Speech Technologies Impact the
Accessibility Market
"How Secure Is Federal
'Cybersecurity'?"
Although the protection of America's cyber-infrastructure
has been of primary concern since 9-11, official reports and
industry experts concur that the U.S. government's
cybersecurity effort comes up drastically short, focusing on
short-term "band-aid" solutions instead of a long-term ...
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"E-Vote Guidelines Need
Work"
Critics say new voting system guidelines developed by the
Technical Guidelines Development Committee for the U.S.
Election Assistance Commission (EAC) are an improvement over
earlier guidelines, but are still inadequate when it comes to
addressing many of the security issues that ...
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"U.S. Lacks Initiative on
Broadband Innovations"
Due to a failure to encourage research and development at
an institutional level, the United States is losing traction
in the global broadband competition, writes Stevens Institute
of Technology President Harold Raveche. He says foreign
developers, particularly in Europe and Asia, are ...
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"Internet2 and LambdaRail,
2 Leading Groups in High-Speed Academic Networks, Discuss
Merger"
National LambdaRail (NLR) and Internet2 are considering a
merger following a recommendation from a panel of networking
experts, although leaders in both organizations caution that
financial and bureaucratic concerns could bog down
discussions. The panel's report concludes that the integration
of ...
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"Tech's Part in Preventing
Attacks"
The terrorist bombings in London will undoubtedly make the
development and deployment of preventative technologies even
more imperative, and numerous companies are offering or
developing products with attack deterrence in mind. Many
intelligence agencies face a shortage of speakers of ...
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"American-Style Patents
Won't Cross the Pond to EU"
The European Parliament's July 6 vote to discard the
European Union's IT patenting proposal is sparking debate on
how the decision will affect business and open source. The
defeat of the law means the EU's patenting practices will not
be aligned with those of the United States and Japan, ...
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"Schools Looking for Ways
to Lure More Minorities"
Undergraduate enrollments in computer science programs,
which have tended to lean toward the white male demographic,
are shrinking. This is spurring computer science departments
to study their student populations in order to ascertain the
reasons why they are failing to lure minorities, so that they
...
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"Professor's Computer
Search Work Turns Heads"
Personalizing Web searches to retrieve desired information
faster and more accurately without being swamped by data is
one of University of Illinois computer science professor
ChengXiang Zhai's goals. His research has earned him a
National Science Foundation-sponsored 2005 Presidential Early
...
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"Video Robots Redefine 'TV
Doctor'"
Physicians in dozens of U.S. hospitals are using robots to
remotely make their rounds, consult with colleagues, respond
to emergency calls, and monitor intensive-care units. One such
device is Dr. Robot, a wheeled machine controlled by a
joystick and equipped with a camera, speaker, and ...
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"Television That Leaps Off
the Screen"
Stereoscopic television that displays three-dimensional
imagery without the need for special eyewear is the ambitious
goal of many companies, but Deep Light in California has made
a major breakthrough: Their HD3D technology allows different
programs to be shown to different viewers on one screen ...
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"Geocoding the World of
Weblogs"
Researchers at the University at Buffalo School of
Informatics are conducting a project that models the
demographics of bloggers throughout the United States. To
create an index of 300,000 blogs and pair them with a regional
identity, communications professor Alexander Halavais and ...
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"The Leader of the Robot
Pack"
IRobot CEO and co-founder Colin Angle admits that the
robotics industry is still young, and cites a U.N. report's
prediction that the robot population will expand by a factor
of seven between 2004 and 2007. IRobot was spun off from MIT,
but Angle believes the company's future competitors will ...
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"Experimental
Software"
Microsoft Research scientists in Cambridge have developed C
Omega, an experimental software language based on C# that
offers features for writing concurrent programs. "We have a
simple model of concurrency that works both for multiple
threads on a single machine and for dealing with ...
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"Entering a Dark Age of
Innovation"
Despite those heralding ours as an age of unparalleled
technological advancement, an historical perspective paints a
gloomier picture. Physicist Jonathan Huebner with the
Pentagon's Naval Air Warfare Center has mapped out the history
of invention and concludes that we are entering a ...
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"What Are the Limits of
Conventional Computing?"
Mathematicians have demonstrated that any of the hardest
computational problems--also known as NP problems--could be
solved through a quick and easy shortcut to answering just one
of them. However, the existence of such a shortcut is
unproven, and generally doubted by scientists. One of ...
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"Plotting Your Future in
the Global IT Job Market"
Adaptability is key if U.S. technology workers are to have
gainful employment in the face of globalization and companies'
increasing reliance on offshore IT outsourcing. Alsbridge's Ed
Rankin says creativity and the ability to innovate will
continue to be a prized quality for employees, but ...
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"Inside Purdue's Envision
Center"
The National Science Foundation is funding Purdue
University's Envision Center as an interdisciplinary,
high-performance platform for discovery and learning that
applies the principles of data perceptualization. Data
perceptualization involves the translation of large volumes of
data into ...
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"Inaction on Offshoring
Will Hurt U.S. IT, Author Says"
As the IT landscape globalizes in scope, the growing
tendency of companies to look overseas for low-cost labor
poses significant challenges to U.S. hegemony in the industry.
Ron Hira, an assistant professor of Public Policy at the
Rochester Institute of Technology, believes the sizeable ...
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"Speech Technologies
Impact the Accessibility Market"
Speech technologies are being mainstreamed often to the
exclusion of users of assistive technology (AT), which include
the dexterity, sight, hearing, cognitive, and speech
impaired--and this is ironic, given that handicapped users
frequently drive technology development. Market drivers for
speech ...
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