Dearth of a Nation
A Supreme Court Showdown
for File Sharing
The U.S. Supreme Court may decide to reshape copyright law
for the digital age with the upcoming MGM v. Grokster case,
but either way file-sharing systems will remain functioning on
the Internet, says Lime Group owner Mark Gorton, whose firm
publishes LimeWire software. But if the Supreme Court ...
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Stemming the Tide of Women
Leaving I.T.
The percentage of women in IT fell by about half between
1985 and 1995 to just 20 percent, and this number continues to
decline, says Meta Group analyst Maria Shafer. Shafer and
University of Arkansas professor Deb Armstrong attribute this
erosion of female IT professionals and IT-related ...
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Breakthrough Paper
Presented at HPCA
A collaboration between Xyratex and Spain's Universities of
Valencia and Castilla-La Mancha has yielded a solution to the
problem of scalable congestion management across lossless
multistage interconnection networks (MINs), as detailed in a
paper presented at the recent International ...
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GPL 3 Not Expected to Split
Free-Software World
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has assured developers
that there is no reason to think that the third incarnation of
the GNU General Public License (GPL) would fragment free
software projects. Debian Linux distribution maintainer
Matthew Palmer concurred with OpenOffice.org ...
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New Virtual Reality Chair
to Explore Frontier of 'Telepresence'
University of Alberta computer scientist and TRLabs new
media principal investigator Dr. Pierre Boulanger is the
recent recipient of a $1.7 million iCORE/TRLabs Industrial
Research Chair to develop collaborative virtual environments
that employ "telepresence" to facilitate activities between
...
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Robot Guide Dog Picks Up
Where Man's Best Friend Left Off
Visually impaired people could find their way in places
where guide dogs are of little use with the help of the
Robotic Guide developed by Utah State University computer
science professor Vladimir Kulyukin and his team of grad
students. The device marries radio frequency technology with a
...
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Q&A: Internet Pioneer
Vint Cerf on Grid Computing
MCI technology strategy VP and IP networking trailblazer
Vint Cerf explains in an interview with Globus Consortium
board member Ian Foster that grid computing, as with the
Internet, contains a standardization layer that allows the
many different participating computer systems to interoperate.
...
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Japanese Robot Expo Will
Wow the Crowds
Numerous state-of-the-art robots will be on display at
Japan's six-month-long Expo 2005, but though these machines
can perform impressive feats, robotics experts say their
applicability in real-world situations is debatable. The Expo
will spotlight instrument-playing robots from Toyota, ...
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Profs Study Robotic
Soldiers of the Future
The Defense Department will allocate a five-year, $5
million grant to the University of Pennsylvania's General
Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception (GRASP)
Laboratory to investigate biology-inspired swarming behavior
in robots for possible military applications. Penn engineers,
...
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Transparent Interaction;
Dynamic Generation: Content Histories for Shared
Science
Integrating and sharing data on the progress of wholly
digital or in silico experiments is even more difficult for
scientists than it is for researchers who carry out
paper-bound experiments, but the authors propose that context
histories can be applied toward the creation of transparent
...
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Face to Face--in Realistic
3D
A team of researchers at Cardiff University that developed
software that can mimic facial movement based on speech has
now turned its attention to the new video camera technology
from 3dMD. After taking 2D technology as far as they could,
the computer science department researchers are putting ...
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Powerful Query Technology
Will Optimize Knowledge Management for Project
Managers
Next-generation knowledge management (KM) capabilities will
be embedded in work applications and automatically gather
relevant information so that users spend less time searching.
Project managers in large firms, for instance, often cannot
find project documentation because they use the ...
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Terror Plot to Cripple UK
in Cyber Attack
Due to a growing dependence on electronic networks in
Britain and throughout the world and increasing technological
sophistication of terrorists, Britain's counter-terrorism
coordinator David Omand issued an alert that both government
and private sectors need to ramp up electronic ...
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Security
Counterattack
Experts warn that new data center technologies and Web
services will increase security burdens because of the added
complexity; instead of guarding a perimeter and managing
internal application security, IT managers will have to be
able to secure every node on their network and ...
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Glooper
Computer
Light-catalyzed Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reactions can be
harnessed to solve problems, such as determining the shortest
route through a maze, and this capability has inspired
researchers such as Andrew Adamatzky of the University of the
West of England to explore the possibilities of chemical ...
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Buetow: A Force in the
Battle Against Cancer
National Cancer Institute (NCI) bioinformatics director
Kenneth Buetow is leading an unprecedented effort to link
biomedical research disciplines and IT assets through the
cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG). First conceived in
2004, the grid has gained the backing of much of the fractious
...
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Dearth of a
Nation
The United States' economic leadership has become
increasingly reliant on technological innovation, just as
international competition is heating up. Competitors have
adopted the U.S. innovation model and established research
centers that rival American counterparts in terms of
cutting-edge tech ...
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