Position Via
Internet
Researchers Develop
Computer Techniques to Bring Blacked-Out Words to
Light
Gemplus information security lab director David Naccache
and Dublin City University computer science graduate student
Claire Whelan developed a software program that identified
words that were blacked-out in several confidential documents
using computer-based techniques. The Eurocrypt ...
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Intel's Next Challenge:
Mastering Physical World
Intel is researching proactive computing, in which
technology is employed to solve common societal problems by
collecting, filtering, and transmitting data with a minimum of
human intervention. An example of Intel's proactive computing
effort is IrisNet, a joint Intel/Carnegie ...
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E-Postmark May Thwart Cyber
Crooks
Penn State University researchers George Kesidis and Ihab
Hamadeh have created an "e-postmark" that could be tagged to
all Web-delivered packets, adding an extra layer of security
against hackers, spammers, and digital pirates. Spoofed email
and data packet addresses, though outlawed in the ...
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Aging in Place With
Technology
Preliminary findings of a Georgia Institute of Technology
study presented at the Association of Computing Machinery's
CHI 2004 conference indicate that older adults are willing to
accept monitoring to a certain degree in order to extend their
independence rather than move into assisted-living ...
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The Next Battlefields for
Advanced Technology
Many American corporate and political leaders contend that
focusing more resources and policy into research and
development is essential if the United States is to remain at
the forefront of technological innovation, especially in the
face of offshore outsourcing and increased competition ...
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DARPA's Grand Challenge:
Looking to Next Year
To help realize its vision of battlefield operations
carried out by autonomous vehicles, the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sponsored the Grand
Challenge, an offroad race between unmanned vehicles developed
by various teams, with the winning team receiving $1 million
if ...
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Will Your Next Display Be
3D?
The 3D Consortium (3DC), whose members include Sharp, Sanyo
Electric, Samsung Electronics, Sony, and Toshiba, was created
to promote next-generation 3D display technologies. Sharp has
developed a liquid-crystal display (LCD) that can be switched
between 2D and 3D: The ...
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Search Engine Tackles
Tricky Lists
A researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle is
developing new search engine technology that could, for
example, produce a list of the 50 best-selling blues
guitarists, even though the information does not exist on a
single Web page. Oren Etzioni is developing the KnowItAll
search ...
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Wake Up to Ethics
Question
The computer scientist community continues to struggle with
the nature of intelligence and the consequences of current
technology becoming exponentially smarter. Retired computer
scientist and science fiction writer Vernor Vinge presented
the concept of Singularity at a NASA ...
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For Technology, No Small
World After All
Intel's product design cycle starts with a forecast of
potential markets, followed by in-depth analysis of the people
who make up those markets; the resulting information is
translated into individual user "personas" whose projected
needs form the basis of the concept device's configuration and
...
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Computing, Complexity and
the Human Factor
University of Victoria computer science professor Dr.
Margaret-Anne Storey is directing the efforts of an
interdisciplinary research team in the computer-human
interaction and software engineering lab (CHISEL) to develop
software that can help people manipulate large bodies of data
to carry out ...
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Chaos Seems to Aid
Learning
Scientists at Japan's Core Research for Evolutional Science
and Technology (CREST) say that their research into the theory
of chaotic resonance could accelerate electronic
communications and lead to improvements in robotic learning
technology and artificial intelligence. The researchers ...
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SMTP Authentication Hits
Standards Track
Experts believe that SMTP authentication will help battle
spam by allowing Internet mail servers to confirm that
messages come from the domains they say they come from. Major
recent SMTP initiatives include Microsoft's Caller ID for
E-mail, the Sender Policy Framework (SPF), and Yahoo's Domain
...
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Research Points Computer
Users Toward Fewer Aches and Pains
Two mechanical engineering researchers at the Iowa State
University have developed a hand held mouse for computers and
video games that doesn't generate strain on a user's arm,
wrist, shoulder, neck or back. The ergonomically friendly
pointing device is spongy and fits in the palm of ...
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Breach of
Trust
Companies are in danger of losing customer trust because of
the constant threat of data breaches, which are far more
common than the public is aware of. Sensitive customer data
can be compromised by hackers who penetrate corporate
networks, insiders who steal information, and identity
thieves, ...
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The Secret Life of
Birds
Great Duck Island off the coast of Maine serves as a
testbed for "mote" technology--wireless networked sensors that
in this case are employed to monitor the nesting behavior of
Leach's storm petrels. Each mote is made from off-the-shelf
parts, and includes environmental sensors, a battery, ...
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Math
Lab
The computer has emerged as the definitive laboratory tool
for the field of mathematics, and mathematicians such as
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's David Bailey and
Dalhousie University's Jonathan Borwein contend that math is
being revolutionized by computer experimentation. ...
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Position Via
Internet
A team of researchers with the European Space Agency, GMV
Sistema, and Telespazio SpA evaluated a prototype receiver
designed to boost the positioning accuracy and availability of
satellite-based augmentation systems by integrating European
Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service ...
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