Stopping Spam
Interest in CS as a Major
Drops Among Incoming Freshmen
The results of a survey from the Higher Education Research
Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles
(HERI/UCLA) estimate a more than 60 percent decline in the
number of incoming freshmen thinking they would major in
computer science (CS) between the fall of 2000 and 2004. The
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U.S. Gets New
Cyberterrorism Security Center
April 21 marked the official unveiling of the Cyber
Incident Detection Data Analysis Center (CIDDAC) at the
University of Pennsylvania; CIDDAC is a private-sector
facility set up to monitor America's business infrastructure
for real-time detection of cyberthreats. CIDDAC executive
director Charles ...
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Overly Smart
Buildings
Though new technology is available to create intelligent
building systems that monitor and control the building's
environment and security, architects and engineers still face
problems with complexity, incompatibility, component failure,
difficult operation, and outmoded ...
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Researchers Propose Early
Warning System for Worms
Professors Shigang Chen and Sanjay Ranka of the University
of Florida's Computer and Information Science and Engineering
department have written a paper proposing an early warning
system for TCP-based Internet worms that promises to eliminate
known vulnerabilities in current early warning ...
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Scientists Concerned About
Slowdown in U.S. Government Research
Spending
Planned cutbacks in federally-funded research could be
detrimental to long-term scientific innovation, the United
States' readiness for future warfare, and America's
international technological dominion, according to an American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) report to be
...
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North America to Have Fewer
Developers Than Asia/Pacific
The Asia/Pacific region will overtake North America in
overall number of software developers starting in 2006,
according to new research from International Data (IDC). "For
the large economy of North America, which has historically
been the home of most developers, program development ...
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After Open-Source
Controversy, Torvalds Turns to 'Git'
Linux creator Linus Torvalds last week started "git," a new
initiative to develop software that can rapidly make changes
to the Linux kernel, following a conflict between open-source
developer Andrew Tridgell and BitMover, developer of the
BitKeeper software Torvalds had used to manage ...
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Innovation Moves From the
Laboratory to the Bike Trail and the
Kitchen
In his book, "Democratizing Innovation," Eric von Hippel of
the MIT Sloan School of Management's Innovation and
Entrepreneurship Group writes that many innovative industrial
and consumer products are being developed by users first, a
conclusion supported by mounting empirical evidence. Users ...
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Designing a Jetson
Mobile
As a designer for Ford Motor, Anthony Prozzi is responsible
for predicting what consumers will want in the automobile of
the future. His Mercury Meta One concept car recently
displayed at the New York International Auto Show demonstrated
Prozzi's belief that future consumers will want personalized
...
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Map Project Unlocks
Europe's Landscape
The IST-funded Geospatial Info-Mobility Service by
Real-Time Data-Integration and Generalization (GiMoDig)
project could potentially allow limitless numbers of users to
access a massive repository of geographic data collated by
European mapping agencies for an unlimited ...
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Patently an EU
Tangle
The European Commission's directive over the "patentability
of computer-implemented inventions (CII)" has been a lightning
rod for controversy. The proposal to harmonize CII management
throughout the European Union via a comprehensible patent
protection system is touted by ...
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Pushing Virtual
Reality
An Iowa State University competition for students in the
human computer interaction program allows researchers to test
the capabilities of the Virtual Reality Applications Center,
virtual reality technology that has already been used to study
molecular structures and weather patterns. "We ...
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Return of 3-D--and No
Goofy Glasses
Three-dimensional imagery is enjoying a resurgence in the
entertainment sector, and innovators are furthering the
technology for applications in fields that include science,
engineering, security, and advertising. After a brief
flirtation in the 1950s, 3-D films are generating new interest
...
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Getting Flat, Part
1
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman's new book, "The
World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century,"
provides unique insight into how the open-source and free
software movements fit into the context of other important
"flattening" events and movements, writes Linux Journal ...
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Letting the Net Speak for
Itself
Stanford University linguist and "Going Nucular" author
Geoffrey Nunberg dismisses fears of non-English Web content
being crowded out by a domineering Anglo-Saxon viewpoint as
groundless. He says native English-speaking Web users have
become a minority, while the growth of ...
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UC Berkeley-USC Project to
Study "Digital Kids"
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is
funding $3.3 million in research that it ultimately hopes will
help improve how schools use new digital media as a tool for
learning. Over the next three years, Peter Lyman, a professor
at UC Berkeley's School of Information Management & ...
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Step Into the
Future
Many data centers are planning upgrades to take advantage
of new technologies and make their operations more efficient,
but an InterUnity Group/AFCOM survey of 161 data-center
professionals finds most respondents to be concerned that
their companies are purchasing new equipment without ...
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Together--At
Last
Billions of dollars in development costs and unrealized
potential income are going to waste on late or failed
corporate software projects, but application lifecycle
management (ALM) vendors are promoting strategies to guarantee
more effective collaboration among business application ...
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Stopping
Spam
Software programmers and purveyors of junk email are locked
in an ever-escalating arms race as the spread of spam
threatens to compromise the integrity of Internet
communications, write anti-spam experts and research
collaborators Joshua Goodman, David Heckerman, and Robert
Rounthwaite. ...
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