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U.S. Won't Cede Control of
Net Computers
The U.S. Commerce Department, in what some view as a policy
reversal, says that it will retain oversight indefinitely of
the 13 "root" servers that contain government-approved lists
of the about 260 domain suffixes and tell Web browsers and
email programs how to move Internet traffic. In 1998, the ...
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Hewlett Cites Progress on
Quantum Computer
Hewlett-Packard scientists Bill Munro and Tim Spiller have
devised a new strategy for developing the quantum computer.
Quantum computing, a technology with debatable potential,
departs from the today's transistor-based electronics and
codes information in "qubits," units that ...
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Summer Science Researchers
Developing System to Synchronize Data on Cell
Phone
Three students at Hamilton College are working with
professor Mark Bailey on a project dubbed "Data
Synchronization Between Workstations via Bluetooth-Enabled
Cell Phones" that aims to develop synchronization technology
for cell phones. Aram Kudurshian, Mike Gruen, and Erik
Goulding ...
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Female Interest in
Technology Fields Crucial, Say Universities and
Corporations
Amid an overall decline in students' interest in IT and
engineering, women are especially looking elsewhere for their
careers. This falloff in interest is ill-timed, as the
Department of Labor estimates that IT jobs will be among the
fastest growing through 2012. IT has declined in stature ...
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Net Pioneer Wants New
Internet
David Clark, one of the chief architect of the Internet,
has enlisted the National Science Foundation to help develop a
"clean slate" Internet framework. The new network, which could
be tested on the National LambdaRail, aims to entirely
re-conceive of the mode through which Internet users around
the ...
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Antispam Proposals
Advance
The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) announced
that it has adopted two competing antispam technologies,
citing both as still experimental." Microsoft, AOL, and others
have been competing for control of the antispam market, which
now appears to be divided between the Sender ...
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Stargazing,
Internet-Style
The landscape of the Internet will change over the next 10
years, the only question is how. A recent report titled "The
Future of the Internet" announced the findings of a Pew
Internet & American Life Project and Elon University
survey of 1,300 technology leaders, scholars, and industry ...
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Car System Lets Voice Drive
the Web
Faculty member Meirav Taieb-Maimon of Ben-Gurion University
in Israel has designed a voice-activated search engine that
could be used by drivers to navigate the Web. The system
consists of two Microsoft off-the-shelf speech recognition
components and custom software called Maestro that ...
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CMU Puts Words in Ben
Franklin's Mouth
Carnegie-Mellon's Synthetic Interview technology powers a
new exhibit in Philadelphia's Lights of Liberty Show where
patrons can ask Ben Franklin questions, either from a list of
160 that are pre-prepared, or by typing their own using a list
of keywords. Software searches the computer's ...
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The $100 Computer Is Key
to India's Tech Fortunes
India is winning the race to reach the 5 billion people who
still do not use the Internet. The critical ingredient is
cost, which the Indian company Novatium will emphasize as it
unveils a basic home computer available for around $70. The
price doubles to include a monitor, though ...
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Keeping an Eye on Domestic
Appliances
Innovators have long sought areas in the home that
technology could improve. With advances in microprocessors and
connectivity, companies such as Control4 are making those
visions a reality. Control4 and the South Korean telecom
outfit SK Telecom have been using ZigBee technology to ...
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Why Linux Needs
Rexx
Some Linux proponents see in Rexx the potential to give
Linux the boost it needs to overtake the Windows desktop,
writes Howard Fosdick, author of Rexx Programmers Reference."
IBM invented the scripting language many years ago, and its
advocates cite numerous advantages, including free ...
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USC Voice-to-Voice
Translation Machine Perfects Bedside
Manner
Researchers at the USC Information Sciences Institute
unveiled Transonics Spoken Dialog Translator, a natural
language based spoken word translation device, at the recent
Association for Computational Linguistics conference.
Transonics, developed by a multi-disciplinary USC team of
scientists and ...
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Teacher's Little
Helpers
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, in
partnership with Sony Intelligence Dynamics Laboratories, are
exploring the educational value of social robots through the
Robot Using Bayesian Inference (RUBI) Project. RUBI, modeled
after Sony's QRIO robot, runs on four non-motorized ...
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Introducing
SKOS
The W3C recently introduced the Simple Knowledge
Organization System (SKOS), a method by which machines can
understand knowledge organizations such as thesauri,
terminologies, and glossaries. The SKOS Core Vocabulary, an
RDF application, can join with similar data through Semantic
Web ...
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E-Government Run
Amok!
The National Science Foundation is studying ways in which
computer information sciences can enhance government
participation through its Digital Government Research Program.
The NSF unveiled its research and technologies earlier in the
year in Atlanta during the Digital Government ...
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Group
Rethink
New York writer James Surowiecki argues in "The Wisdom of
Crowds" that the collective intelligence of large groups can
outsmart the most knowledgeable experts. Surowiecki cites the
stock market's reaction to booster rocket manufacturer Morton
Thiokol months before the federal governments went ...
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Are We There
Yet?"
Software Requirements" author Karl Wiegers recommends that
software organizations develop SMART (specific, measurable,
attainable, relevant, and trackable) product release criteria
to help ensure that products will not come up short when they
are rolled out. It must be determined what can ...
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The Answer Is 42 of
Course
Independent security consultant Thomas Wadlow writes that
the role people play in online security makes absolutes
irrelevant, and he advises companies to base the defense of
their security systems on the fundamental question of how the
network can be designed so that is it "safe enough." ...
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