How to Ride the Fifth
Wave
"The Battle for Control of
the Internet"
Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law
expects the conflict over Internet governance to reach a
climax at ICANN's final 2005 meeting in Vancouver. ICANN was
originally set up with the promise that the United States
would eventually relinquish control of the domain name ...
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"Keeper of Expired Web
Pages Is Sued Because Archive Was Used in Another
Suit"
The Internet Archive, a searchable online repository of
defunct Web sites and other multimedia content, has been
targeted by a copyright infringement suit filed by Healthcare
Advocates, which claims that access to its old Web pages in
the archive was unlawful and unwarranted. Named as
co-defendant ...
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"New E-Mail Authentication
Spec Submitted to IETF"
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has received new
email authentication specifications from a coalition of
technology companies that includes IBM, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems,
and Microsoft. DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), which
integrates Yahoo!'s DomainKeys technology and Cisco's ...
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"Computer Scientists Focus
on Developing Programs That Can Learn Game
Rules"
Stanford Logic Group computer science professor Michael
Genesereth and doctoral student Nathaniel Love contend in AI
Magazine's summer 2005 issue that more intelligent
game-playing computer programs should be capable of winning
more games as well as provide programming insights. Genesereth
...
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"Laptops Are Hot; Maybe Too
Hot"
Though laptops are generally cooler than they were five
years ago, making allowances for more powerful components that
generate additional heat is an increasingly formidable
challenge for designers and manufacturers. Hewlett-Packard
mechanical-development engineer Jeff Lev says CPU ...
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"Tapping Into
Tinkering"
Some electronics companies are starting to reevaluate those
who tinker with their products as a source for new ideas--and
indeed, promote those enthusiasts' modifications or
incorporate them into their wares. Institute for the Future
director Paul Saffo says watching what tinkering users do is
...
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"Apache Falls Victim to
OASIS Shelter"
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured
Information Standards (OASIS) operates under the pretense of
open standards, though in reality OASIS specifications often
render services unwieldy and inaccessible, writes David
Berlind. Many open source promoters held a boycott of OASIS
...
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"Turning Your Life Into
Bits, Indexed"
Vannevar Bush's vision of Memex, an electronic archive of a
person's entire life, is becoming a reality some 60 years
after the science advisor penned his provocative article "As
We May Think" in a 1945 issue of the Atlantic Monthly.
Microsoft distinguished engineer Gordon Bell has developed ...
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"New-Age Keyboard: Trace,
Don't Write"
IBM Almaden Research Center scientist Shumin Zhai promoted
the experimental Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding (Shark)
system at the New Paradigms for Using Computers conference on
July 11. Shark is a pen-based shorthand technique whereby
users enter words into mobile devices by tracing them ...
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"DHS Information Security
Plans Lacking, GAO Says"
A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report
determined that the two-year-old Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) has struggled to comply with the 2002 Federal
Information Security Act and stills lacks an adequate
information security program. The 36-page report, requested by
Sen. Joseph ...
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"The mSpace Classical
Music Explorer: Improving Access to Classical Music for Real
People"
The mSpace Classical Music Explorer is designed for
classical music enthusiasts who lack domain expertise and
therefore derive little value from common Web search tools
such as keyword search, and the mSpace framework can be
extended to apply to virtually any domain of interest. ...
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"New Battle Brews Over
UCITA, Software Licensing Terms"
Although state-by-state adoption of the Uniform Computer
Information Transactions Act (UCITA) was shot down by heavy
resistance, critics contend that the act is still very
influential, and the software users who led the opposition are
developing their own model software-licensing law. "If ...
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"Many Minds, One Goal:
Curb Bad Traffic"
More than 50 academic and commercial experts convened at
the Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI)
workshop last week to discuss new approaches to fortifying the
Net against malware, spam, and other forms of
network-strangling traffic. MIT professor and SRUTI ...
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"The Internet's Next
Evolution Beckons"
Internet traffic is increasing exponentially thanks to
expanding IP video, Internet audio, and Voice over IP (VoIP),
as well as the Net's status as a leading news source. An even
bigger explosion in Internet traffic and data will stem from
machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, which any ...
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"Quantum Computing:
Teaching Qubits New Tricks"
One of the long-perceived obstacles to building a practical
quantum computer was the apparent inability to correct errors
in quantum information without destroying the information
itself. The very act of measuring a quantum object wipes out
the original as its information is ...
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"What Will Top the IT
Agenda in 2010?"
In a recent roundtable discussion, IT experts at work in
different industries outlined their visions of how the IT
world will develop in the next five years. Tom Miller of
FoxHollow Technologies believes service-oriented computing
will be a key driver, so that infrastructures ...
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"Assertive Debugging:
Correcting Software as If We Meant It"
Programmer/software designer Mark Halpern describes the
Assertive Debugging System (ADS) as a scheme that will abridge
the current debugging process and enable the systematic,
documentable debugging of software objects, which he believes
will soon become a legal requirement. ADS deals with ...
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"The Call to
eConnect"
President Bush wants electronic medical records for most
Americans within the next 10 years, but a considerable amount
of financial investment and cooperation is necessary. To make
the private sector more accepting of health-information
technology, Bush administration officials will probably ...
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"How to Ride the Fifth
Wave"
Computing is poised for a fifth wave of evolution, impelled
not by a single invention or its manner of corporate
deployment, but by the convergence of inexpensive computing
devices, ubiquitous bandwidth, and open tech standards that
will together make computing universally accessible. The ...
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