Visualization Aids Steering of
Complex Simulations on the Grid
See-Through Voting
Software
VoteHere is proposing a vastly more transparent approach to
electronic voting than offered by other companies, allowing
public inspection not only of its source code, but also the
entire voting transcript. The electronic voting systems firm
does not make voting machines itself, but licenses its ...
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Taking High-Tech to a New
Dimension
The Web3D 2004 Symposium sheds light on attempts to share
information among computer devices for a number of 3D-display
applications, ranging from game-playing to war-fighting. Sun
Microsystems game technologies chief architect Dough
Twilleager described a scenario where 3D content could be ...
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W3C Advances Specs for Web
Interoperability
New technical recommendations from the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) spell an end to the browser wars of the late
1990s and create a new basis for Web interoperability. The
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core is an API standard
that helps developers create applications that work ...
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Intel Readies
Earth-Friendly Chips
Intel and other chip firms are promising to eliminate lead
and other hazardous materials from their semiconductor
products. By the end of this year, both Intel and National
Semiconductor say they will offer lead-free and nearly
lead-free chips and chip packages. Reducing lead and other ...
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College Campus Is IT Hot
Spot
An increasing number of colleges and universities are
offering majors in information technology, which should prove
to be beneficial to the federal government. The list of
colleges offering IT degrees includes Harvard University,
which offers an online degree in IT for undergraduate and ...
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Panelists Call for
Lightweight Linux
Linux complexity was a hot topic for discussion at this
week's ClusterWorld Conference & Expo in San Jose, with
Linux users and distributors divided on whether to make the
open-source operating system more lithe or more complex. Linux
is big in the high-performance computing community, having ...
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A Pearl for the
Elderly
A research team from Carnegie Mellon, the University of
Pittsburgh, the University of Michigan, and Stanford
University continue to test the elder-care robot Pearl at the
retirement community Longwood at Oakmont in Pittsburgh. Pearl
is one facet of the Personal Robotic Assistants for the ...
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Nonlinear Nets Tackle
Wireless Apps
A new neural network design promises tremendous wireless
bandwidth at low power, mimicking biological systems that
handle complex tasks with minimal energy use. Unlike
conventional linear circuit designs, the so-called echo state
networks (ESNs) use nonlinear dynamics to operate close to ...
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Data Finds a Place on the
Grid
Large companies and public institutions are beginning to
investigate data grids, which have garnered far less media
attention than computing grids but work on the same
principles. Just as computing grids allow resources to be
viewed singularly and applied to a specific problem, data
grids allow ...
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Ballot Box
Debate
The success of online voting in the Michigan Democratic
Party Caucus Feb. 7, 2004, did not impress the computer
scientists involved in the federal SERVE (Secure Electronic
Registration and Voting Experiment) project. A month later,
the Pentagon decided to table SERVE, which would have enabled
...
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Researchers Develop
Electronic Nose for Multimedia
Researchers at the University of Alberta are working to
bring the sense of smell to the personal computer. Dr. Mrinal
Mandal, a professor in the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, and Rafael Castro, a master's student,
have developed a device that recognizes the odors from 10 ...
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The Next Job for the
W3C
World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee says many important
Web innovations are in the pipeline, including voice browsing,
greater Web collaboration, and the Semantic Web. He describes
current voice recognition software as "less hopeless" than
before, making voice browsing possible. Users would ...
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The Mainframe's Mid-Life
Crisis
Mainframes, the backbone of many organizations' IT
infrastructure, are accessible through network services, and
companies need to reconsider how they secure their mainframes,
writes consultant Rob van Hoboken. Experienced mainframe help
is hard to find and often overworked, and ...
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Who's Responsible for
Cybersecurity?
Software vendors are taking responsibility for their
insecure products, pressured by customers who are tired of
being blamed for the poor state of cybersecurity. In the past,
software vendors discouraged regulation of their industry
while issuing numerous security recommendations for users. ...
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Managers Rush to Certify
IT Security Workers
Government managers are finding that they must hire,
retain, and train employees who protect the government's
information systems. "It is urgent that we hire people with
the skill sets necessary to do this incredibly important job,
and to keep them once we train and certify them," says ...
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Search Engines--The
Future
Web search engines will be much more sophisticated,
powerful, and accurate in the future. As useful and even
life-changing as today's search engines are, experts say there
are obvious areas of improvement. Searches should be
personalized, not targeted at a general Web audience or skewed
in favor ...
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Visualization Aids
Steering of Complex Simulations on the
Grid
Data transfer optimization and biological process modeling
are just a few of the Grid-enabled applications that can
benefit from visualization tools that would allow simulation
progress to be monitored and steered, delivering meaningful
results faster so that better-informed decisions can ...
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