Down to the Wire
With Intel Inside Apple,
Macs May be Faster, Smaller
Apple plans to introduce Macintosh computers running on
Intel chips by next June, creating an opportunity for the
machines to become more powerful, faster, and smaller, since
Intel chips generate less heat. The success of this venture
hinges on Apple convincing its thousands of software ...
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Technology, Modernity May
Change Future Elections
A June 7 report from a task force comprised of officials
and former officials from 15 U.S. states organized by the
Election Center in Houston, TX, calls for a restructuring of
elections to support the wide deployment of "universal vote
centers." Such facilities, which were set up ...
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Computer Science Majors
Dwindling at U.S. Colleges
Interest in computer science among college students is
flagging, despite indications that well-paying job
opportunities for computer-science majors abound. The
Computing Research Association estimates the number of newly
declared U.S. computer science majors experienced a 39% ...
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Redefining the Power of the
Gamer
More than 100 game makers and academic computer experts
attended the first Artificial Intelligence and Interactive
Digital Entertainment conference last week to check out new
games, many of which are character-driven, free-form, and
controlled by AI methods. One example was "Facade," a ...
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Pacman Comes to Life
Virtually
Researchers at the National University of Singapore's Mixed
Reality Lab have developed an augmented reality (AR) version
of the Pacman arcade game in which human beings stand in for
Pacman and his Ghost opponents using a combination of virtual
reality, global positioning system (GPS) technology, ...
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Big Tech Outfits Unite to
Try to Hook Phish
A consortium of major tech corporations has organized to
create an effective email authentication standard by combining
Cisco's Internet Identified Mail technique with Yahoo!'s
DomainKeys strategy; the hybrid method, DomainKeys Identified
Mail (DKIM), promises to deliver backward ...
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Two Indian Americans Bag
Microsoft Awards
Microsoft Research recently announced Harvard University
computer science professor Radhika Nagpal and Georgia
Institute of Technology College of Computing professor Subhash
Khot--both Indian Americans--to be among the first group of
recipients of this year's New Faculty Fellowship Awards. ...
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Security Breaches Challenge
Academia's 'Open Society'
Carlson Companies data privacy manager Jay Cline reports
that U.S. universities are advising students, alumni, and
employees to keep an eye on their personal accounts because of
security breaches, which are only now coming to light because
of the California Security Breach Notification Act, ...
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UCSD Computer Scientists
Develop Ubiquitous Video Application for 3D
Environments
Researchers from the University of California at San Diego
have developed a new form of video monitoring that recreates
3D environments using still images and live-feed video
streams. The technology allows remote observers to explore the
virtual environment instead of watching separate feeds on a
bank of ...
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Blue Brain: Illuminating
the Mind
The latest installation of IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer
at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne's (EPFL) Brain
Mind Institute will be used to model the neocortex of the
human brain, an effort that institute founder Henry Markram
expects to take several years. The EPFL machine, ...
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DVD Standard Battle Rages
On
NEC and Sony continue to wage war over which of their
next-generation DVD technologies--NEC's high-definition DVD
(HD-DVD) or Sony's Blu-ray--will become the industry standard,
although both products have advantages and shortcomings.
HD-DVD and Blu-ray both rely on blue-laser technology, which
...
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Q&A: Ex-eBay Security
Chief Sees a Safer Internet in the Future
Former eBay security chief and onetime chair of the
President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board Howard
Schmidt is generally optimistic that the Internet's security
will improve, and attributes this to a shrinking gap between
the identification of security issues and industry's response
...
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Play It Again,
Vladimir
Zenph Studios President Dr. John Q. Walker is developing
technology in which a computer deconstructs and digitizes a
musical recording and then plays it back on a Yamaha
Disklavier Pro. Walker says the technique can be used to
produce crisp renditions of scores by long-deceased artists
that ...
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A Battle for the Soul of
the Internet
The United Nations and the International Communications
Union (ITU) are both seeking to take control of the Internet
from ICANN, a battle that's taking place with little fanfare
but affects the very foundation of the World Wide Web, writes
Tucows CEO Elliot Noss. Noss says both the UN ...
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The Biotech
Men
Smarter and more distributed computing is playing an
increasingly vital role in Australia's biotechnology industry.
The Bionic Ear Institute in East Melbourne uses distributed
computing and other state-of-the-art measures to aid research
for developing more effective technologies for the ...
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NIST Focuses on
Measurements for New IT Technologies
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
plans to identify and define information science measurements
that are critical to U.S. competitiveness, according to
officials. Equipped with accurate measurements, engineers will
be able to predict the behavior of systems ...
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Low Cost Wireless
Technologies Enable New Sensor Networks
Wireless technologies allow new sensor network deployments
that will dramatically increase knowledge and allow
meteorologists to more accurately predict the weather or
doctors to more effectively treat physical ailments. Sensors
are used to gather a wide variety of information, such as ...
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Down to the
Wire
Japan and other Asian countries have overtaken the U.S. in
terms of high-speed broadband and mobile-phone technology
deployment, dislodging U.S. leadership in Internet innovation
and positioning Asia as the primary beneficiary of higher
productivity, economic growth, quality-of-life ...
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