Mobile Media: Making It a
Reality
College Students Continue
to Shun Computer Science
UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute estimates that
the percentage of incoming college students interested in
studying computer science fell 60 percent between fall 2000
and fall 2004, and is now 70 percent below its peak in the
early 1980s. The percentage of prospective female computer ...
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Fields of Learning Theory,
Machine Learning Grow Together at
University
The University of Chicago recently played host to workshops
on learning theory and machine learning, two disciplines that
are increasingly intermixing, according to Toyota
Technological Institute (TTI)-Chicago professor John Langford.
The learning theory workshops involved the ...
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Report on DHS Cybersecurity
Initiatives Expected Next Month
Before the end of this month, the Homeland Security
Department (HSD) will release an update to its cybersecurity
response plan that further maps the cyberdefense capabilities
of the department and determines what capabilities need
alignment with the Computer Emergency Readiness Team ...
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Roadcasting: A Potential
Mesh Network Killer App
Five students in Carnegie Mellon University's
Human-Computer Interaction Institute Masters Program have
developed a working software application for roadcasting, a
concept that integrates mesh computer networking, personalized
digital music, and open-source software to give motorists a
...
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Robots Dance, Play at World
Robot Expo in Japan
A wide variety of prototype robots on display at the World
Expo in Japan illustrate their potential as tools for
entertainment, care-giving, lifesaving, and information
processing, although researchers say safe and reliable public
use is several years away. The most human-like robot at ...
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Summer Students Bring
Professor's Ideas to Life on the Web
The Knapp Instructional Technology Summer Internship
program at Wellesley College gives students an opportunity to
put their computer skills to work, and helps professors offer
a better learning experience in the classroom. Nine students
at the all-women's college in Wellesley, Mass., have been ...
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Flocks of Flying Bluetooth
Bots
Roboticists at the University of Essex plan to present a
scientific paper on their efforts to combine swarm
intelligence and cluster computing during the 2005 IEEE Swarm
Conference in Pasadena, Calif., this week. The project
involves the development of a wireless network of a swarm of
miniature ...
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Indian Scientist Develops
New Tech for Data Transfer
MatrixView Technologies in India has developed a new
compression technique that offers huge improvements in data
transfer and management. Adaptive Binary Optimization (ABO),
using simple repetition coding, can capture and store large
volumes of data and images at lower processing power, and ...
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Microsoft Research Awards
New Faculty Fellowships for 2005
MIT computer science and computer graphics professor Fredo
Durand is among the 2005 winners of faculty fellowship awards
from Microsoft Research University Relations. Durand will
receive a cash grant of $200,000 for his work involving
realistic image synthesis and computational photography, in
...
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Nature
Spies
Computer scientists and biologists have outfitted 30 acres
in the James San Jacinto Mountain Reserve with an array of
automated sensor devices in order to gather more environmental
data faster and with less impact on the ecosystem. Most of the
sensors use wireless technology, and some cameras ...
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New Standards for Voting
Equipment in Development
The implementation deadline of January 1, 2006 for
satisfying the voting equipment standards mandated by the 2002
Help America Vote Act (HAVA) is an unrealistic goal for many
states, according to the Information Technology Association
...
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Automatic Source Code
Review Is Development Tools' Next
Frontier
Automatic source code review, in which a programmer's work
is compared against an expanding archive of coding standards,
is increasingly necessary for those with the responsibility of
equipping development teams. Managers should make an effort to
include convenient customization and extension of ...
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OASIS to Tackle SOA
Definition
A new Organization for the Advancement of Structured
Information Standards (OASIS) committee is tackling the
definition of service-oriented architecture (SOA) in order to
facilitate more detailed cooperation on specialized SOA
implementations. Another OASIS committee, the ebSOA ...
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Internet Security...Writ
Very Small
Iowa State University researchers have developed a version
of the Internet in microcosm to be used as a cyber-defense
test bed, according to computing professor and project leader
Doug Jacobson. The Internet-Simulation Event and Attack
Generation Environment (Iseage) was funded primarily by a ...
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The Looming Threat of
Pharming
Pharming exploits the requirement that all URLs must be
converted into IP addresses via the domain name system (DNS),
and the hacker who successfully poisons" a DNS server will
cause that server to respond to an authentic URL request with
a bogus IP address. Upon arriving at the phony site, the ...
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The Hum and the
Genome
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the United Kingdom
is busy expanding its computing infrastructure in order to
keep up with the exponential increase in genome sequencing
data, which has thus far yielded about 1.2 billion bases from
the human genome sequence alone. "We're falling behind ...
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Mobile Media: Making It a
Reality
Fred Kitson with Hewlett-Packard's corporate research labs
details two prototype mobile media applications--personal
context-aware mobile services that tap radio frequency
identification (RFID) technology and an interactive mobile
gaming system--and goes into the system and software ...
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