New Technology That Changes
How People Interact With Computers
Smalltalk Creator Wins
'Nobel Prize' of Computing
The ACM will honor Dr. Alan Kay with a 2003 Turing Award
for his development of Smalltalk, the first complete dynamic
object-oriented programming language and the template for Java
and C++. Kay is also the recipient of a 2004 National Academy
of Engineering Charles Stark ...
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TCP Vulnerable, But Net
Won't Go Down
Hackers could cut links between servers and routers by
exploiting a basic flaw in the Transmission Control Protocol
(TCP), according to advisories from the U.S. Computer
Emergency Readiness Team and Britain's National Infrastructure
Security Coordination Center (NISCC). This announcement has
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Linux: Unfit for National
Security?
Recent assertions by Green Hills Software CEO Dan O'Dowd
that Linux open-source software constitutes a threat to
national security were followed up by testimony from Purdue
University professor Eugene Spafford and the Naval
Postgraduate School's Cynthia Irvine contending that Linux is
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Grid Vendors Launch
Interoperability Effort
The creation of the Enterprise Grid Alliance, a consortium
of some of the IT industry's largest vendors whose goal is to
promote enterprise grid computing, was officially announced on
April 20. The alliance's members, which include Oracle,
Hewlett-Packard, EMC, Novell, Cisco Systems, NEC, and ...
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Researchers Envision the
Linux of Routing
Researchers at the International Computer Science Institute
are using private and government money to develop the
Extensible Open Router Platform (XORP), which they want to
become a Linux-like alternative to expensive, proprietary
routing software. The first iteration of the software will be
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Algorithms That Changed the
World
Algorithms describe the way in which our technology works
and are the basis for many of today's most important
applications, including the Internet, the Web, secure
e-commerce, digital music, Web search, and even clocks
synchronized via the Internet. MIT computer scientist David
Clark says ...
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Teaching Robots to Herd
Cats
The National Science Foundation has granted $2.6 million to
a multi-university project to develop software that will allow
small robots to perform as a unified whole in order to better
aid search and rescue missions. The project is led by Nikos
Papanikolopoulos, who is ...
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Voters Unable to Have
Printed Receipt
Miami-Dade county election officials rejected a proposal on
April 19 to equip iVotronic touch-screen voting machines with
printers in time for the November presidential election
because the technology is not state certified. The iVotronic
suppliers must wait for federal and state ...
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Industry May Benefit From
First CAD Search System
Purdue researchers have created the first CAD database
search tool that allows engineers to search out previously
designed parts for reuse or important production information.
Purdue mechanical engineering professor Karthik Ramani says
companies have short corporate memories, with managers ...
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TeamSpace =
Collaboration
Believing that interactive team workspaces will be needed
to adapt project collaborators to changes in Stanford
University's academic requirements and programs, Armando Fox
and Terry Winograd of Stanford's Computer Science Department
are supervising the development of TeamSpace, a collaborative
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Getting Real With Virtual
Reality
Information Society Technologies' BENOGO-Image Based
Rendering (IBR) is an important step in the field of virtual
reality technology because it allows a photorealistic 3D
representation of actual locations to be rendered with fewer
photographic images, according to project coordinator Erik
Granum. ...
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New Technology Uses
'Glanceable' Objects
Products such as Ambient Devices' Orb are seen as the start
of a new form of data presentation, in which computerized
information is relayed through objects that more smoothly
integrate into people's lives. The Orb is a plastic sphere
that changes color and intensity to reflect the Dow Jones ...
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Hollywood's New Lesson for
Campus File Swappers
The music and movie industries are promoting a free system
for automating network policy enforcement on college campuses:
The Automated Copyright Notice System (ACNS) receives
copyright infringement notices from the Motion Picture
Association of America and the Recording Industry ...
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Robo
Rehab
Intelligent robotic technology is being employed to help
rehabilitate victims of debilitating strokes, sometimes with
better results than traditional therapy. Rehab robots have
been researched for over 10 years, and are currently being
tested on patients in Europe, Asia, and the United ...
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Effort Afoot to Exempt 20k
from H-1B Cap
Rep. Lamar Smith's (R-Texas) American Workforce Improvement
and Jobs Protection Act aims to increase the number of foreign
workers with H-1B visas by as much as 20,000 by exempting
those who earn advanced degrees from U.S. universities from
the current 65,000-visa cap. Smith's bill is ...
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The Rush to
RFID
Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology's
purported benefits include more efficient and cost-effective
inventory and supply-chain management, less difficult product
tracing and recalls, fewer cases of product interference, and
reduced labor costs--but only if hardware, ...
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Electronic Waste: Be Part
of the Solution
Industry reports suggest that the United States could be
inundated by a "tsunami" of electronic detritus, much of it
toxic, between 2006 and 2015, and this is prompting
manufacturers to pursue the elimination of lead and other
hazardous materials by designing more recyclable and
environmentally ...
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An Evolving Architecture
for the Management of Digital Identity
Security concerns have grown along with the increase in
complex network-aware applications, with companies trying to
determine how to provide external and internal users
controlled access to corporate resources. Identity and access
management (I&AM) solutions started with ...
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New Technology That
Changes How People Interact With
Computers
The separation of user interfaces from computers will
revolutionize computer-user interactions and establish
portable computing, writes James A. Larson, Intel's manager of
advanced human input/output. Expected to emerge in the future
is a personal server with built-in computer memory and ...
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