Beware the March of This IDE:
Eclipse Is Overshadowing Other Tool Technologies
NSF Preps New, Improved
Internet
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the launch
of the Global Environment for Networking Investigations
(GENI), an initiative that could yield a better, more secure
Internet architecture, on Aug. 24 at a meeting of ACM's
Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM). NSF
said ...
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Linux Kernel Update
Improves Event Monitoring
Though some developers had anticipated it sooner, the next
few weeks should see a stable Linux update promising
improvements in file system event monitoring, a host of system
calls permitting users to load a kernel from the Linux kernel
functioning at the time, and the Xtensa architecture. ...
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Intel Opens Doors on
Autonomic Computing
Intel's Justin Rattner and IBM's Alan Ganek cited
"user-aware" technologies as a critical step toward autonomic
computing, which will probably not be realized in a mainstream
sense for quite a while. Speaking at the Intel Developer
Forum, Rattner said the future of electronics will be fueled
by ...
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Squirrel Helps With Mobile
Calls
MIT research student Stefan Marti has come up with a unique
solution to the irritation of intrusive cell phone calls: An
Autonomous Interactive Intermediary (AII) that takes the form
of a cute animatronic animal that answers phone calls,
determines if its owner is occupied or asleep, ...
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Model-Driven Development
Today
Companies such as Borland and Rational envision model
driven development (MDD) as a partial solution to the vexing
problem of making software development more transparent,
predictable, and accountable. The promise of MDD lies in its
ability to enable developers to rapidly generate quality ...
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Penn State IST Researchers
to Enhance Search Engine
Penn State and University of Kansas researchers have
received a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant to
augment and upgrade the CiteSeer academic search engine, which
has enabled the public to access over 700,000 computer and
information sciences documents since its launch ...
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New Cybersecurity Center to
Warn Law Enforcement of Critical Infrastructure
Attacks
A pilot of the Philadelphia-based Cyber Incident Detection
Analysis Center (CIDDAC) is enabling numerous private
enterprises to anonymously report cyberthreat and attack data
with other enterprises and the government without fear of law
enforcement audits. CIDDAC avoids audits by not being ...
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QA Group of W3C Releases
Specification Guidelines
The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group of the W3C will
complete the Specification Guidelines this month, which will
inform writers and editors on how to generate workable
technical specifications. Steve Bratt, the W3C's COO, said the
creation of standards will help software developers ...
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Play and
Learn
The idea of video games as a learning tool is gaining
credibility and drawing controversy with the publication of
books such as "Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's
Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter," by Steven
Johnson. Johnson cites scientific studies showing that ...
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Black Hat Work for the
White Hat Good
Researchers at Cal State Dominguez Hills believe their
cyber monitoring technology will help protect sensitive
electronic information from hackers. Using a $130,000 grant
from the U.S. Department of Defense over the next two years,
Mohsen Beheshti, a professor and chairman of the computer ...
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Fine Arts Scholars Join
Computer Scientists to Explore Cultural
Creativity
Longtime strangers creative arts and computer science could
share a future together, as a new program at the University of
Illinois demonstrates. Jonathan Fineberg, an art history
professor at the university's Urbana-Champaign campus,
recently partnered with art and design professor ...
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Computer Programmers Need
to Speak the Right Language
Many New Zealand computer programmers agree that
proficiency in multiple programming languages and other
computing fundamentals is necessary in order to find and
maintain gainful employment, and they advocate solid technical
training. Dave O'Rourke, a systems integration manager for a
...
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A Proposal for Governing
the 'Net
The architects of the Internet designed it to be governed
by a combination of democratic and free-market principles,
which was seen as favorable to the previous "monarchy" of Ma
Bell. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) was set up to
be a forum where different stakeholders could work ...
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Mesh Scheme Crosses
Borders
To widen the scope of a local area network, groups such as
the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and the Chinese government
are implementing wireless mesh networks. Mesh networks often
expand on Wi-Fi technology, and pose a threat to the emergence
of the non-certified WiMAX scheme; costs for mesh ...
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It Pays to Be
Persistent
The Energy Department's Information Bridge program is
seeking to eliminate Document Not Found messages through the
use of persistent identifiers, or permanent Web addresses to
ensure the future recovery of content. Previously, agencies
had posted content on the Web only to see it moved or ...
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R&D in India: The
Curtain Rises, the Play Has Begun...
Experts split the evolution of Indian research and
development into a three-act play, with advanced product
development being the first act, basic research the second
act, and the country's transformation into an R&D giant
the third act; general consensus is that Indian R&D has
just started ...
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From the Lab: Information
Technology
A team of researchers from the University of Southern
California has developed a computer graphics technique that
will enable filmmakers to alter the lighting conditions of
film once it has been shot and to recreate live-action
lighting conditions of a setting in which the actors were
never ...
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Beware the March of This
IDE: Eclipse Is Overshadowing Other Tool
Technologies
The Eclipse Foundation reports that the open source Eclipse
Project owns at least three-quarters of the development tools
platform market for the most sophisticated aspects of its
technology, while a survey of over 500 attendees at the March
2005 Java Symposium found that 53 percent of Java ...
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