Is China the Next R&D
Superpower?
"How to Make Safer
Software"
As software has filtered down to virtually every aspect of
our lives, developers have begun to realize that the bells and
whistles that used to drive sales of their products must take
a backseat to fundamental security and quality provisions. In
a recent interview, Cigital CTO Gary McGraw ...
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"OMB Seeks R&D on
Supercomputing, Cybersecurity"
A July 8 memo from the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
calls for greater priority on federal research and development
for supercomputing and cybersecurity, but policy analysts
lament the memo's implication that R&D budgets will remain
...
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"N.J. to Get E-Voting Paper
Trail, But Not Until 2008"
Acting New Jersey Gov. Richard Codey last week passed a new
law requiring all electronic touchpad voting systems in the
state to provide a voter-verifiable paper record, but critics
complain the law does not go into effect until Jan. 1, 2008.
"That doesn't protect people for the next ...
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"Getting More Girls to
Study Math, Tech"
A July 19 panel discussion on "Women and Girls in Science,
Math, and Technology" in Alameda, Calif., will address the
wide gap between the percentages of men and women in science,
engineering, and technology, which panelist Donna Milgram with
the National Institute for Women in Trades, ...
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"Open Source Rules Campus
Programs"
Web developers in Portland, Ore., are finding it difficult
to hire computer science graduates with experience in
Microsoft's .Net Web site development environment, because
most college graduates are trained on open-source systems,
according to Mark Brody of Opus Creative. Portland State ...
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"Could Cars That Read Minds
Save Drivers From Themselves?"
The use of driving simulators by the automotive industry
has yielded important information about drivers that is being
applied to vehicular systems. For example, to handle drivers'
tendency not to apply their car's maximum braking power in a
panic stop, engineers have developed electronic ...
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"Linux Lays Groundwork for
World's Top Supercomputers"
Increasing numbers of the highest-ranking machines on the
Top500 Supercomputer List are using open-source Linux
operating systems, reports list editor Erich Strohmaier. This
reflects the larger part Linux is playing in high-performance
computing (HPC), and Strohmaier projects that ...
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"Father of Java Talks
Futures"
In a recent interview, Sun Microsystems fellow and Java
creator James Gosling outlines his thoughts on the future of
the language. Central to Sun's work on Java has been
integration with other languages, including one complex,
ongoing project that has numerical computing and
multithreading ...
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"Picking Apart the PITAC
Report"
The point of the recent U.S. President's Information
Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) report is that the
scientific community has not been able to take full advantage
of computational science because of inadequate and outdated
software systems and models, write the authors. The authors
say ...
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"Augmented
Maps"
Researchers at England's University of Cambridge have
devised a system that facilitates the enhancement of printed
maps with digital graphical information. The dynamic paper map
system developed by Dr. Tom Drummond, Dr. Gerhard Reitmayr,
and Ethan Eade is designed so that the printed map is ...
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"Algorithms Take a Back
Seat as the Machine Learns to Thrive in the Age of
Uncertainty"
The issue of uncertainty has prompted some machine learning
researchers to focus less on programming solutions and pursue
new approaches to their work, said Microsoft Research
Cambridge's Christopher Bishop while presenting the 2005 BCS
Lovelace Lecture. Though researchers have had a ...
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"Google Raises the Profile
of Geospatial Information"
Keyhole general manager John Hanke discusses how the public
has received the Google Earth product line, as well as its
effects on geographical information system (GIS) vendors and
other geospatial technology industry players. Keyhole, which
was acquired by Google last October, is chiefly ...
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"Missing Link: Augmented
Reality Technology May Bridge Communication Gap in Poultry
Processing Plants"
A research team at Georgia Tech has developed augmented
reality technology that aims to improve efficiencies in
poultry plants. The researchers designed two different methods
of projecting graphical images onto a bird that show trimmers
which parts are to be removed and which products are ...
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"New Search Engine to Help
Thwart Terrorists"
An anti-terrorism search engine based on Unintended
Information Revelation (UIR) is being developed by researchers
at the University of Buffalo's Center of Excellence in
Document Analysis and Recognition with funding from the
National Science Foundation and the FAA. The principle behind
UIR is ...
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"For Linux, the End-to-End
Is Near"
The mainstreaming of the Linux operating system has
substantially changed the makeup of the Linux market, leading
to more commercial tools for Linux developers as well as
improvements to open-source tools, writes Pacific Data Works
analyst Andrew Binstock. With Linux included in new
development ...
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"Take It to the
Limit"
Computer speed may continuously improve, but the codes
computers use to transmit data are unlikely to advance much
further. The upper limit consists of turbo codes and
low-density parity check (LDPC) codes, which facilitate
perfect fidelity even over noisy lines because they are
designed ...
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"Can You Hear Me
Now?"
Two recently introduced voice recognition products, Dragon
NaturallySpeaking and IBM's ViaVoice, offer new applications
for a technology that is widely used for transcription in law
and medicine. Dragon NaturallySpeaking targets a corporate
audience with features such as ...
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"Is China the Next R&D
Superpower?"
Concurrent with declines in America's science and
engineering graduate output and U.S. government spending on
research and development in the physical sciences is China's
dramatic uptick in both these areas, leading industry
observers to predict its rise into a major R&D power. The
...
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