The Intelligent
Internet
Can Software Kill
You?
Faulty software is becoming a larger concern now that
computers are involved in nearly every aspect of people's
lives. Bad code can even lead to deaths in some cases, such as
at the National Cancer Institute in Panama, where 21 patients
died in 2000 due to radiotherapy overdose, caused ...
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Hackers Strike Advanced
Computing Networks
A number of hackers have compromised U.S. research
computing laboratories and networks in the past weeks, doing
little damage but raising fears that hugely disruptive attacks
are possible. Much like a Canadian teenager used University of
California, Santa Barbara supercomputers to knock out ...
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DRC Investigation Finds
Public Websites 'Impossible' for Disabled
People
The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) in the United
Kingdom has condemned Web developers and online companies for
throwing up the same barriers to access for disabled people as
exist in the physical world. The results of the study and the
DRC's recommendations show that the Web could be made ...
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Making Software Systems
Evolve
The IST is pursuing a project that would make software
evolvable, enabling an organization to change its support
software without disrupting the operation of the business.
Participants in the ARCHWARE project, which will be completed
by year end, want to establish a formal architectural ...
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Blogs: Here to Stay--With
Changes
Estimates put the number of blogs on the Web at 2 million
while recent research from the Pew Internet & American
Life Project says 11 percent of Americans have read one.
Experts say the cultural influence of blogs is significant,
but has not reached its full potential. Blog pioneer Dave ...
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Researchers Awarded $2
Million to Create High-Tech Tools for Fighting
Wildfires
University and government researchers are collaborating to
create a complex simulation and sensor system that will help
predict the behavior of wildfires quickly. The planned system
involves sensors placed around a wildfire that take in data
such as temperature, wind direction and speed, ...
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NASA Gives Mars Rovers
Software Upgrade
NASA completed a software upgrade for both Mars rovers on
Tuesday that should make their computer systems more reliable
and enable the robots to travel farther across the red planet.
NASA began sending the Spirit rover's new flight code on
Thursday and the Opportunity rover's new code on ...
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Friend or Foe? A Digital
Dog Tag Beams the Answer
The U.S. military is working on new battlefield
identification technology that promises to cut down on
friendly-fire incidents. In the Persian Gulf war in 1991, 24
percent of American casualties were caused by mistaken
attacks, but Army combat identification researcher Pete
Glikerdas says the ...
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Computer Science Degree
Still Leads to Employment
Stu Zweben, chair of the Ohio State University Department
of Computer Science and Engineering, says the reason fewer
undergraduates are majoring in computer science is broader
than the outsourcing of jobs overseas. In addition to the poor
job market, Zweben says many students are pursuing ...
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Government, Firms Unveil
Cybersecurity Framework
A corporate security task force formed by the IT industry
and the Homeland Security Department has published a report
that provides a framework for security governance. The
framework, which says that information security is a fiduciary
responsibility for CEOs, uses existing federal and ...
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Major Network Project,
Partnership
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(ORNL) and the National LambdaRail (NLR) have agreed to share
resources, creating one of the most advanced environments for
computationally intensive science and network research. NLR
focuses on high-speed research networks shared ...
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The Changing Face of Open
Source
The open source community continues to conjure up the image
of programmers working on a project in their own spare time,
but since the mid 1990s much of the code writing has been
carried out by developers who work for IT shops. In fact, many
programmers involved in open source projects today ...
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Sturdy Quantum Computing
Demoed
Quantum computing uses the quantum states of particles as
the basis for computer logic, but those states can be erased
by the slightest interference from light, heat, or magnetism.
Researchers at the University of Toronto have created a method
for protecting quantum computing ...
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IETF to Lead Anti-Spam
Crusade
The Internet Engineering Task Force is tacking the issue of
email authentication standards with a new, high-profile
working group called MARID. The name comes from the group's
task: to build message transfer agent (MTA) authorization
records in DNS. The end-solution will not ...
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Logic From
Chaos?
Dr. William Ditto of the University of Florida believes
that harnessing chaos is another way to make a powerful
computer. In March, Dr. Ditto spoke during the annual
conference of the American Physical Society about his efforts
to base a computer on the mathematical idea of chaos, in which
...
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Network of Traffic Spies
Built Into Cars in Atlanta
Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have
scored a significant advancement in traffic analysis by
developing Global Positioning System (GPS) -enabled monitoring
devices for automobiles. The monitoring devices, which are
connected to the speedometers of older cars and onboard ...
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The Intelligent
Internet
According to George Washington University's TechCast
forecasts, 20 commercial areas of Internet use should achieve
30 percent "take-off" adoption levels in the latter half of
the current decade, while a new generation of intelligent
systems will emerge in parallel with these trends ...
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