Software Synthesis for
Embedded Systems
Academics Support
File-Sharing Companies
Leading U.S. computer scientists added their voices to
those of technology companies and consumer organizations on
March 1 in urging the Supreme Court not to overturn a
lower-court decision declaring the Grokster and StreamCast
online file-sharing firms unaccountable for digital piracy ...
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Clinton, Boxer Pushing
E-Voting Bill in Senate
The Count Every Vote Act sponsored by Sens. Barbara Boxer
(D-Calif.) and Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) calls for the
provision of a voter-verified paper ballot for each vote cast
in electronic voting systems, and also mandates that all
citizens have access to voter verification regardless of
language, ...
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ACM Awards Honor Advances
in Internet, Programming, Software
Technology
The ACM announced on March 1 the winners of the 2004 ACM
awards, which will be handed out on June 11. "Like the
recently announced winners of ACM's A.M. Turing Award, these
contributions all recognize ground breaking innovations that
influence how ...
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Cracking Software
Development Complexity
Software complexity continues to increase faster than
Moore's Law, meaning that programmers will be unable to write
and manage code without rethinking how to create programs,
writes Partech's Nicolas El Baze. A number of companies are
addressing this issue and moving toward model-based ...
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Showing PRESENCE at the
World's ICT Fair
The European Commission's Future and Emerging Technologies
initiative will showcase nine IST projects that will offer
demonstrations of cutting-edge Presence research to visitors
at the CeBIT 2005 Information and Communication Technologies
(ICT) fair later this month. "Presence research ...
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Ending the Grid
Lock
The Globus Consortium, launched with the backing of IBM,
Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and Intel in January, aims
to make the Globus Toolkit more appealing to companies that
have previously been concerned with security and support for
grid systems. The non-profit consortium is headed by one ...
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European Commission Stands
by Patent Proposal
The European Commission has rejected the European
Parliament's request that the proposed "patentability of
computer-implemented inventions" directive be scrapped,
despite heavy opposition from members of Parliament, small and
midsized businesses, and open-source organizations. Opponents
fear that ...
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Fighting for the 'Freedom
to Tinker'
Princeton computer science professor Edward Felten was
galvanized by a recording industry lawsuit in 2001 that sought
to prevent him and colleagues from publishing their
examination of anti-copying technology. Felten is known as an
intellectual property expert that has testified ...
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New Tool May Aid Digital
Investigators
University of Florida computer science doctoral student
Mark Foster has devised a "process forensics" technique that
blends check-pointing and intrusion detection as a tool
against hackers, which Foster detailed in a recent issue of
the International Journal of Digital Evidence. The process ...
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Mind
Reader
University College London professor of human-centered
technology Angela Sasse doubts that biometric technologies are
mature enough to be implemented in a national ID card system.
She argues that such a system could fail without additional
research into three key areas--universal ...
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Cornell Robotics Team
Drives for the Gold
A team of Cornell University students is working on robot
vehicles to compete in the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency's Grand Challenge, a contest in which self-navigating
vehicles will be required to traverse an off-road course of
roughly 170 miles without human assistance. Two Cornell ...
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Attack on a Cryptographic
RFID Device
Security researchers from Johns Hopkins University and RSA
Laboratories say the radio frequency identification (RFID)
industry needs to take cryptographic measures more seriously
considering the wireless capabilities and widespread use of
RFID technology, writes RSA Laboratories principal ...
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'Perfect Storm' for New
Privacy Laws?
A spate of high-profile data security breaches has caught
the attention of a number of U.S. senators who are advocating
more unified privacy laws. Just 10 days following the
announcement of ChoicePoint's loss of more than 145,000
individuals' information to fraud, Bank of America said it
lost ...
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IT Skills Crisis Haunts
Government
A national shortage of skilled Australian IT personnel is
on the horizon, according to officials who cited postponed
government IT projects and rising costs as harbingers of the
crisis. An anonymous source within Centrelink said many
projects were paralyzed by the October election with ...
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Too Much
Information
Earthquakes, ecosystems, economies, and other inherently
complex systems and events long regarded to be mathematically
irreducible could be more measurable then previously thought,
according to research into cellular automata, which are
computer programs that can form complex patterns by ...
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Primed for
Numbers
Harvard University President Lawrence Summers' remarks that
innate differences between genders might partially explain why
fewer women than men pursue science and engineering careers
instigated a storm of protest, but there may be some merit in
his reasoning, according to a growing body ...
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The H-1B
Equation
The debate over whether H-1B visa holders are beneficial or
detrimental to the U.S. workforce will likely be rekindled as
the U.S. government starts accepting visa applications from
companies that wish to hire foreign workers with advanced
degrees from American universities, a provision that ...
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Beyond the
Book
The limitations of printed textbooks will be largely
circumvented by new technologies, such as the proposed
Electronic Learning Tutorial Instrument System (ELTIS), to
help meet the world's long-range educational needs and allow
teachers to concentrate harder on individual students, while
letting ...
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Software Synthesis for
Embedded Systems
Zeidman Technologies founder Bob Zeidman suggests that now
is the time to take an evolutionary step in embedded systems
software design by automatically generating or synthesizing
software. He recommends that software engineers take a cue
from hardware engineers, who expedited chip ...
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