What Are You Afraid
Of?
Gartner: 1/4 of U.S. IT
Jobs Offshored by 2010
One quarter of traditional U.S. IT jobs will have migrated
overseas by the end of the decade, predict industry analyst
researchers, but this migration may not necessarily entail
layoffs of American workers in every case: Some of those
positions will be created by American firms setting up shop in
...
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National Security Spec
Advances
This week will mark the unveiling of the Open Specification
for Information Sharing (OSIS) by Regional Alliances for
Infrastructure and Network Security (RAINS), a consortium of
technology companies, critical infrastructure providers,
universities, and public agencies. OSIS is ...
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Congress Moves to
Criminalize P2P
Legislation circulating in Congress would significantly
stiffen the penalties for illegal file-sharing as well as make
it easier for the Justice Department to sue copyright pirates.
A draft bill under consideration by the House subcommittee on
intellectual property would mean ...
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Can India Plug Its Brain
Drain?
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) are setting up
startup incubators to encourage the country's best and
brightest engineers to stay and make their fortune at home.
The list of IIT graduates who fill major positions in the
technology industry is impressive, given that just about 3,000
new ...
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Extra Headaches of Securing
XML
Web services pose a serious security threat to enterprise
networks given the lack of understanding about XML among
security professionals and the low profile security has played
in Web services deployment to date. Current Web services
implementations are not much of a threat since ...
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Human Studies Show
Feasibility of Brain-Machine Interfaces
With funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency and the National Institutes of Health, Duke University
Medical Center researchers have embarked upon initial human
feasibility studies into a way to control external devices by
thought via a series of electrodes implanted within a ...
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IT Security and Software
Development
As hardware and software proliferates, there is a pressing
need to address interoperability and security issues, such as
whether the technologies will interoperate reliably under all
potential test scenarios. Unfortunately, the number of
software combinations that need to work together in a secure
...
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Rising to the Software
Challenge
A major challenge for scientific research in computing is
establishing a connection between the theory of programming
and the products of software engineering practice, writes
Microsoft Research professor Sir Tony Hoare; he says this task
could be accomplished by organizing a grand challenge ...
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Rules for Effective Source
Code Control
Larkware lead developer and author Mike Gunderloy believes
every software developer should use some form of source code
control, which promotes more harmonious collaboration between
team members and provides a secure back-up file of code as
well. When choosing the best source code control system, ...
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Beyond
VoIP
The Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center at Texas A&M
University is working to build next-generation voice-over-IP
(VoIP) technologies. Walt Magnussen, director of
communications for the university, says the center's Internet2
Voice Over IP Working Group is concerned with issues such as
...
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The Dating Game Goes
Wireless
Researchers at MIT's Media Lab have developed software that
would allow cell phones to exchange photos and personal
information about singles in bars, cafes, shopping malls, and
workplaces who are likely to make a good match. Developed by
Nathan Eagle, Pedro Yip, Steve Kannan, and Doochan ...
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Government IT Must
Consider Privacy, Ethics
The nonprofit group Association for Federal Infraction
Resources Management (AFFIRM), which works to improve U.S.
government information management, sponsored a panel at the
recent FOSE government computing trade show to inspire
discussion on privacy and other technology-related ethical
issues. ...
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Future Tech: Trends for
the Coming Year
Augmented reality systems are being used by the armed
forces to train people in dealing with dangerous situations.
Unlike virtual reality, in which the user interacts with an
artificial environment, augmented reality puts users in a real
environment and superimposes digital images over their ...
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SANs Come Up to
Speed
The 10Gbit Fibre Channel products due out by the end of
this year are likely to be undercut by a 4Gbit standard that
is less expensive and compatible with existing technology. The
Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) approved the 4Gbit
standard last June before approving ...
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Positive
Prognosis
The increasing digitization of medical data and the
incorporation of electronics into medical equipment is
spurring a new focus on early diagnosis and prevention of
ailments. The growing availability of diagnostic imagery
carries with it the danger of medical-data overload, ...
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Bigger &
Better
AT&T, Land Registry, Boeing, Experian Information
Solutions, and the U.S. Defense Department are pushing the
envelope in terms of database technologies. AT&T has
compiled two years of telephone records into a 26.3 TB data
warehouse used by 3,000 staff for marketing analysis, pricing
...
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Spam-Busters
Unspam CEO Matthew Prince, one of the top spam fighters in
the United States, argues that for spam to be curtailed
several things must happen: Technology that can help establish
and confirm a sender's identity must be developed, which will
allow anti-spam laws to be more enforceable and ...
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What Are You Afraid
Of?
Virtual reality (VR) systems are being used to treat eating
disorders, post-traumatic stress, phobias, addiction, and
other conditions that are often psychological in nature. VR
therapy is also being explored to reduce physical discomfort
by evoking peaceful or soothing moods within patients. ...
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