The God Particle and the
Grid
More Cash Flowing to
Robotics Research
Robotics research is taking off thanks to technological
advances and renewed interest from the federal government.
While core supporters have consistently pushed robotics
forward in the past, the field is generating a lot of
publicity with recent military action. The Defense Department
is ...
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Smart Net Drops PCs,
Keyboard, and Mouse
Australian researchers are working to integrate technology
with social and behavioral research, including software that
allows groups of people to collaborate digitally without the
use of keyboard, mouse, or traditional computer. Called
Project Nightingale, the effort is backed by the Smart ...
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In the Trenches With
Antivirus Guru Mikko Hypponen
F-Secure director of antivirus research Mikko Hypponen is
one of the best virus hunters, a type of researcher that is
fairly obscure. Hypponen has been working in computer security
for 13 years, and says that his assembly language skills have
come in handy in reverse-engineering viruses. ...
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Spamhaus Proposal Aims to
Stop Spam
Anti-spam organization Spamhaus has submitted an
application to ICANN for a .mail top-level domain name in the
belief that its proposed server-to-server" scheme can prevent
spam from reaching email servers. The Spamhaus
server-to-server approach is a seamless arrangement that works
...
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The Pure Software Act of
2006
Spyware is perhaps more insidious than other malware such
as viruses and worms, since it mixes commerce and deception in
a way morally abhorrent to most computer users, writes Simson
Garfinkel. While viruses and worms are clearly illegal,
spyware that tracks users' online activity and computer ...
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Email Attack Could Kill
Servers
Computer security experts at NGSSoftware have discovered a
way to disable email servers by using forged emails with
thousands of incorrect addresses in the "copy to" field. The
researchers found that sending these emails to large email
servers ricocheted enormous quantities of unwanted email back
...
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ENUM Still Stalled in
US
Despite its technological feasibility and the endorsement
of the U.S. government in February 2003, the ENUM standard for
telephone numbers used over the Internet has yet to be
implemented in the United States due to a number of concerns.
Insiders generally agree that ENUM will be a crucial ...
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Group Suggests 25 Ways to
Improve IT Security
The Corporate Information Security Working Group released a
report this week that says to improve government and private
sector cybersecurity, new legislation, insurance changes, and
public outreach efforts are needed. The group, consisting of
academic and industry members, has offered 25 ...
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Here There Be Data: Mapping
the Landscape of Science
Researchers from a number of different fields are working
to map the entire scientific landscape using computers. Nearly
20 articles recently published in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences describe different aspects of
this effort which would benefit not only scientific ...
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Swiss Diplomat Leads
Debate Over Policing the Web
At the behest of United Nations Secretary General Kofi
Annan, Swiss diplomat Markus Kummer will help shape the
international discussions on Internet governance that are
expected to be held at the second World Summit on the
Information Society in 2005. Kummer says he plans to create a
...
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Rajan's
Spirit
NASA is using MAPGEN (Mixed-Initiative Activity Plan
GENerator) to instruct the Mars Exploration Rovers on what
maneuvers and scientific tasks to perform each day on Mars.
MAPGEN is able to automatically create conflict-free plans and
schedules for science and engineering activities; ...
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Photo Recognition Software
Gives Location
Researchers at the University of Cambridge in the United
Kingdom have developed software that can recognize
photographed buildings nearby, determine your location, and
then provide you with directions to your destination. Roberto
Cipolla and Duncan Robertson envision cell phone ...
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International Report:
Taiwan
China and Taiwan are moving to join the International
Commons (iCommons) project of Creative Commons (CC), a
nonprofit group that is giving content creators an opportunity
to place their work in the public domain without losing
control over how others use their copyrighted material. The
...
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Ease-of-Use Equals
Use
User-centered user-interface development (UCUID) is a
process whereby user interfaces and their components are
fleshed out through careful planning, research, analysis,
design, deployment, evaluation, training, and maintenance
according to usability principles to ensure that products and
...
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Into Thin
Air
Supporters claim that offshore outsourcing is crucial to
the continued competitiveness of the United States in the
global economy, leading to productivity boosts, lower prices,
and increased demand for U.S. goods. The accuracy of this
projection is of little comfort to American ...
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Security Patching: Easy As
1-2-3
Network managers will have a much easier job protecting Web
applications if two new security protocols automate
vulnerability description, assessment, and patching. However,
the XML-based Application Vulnerability Description Language
(AVDL) and Web Application Security (WAS) standards are not
being ...
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The God Particle and the
Grid
Once it is up and running in 2007, CERN's Large Hadron
Collider (LHC) in Switzerland could generate a peak rate of 10
petabytes of data annually in its search for the elusive Higgs
boson, or God particle. Processing that data is the job of the
LHC computing grid, a virtual network of clustered ...
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