Dear ACM TechNews Subscriber: Welcome to the September 11, 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 397 Date: September 11, 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 Wednesday, September 11, 2002: http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html "A Year Later, Online Privacy and Security Still Weak" "Administration Pares Cyber-Security Plan" "Worldwide 'War Drive' Exposes Insecure Wireless LANs" "Organic Electronics" "Firms Offer to Recycle TVs, Monitors to Avoid Government Fees" "The UI of the Fifth Revolution" "Hewlett Takes A Step Forward In the World Of Tiny Chips" "Quantum Software Gets the Picture" "Mozilla Rising" "An Insider's Look at Homeland Security and Technology" "Hot Spots" "National Science Foundation Launches Grid Testbed" "Single Atom Memory Device Stores Data" "Digital Divide" "Electronics in the Round: Mixing Plastics and Silicon Yields Form-Fitting Circuitry" "Seeking CRM Integration" "Retaining Top Talent" "Business Process Management" "A Year After 9/11: Where Are We Now?" ******************* News Stories *********************** "A Year Later, Online Privacy and Security Still Weak" Online privacy has been eroded and security remains loose since the Sept. 11 attacks a year ago. Although resistance from the IT community helped prevent a national ID rollout and restrictions on encryption software, the government has more leeway to pilfer ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item1 "Administration Pares Cyber-Security Plan" The Bush administration has made some revisions to the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace in the hopes that industry will voluntarily adopt the plan, according to a government official. Companies have argued against certain recommendations as being ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item2 "Worldwide 'War Drive' Exposes Insecure Wireless LANs" Many wireless LAN users do not deploy basic security measures, according to the results of a "Worldwide Wardrive" that was conducted in Europe and North America over the past week. Self-proclaimed hobbyists carried out the wardrive using free ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item3 "Organic Electronics" The University of Arizona Optical Sciences Center is focusing on the deposition of ultrathin organic molecules onto plastic substrates in an effort to create electronics such as radio frequency (RF) tags that could, for instance, allow grocery items ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item4 "Firms Offer to Recycle TVs, Monitors to Avoid Government Fees" Television manufacturers Panasonic, Sony, and Sharp plan to demonstrate that they can recycle their discarded products responsibly through the Electronics Recycling Shared Responsibility Program, thus obviating the need for ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item5 "The UI of the Fifth Revolution" The so-called Fifth revolution of computing will require a radical user interface that takes into consideration several aspects of mobile computing, including: A small form factor, voice input, profiling that allows devices to operate according ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item6 "Hewlett Takes A Step Forward In the World Of Tiny Chips" Hewlett-Packard scientists have unveiled a process for manufacturing molecular electronics at lower cost and much higher density than the most sophisticated semiconductor chips being used today. The breakthrough was disclosed today by Dr. R. ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item7 "Quantum Software Gets the Picture" University of British Columbia physicist Ralf Schutzhold has developed an algorithm that proves that a quantum computer would be able to discern a linear pattern faster than a conventional machine. His algorithm draws patterns from raw data, which is a ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item8 "Mozilla Rising" Mozilla, the open-source project behind the Netscape browser, is gaining popularity for its programming ease. Experts say that using Mozilla's XML-based XUL language to build an application interface is not much more difficult than building Web pages ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item9 "An Insider's Look at Homeland Security and Technology" In an interview with PC Magazine, Office of Homeland Security CIO Steve I. Cooper discusses how his group characterizes and implements anti-terror technologies. Component areas he cites include intelligence-gathering; integration; information ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item10 "Hot Spots" The Boston area's roughly 100 public Wi-Fi access points, or hot spots, are a mix of free and for-fee services, reflecting a growing trend nationwide to create both free "community networks" for individuals and "for-pay" projects aimed at business users. ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item11 "National Science Foundation Launches Grid Testbed" The National Science Foundation is overseeing a program that uses eight American universities as trial sites for grid computing technologies developed under the aegis of the National Science Foundation Middleware Initiative (NMI). The NMI Integration ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item12 "Single Atom Memory Device Stores Data" Researchers from the University of Wisconsin and Switzerland's University of Basel collaborated on the development of an atomic memory system that allows data to be stored in individual atoms. The system enables one atom to represent the difference between a ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item13 "Digital Divide" Legislators have become embroiled in the heated argument between Silicon Valley and the entertainment industry over the enforcement of copyright protection on the Internet. Earlier this year, top Hollywood executives such as Peter Chernin and ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item14 "Electronics in the Round: Mixing Plastics and Silicon Yields Form-Fitting Circuitry" In the Aug. 26 issue of Applied Physics Letters, Princeton University's Pai-Hui I. Hsu and colleagues describe their efforts to combine silicon-based transistors with polyimide plastic in order to create circuitry that can be molded to any surface. ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item15 "Seeking CRM Integration" Companies that must integrate their diverse CRM applications while minimizing deployment costs are turning to a number of solutions. Best-of-breed applications can be linked together via EAI or messaging middleware, while data warehousing, Web ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item16 "Retaining Top Talent" Many countries are stepping up efforts to prevent the loss of highly skilled professionals to other countries, according to a study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Developing countries suffer the most brain ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item17 "Business Process Management" Approximately 70 percent of 727 executives polled by CIO Insight in August report that their companies are continuously improving their business processes and are very committed to such a goal, but little more than one-third describe their processes as ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item18 "A Year After 9/11: Where Are We Now?" One year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, digital technologies and communications media have drawn fire from key figures as contributing to the tragedy. These same parties are pressuring Congress, state governments, and international ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0911w.html#item19 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To review Monday's issue, please visit http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0909m.html -- To visit the TechNews home page, point your browser to: http://www.acm.org/technews/ -- To unsubscribe from the ACM TechNews Early Alert Service: Please send a separate email to listserv@listserv2.acm.org with the line signoff technews in the body of your message. -- Please note that replying directly to this message does not automatically unsubscribe you from the TechNews list. -- To submit feedback about ACM TechNews, contact: technews@hq.acm.org -- ACM may have a different email address on file for you, so if you're unable to "unsubscribe" yourself, please direct your request to: technews-request@acm.org We will remove your name from the TechNews list on your behalf. -- For help with technical problems, including problems with leaving the list, please write to: technews-request@acm.org ---- ACM TechNews is sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company.