Dear ACM TechNews Subscriber: Welcome to the July 8, 2002 edition of ACM TechNews, providing timely information for IT professionals three times a week. For instructions on how to unsubscribe from this service, please see below. ACM's MemberNet is now online. For discussion (and voting) forums on current industry issues and the latest on ACM activities, visit http://www.acm.org/membernet Remember to check out our hot new online essay and opinion magazine, Ubiquity, at http://www.acm.org/ubiquity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ACM TechNews Volume 4, Number 370 Date: July 8, 2002 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Site Sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company ( ) HP is the premier source for computing services, products and solutions. Responding to customers' requirements for quality and reliability at aggressive prices, HP offers performance-packed products and comprehensive services. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Top Stories for Monday, July 8, 2002: http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html "Reported Internet Attacks Rise" "Intel to Begin Shipping a 64-Bit Microprocessor It Developed With Hewlett-Packard" "Linux Standard Gets the Go-Ahead" "Cyber-Security Is Underplayed, Industry Says" "Nanoscale Sensor Could Increase Data Storage Capacity" "Hackers Target Energy Industry" "New Spin on Transistors" "Roll Up for a Fold-Away Screen" "OS X Upgrade Leaps Closer to the Finish" "Can Computers Fly on the Wings of a Chicken?" "Florida CIOs, Educators Team Up to Improve Workforce" "Angry Engineers Blame Shortage on Low Pay, Layoffs and Age Bias" "Intelligence for the Open-Source War" "India's Tech Capital Expects 60 Percent Growth in Exports" "Russia Looms as Software Service Successor to India" "Light Turns Into Glowing Liquid" "Supercomputing: Suddenly Sexy" "Computing With Molecules" "The Rules of Innovation" ******************* News Stories *********************** "Reported Internet Attacks Rise" Internet attacks in the past six months have risen 28 percent over attacks recorded in the previous six months, according to a new report from Riptech, which monitors over 400 government agencies, private companies, and nonprofit groups. Most of the ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0708m.html#item1 "Intel to Begin Shipping a 64-Bit Microprocessor It Developed With Hewlett-Packard" Intel today begins shipping its Itanium 2 chip, a second-generation microprocessor jointly developed with Hewlett-Packard and targeted at the upper echelons of the server market. Although Intel currently sells over 85 percent of all ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0708m.html#item2 "Linux Standard Gets the Go-Ahead" Major Linux vendors are attempting to hasten the corporate adoption of the open-source operating system by launching the Linux Standards Base (LSB) certification program. LBS certification will ease software companies' enablement of ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0708m.html#item3 "Cyber-Security Is Underplayed, Industry Says" Some of the biggest industry organizations and high-tech companies in the United States want the White House to more clearly define cyber-security priorities in its recent proposal to create a Department of Homeland Security by combining six ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0708m.html#item4 "Nanoscale Sensor Could Increase Data Storage Capacity" A thousandfold expansion of data storage capacity could be facilitated by a nanoscale magnetic sensor, according to the scientists who developed it at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The device is fashioned out of nickel and exhibits ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0708m.html#item5 "Hackers Target Energy Industry" The energy industry is the target of an increasing number of hacker attacks, leading some to speculate that terrorists could be casing energy company networks in preparation for a cyberattack. Security firm Riptech, which has a number of ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0708m.html#item6 "New Spin on Transistors" In what might lead to far smaller computers than are available today, researchers at the Institute for Microstructural Science in Ottawa have built a tiny "spintronic" transistor that could enable quantum computing. The discovery is similar to two other ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0708m.html#item7 "Roll Up for a Fold-Away Screen" Flexible computer displays that can be folded and rolled up will be available in a few years, according to David Fyfe of Cambridge Display Technologies (CDT), which has been developing products based on light-emitting polymers for over a decade. The ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0708m.html#item8 "OS X Upgrade Leaps Closer to the Finish" Apple's newest version of its OS X operating system is nearing completion, more than a month ahead of when observers had expected it to be released. Mac OS X 10.2, code-named Jaguar, fulfills many of the promises made by Steve Jobs about the system ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0708m.html#item9 "Can Computers Fly on the Wings of a Chicken?" Richard Wool of the University of Delaware's Affordable Composites from Renewable Sources (ACRES) project filed a microchip patent last month that replaces the standard silicon wafer with a composite of chicken feathers and plant oils, his ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0708m.html#item10 "Florida CIOs, Educators Team Up to Improve Workforce" Florida IT managers and state educators believe they should collaborate on improving training for the future IT workforce. A number of initiatives have this goal in mind, among them O-Force, an Orlando-based public-sector effort. Meanwhile, Siemens ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0708m.html#item11 "Angry Engineers Blame Shortage on Low Pay, Layoffs and Age Bias" Many engineers and engineering experts complain of age discrimination, boom-and-bust cycles, and insignificant salary growth as reasons for a projected engineer shortage. Steve McMeekin, a 24-year engineering veteran, claims that many ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0708m.html#item12 "Intelligence for the Open-Source War" Open-source advocates in Australia this week are gathering for a conference hosted by Queensland University of Technology to discuss the legal issues businesses have to deal with when using open-source software. Speakers from RedHat and Samba, as well as ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0708m.html#item13 "India's Tech Capital Expects 60 Percent Growth in Exports" Bangalore is racking up more outsourcing contracts than the rest of India, with projected growth of 60 percent in software and services exports this year, compared to 30 percent in the rest of the country. U.S. firms continue to flock to India in order to ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0708m.html#item14 "Russia Looms as Software Service Successor to India" American computer programmers will lose out in the trend to outsource software development overseas, according to John Miano, founder of the Programmers Guild, which has 1,300 members. He says the United States will eventually lose its expert edge in ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0708m.html#item15 "Light Turns Into Glowing Liquid" Spanish researchers theorize that a method for making light exhibit water-like characteristics could revolutionize optical computing. A team led by Humberto Michinel at the University of Ourense explains that light can be perceived as a gas and thus ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0708m.html#item16 "Supercomputing: Suddenly Sexy" The intense rivalry between supercomputing initiatives is testament to the field becoming vogue. For example, the Japan-based Earth Simulator from NEC uses vector processors to model weather patterns, with its ultimate goal being disaster ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0708m.html#item17 "Computing With Molecules" Silicon chips double in performance and transistor density every 18 months, but experts say that this approach will hit its limits in approximately 10 years. Scientists at Hewlett-Packard and elsewhere believe molecular switches are the key to improving ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0708m.html#item18 "The Rules of Innovation" Harvard Business School professor and entrepreneur Clayton M. Christensen believes that innovation is not a random phenomenon, but many consider it to be random because they do not fully fathom all of the variables that impact it. 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