The Next President's I.T.
Agenda
E-Vote Still Flawed,
Experts Say
Raba Technologies researchers issued a report on Jan. 29
warning that touch-screen voting machines from Diebold
Election Systems are still vulnerable to internal or external
tampering. These findings were the result of a week-long
series of evaluations in which Raba testers used the ...
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U.S. Takes Anti-Virus
Role
A federal alert system was officially launched by the
Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity division on
Jan. 28; it will serve as an online clearinghouse of
information on all kinds of cybersecurity threats. Consumers
will also be able to access the system to learn if their own
...
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New Age Dawns at
Eclipse
The Eclipse open-source development tools project is
expected to declare its independence from IBM at the upcoming
EclipseCon conference, and this could pave the way for other
technology providers, including IBM competitors such as Sun
Microsystems, to become Eclipse board members and ...
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A Quantum Leap in Codes for
Secure Transmissions
Experts believe even the best existing digital security
system will ultimately be defeated by hackers, and the only
unbeatable solution is quantum cryptography, in which the keys
used to encrypt and decrypt data are encoded within light
particles so sensitive that even the slightest ...
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Internet Engineers Planning
Assault on Spam
The Internet Research Task Force's Anti-Spam Research Group
(ASRG) is debating new technical standards designed to curb
the onslaught of spam by making it possible to confirm whether
an email originates from a legitimate address. "What we're
doing in the short term is not trying to stop spam ...
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The Trend of Vanishing Tech
Jobs
Institute for International Economics economist Catherine
L. Mann posits that the offshore outsourcing of computer
programming is less dire than American programmers and
consulting firms have made it out to be--in fact, she claims
that the trend will ultimately be a positive boon that
elevates ...
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Bipartisan Request Seeks
Halt to Internet Voting
Both the Republican and Democratic party groups
representing Americans abroad have asked the Pentagon to stop
its planned test of Internet voting. Sponsored by the Federal
Voting Assistance Program, the $22 million Internet voting
experiment is meant to make it more convenient for overseas
...
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WiFi Standards Compete for
Market Dominance
The rapid and widespread acceptance of Wi-Fi 802.11b
technology means 2004 is a pivotal year for higher-speed
options, namely 802.11a and 802.11g. As soon as the first
802.11b specification was released, the Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers working group responsible
began ...
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Russia Retools Laws to
Build IT Industry
Russia has the constituents to build a strong IT
industry--a heavy focus on math, science, and basic research,
an inexpensive engineering workforce, etc.--but the nation's
long-term economic reliance on raw materials has limited its
technology exports. Speakers at this week's U.S.-Russia ...
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What's Labor Going to Do
About Offshoring?
Former South Bay AFL-CIO executive director Amy Dean, who
is still president of the Silicon Valley non-profit Working
Partnerships USA, believes public policy and labor unions must
retool in order to better help white-collar professionals cope
with offshore outsourcing and the perils of ...
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New Conductor Guides Data
Along the Fiber Optic Route
Optical nanowires developed at Harvard University transmit
light by guiding it, rather than containing it as in
traditional optic fiber. Because the glass nanowires are
smaller than light wavelengths, about half the light energy
traveling along the wire flows outside in an evanescent field,
and ...
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Badge Controls
Displays
Researchers at England's University of Lancaster have mixed
wireless communications, local area networks (LANs), and
Internet access into a "smart space" in which the user can
command nearby screens to display Net-based information
relevant to their personal preferences without ...
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UH to Host World
Conference on Future of Internet
The Techs in Paradise conference is scheduled to take place
in Hawaii this week, bringing more than 300 top officials and
executives in the Internet2 community to Honolulu. The
regional counterpart working on the next-generation Internet,
the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network, will join the ...
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With Tech Jobs Going
Overseas, Starting Career More Stressful
Employment experts no longer list the technology sector as
one of the best industries college seniors can look to for
jobs. Internet-based MonsterTRAK, which is popular with
college students, says finance, health care, and advertising
offer the best opportunities for employment. The ...
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Four Wheels Good, Two Legs
Bad
Robotic experts call bipedalism an impractical and
inefficient approach to robot movement, and truly practical
two-legged walking robots are not expected to emerge for
decades. The idea that a multifunctional robot must be bipedal
is an outdated concept, according to roboticists; for
instance, ...
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Printer
Magic
Corporate and academic researchers are working on advanced
technologies in which 3D objects can be printed out layer by
layer via the deposition of liquid polymers. Although printers
are still incapable of running off electrical circuits
integrated into completed, working components, Palo ...
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Trip to Mars Requires
Intelligence
Technology experts explain that manned missions to Mars
cannot take place without advancements in artificial
intelligence. Metrica senior scientist David Kortenkamp
anticipates dramatic AI improvements within President Bush's
timeframe for manned expeditions to the red planet, though he
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The Next President's I.T.
Agenda
Presidential candidates should have solid stances on
technology-related issues so that CIOs will be able to clearly
understand their IT policies, says Jonathan Zittrain of
Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet &
Society. The two overriding issues of critical infrastructure
are ...
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