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U.S. Students Shun Computer
Sciences
Enrollment of U.S. undergraduate students in computer
technology and engineering fields declined by 19 percent in
the 2002-03 academic year, while the number of newly declared
computer science majors experienced a precipitous 23 percent
drop-off last year, according to the Computing ...
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Online Swindlers, Called
'Phishers,' Lure the Unwary
A growing number of "phishing" emails is worrying Internet
companies, banks, and insurance firms who often end up
absorbing the cost of identity theft. ISP Earthlink has
launched an aggressive campaign against phishers, who cost the
company approximately $100,000 in customer support and related
...
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Next Net Moves
Forward
The second phase of testing for Internet Protocol version 6
(IPv6) was recently completed as the Moonv6 testbed network
was put through its paces for two weeks in March by the North
American IPv6 Task Force, the Defense Information Systems
Agency's Joint Interoperability Testing Command, and ...
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Copy Protection Plan
Squeezes Home Users
Consumer electronics makers, PC hardware firms, and
software companies are working together to define an
"Authorized Domain" where all the digital content in a home
would be subject to technical constraints. Metadata attached
to the content would regulate how it is copied, stored,
displayed, ...
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Pay Once, Share Often With
LWDRM
Light Weight Digital Rights Management (LWDRM) technology
developed by Germany's Fraunhofer Institute has the potential
to resolve the bitter feud between the music industry and file
sharers by granting consumers more freedom without
compromising the rights of the industry. The institute ...
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Robolympics Contestants
Shoot for Gold
Some 414 robots and 600 human entrants have registered for
the first-ever Robolympics, an international competition that
will test the machines' mettle across a variety of disciplines
through an assortment of grueling contests. Robotics Society
of America President James Calkins, who founded ...
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Ad-Hoc Wireless Networking
Technology for Battlefield Environments
Under the auspices of its Multidisciplinary Research
Initiative (MURI) program, the U.S. Defense Department has
apportioned about $3 million in funding over three years to a
project to develop "space-time processing for tactical mobile
ad-hoc networks" for establishing wireless mobile ...
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Technology Solution to
Slicing Spam Lags
Efforts to develop anti-spam technology standards are
displaying a profound lack of unification, and some anti-spam
experts are taking a long, hard look at the standards issue's
progress in the wake of AOL, EarthLink, Microsoft, and
Yahoo!'s joint lawsuit against scores of spammers. There ...
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Clever Critter May Detect
Hard-Drive Failures
Variations in temperature may presage a hard-drive failure,
and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers have designed
a new sensor to detect such variations. Chriss Swaney of CMU
reports that gauging the amount of heat produced in a hard
drive on a daily basis could help extend the life ...
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Computers and Sensors Find
Home in UF Seniors Project
University of Florida researchers are developing and
testing assisted-living technologies designed to aid senior
citizens without sacrificing their freedom. A lab in UF's
computer science engineering building is decked out as a
mockup of a living space outfitted with ...
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'Nano-Lightning' Could Be
Harnessed to Cool Future Computers
Purdue University scientists have developed an ion-driven
cooling device for electronic circuits that could prove
significantly more reliable and less expensive than
liquid-based cooling, and perhaps enable laptops to employ
higher-performance chips whose heat output is beyond the
tolerance ...
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Digital Revolutionary:
Interview With Leonardo Chiariglione
After ushering in the MP3 and MPEG standards, electronics
engineer Leonardo Chiariglione says the digital revolution is
still far from being realized: His new Digital Media Project
(DMP) is meant to complete the picture and bring about a new
digital music experience for end users, new business ...
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All Our Lives Are on File,
for Sale
Many companies sell or trade consumers' personal
information, gathering it from Internet sites, credit
applications, government Web sites, and other sources. Much of
the data is publicly available, and volunteered by consumers,
but privacy experts worry that the accumulation of such data
...
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IIT Software to Break
Language Barriers
Students and professors in IIT Kharagpur's computer science
department are collaborating with leading Indian linguists to
develop translation software designed to close the gap between
the "educated elite" of India's urban centers and the less
literate rural residents. "We have been given the ...
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Location Awareness: The
Key to Better Mobile Networks
Mobile phones' location awareness capabilities could be
tapped to significantly improve mobile network performance and
management, as demonstrated by tests conducted under
Information Society Technologies' CELLO project. The
network-capacity difficulties mobile operators must ...
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Blueprint for Code
Automation
Model-driven architecture (MDA) is slowly gaining
acceptance among organizations that start with small projects
highlighting MDA's benefits: For instance, the state of
Wisconsin used MDA to develop a new Web-based unemployment
insurance benefit system, laying down business process ...
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All Eyes on
Google
The Google search engine developed by Stanford grad
students Sergey Brin and Larry Page has turned Web searching
into a profitable enterprise and become so vital that former
Lycos CEO Bob Davis exclaims, "The Internet without search is
like a cruise missile without a guidance system." ...
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Primary
Concerns
During the Democratic primary on March 2, Maryland used
touch-screen voting machines statewide for the first time with
no instances of voter fraud, but RABA Technologies security
advisor Michael Wertheimer says the silence is deafening
because those with malicious intent have had an opportunity to
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Search Beyond
Google
Google's enormous success with its search engine--and its
apparent inability to develop a follow-up innovation momentous
enough to sustain the company's market dominance--is
encouraging Microsoft and other companies to invent their own
tools that could eventually capture a good portion of ...
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