Dear ACM TechNews Subscriber: Welcome to the November 25, 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 the latest on ACM activities, member benefits, and industry issues, 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 427 Date: November 25, 2002 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Site Sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company ( ) HP is the premier source for computing services, products and solutions. 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The Business Roundtable praised the ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item1 "Agency Weighed, but Discarded, Plan Reconfiguring the Internet" The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) looked into the possibility earlier this year of creating a new Internet environment where every user would necessarily leave uniquely identifiable imprints, just as criminals leave DNA evidence at a ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item2 "New Gizmos May Spark Deregulation" Technology experts argue that a series of breakthroughs should lead to a rethinking of how people use the airwaves: Among them are wireless technologies being developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Intel, Bell Laboratories, ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item3 "Researchers: Pull Plug on Battery Attacks" Virginia Tech scientists Tom Martin, Dong Ha, and Michael Hsiao are conducting research on ways to counter cyberattacks on mobile computers that aim to incapacitate their targets by draining their batteries. The researchers are concentrating on three ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item4 "'Here's Looking At You' Has New Meaning: Eye Contact Shown to Affect Conversation Patterns, Group Problem-Solving Ability" Dr. Roel Vertegaal of Queen's University has discovered a correlation between the amount of eye contact people receive and their involvement in conversations, and believes this research could have valuable ramifications for the development of future ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item5 "Nano Research Should Study Consequences" A study authored by Glenn Harlan Reynolds of the University of Tennessee College of Law and released by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) calls for nanotechnology researchers to openly disclose the nature of their research to the public while also ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item6 "Radical Physicist Flatters Computer Fans" This fall's Comdex trade show was unusual in that a key speaker presented radical ideas that could be applied in the distant future, as opposed to the present. Physicist Stephen Wolfram, the author of "A New Kind of Science," explained his view that ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item7 "Planning for the Day When Silicon Rules No More" In their respective keynote speeches at the Nanoelectronics Planet Conference & Expo on Thursday, Dr. Thomas Theis of IBM's Research Division and Dr. Yong Chen of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories' Quantum Science Research agreed that silicon still ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item8 "Straining Digital Copyright Law, Junior Paper Exposes Protection Flaws in CDs" Alex Halderman, a senior computer science major at Princeton University, has acknowledged the possibility that he could be sued by the music industry for allegedly violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) if he presents a junior paper at ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item9 "A Visionary Pays a Visit" Vinton Cerf spoke about envisioning the Internet last week at the well known Toronto Empire Club that counts many of Canada's leading business figures as members. Cerf believes that issues such as the assignment of domain names, taxing e-commerce, online ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item10 "The Next Chapter" CenterBeam Chairman Sheldon Laube sees disposable PCs as the future of information technology, considering personal computers can be purchased for less than $200 today. Because it would not make economic sense to ship a PC back for repairs, within five ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item11 "Retooling the Programmers" Aspect-oriented programming seeks to relieve companies of many headaches, such as the intense difficulty programmers face in converting the needs and ideas of non-technical personnel into usable code, as well as organizing and updating vast numbers of ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item12 "The FBI's Cybercrime Crackdown" Cybercrime is a growing concern in Washington, especially with experts warning that an online assault on the nation's critical infrastructure coupled with a physical terrorist attack could trigger chaos, confusion, and loss of life, to say nothing of the ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item13 "The Ghosts of Computers Past" The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., contains an archive of precedent-setting hardware and software, and museum board member John Mashey says the need to historically document the evolution of today's computers is critical, especially since ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1125m.html#item14 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To review Friday's issue, please visit http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/1122f.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.