Cyber Crumbs for Successful
Aging With Vision Loss
"Programming Doesn't Begin
to Define Computer Science"
Jim Morris, computer science professor and Dean of Carnegie
Mellon University's West Coast Campus, writes that the
fall-off in college-level computer science enrollments is
chiefly due to a misrepresentation of the field's goals: The
computing industry's cyclical boom-bust pattern owes a ...
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"Activist: E-Voting to Be a
'Train Wreck'"
E-voting reform crusader Bev Harris is the bane of
politicians, company executives, and election officials that
support electronic voting: Working for free out of Seattle,
she has pursued the issue of insecure e-voting with a passion
for the last two years. She was the person who first ...
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"New on Campus: Faster
Network for File-Sharers"
Students are making use of file-sharing programs that run
on restricted networks such as Internet2, which offer better
security and faster speeds than open networks such as Kazaa.
One such service is i2hub, which works only at
Internet2-connected schools, making students' activities more
...
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"Smarter Spacecraft:
Science-Hunting Software for Robotic
Explorers"
The goal of NASA's Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment (ASE)
is to enable spacecraft to carry out scientific investigations
without human assistance, and project participants such as the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Arizona State University
(ASU), and the University of Arizona are making ...
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"Knowing Their Politics By
Their Software"
Both Republican and Democratic parties are relying more on
the Internet to advance their political causes, and in the
process are adopting either proprietary or open-source
technology according to their ideological affiliation. Both
President Bush's re-election Web site and the Republican ...
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"Digital Evolution Reveals
the Many Ways to Get to Diversity"
Using powerful computers, a team of researchers at Michigan
State University (MSU), Keck Graduate Institute (KGI), and the
California Institute of Technology have focused on solving the
riddle of how evolution leads to species diversity by studying
the evolution of artificial life ...
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"Evolution Could Speed Net
Downloads"
Caching data at different locations can lower costs and
boost download speeds, but determining where data should be
stored and for how long is a difficult proposition. Frederik
Theil and Jurgen Branke of the University of Karlsruhe and
Pablo Funes of Icosystem employed "genetic algorithms" to ...
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"Getting
Better...Virtually"
Psychotherapists see value in treating patients through
virtual reality--specifically, computer animated characters
representing patient and doctor that interact in adaptable
artificial environments, which experts believe is conducive to
a more relaxed and open doctor-patient ...
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"Virtual Project May One
Day Let Your Work Jump From Computer to Computer Without
Interruption"
Intel Research Pittsburgh's Internet Suspend/Resume project
is supposed to enable users to transfer their work from
computer to computer without interruption using the Net,
distributed file systems, and virtual machines. Such a concept
is expected to be particularly appealing in a world where ...
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"Memory Cards Make
Connections"
Sony Computer Science Laboratories researchers have
converted Sony's Memory Stick flash memory card into a virtual
wire that enables people to link two networked devices by
simply plugging in a matched pair of cards that share the same
ID and key. These so-called TranStick cards are visually coded
...
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"Early Row Signals
Challenges for Next Net Summit"
Although committees tasked with focusing on Internet
governance and funding were established at the first World
Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva last year,
and certain goals--such as ensuring that at least half the
world's population had access to some form of electronic ...
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"Idle Computers Are a
Researcher's Dream"
Boise State University (BSU), in collaboration with Micron
Technology, has set up a grid computer network on campus that
so far links together almost 100 classroom desktops into a
supercomputer using a program known as Condor. When the
machines are not in use by students, they are busy ...
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"CERN Openlab Adds a New
Dimension to Grid Computing"
The server and storage technical results of the first
global science Grid, also known as the Large Hadron Collider
Computing Grid project (LCG), was announced by the CERN
openlab for DataGrid applications at the facility's annual
sponsors meeting on June 22. The successful meshing of the LCG
with ...
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"Battlefield Robots Leap
From Science Fiction to Reality"
The U.S. military is deploying and testing robots in combat
situations in the hopes that such machines will reduce
casualties by performing dangerous tasks such as explosives
placement, mine disposal, nuclear and biological agent
detection, and hazardous material cleanup. Robots currently
being ...
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"Thought for
Food"
University of Southern California (USC) computer scientists
and nutrition experts have teamed up to provide a system that
boosts the use of fresh produce at community food pantries.
Low-income people often lack the culinary knowledge or time to
prepare vegetable dishes, and food pantries ...
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"Not the Usual
Channels"
Error-correcting codes allow the Cassini spacecraft
currently orbiting Saturn to transmit images back to earth
with antennae using just a bit more power than a light bulb.
Since Cassini was built in the mid 1990s, such codes have
improved dramatically, and promise to not only revolutionize
...
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"OGC Looks to Enable the
Sensor Web"
The Open GIS Consortium (OGC) Sensor Web Enablement (SWE)
effort seeks to make sensor networks available over the Web,
using existing OGC registry standards as well as new encoding
and interface standards for discovery of and interaction with
sensor networks. Sensor networks already affect ...
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"The H-1B Cap: Friend or
Foe?"
The maximum limit on new H-1B visa applications permitted
annually reverted to 65,000 in September 2003, and opinion is
split on whether this is a positive or negative development.
The cap has already been reached less than halfway into fiscal
2004, and Information Technology Association of ...
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"Cyber Crumbs for
Successful Aging With Vision Loss"
Researchers at the Atlanta VA Rehabilitation Research and
Development Center have collaborated with Charmed Technology
to develop Cyber Crumbs, an electronic system that functions
like a trail of bread crumbs to help visually impaired people
efficiently navigate through unfamiliar ...
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