Advancing Sensor Web
Interoperability
Can Johnny Still
Program?
ACM President David Patterson says the United States' poor
showing in the ACM International Collegiate Programming
Contest could be partly attributable to the fact that
programming skill is not really a matter of national pride in
America. He notes the contest's past foreign winners ...
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Carter-Baker Commission
Weighs U.S. Voting Changes
Underfunding and a lack of paper ballots were some of the
problems with America's voting system cited by witnesses
appearing before a commission headed by former president Jimmy
Carter and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III at an
April 18 hearing. "The lack of money is the single most ...
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Summarizer Ranks
Sentences
A University of Michigan research project funded by the
National Science Foundation has yielded LexRank, a new method
for summarizing multiple documents on the same topic by
ranking sentences according to their importance. The
technique, which will be incorporated into the ...
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Next Gen Weighs a 'Secure'
Future
Four Seattle teenagers discussed topics such as privacy,
blogging, and First Amendment rights in a panel moderated by
UC Berkeley graduate student Danah Boyd and Electronic
Frontier Foundation attorney Kevin Bankston at ACM's
Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference last week. ...
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Making Video Easier to
Search and Find
Basic components of a system for searching, retrieving, and
delivering video content from PCs and mobile devices comprise
the end result of the IST BUSMAN project, which is considered
to be one of the most outstanding research and development
projects underwritten by the European Union's ...
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Studies Recharge Computer
Science
Yale's Computer Science Department is developing a wide
range of new technologies all focused on delivering practical
applications. Computer science professors Holly Rushmeier and
Julie Dorsey head a lab working on interrelated projects for
devising new computer graphics applications, ...
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EU Task Force to Study IT
Critical Infrastructure
The European Union has organized a task force to identify
the 25 member states' efforts to protect the critical
infrastructure against cyberthreats, as well as determine the
needs of telecom operators, power companies, and other
critical-infrastructure providers. The task force is ...
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Collaboration to Create
Better Computer Systems
Computer science professors and students from Vanderbilt
University will work with power grid and telecommunications
companies to build computer systems that are more reliable.
The university's Institute for Software Integrated Systems
(ISIS) will work with Oak Ridge Laboratory, the ...
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Supercomputing Power Made
Real
Making supercomputing applicable to everyday real-world
problems is the goal of IBM's new Center for Business
Optimization, which is directed by professor Bill Pulleyblank,
former leader of IBM's Blue Gene project. Supercomputers are
currently being used in such areas as climate ...
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The Art of Mobile
Technology
The expansion of practical mobile phone applications is
helping spawn new forms of creative expression and
communication. One example is Yellow Arrow, a New York
City-based public space art project in which participants post
yellow, arrow-shaped stickers around the metropolis to mark
locations ...
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New Sensors Detect Speech
Without Sound
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA)
Advanced Speech Encoding project is developing non-acoustic
sensor technologies that could have uses outside of the
military communication applications they are designed for. The
initial phase of the project yielded an "active noise ...
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Some Say ICANN Too
Heavy-Handed
ICANN's recent decision to approve two new top-level
domains--.travel and .jobs--has once again sparked debate over
the organization's domain-approval process. The Progress and
Freedom Foundation (PFF), a non-profit think tank that
supports free markets and limited government ...
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Robot Walks, Balances Like
a Human
University of Michigan scientists say that have created a
robot called "Rabbit" that is the first to resemble a human in
the way it walks and balances. Instead of feet, Rabbit has
stilts that can pivot on a point, and if the robot is pushed,
it can step forward and regain its balance. ...
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Captcha the
Puzzle
Over the last few years, computer scientists have developed
CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Turing Tests to Tell Computers
and Humans Apart) as a security measure which uses computer
programs that automatically generate and grade puzzles that
most people can solve without difficulty, but that ...
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What IT Women
Want
A virtual roundtable of successful businesswomen moderated
by Kathleen Melymuka discussed the challenges faced by women
in IT and what recruiters and employers should do to attract
and retain them. Scites Associates President Jan Scites said
"the fundamental issue for women is that very few ...
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Why George Bush Needs a
Technology Czar
Despite rumblings from CIOs and technology policy experts
that the United States is in danger of losing its global lead
in tech innovation to Asia, the federal government still has
not placed a high priority on devising a comprehensive tech
innovation agenda that sets specific milestones for ...
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Guide to Speech
Standards
Speech technology standards offer a sturdy infrastructure
for platforms and applications because they can augment
interoperability, lower technical risk, and reduce costs.
Standards bodies such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
and the Internet Engineering Task Force have developed or ...
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Web Service
References
Registering service references in notification systems is
often necessary for receiving notification messages, and IONA
Technologies' Steve Vinoski, a member of the WS-Addressing
working group, details several issues that must be addressed
in order to transform the endpoint reference (EPR) ...
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Advancing Sensor Web
Interoperability
The goal of the SensorNet project is to develop the
components of a nationwide system for real-time detection,
identification, and evaluation of various threats through an
interoperable framework that collects and integrates sensor
data from all over the country. SensorNet is a joint ...
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