A Conversation With Pat
Selinger
"Surrendering U.S.
Leadership in IT"
ACM's President David Patterson warns that reductions in
federal funding for long-term, high-risk IT research could
cause the U.S. to lose its status as the world's leading IT
innovator. He says the National Science Foundation (NSF) and
the Defense ...
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"No Real Debate for Real
ID"
The Real ID Act met with House approval last week and is
expected to pass through the Senate without difficulty this
week, despite fierce opposition by civil liberties groups,
government associations, and others. Critics say the
legislation was slipped into a larger, relatively
uncontroversial ...
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"Apache Talks Open Source
Java"
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Incubator panel is
considering whether to sponsor an open source Java 2, Standard
Edition (J2SE) runtime platform. The Harmony project will
build on J2SE version 5.0 (Tiger) and be licensed under the
Apache License 2.0. The proposal includes a
community-developed
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"Internet Attack Is Called
Broad and Long Lasting"
A 2004 penetration of a Cisco Systems network that led to
the theft of software for many of the computers tasked with
regulating the flow of the Internet was recently revealed by
federal officials and computer security investigators to be
one salvo in an extensive series of breaches that ...
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"A Vision of
Terror"
Intelligence officers stand to benefit from new
visualization tools that enable them to generate unique
representations of digital communications that could help map
out terrorist activity. The Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory (PNNL) has developed Starlight 3.0, a new
generation of software ...
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"Study: Music Playlists
Reveal Character"
Georgia Institute of Technology and Palo Alto Research
Center researchers conducted a study revealing that music
playlists can yield clues about a person's character, while
strong group identities can form around digital music sharing.
The research examines computer "discovery capabilities," ...
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"Petascale Computer
Architecture: HEC Interviews Sterling"
Thomas Sterling, a faculty associate at the California
Institute of Technology's Center for Advanced Computing,
discusses in an interview how future high-end computing (HEC)
is perceived and what its prospects are. His argument is that
general-purpose petascale computing will remain ...
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"NYU's Nadrian
Seeman"
DNA computing is more suited for algorithmic assembly and
other massively parallel problems than traditional computer
processing, says New York University chemistry chair Nadrian
Seeman, who has spent his career investigating nucleic acid
structure, topology, and nanotechnology. ...
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"A Web of Sensors, Taking
Earth's Pulse"
Ecologists are planning to set up more than $1 billion
worth of sensor web technology to study diverse environments
with an eye toward saving the planet. Dr. Deborah Estrin with
UCLA's Center for Embedded Network Sensing says the goal of
such deployments is to create the ecological equivalent of ...
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"Experts Work to Aid
Compiler Behind Open Source"
The GCC compiler program is employed to generate nearly all
programs in the open-source movement, and the latest version,
GCC 4.0, features a new optimization architecture created to
improve the conversion of source code written by people into
computer-readable binary code. Programmers are ...
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"Innovative
Instruction"
UCLA electrical engineering professor William Kaiser's
Individualized Interactive Instruction (3I) computer program
enables real-time anonymous interaction between professors and
students, eliminating students' reluctance to ask as well as
answer questions out of fear of embarrassment ...
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"Data-Bots Chart the
Internet"
Efforts to improve the Internet's stability and security
through software design could be significantly aided by a
project coordinated by Tel Aviv University computer scientist
Yuval Shavitt, which seeks to map out the Internet via a
distributed computing model. Scientists from the University
...
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"Symposium Entertains
Novel CE Ideas"
The MIT Media Laboratory was the site of last week's
Symposium on Personal Entertainment, which focused on how
electronic entertainment will be transformed by current and
nascent technologies and trends. Moderator and CELab director
Michael Bove said devices have become smarter and consumers
...
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"Broadband Over Power
Lines"
The entrance of utility companies into the broadband space
could help speed up broadband penetration and the emergence of
more advanced services in the United States. Although the
domestic broadband sector has been expanding by about $3
billion yearly over the past six years and is expected to ...
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"Biometrics: Getting Back
to Business"
Biometric identification technology is caught between an
eager public-sector market fueled by post-Sept. 11 security
fears and immature standards and system scalability. Before
Sept. 11, 2001, there was already a growing interest in
biometric security solutions in the private sector, ...
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"Rise of the
Blog"
Weblogs (blogs) are penetrating corporate culture, and are
more widespread than IT managers may realize. Interest in
business blogging has primarily concentrated on high-profile
blogs open to the public as a pipeline for company/customer
communications; meanwhile, internal corporate use of blogs ...
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"A Conversation With Pat
Selinger"
In a conversation with James Hamilton of Microsoft's SQL
Server Team, IBM Fellow and Database Technology Institute
founder Pat Selinger discusses how relational database
management technology has progressed. She notes that
relational database products have transitioned from a
rules-based model to ...
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