Fulbright Announces Award
Offerings
Tech Jobs Start to Come
Back in U.S. After Three-Year Slump
Technology companies are hiring more than they are firing
for the first time in several years, raising hopes for job
seekers, recruiters, and employees looking to get raises.
Though the gains are small and executives remain wary of a
possible drop in sales, staunching the downward ...
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Wringing the
Changes
New studies on the intersection of IT and business
management show that process innovation and sound management
are the real keys to unlocking technology's value. Harvard
Business School professor Andrew McAffee was surprised when he
visited the offices of European retailer Inditex, ...
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E-Vote Devices Win Partial
Favor
The state of California's Voting Systems and Procedures
Panel recommended on April 28 that residents in 10 counties be
permitted to use existing paperless electronic voting systems
in the November election, while the option for paper-based
voting should be available ...
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Intelligent Systems
Researcher Wins IEEE/ACM Conference Honor
A paper co-authored by USC Ph.D. student Sundeep Pattem, a
graduate research assistant in the Autonomous Networks
Research Group, was one of three winners of a best paper award
at this week's ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Information
Processing in Sensor Networks ...
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Finding the Right
Fit
Stanford University scientists are piecing together an
ancient sculpted map of Rome using a software program designed
to mimic the cognitive process a human being uses to
reconstruct a jigsaw puzzle, according to graduate student and
program inventor David Koller. The challenge is ...
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NASA Develops Decision
Support Software for Mars Rover Mission
The Mixed Activity Planning Generator (MAPGEN) software
system developed by NASA Ames Research Center and the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has become essential to the
success of the current Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission,
according to researchers. MAPGEN can organize a potential plan
...
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Scientists Envision
Devices, Super Computer From Cutting-Edge Quantum
Research
Devices that exploit the stranger qualities of quantum
mechanics will revolutionize the world's economy and create
unimagined technological applications, according to physicists
now studying quantum effects. Interest in quantum technology
has been increasing since scientists ...
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Mozilla, Gnome Mull United
Front Against Longhorn
Open-source projects Mozilla and Gnome are considering ways
to merge their browser and desktop interface technologies in
order to meet the looming threat of Microsoft's Longhorn
operating system; Longhorn is said to integrate desktop
applications and the Web far more powerfully than ever ...
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For a Squeeze Play,
Software Seeks Out Game Highlights
Sharp Labs' Dr. Ibrahim Sezan has developed video analysis
software that jumps to the highlights of sporting events,
shortening a baseball game from three hours to eight minutes,
for example. The developer explains that defining the color,
shape, and semblance of the playing field was one of ...
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Robotic Traffic Cones
Swarm Onto Highways
Roboticist Shane Farritor of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln has developed self-propelled robot traffic
cones that position themselves to mark off repair zones and
reduce the need for workmen to put themselves in harm's way by
inserting and removing such markers manually. The ...
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Quantum Computers Are a
Quantum Leap Closer
Purdue University scientists have produced electron
"puddles" or quantum dots in a semiconductor wafer of gallium
arsenide that are linked together, allowing them to become
part of transistors whereby the electrons' spin can be tapped
to make logic gates for next-generation computer ...
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You Call That a
Standard?
Veo Systems founder and University of California, Berkeley
adjunct IT professor Robert Glushko argues that even the most
high-minded--and supposedly impartial--tech standards
organizations are vulnerable to corporations that wield money,
power, and political influence. Glushko ...
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EC Tells Europe and ICANN
to Make Peace
European Commission Internet head Erkki Liikanen gave a
recent speech in which he warned both ICANN and European
top-level domain owners to settle their differences quickly:
ICANN has backed away from unilateralism and made moves to
open up its process, but owners of European country ...
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Game Programming Doing
Well in Hawaii
Entrepreneurs are hoping to turn the state of Hawaii into a
Mecca for the video-game industry that rivals its status as a
goldmine for the tourist trade and film industry. A key
ingredient of that success will be cultivating a collaborative
relationship between University of ...
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In Favor of Open Source in
Industrial Systems
The two-year INES project funded by the Information Society
Technologies Program is a joint effort to promote the
advantages of open source software (OSS) in industrial
embedded systems between a half-dozen Technology Expertise
Centers based in Belgium, Italy, Romania, Slovenia, ...
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Cognitive Rascal in the
Amorous Swamp: A Robot Battles Spam
George Johnson is suitably impressed with the SpamProbe
software robot in its ability to weed out junk email using
Bayesian inference, a statistical analysis technique. Johnson
first trained SpamProbe, an open source program inspired by a
spam filtering technique described by Paul Graham, ...
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Solid Money, Worried
Minds
This year's InformationWeek National IT Salary Survey finds
that the economy is improving: Median base salaries this past
year rose 7.9 percent to $68,000 for IT staffers and 7.1
percent to $90,000 for managers, while staff received $71,000
and managers $97,000 in median total ...
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Plug-and-Play
Robots
Entrepreneur Thomas J. Burick has designed a mobile
"PC-Bot" platform that can mate with commercially available
plug-and-play PC peripherals and accessories to customize its
functions. "I want people to use this platform like a blank
canvas, to let their imaginations run wild," ...
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A Conversation With Matt
Wells
Matt Wells, who plans to make a splash in the search engine
sector with Gigablast, posits that current search engines face
three primary areas of difficulty: Scalability and
performance, quality control, and research and development.
Wells says the scalability problem stems from the need ...
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Fulbright Announces Award
Offerings
The Fulbright Scholar Program is offering 27 lecturing,
research, and lecturing/research awards in computer science
worldwide for the 2005-2006 academic year. The awards for both
faculty and professionals range from two months to an academic
year. While many awards specify project and ...
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