Decoding Information-Worker
Productivity
Drowning in Spam: New
Techniques Focus on Identifying Senders
Internet technologists and businesses are working on
authentication schemes that would dramatically reduce the
amount of spam email, which makes up more than half of all
messages sent today and is an incredible burden for companies
and users. A survey from the Pew Internet & American Life
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Code That Kills, For
Real
Software quality is critical to virtually every aspect of
modern life, but code quality takes on life-or-death
importance in military applications. The Pentagon's Systems
and Software Technology Conference examined software
development problems unique to the U.S. military, noting that
military ...
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Princeton's Image-Smashing
Math Whiz
Maria Klawe, dean of Princeton University's School of
Engineering & Applied Science and president of the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), challenges
stereotypical perceptions of mathematicians, not least by
being a woman. This places her in a unique position to
encourage women and ...
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More Cash Flowing to
Robotics Research
The U.S.'s leading universities in robotics research are
experiencing a big boost in federal funding, much of it from
the Defense Department. The funding boost coincides with
falling prices for many of robotics key technologies,
including charged-coupled devices, sensors, software, and ...
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MIT Aims for the Bottom
Line
MIT's Media Lab announced its consumer electronics lab
(CELab) program on May 10; Media Lab founder and chairman
Nicholas Negroponte said researchers are returning to their
roots by focusing on easy-to-use, fun consumer goods. CELab is
not an actual facility, but an umbrella term for numerous ...
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AU Computer Program Lures
Blacks, Women
Alabama's Auburn University supports the highest
concentration of black computer science graduate students and
faculty in the United States, and boasts a large number of
females enrolled in its computer science graduate program;
figures such as these attracted the interest of the National
...
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Good Thinking: Boffins Wow
With 'Psychic' PC
Singapore's Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) is
conducting research at its NeuroInformatics Lab into improving
brain-machine interface (BMI) technology--specifically,
thought-controlled computers--through its NeuroComm platform.
NeuroComm is built from scratch on a Windows platform, ...
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The Quest to Find a Better
Search Engine
The tremendous success of Google has raised the bar for
what people expect from search engines, and companies
worldwide are struggling to deliver. The search engine's
increasing importance as a tool for modern times illustrates
the proliferation of "unstructured" data, where critical ...
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E-Serenity,
Now!
Information environmentalists, while not yet coalesced into
a movement, are developing pointed arguments for limiting the
amount of information people are exposed to and take in: A
recent conference in Seattle focused on the issue, where
University of Washington professor David Levy, a former ...
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Computer Chip Noise May
Betray Code
Researchers Adi Shamir and Eran Tromer of Israel's Weizmann
Institute have determined that eavesdroppers could
theoretically break encrypted computer messages by monitoring
the noise generated by computer chips. The researchers sampled
the high-frequency audio emitted by computer central ...
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Eye-Tracking Devices Full
of Possibilities
Eye-tracking technology has been used by researchers to
study how people process visual information since the 1970s,
but scientists such as Andrew Duchowski, an assistant
professor of computer science at Clemson University, envision
even more practical applications. Among the ...
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The Unfolding Saga of the
Web
Carnegie Mellon consulting IT professor Stuart Feldman
directs a team of young IBM technologists whose task it is to
forecast the evolution of the Internet and its effects on
people's lives 10 and 20 years hence. The professor, who heads
IBM's Internet Technology division and will co-chair ...
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Open Source 'Blending'
Into Animation
The latest version of the fully integrated Blender 3D
graphics creation suite could help open source software
penetrate the animation segment, especially now that the suite
comes with features and enhancements previously unavailable
because they were originally designed as part of ...
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ASU Advance Could Provide
Insight Into Human's Ability to Recognize
Patterns
An Arizona State University (ASU) research team led by math
and electrical engineering professor Ying-Cheng Lai has
devised a mathematical and computational model for oscillatory
associative memory networks, a breakthrough that could shed
new light on how humans process and recognize ...
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Wireless PDAs and
Smartphones: A Hacker's Heaven
Wireless PDAs, Wi-Fi devices, and smart phones are posing
security issues, even as they allow users to receive email and
text messages while on the go. The devices are open to viruses
and password theft, as well as spam, and security experts say
they lack the antivirus protection, encryption ...
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Computational
Origami
A handful of mathematicians who are also origami experts
could aid the next industrial design innovation or help
understand how proteins fold. Industrial consultant Robert
Lang also considers himself a full-time origami artist, and
creates software algorithms that automate the folding ...
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From Grid to
Growth
North Carolina plans to recover from massive layoffs in its
chief industries by investing in grid computing and other
technologies with the goal of accelerating research and
development, cutting costs, and creating new jobs. Former Sun
Microsystems grid computing executive and ...
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Clearance
Needed
The need for IT workers with security clearances has grown
over the past few years, but demand exceeds supply. The
federal government wants to break down the information
"stovepipes" among agencies and integrate their networks, but
this requires outside expertise with security clearance, and
...
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Decoding
Information-Worker Productivity
The Information Work Productivity Council (IWPC) is
attempting to measure the effects of IT on information-worker
productivity by studying three business processes that are
relatively unstructured and carried out by autonomous
knowledge staff, but are still critical to business success
and ...
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