the charges against the Board of Elections and the Office of Information ...
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"About That Engineering Gap..."
A team of Duke researchers has found that statistics commonly cited to compare the number of engineering graduates in the U.S. with other nations are inaccurate, and that the U.S. actually produces more graduates than India, and that China's numbers are inflated, writes Duke ...
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"Award-Winning Mobile Multimedia Project Bridges Art and Engineering"
Helsinki University doctoral candidate Jurgen Schieble has developed MobiLenin, an interactive entertainment system that was recognized as the Best Arts Paper at ACM's Multimedia 2005 conference in Singapore. Combining Schieble's musical skill and mobile technology expertise, ...
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"It's Gee-Whiz for the Golden Years"
In a departure from the traditional focus on youth, miniaturization, and a dizzying array of features, technologists convened at an exhibition this week in Washington, D.C., to showcase a variety of innovations aimed at helping senior citizens manage and improve their lives, such as Pearl, a ...
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"The Baltic Life: Hot Technology for Chilly Streets"
Estonia has become an incubator of successful technology companies one year after joining the European Union, and companies in the Estonian capital Tallinn especially have begun to entice significant foreign capital. The former Soviet Union country in Eastern Europe on the Baltic Sea is the home ...
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"Computer Languages Multiply, Pleasing Many--But Not All"
While the proliferation of languages has been a boon to software programmers, the extensive variety often frustrates their bosses and confounds the larger software companies. C and the subsequent C++ may be the most popular languages in use today, but any programmer working on the ...
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"To Tomorrow and Beyond"
The world's fastest supercomputers, already at work solving some of the most complex scientific problems, are likely to see a fourfold performance increase in performance as the next phase of technology takes hold. In the business community, supercomputers will move beyond their roles of ...
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"Taking on Rootkits With Hardware"
While Intel's recent announcement that it is working to protect against rootkits took many by surprise, the company's Travis Schluessler notes that security technologies have long been a development priority for Intel, despite the fact that PC security has traditionally been the province of ...
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"Technology Leadership Is Key to Security"
Leadership in the technology realm is fast becoming the lynch pin of U.S. security and prosperity, writes U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce David McCormick, adding that leadership demands a delicate balance between attracting the top researchers in the world and ensuring that sensitive ...
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"IT Sector Joins Forces to Remove Barriers to Women"
Australia's tech industry has developed a mentoring program with hopes of solidifying a role for women executives in information technology. The Women in IT Executive Mentoring (Witem) Program is designed to provide women with a fast track for career development, coaching and visibility ...
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"E-Voting Deadline Looms"
Election officials in the states that accepted a portion of the $3.2 billion Congress offered to improve voting systems through the Help American Vote Act must decide on replacement equipment by Jan 1. E-voting systems have been the source of considerable controversy, however, as even ...
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"Program Sorts Terrorism Data"
UCLA researchers Rafail Ostrovsky and William Skeith have created code that organizes online gathering, encryption, and discarding of terrorist-related information without anyone having knowledge of what data is kept by the agency and what data is thrown out. Agencies currently use a method where ...
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"Steady Growth Triggers Optimism Among IT Pros"
The Canadian high-tech sector is on an even keel with pay levels that show smooth and stable growth, reveals a recent survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting. Mercer says the steady environment has generated a greater sense of optimism among IT professionals. An average salary increase of ...
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"From "Toy Story" to "Chicken Little""
Computer animation in the movies has made astounding leaps and bounds since the first full-length CGI film, Pixar's "Toy Story," caused such a sensation at the box office. The animation technique has remained consistent: Drawings and illustrations of characters and other elements ...
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"New Brain Trust to Work Like the Web"
Informatics software maker Teranode and Science Commons plan to launch in the second half of 2006 NeuroCommons.org, a shared platform that will make it easier and faster for researchers to obtain information on brain function and disease. The company will provide the infrastructure for the ...
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"The Engineers Are Feeling Gloomy"
Findings from a new survey are in line with recent reports that have revealed a lack of optimism from engineers about the future of their field. The more than 4,000 engineers surveyed by Portland technology public relations firm McClenahan Bruer Communications and CMP Media of Manhasset, ...
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"Streamlined Databases Drive Military Simulation"
The fidelity and reliability of military simulations is steadily improving thanks to advances in display technology, data processing, portability, and, most importantly, software. Among the challenges of modern-day military simulation is the construction of digitized environments from ...
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