Technology Trends Now Shaping
the Future
Bluetooth Gear May Be Open
to Snooping
The Bluetooth wireless communication standard is vulnerable
to being cracked by eavesdropping devices, according to a
presentation unveiled by two researchers at Mobisys2005, ACM's
International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and
Services. Counterpane Internet Security CTO ...
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Lawmaker Revs Up Fair-Use
Crusade
In an interview with Wired News, Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.),
an outspoken advocate of consumers' rights in the debate over
media piracy, outlined his vision for a resolution to the
contentious issue of online file sharing. One of very few
legislators to land on the consumer side of the issue, ...
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Momentum Builds for
Election Reform
Voting problems associated with the elections of 2000 and
2004 have sparked a movement among dozens of states to enact
changes to their election processes. A task force composed of
local and state election officials has issued a 72-page report
recommending several changes to the election ...
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Competition with Asia
Prompts United Effort in Robotics
Robotics researchers in the U.S., hampered by dwindling
funding for their causes, have agreed to pool their efforts
and focus on developing robots capable of moving and
accomplishing useful tasks in a bid to compete against heavily
funded groups in Asia. The decisions were made at last ...
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Minorities Make Small Gains
in Science Jobs
Hispanics now account for 5.3 percent of the total number
of science professionals in the U.S., compared with 3.7
percent 10 years ago, while blacks now account for 6.2
percent, compared with more than 7 percent in 2000, according
to a new study from the Commission on Professionals in ...
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From BitKeeper to Latest
Linux Kernel
The 2.6.12 Linux kernel has been released, featuring 36 MB
of data, including native support for virtualization and
SELinux. Kernel developer Chris Wright made the announcement
about the release instead of Linux creator Linus Torvalds, who
had made the previous announcements about the ...
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New Virtual World
Order
Alterne is an Information Society Technologies (IST)
project that is working to make virtual reality technology
more powerful, more flexible, and less expensive. Alterne
coordinator Marc Cavazza says the project team wanted to
revisit the original concept of virtual reality, which was to
...
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FP6 Project Aims to
Increase EU Competitiveness in Software Systems
Development
The European initiative to boost the continent's
competitiveness in software system development has embarked on
its first common project, Eclipse Model Driven Development
integration (MDDi), an effort to reach a standard for software
development. "Within two to three years, we should ...
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Sony Researchers Create
'Curious' Aibos
Researchers at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in
Paris have announced the possible creation of synthetic
curiosity in the form of the Aibo ERS-7 robot dog. Advances in
computing power have led to systems that appear to have the
ability to react based on pre-programmed, task-defined
algorithms, ...
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Testing, Testing, One to
Three, Testing
Software development in the past was typically driven by
consumer demand and business requirements, but, fueled by best
practices and codification, it is now heading toward a stage
where testing for bugs or a lack there of has become the top
priority. The testing process has been helped by ...
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Computer Graphics Card
Simulates Supernova Collapse
Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in
California have developed a programming language called Scout
that enables complex mathematical calculations to be run on a
computer's graphics processing unit rather than its central
processing unit (CPU). In a simulation of a ...
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Touch Screens Jog Social
Memories
The Computer Interactive Reminiscence and Conversation Aid
(Circa) system groups pieces of old movies, music, and photos
that can be played on a touch screen. While reminiscence
therapy is vital for individuals with dementia, they are
frequently led and controlled by the caregiver. ...
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Demystifying
Cyberinfrastructure: When the Computer Becomes Just Another
Problem-Solving Tool
San Diego State (SDSU) has partnered with the National
Science Foundation (NSF) on a new initiative that aims to
raise awareness of cyberinfrastructure among students and
business professionals. Engaging People in Cyberinfrastructure
(EPIC), a national alliance of K-12 teachers, ...
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Data With a Human
Touch
In the ongoing effort to increase the portability and
privacy of data, several companies are developing technologies
that use the electric field in human skin to transmit
information. Matsushita's "Touch Communication System"
transmits data from an external device to one worn on a
wristband ...
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Beyond
Paper
Xerox Innovation Group President Herve Gallaire discusses
what his division has been up to lately. Gallaire says
Innovation Group plays an important role at Xerox Corp., since
the technology that goes into the products are being done at
his division. Gallaire explains that documents have less to
...
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Body
Double
Computer scientists Seth Goldstein and Todd Mowry are
pursuing the next best thing to teleportation in using smart
nanodust and an Internet connection to project your image
around the world. Goldstein, of Carnegie Mellon University,
and Mowry, director of Intel's research labs in ...
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Technology Trends Now
Shaping the Future
Forecasting International President Marvin Cetron and
science writer Owen Davies list expected future technological
trends and their implications. Breakthroughs expected in the
next 10 years or so include computers' deeper penetration of
the environment, greater automation, the commercial use of ...
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