T-Engine: Japan's Ubiquitous
Computing Architecture Is Ready for Prime Time
Viruses, Security Issues
Undermine Internet
The Internet is falling prey to a growing body of security
threats, as the network with a billion users but no owner
still relies essentially on a global honor system. "The
Internet is stuck in the flower-power days of the '60s during
which people thought the world would be beautiful if you ...
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Java Faces Open-Source
Swarm
In an industry moving inevitably toward open-source
sharing, Sun Microsystems holds a tenuous grasp on the Java
language it created. At the upcoming JavaOne conference, Sun
will unveil GlassFish, which provides non-open-source access
to code along with another project of an unspecified ...
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NSF Seeks Broad Internet
Research Agenda
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is increasingly
focusing on development of the next-generation Internet.
Leading the effort will be Massachusetts Institute of
Technology research scientist David Clark, the former head of
the National Research Council Computer Science and ...
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Building Strength in
Computer Science
In order to keep the U.S. technology workforce strong,
computer science needs to be marketed to students in such a
way as to claim back its eroding popularity and the
exclusionary trend that has kept women and minorities out of
computer-related fields must be reversed, concludes a new
study from ...
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SIGGRAPH 2005 Panels
Discuss Future of Computer Graphics & Interactive
Technology
The Panels program has been finalized for the upcoming
SIGGRAPH 2005, the 32nd International Conference on Computer
Graphics & Interactive Techniques being held July 31 to
August 4 in Los Angeles. The conference will provide a forum
for industry experts to "discuss everything pertinent
pertaining to ...
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New Software Changes
Wireless Technology Functions on Demand
Researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in
Maryland have built a test-bed for the low-cost development of
software defined radio (SDR), a next-generation of wireless
technology that will give wireless devices the ability to
perform new functions on demand. The test bed will facilitate
...
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Deafblind Slate 'Senseless'
Tech
A new survey conducted by the British charity Sense polled
the deafblind community and found that nearly half of the
respondents reported trouble using common technologies such as
remote controls, mobile phones, and washing machines. Common
complaints highlighted the ongoing reduction in ...
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Microsoft Pushing
Spam-Fighting System
Despite the fact that Microsoft's spam-fighting technology
Sender ID delivers about 10 percent of legitimate email
messages to junk folders, the company announced plans to
become more aggressive at rejecting mail sent through company
or service providers not registered with the Sender ID ...
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'Bionic' Arm Brings Back
Sense of Touch
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago director Todd Kuiken
has invented a prosthetic arm capable of giving its wearers
the sense of feel. The device has been tested on Jesse
Sullivan, a former lineman for a power company who lost his
arms after grabbing a live high-tension wire. By pulling out
the ...
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Warp Speed for Wireless
Networks
As new technologies for wireless networks race to speeds
significantly faster than Wi-Fi, a gold-rush mentality has
created a fiercely competitive market that, having yet to
agree on even the most basic standards for the future, will
provide users with a dizzying array of options. While ...
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Adding a New Dimension to
Television
IST-funded Advanced Three-Dimensional Television System
Technologies (ATTEST) has developed a three-dimensional
television display that eventually may enable home viewers to
feel as if they are right in the center of a movie. To
accomplish the feat, a range camera was converted ...
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Report: Tech Jobs Rise on
East Coast
Technology-related job postings are up 26 percent to 69,957
on Dice.com so far this year through June 1, 2005, according
to the online recruiting company. Three East Coast markets had
the strongest gains: Philadelphia, New York, and Boston
metropolitan areas, which experienced increases of 41 ...
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The Big
Picture
Fours Initiative CEO John Poisson, who spent two years as
head of Sony's mobile research and design division in Japan,
says that camera phones could revolutionize communications if
only their utilization would catch on among the public. As it
stands, they are now used mainly to capture an ...
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Patent Reform Hits the
Hill
The tech industry has its hands full in trying to get
Congress to make injunctions more difficult to obtain, as
lawmakers take up the issue of reforming the patent system,
writes James V. DeLong, director of the Center for the Study
of Digital Property at the Progress & Freedom Foundation.
...
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Real-Time Speech
Translation Decreases Language Barriers and Improves
Communications in Iraq
The U.S. Joint Forces Command has responded to its shortage
of military linguists in Iraq by turning to real-time language
translation technology. American soldiers at military
checkpoints have been given one-way phrase-based handheld
computers equipped with speech-to-speech translation ...
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Flying High With Virtual
Airways
Synthetic Vision Systems (SVS) is the latest phase of
NASA's Aviation Safety and Security Program, aimed at reducing
fatal aircraft collisions with other aircraft and with
terrain. SVS hinges on the largest, most detailed map ever
created, generated about five years ago using radar ...
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Electric
Transformation
A multidisciplinary team of researchers affiliated with the
Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of
Society (CITRIS) is developing a system that will enable
Californians to automatically adjust their electricity
consumption levels in response to shortages in the ...
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T-Engine: Japan's
Ubiquitous Computing Architecture Is Ready for Prime
Time
Japan's T-Engine is a ubiquitous computing architecture
that is arguably more advanced than any other platform in the
world, supporting software resource distribution, tamper-proof
network security, and standardized hardware. Developers can
use T-Engine to quickly construct ubiquitous ...
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