Morphware
Live Webcast of Cerf and
Kahn's ACM Turing Lecture Tonight
Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn, recipients of ACM's 2004
A.M. Turing Award, will present their lecture "Assessing the
Internet: Lessons Learned, Strategies for Evolution, and
Future Possibilities" tonight at the University of
Pennsylvania's Irvine Auditorum. ACM ...
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Professor Tries to Instill
Passion for Math, Science
Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor
Lenore Blum recently earned the Presidential Award for
Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring
for her work to encourage young girls to pursue math and
science careers. She believes girls generally spend less time
around ...
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High-Profile Online Data
Thefts Irk Pols
The recent spate of highly publicized data breaches
compromising the personal and financial information of
millions of Americans has incited the third piece of
congressional legislation addressing the issues of data
protection and disclosure since April. The Personal Data
Privacy and ...
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When PCs
Pollute
Greenpeace has issued a report concluding that the
recycling of electronic materials is unregulated and
environmentally hazardous, as many workshops overseas where
electronic equipment is disassembled contain high levels of
toxic materials. Greenpeace advocates takeback programs that
would hold ...
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Daisy Has All the Digital
Answers to Life on Earth
British researchers have announced plans to build a digital
library of all life on Earth using pattern-recognition
software. The Digital Automated Identification System (Daisy)
combines artificial intelligence and computer vision
technology so that naturalists can access detailed information
about ...
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VR Goggles Heal Scars of
War
An experimental virtual-reality system that vividly
replicates combat trauma is being used to treat soldiers
suffering from shellshock. The Institute for Creative
Technologies at the University of Southern California
developed the system last year with the U.S. Office of Naval
...
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Tech Beyond Black Boxes? It
Just Won't Fly
The recent Greek airplane crash highlights the problem of
relying on "black box" flight recorders that are themselves
vulnerable to damage or destruction, yet relaying key data
from the aircraft to the ground every few microseconds has
been deemed too costly and complex an engineering feat ...
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Enhanced: More Women in
Science
In the 25 years since the inception of the Women in Science
and Technology Act, women have made significant advances into
the fields of math and science, though their participation
remains disproportionately low in academia. Despite the recent
debate over innate intelligence and cognitive ...
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Chinese Developers Should
Take Global Open-Source View
Speakers at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Beijing
said Chinese companies and developers can and should play a
key role in the development of open-source software, both in a
technical and non-technical capacity. Novell CEO Jack Messman
lauded the Chinese government's support for ...
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Can a Simple Password Stop
Domain Name Hijacking?
Using a password at the time of a domain transfer between
registrars could safeguard against identity fraud targeting
Internet domain names, which has emerged as one of the most
significant threats to networks today. Securing the domain
name transfer process has been slow, due partially to the ...
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Computer Characters Mugged
in Virtual Crime Spree
The increasingly porous boundary between the real and
virtual worlds is illustrated by the arrest of a Chinese
exchange student in Japan on suspicion of controlling software
"bots" to assault and rob game characters of virtual
possessions, which were then fenced for real money through an
...
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Software Broadens the
Language of Search
IBM has released Unstructured Information Management
Architecture (UIMA), open source software for the annotation,
searching, and sharing of metadata that IBM and the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) expect will
implement a new type of software application capable of
extracting ...
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Software Development
Survey Says People, Not Tools, Matter
Most
Management and technology approaches are more significant
factors in determining the quality of software development
projects than tools, according to a new study from
Quantitative Software Management. In its report on "the Best
and Worst in Class" projects, QSM found that the best ...
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How Bots Can Earn More
Than You
It has been demonstrated, both in simulation and in the
real world, that software robots or bots can outperform and
even out-earn humans in areas such as the stock market. Such
bots vied against each other in an agent trading competition
at the International Joint Conference on Artificial ...
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Science
Intelligence
Business and science are experiencing a convergence between
technologies, architectures, and procedures for information
technology, according to Bolder Technology President Richard
Hackathorn, who believes business and science can become more
intelligent through a unified information ...
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Can Google Stay
Google?
The meteoric rise of Google belies fears that it could
suffer the fate of many companies in Silicon Valley's
unforgiving arena: That competitors will catch up and send
Google on a downward spiral into obscurity. Co-founder Sergey
Brin says part of the secret to Google's success is the ...
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The African
Hacker
Ghanaian software entrepreneur Hermann Chinery-Hesse
created his company, Soft Tribe, to capitalize on his epiphany
that Africans cannot take advantage of IT by merely importing
European or American software--they must customize the
programs for local conditions. Chinery-Hesse is a ...
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Morphware
Morphware processors occupy a middle tier between
general-purpose processors that execute a broad set of
commands and application-specific integrated circuits
optimized for speed. Morphware rapidly carries out one
application and then reconfigures its wiring in accordance
with software ...
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