What Lies Ahead for Cellular
Technology?
U.S. Losing Lead in Science
and Engineering--Study
The United States is in danger of losing its more than
five-decade-long global dominance of science and engineering
as the percentage of American science and engineering
graduates starts lagging behind that of Europe and developing
countries, according to a study written by Richard Freeman of
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Industry Looks Into Cloudy
Future for Authentication
It is hoped that the Email Authentication Implementation
Summit in New York will revive waning interest in adopting
email sender authentication technology in order to bring spam
and email viruses under control. Enterprise adoption of email
sender authentication in the past year has ...
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Will RFID-Guided Robots
Rule the World?
From factories to playgrounds, researchers are envisioning
an ever-increasing array of applications for radio frequency
identification (RFID) technologies: Secom has developed a
robot that monitors children at play and sends a warning to a
control center if a child wanders off or a ...
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Robot Lends 'a Seeing Eye'
for Blind Shoppers
Using a $500,000 grant from the National Science
Foundation, Utah State University computer science professor
Vladimir Kulyukin and visually impaired colleague Sachin
Pavithran have built a prototype Robotic Guide (RG), a device
designed to help blind people gain some measure of autonomy
...
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Academia Seeks to Join
Global Elite
As the Asian position in the global IT marketplace
strengthens, its academic institutions have failed to keep
pace. In particular, Indian and Chinese firms are looking to
hire graduates from European and North American universities,
who typically have worked in more advanced labs, ...
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Legislation to Elevate
Cybersecurity Post May Die in Senate
Due to debates over Bush's nominees and other legislative
work taking precedence, legislation promoting the Homeland
Security Department's cybersecurity division director to the
assistant secretary level for increased cybersecurity
importance will likely not receive a vote in the ...
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Irish Researchers in Third
World IT Initiative
Researchers in Europe are studying how to improve the
usability of new technology in indigenous communities in
India. The goal is to make it easier for someone who has no
concept of a touch screen interface to use kiosks that
software engineers in India have developed, for example, with
...
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Views From the Smartest
People in Sun's Orbit
The future of Google, biotech, programming models, and
other technologies was the subject of a JavaOne panel
consisting of some of Sun Microsystems' biggest brains. Sun
Fellow Guy Steele discussed his Fortress language project,
which is designed to more tightly integrate mathematical and
...
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Broadband's Power-Line
Push
Google, Hearst, and Goldman Sachs' recently announced
investment in Germantown, Md.-based Current Communications
Group is generating renewed interest in broadband over power
lines (BPL), a technology that might make electric companies
viable as providers of high-speed Internet access. ...
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Mind the Semantic
Gap
University of Southampton researchers note that a tension
in hypertext system design exists between machine-manipulable
formalized knowledge representations and less highly
structured hypertext representations created and read by
people, and their primary area of concern is the ...
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ICANN's Man in Europe Bows
Out
Upon his departure from ICANN, former ICANN vice president
for Europe Paul Verhoef predicts that the World Summit on the
Information Society later this year will make general
pronouncements about Internet governance that cast ICANN in a
favorable light. In his role as the first ICANN staff ...
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Love That
'Legacy'
Defined variously as obsolete and reliable, and referred to
with both admiration and scorn as Cobol or mainframe code,
legacy systems still occupy an important position in today's
programming landscape. Despite poor documentation and the
melting pot effect that has come from many ...
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Head of the Class: The
Future of Open Source in the Enterprise
CollabNet CTO and leading figure of the open source
movement Brian Behlendorf recalls in an interview that his
interest in open source was first sparked when he realized
that software innovation comes about through a collaborative
network of people. He says the bottom-up approach for open ...
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Conquest of
Space
Grid computing offers a myriad of possibilities for
businesses and researchers, but the term can mean different
things to different users. Grid speeds and capacities increase
when systems are linked, and both grow as the grid expands.
The San Diego Supercomputer Center's (SDSC) largest ...
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Steal This
Software
China is one of the world's fastest-growing technology
markets, but an entrenched culture of intellectual property
theft is proving to be a difficult issue, not only for foreign
software firms but also for the Chinese government. With
improved bandwidth, the Internet has usurped ...
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Lose the File
Cabinets
The new PDF Archival (PDF/A) standard, recently approved by
the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), is
the result of an effort to manage and archive the
preponderance of documents Enron and other fallen companies
left in the wake of their collapse. The standard was ...
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High-Performance Mesh
Networking Makes Its Mark on M2M
Machine-to-machine (M2M) communication via mobile broadband
mesh networking has great potential as the next major wireless
revolution. M2M communications systems facilitate the
provision of critical data for real-time process control
applications by sensors, streamlining the ...
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What Lies Ahead for
Cellular Technology?
As wireless companies gird themselves for the transition
from third-generation (3G) cellular service to 4G, some
carriers are investigating new technologies, but most are
upgrading existing wireless technology to avoid infrastructure
overhauls, a decision that only serves ...
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