3-Deep
Presidential Panel
Recommends Steps to Promote Computational
Science
The President's Information Technology Advisory Panel on
April 14 unanimously championed the draft version of a report
recommending the restructuring of universities and federal
agencies to promote multidisciplinary research using computers
to stimulate the growth of ...
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How Vulnerable Is the
'Net?
The Internet is vulnerable to hacker-induced disruption,
but some points are more prone to attack than others,
according to experts. The DNS core infrastructure has been
significantly strengthened since a major denial-of-service
attack hit the system in October 2002; at that time, DNS ...
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Can the U.S. Still
Compete?
Charles Cooper writes that the U.S.'s poor performance
ACM's recent International Collegiate Programming Contest (it
tied for 17th place) reflects the declining quality of the
country's technical talent. He hopes this incident will help
spur U.S. ...
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Kernel Changes Draw Concern
From Open-Source Community
Concern is brewing among members of the open-source
community that the features of the Linux 2.6 kernel are being
changed so quickly that the kernel could become excessively
large, while the changes themselves are too desktop-oriented.
Computer Associates International VP Sam Greenblatt says ...
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Congress Moving to Tackle
Spyware Problem
Several anti-spyware bills have been introduced in Congress
so far this year, all of which focus on the most objectionable
spyware practices; but they differ dramatically in their
definition of spyware, which is a source of contention in the
high-tech industry. It is the industry's concern that ...
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U.S. Military's Elite
Hacker Crew
U.S. Strategic Command (Stratcom) leaders disclosed the
existence of the Joint Functional Component Command for
Network Warfare (JFCCNW) at a March meeting of the U.S. Senate
Armed Services Committee. The JFCCNW is a team of hackers
responsible for the safeguarding of all Defense Department
(DOD) ...
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Computer Science Students
Receive Top Honor for Research
A team of computer science students at Fitchburg State
College has an opportunity to compete in the grand final of
the ACM's International Student Research Competition after
placing third at the recent St. Louis event. Matthew Glover,
Joshua McKinnon, Duane ...
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Tech Grads Face Strongest
Job Market in Five Years
The information technology industry, along with many other
industries, will be looking to hire people with computer,
engineering, and IT experience by the time students graduate
in June, according to a survey from Michigan State University.
For tech graduates, the job market will be the best it ...
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As New Technology Draws in
the Animators
New software from IST's Custodiev project could help make
3D animation of stylized strip cartoons found in comics and
graphic novels a reality. "The strip-cartoon effect cannot be
mimicked in 3D animation because the 3D model forces its
unique geometry while in drawn animation the artist can, ...
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Tech-Savvy Women Seek
Support in Classroom and Newsroom
Both online and print media are suffering from a shortage
of female IT professionals, which is partly attributed to a
perception of IT as a boring or geeky field, a lack of
encouragement from educators and parents, and the attitude
that the reigning authorities are dedicated to marginalizing
or ...
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Stanford Joins
Multi-Institution Center on Research in Cybersecurity and
Computer Trustworthiness
Leading security experts from eight universities will join
forces under the Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure
Technology (TRUST), funded for five years with about $19
million from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The
University of California-Berkeley will lead the effort, joined
by other ...
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Gordon Moore Looks Back,
and Forward, 40 Years
Intel founder Gordon Moore, who four decades ago wrote a
groundbreaking paper that has become a roadmap for the
electronics industry, reflects on how well that document, now
known as Moore's Law, has held up. Moore's Law dictates that
the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles ...
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Automated Mining Still a
Dream
Autonomous mining machinery that has the common-sense
reasoning of a human is some decades away, said artificial
intelligence expert Marvin Minsky in an address at the
International Symposium on Mine Mechanization and Automation.
Before such intelligent machines are possible, researchers ...
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The Liquid Information
Project Is Hyper2
University of College London researcher Frode Hegland says
the Liquid Information project's Hyperwords technology
provides a simple way to dramatically increase the
interactivity of Web information. Web pages with Hyperwords
provide users with a menu when they mouse over a word,
allowing ...
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Eye,
Robot
BAE Systems and a number of British universities are
involved in a project to develop multitasking robots that can
respond to events that register in their peripheral vision.
The reverse-engineering the vertebrate brain (Reverb) project
seeks to understand the multitasking mechanisms in the ...
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Sector-wide ISACs Have
Both Critics and Advocates
Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs), formed to
share information between government and industry sectors,
lack support from government agencies and private-sector
members, according to some business executives. The groups
were created in the late 1990s to coordinate ...
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The Next Wave in J2EE
Deployment
There is no panacea to fully eliminate the headaches
associated with J2EE deployment, but network attached
processing technology shows promise as a tool for lowering the
cost and complexity of distributed J2EE application
development, implementation, management, and provisioning.
Network ...
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La Vida
Robot
The third annual Marine Advanced Technology Remotely
Operated Vehicle Competition was remarkable in that the
winning entry--which beat well-funded competition from MIT and
other vaunted institutions--was designed, built, and operated
by four Phoenix high schoolers with minimal ...
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3-Deep
LightSpace Technologies President Alan Sullivan writes that
new volumetric displays from his company and others will
generate 3D imagery that frees users from the eyestrain,
headaches, and other irritants that have limited the use of
stereoscopic, autostereoscopic, and holographic display ...
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