China's Tech
Revolution
Computer Viruses Become
Hacker Informants
Security experts have discovered an emerging class of
malware called vulnerability assessment worms that keep
hackers apprised of the latest computer-network
vulnerabilities so they can refine their cyberattack
strategies or even target individual machines. Once the worms
contaminate ...
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Still a Proud
Papa
ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf and Corporation for National
Research Initiatives director Robert Kahn will be honored for
their pioneering work in computer-to-computer communication
with ACM's A.M. Turing Award at the ACM Awards banquet in San
Francisco on June 11. The Turing award ...
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Emotional Intelligence for
Computer-Based Characters?
The IST-funded ERMIS project yielded insights into
linguistic and paralinguistic cues in human speech that were
incorporated into a sensitive artificial listener," a
prototype computer character that can realistically express
emotions in human-computer communications. Professor ...
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The Scramble to Protect
Personal Data
Recent incidents of identity theft from data aggregators
such as ChoicePoint and Citigroup call for the widespread
institution of a holistic data security strategy, says Unisys
security consultant and former FBI chief cybercrime
investigator Mike Gibbons. Such an approach requires the ...
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Using the Next Generation
of Gaming & Computer Graphics to Promote Education &
Physical Activity in Children
ACM's SIGGRAPH 2005 Educators Program Chair Patricia
Beckman-Wells says the purpose of the program this year "is to
showcase the 'wonder factor' of current education products and
encourage an environment of self-directed learning." Topics to
be discussed include ...
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Consumers Suspicious of
Sponsored Links
A paper presented at the Sixth ACM Conference on E-commerce
by Penn State School of Information Sciences and Technology
professor Jim Jansen indicates that consumers exhibit a
substantial measure of bias against sponsored links, which
appears to negate their viability as a business ...
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Study: IT Pay Rising for
Hot Skills
The interest that employers are starting to show toward
IT-savvy people who do not have certification could become a
trend, says Foote Partners President David Foote. The research
firm has released a new study showing that overall pay for
noncertified IT workers rose 2.8 percent during the ...
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Innovative Asia: How
Spending on Research and Development Is Opening the Way to a
New Sphere of Influence
Asian research and development is rapidly maturing, but it
is still far from the level of developed Western countries,
according to top experts. There is concrete evidence of a
research boom in countries such as China and India, where
governments are implementing plans to quickly increase ...
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Plugging the Mainframe
Brain Drain
BMC Software's Bill Miller says the mainframe, despite its
general perception as an obsolete tool, houses more than 70
percent of the world's digital information, and warns that
such data will be irretrievably lost if there are no
next-generation mainframe specialists to take the reins from
...
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A Large Screen Is in Your
Future
Microsoft Research's Visualization and Interaction for
Business and Entertainment (VIBE) Group, under the management
of researcher Mary Czerwinski, is working on software that
exploits larger display and multiple display configurations
that are expected to grow in popularity ...
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A Matter of Artificial
Intelligence
Dr. Michael Rovatsos with the University of Edinburgh
School of Informatics' Center of Intelligent Systems and their
Applications attributes the appeal and importance of
artificial intelligence research not only to its focus on
creating "intelligent" computer systems, but also ...
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Shattering Myths That
Women Can't Be Leaders in Science
Spelman College's all-woman SpelBot team will be one of
five American teams competing in the RoboCup 2005 tournament
in Osaka next month, and its successful qualification is
regarded as proof that leadership in the sciences is not
dictated by gender. Spelman President Beverly Tatum says ...
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Fostering Diversity and
Inclusion for Europe's IT Sector
A recent Information Society Technologies project in Europe
studied the factors that keep immigrants, women, and other
marginalized groups from joining the science, engineering, and
technology sectors. The research is expected to lead to new
policy changes and integration efforts on the part ...
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Education Groups Urge
Federal Government to Promote High-Speed Internet
Access
A higher-education coalition whose members include Educause
and the Internet2 high-speed-network consortium issued a
statement last week in which they argued for amendments to
federal telecommunications law to expand the scope and
accessibility of high-capacity broadband Internet ...
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Sun's R&D
Spectrum
Sun Microsystems employs some 200 scientists with more than
$80 million to spend annually on a wide variety of
next-generation computing projects, including a possible
4-PFLOP supercomputer and a Web server the size of a quarter.
Sun's Proximity I/O technology, for example, will enable
computer ...
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Developers Should Carry
the Banner of Software Standards
Computers and the software applications they run are no
longer novelties, but critical components in people's lives
and work, writes Peter Coffee; as such, commercial software
developers should assume responsibility for their products in
the same way electricians are held responsible for using ...
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China's Tech
Revolution
China's transformation into a worldwide economic powerhouse
is chiefly due to its technological awakening. The nation's
prodigious and cheap workforce, aggressive industrialization,
and burgeoning brainpower has helped coax multinationals to do
business with or relocate to China, set up ...
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