Nano's Road to the
Future
Spirit of Innovation
Survives the Turmoil
Silicon Valley's creative drive has not been subdued by the
dot-com implosion: Area inventors continue to innovate, the
number of patents awarded continues to rise, Stanford
University researchers continue to churn out new inventions,
and federal research funding keeps flowing in. ...
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Snapshots Save Digital
Evidence
Computer crime investigations could be aided with a system
devised by University of Florida researchers that combines
intruder detection techniques with checkpointing methods that
take "snapshots" of a computer's state. The process forensics
method, which was detailed in the summer ...
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'Oracle' Computer Could
Have All the Answers Built In
Duke University researchers envision a computer fabricated
from self-assembling DNA molecules that can answer questions
instantaneously because the answers are built in. "We call
this kind of computer an oracle because, like the oracles of
ancient times, the computer is ready to answer ...
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Can a Virus Hitch a Ride in
Your Car?
Online message boards recently buzzed with a rumor that
Lexus cars and SUVs were vulnerable to a virus that spread via
built-in Bluetooth networking, and though the claim has been
investigated by parent company Toyota Motors and found
unsubstantiated, it has generated scrutiny about whether--or
how ...
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A View Into the Future of
Computer-Human Interaction
Cross-discipline collaboration will be a focus of the
upcoming Computer and Human Interaction conference, ACM's CHI
2005, which will feature keynote speakers who have applied
technology in the areas of medicine, art, and entertainment.
Carnegie Mellon ...
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Senate Republicans Set
High-Tech Policy Goals
Eleven members of the Senate Republican High Tech Task
Force (HTTF) announced their policy agenda at a March 9 press
conference, citing such goals as patent and telecom regulation
reforms; a permanent research and development tax credit for
private companies; federal spyware laws to avoid ...
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Feds Line Up Women for ICT
Summit
The Australian government has named ICT recruitment
industry expert Penny Coulter to an advisory group that will
help organize a Women in ICT summit this year. The summit is
an effort to raise the number of women working in the ICT
industry, says Senator Helen Coonan, Minister for
Communications, ...
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Thinking Robots--Not Quite
Yet
Sheffield University computer science professor and
robotics expert Noel Sharkey doubts that conscious robots will
emerge anytime soon, despite assertions from other researchers
that artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly. "We are
getting on incredibly well mechanically and with ...
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Technology of
Tracking
Global Positioning System (GPS) and related technologies
are being developed and employed to monitor the location of
people, vehicles, and objects, with their accuracy and
applicability determined by the technologies' limitations. The
satellite-based GPS navigation system, ...
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UF's Virtual Reality
'Patient' Teaches Bedside Manners to Medical
Students
Improving doctors' patient interview skills is the goal
behind DIgital ANimated Avatar (DIANA), a virtual patient
devised by University of Florida researchers as an educational
tool medical students can use to practice asking questions
that lead to better diagnosis, as well as learn more ...
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A New Paradigm of Human
Computer Interaction
In her capacity as Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs'
(MERL) senior research scientist and associate director,
University of Massachusetts graduate Chia Shen is supervising
the research and development of tabletop computer systems that
support multiple-user interaction. Shen notes that a ...
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UML Integration Reaches
Impressive Degree
Unified Modeling Language (UML) offers software architects,
developers, and business process owners the ability to manage
both high-level workflows and lower-level implementation
details. Supporting collaborative software requires a number
of "right-brain" tasks, such as identifying ...
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The Dark Side--Looming
Threats for the Future of IT
A group of panelists convened by Computerworld to discuss
threats to IT's future finds software quality, notorious for
its unreliability, complexity, and insecurity, to be the most
pressing issue. Network Services CIO Michael Hugos says the
major software vendors are the root cause of poor ...
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Missing the Boat, or
Penny-Wise Caution?
Most American colleges are practicing a waiting game when
it comes to upgrading their networks to Internet Protocol
version 6 (IPv6), in keeping with critics' view that a gradual
adoption is cheaper and less disruptive in the long run than a
mad-dash transition. Advocates claim IPv6 will ...
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Taming Your
Tech
Technology is often a source of frustration for users
because of complexity, unreliability, and an overemphasis on
frills, but analysts report that entire industries appear to
be returning to a simpler and friendlier design paradigm,
which could build enough brand loyalty to ...
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Our
Frankenputer
Philip E. Ross writes that PCs are insecure because they
were not designed with security in mind; PCs prioritize
economy and convenience over security and thus incorporate
software and data in memory together. Microsoft Research
senior researcher Jonathan Pincus supports the separation of
data ...
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Nano's Road to the
Future
The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), now entering
its fifth year, has been a rousing success thus far: It has
served as an inspiration for at least 40 similar programs, has
come out ahead of some objectives while keeping pace with
others, and, most critically, has cultivated true ...
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