'Madagascar' Tech Turns
Imagination Into Reality
SpelBots Score With
Technology, Education
The participation of Spelman College students in the
RoboCup 2005 contest is a major victory against the
stereotypical image of technology as a white, all-male field.
The Spelman team was comprised of six young African American
women who exhibited a close-knit spirit of collaboration. "You
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You Say You Want a Web
Revolution
The emergence of Internet-based software applications, such
as Google Maps and Amazon's A9 search engine, could pose a
challenge to traditional PC operating systems. These new
programs are powered by AJAX, short for asynchronous
JavaScript and XML, which dramatically enhances the ability of
...
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Enhancing Employability of
ICT Professionals
The IST-funded Indic@tor study concentrated on the working
lives of European ICT professionals in small and midsized
enterprises (SMEs) and factors that shape their expertise,
with the goal of devising a methodology for identifying and
enhancing their employability. The four-year project ...
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National IDs in Need of a
Fix
The nationally standardized ID card created by the Real ID
Act of 2005 will require few practical changes, since current
government photo ID cards are already used for so many
purposes, although cardholders will have to pay more and wait
longer for the driver's licenses that will double as national
...
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Commercializing Open-Source
Stirs Debate
Moves by the Debian Core Consortium (DCC) and Mozilla to
commercialize open-source projects are riling members of the
open-source community who view such maneuvers as sell-outs,
notes Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff. "From articles to online
discussion boards to even personal 'real world' ...
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A Standards Truce in the
Browser War?
As tensions have eased between Microsoft and Web standards
advocates, industry watchers are optimistic that Microsoft may
be softening its stance toward standards compliance: The most
visible signal of this trend is the partnership Microsoft
forged last month with the Web Standards Project ...
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An Exploratory Assessment
of the Pedagogical Effectiveness of a Systems Development
Environment
Georgia State University information systems professors
Peter Meso and Jens Liegle have used the theory of technology
acceptance to evaluate the new Visual Studio.NET suite of
technologies as a pedagogical tool for teaching a course in
technical information systems (IS). A performance-based ...
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A New Way to Authenticate
Your Identity?
Congressional lawmakers are hoping to improve identity
security by restricting access to Social Security numbers,
such as eliminating the numbers from inclusion on benefit
checks, increasing use of encryption when dealing with Social
Security numbers, and decreasing the ways in which the ...
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Next Version of GPL Coming
in 2007
The General Public License (GPL) will be updated to meet
the growing demand for free software. The most popular license
for free software was last updated in 1991, and GPL 2 helped
make free software accessible to more than a very select
community, according Eben Moglen, a member of the board ...
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Key Bugs in Core Linux
Code Squashed
Six critical defects in the core file system and networking
code of Linux version 2.6.9 were discovered in December by
Coverity, but a recent scan of Linux version 2.6.12 found no
such programming errors, says Coverity CEO Seth Hallem. This
indicates the maturation of Linux as an operating system ...
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Wireless Sensors Land
Anywhere and Everywhere
The commercialization of wireless sensor networks has begun
thanks to advances in hardware device miniaturization, lower
power consumption levels, and small software operating
systems, and wireless sensor-net technology is expected to
become a pervasive element of our daily lives ...
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From Push to Pull: The
Next Frontier of Innovation
Most companies mistakenly assume that "push" resource
mobilization systems marked by top-down, centralized, and
inflexible programs of previously specified operations and
behavior cultivate efficiency; in fact they impede
participation in the distributed networks that are now crucial
to ...
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Preserving Maps for the
Future
Preserving cartographic data is critical, but determining
which geographic information is worthy of preservation and
managing it is a formidable challenge, according to officials
of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The USGS National
Geospatial Programs Office was established last August to ...
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Development Teams Get
Bigger, Richer
Embedded Systems Programming's survey of European and North
American embedded systems developers shows a general increase
in the size and funding of project-development teams. The
average size of respondents' teams was 13.1 people, which was
relatively consistent across the military, ...
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The State of
Surveillance
Future surveillance technologies may be more effective
terrorism deterrents, and the public's apparent acceptance of
the increased privacy infringement they entail is encouraging
research in this area. Scientists at the University at Buffalo
and elsewhere are investigating systems that ...
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Tomorrow: A Sneak
Preview
Emerging technologies are taking shape in centers spread
throughout the globe, in states of development ranging from
R&D to beta testing to early adoption. Hotspots on the
U.S.'s West Coast include Seattle, where a pilot Wi-Max
wireless Internet network has been deployed, and Berkeley,
home of ...
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Wide Open
Spaces
University of California at Berkeley political science
professor and author Steven Weber says the open-source
movement is commoditizing information technology at the
software level and eliminating certainty in the belief that
tight protection of intellectual property is the only way to
build a ...
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'Madagascar' Tech Turns
Imagination Into Reality
At a recent media conference about the DreamWorks animated
film "Madagascar," DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg stressed
that technological advances are the key element in translating
imaginary worlds into animated reality. He explained that
every component of the animation process is ...
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