The Fading Memory of the
State
"ACM Past President Maria
Klawe and Bill Gates to Address Importance of
Academia/Industry Collaboration"
ACM Past President Maria Klawe, Dean of Engineering and
Applied Science at Princeton University, will join Bill Gates,
Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect, to
discuss opportunities and challenges facing academic
researchers and the technology industry on a live webcast at
the sixth annual Microsoft ...
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"Open-Source P2P Projects
Keep Swapping"
Independent open-source file-swapping projects have not
been muzzled by the Supreme Court's recent ruling that
commercial file-trading companies that encourage copyright
infringement by users could be liable for digital piracy,
although the court case has been a topic for discussion among
...
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"Gap Emerges Between
High-Performance Computing Hardware,
Software"
A new report from IDC indicates a widening gap between the
capabilities of high-performance computing (HPC) systems'
hardware and software: Hardware vendors can assemble HPC
systems with hundreds or thousands of processors in parallel,
while independent software vendors are producing HPC ...
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"Weka's Winning
Ways"
The ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and
Data Mining (SIGKDD) will honor Waikato University's Computer
Science Machine Learning Group with its highest honor, the
2005 SIGKDD Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Service Award,
at the 11th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on ...
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"E-Voting: Paper Trail
Versus Transparency"
Johns Hopkins University computer science professor Avi
Rubin and VerifiedVoting's David Dill discuss the relative
value of transparent e-voting systems and a verifiable voter
paper receipt (VVPR), the latter of which has been receiving
most of the attention. Dill ranks publicly ...
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"DHS Reorganization Creates
New Cybersecurity Position"
A restructuring of the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) announced by DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff on July 13
will involve the establishment of a position of assistant
secretary for cyber and telecommunications security. IT groups
have been advocating for such a move, as have several ...
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"Computer Science
Enrollment Lulls After End of Tech Boom"
In an effort to boost computer science enrollment, the
University of Maryland has developed several outreach programs
to champion the field of computer science. The University has
seen an overall decline in enrollment in its College of
Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences of about 33 ...
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"UN to Propose Global
Internet Council"
The United Nations' Working Group on Internet Governance
(WGIG) is set to release a report next week that will
recommend the creation of a new governing body to replace
ICANN, which is affiliated with the U.S. Department of
Commerce. The report, which has yet to be published but was
...
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"Study Shows Promise of
Entry-Level IT Jobs for Low-Wage Workers"
Karen Chapple, an assistant professor of city and regional
planning at the University of California, Berkeley, has found
that despite all the warnings about offshore outsourcing,
there are many IT jobs available for entry-level, low-wage
workers. Her research suggests that workers enjoy ...
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"Panama Gets Software to
Assess Students"
The Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition is
giving its Cmaps concept mapping software to schools and
teachers in Panama and elsewhere as a learning enhancement
tool. The software was created partly as a knowledge
preservation system that represents information as a diagram
of ...
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"Simulated Society May
Generate Virtual Culture"
Researchers participating in the New and Emergent World
Models Through Individual, Evolutionary and Social Learning
(NEW-TIES) project are developing a society of virtual
characters that can eat, reproduce, communicate, and learn
through interaction. The scientists hope the ...
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"Reading Phone Text One
Word at a Time"
Stanford University researchers have tapped the concept of
Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) to create BuddyBuzz,
software that makes reading text on cell phones easier.
BuddyBuzz flashes just one word at a time in the center of the
display briefly before proceeding to the next word, ...
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"Poker-Playing Robots
Battle for $100,000 Pot"
Participants in the World Series of Poker Robots believe
the tournament say programming a robot to play mathematically
perfect poker is easy, but it also demands new levels of
artificial intelligence research that address issues such as
luck and reading an opponent, as well as presenting the ...
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"Robo-Soccer Teams Shoot
for Big Goals"
The development of technologies and methodologies to enable
automated teamwork between robots is the goal behind RoboCup,
the annual international contest in which teams of robots
compete against each other in soccer tournaments. The
performance of RoboCup teams has improved ...
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"Argonne Wins Four R&D
100 Awards for Scientific, Technological
Innovation"
The MPICH2 software from the U.S. Department of Energy's
Argonne National Laboratory has been recognized with a R&D
100 Award from R&D magazine. Application developers will
be able to use MPICH2 to program parallel computers, including
clusters of laptops and workstations working together ...
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"'Hard Fun' Yields Lessons
on Nature of Intelligence"
Co-director of MIT's Future of Learning Group David Cavallo
says revolutionary insights about human intelligence can be
produced through "hard fun" projects that apply technology
creatively, methodically, and assiduously. He explains that
early artificial intelligence research did ...
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"Software Under
Scrutiny"
Software inspection processes are the best way to lower
development costs, abbreviate delivery schedules, and make
operational software products more trustworthy in the field.
Software inspection process expert Edward Weller III says
experience and discussions with industry fellows indicate that
...
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"Weather Forecasters Turn
to High Technology"
Weather forecasters are embracing advanced data fusion,
software, and computationally efficient technologies in order
to make faster and more accurate broadcasts, which are
critical to both military and civilian operations. The
"nowcast" data-fusion system being developed by the U.S. ...
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"The Fading Memory of the
State"
Archives such as the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) will need to be staffed by librarians
who are proficient in metadata, computer scientists who are
skilled in storage technologies, and experts who have the eye
of a historian in order to preserve the electronic records ...
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