Instant Messaging: A New
Target For Hackers
In Silicon Valley, a Debate
Over the Size of the Web
Debate erupted over how big the World Wide Web is last week
when Yahoo! declared at an Internet search engine conference
that there were upwards of 19.2 billion documents in its
search engine index, more than double the 8.1 billion
currently reported by Google; this led to Google raising
questions ...
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Searching for
Skills
The H-1B visa program was founded, ostensibly, so that U.S.
industry could import skilled foreign workers to address a
shortage of cutting-edge tech, science, and engineering
positions. NexGen Infosys owner Manoj Prasad, who came to the
United States 10 years ago on an H-1B visa and is now an ...
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Fewer Women Find Their Way
Into Tech
With the number of women venturing into technology careers
at its lowest point since the 1970s, nonprofits such as the
National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT)
at the University of Colorado's Boulder campus are endeavoring
to find out why. A recent survey found that one ...
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H-1B Visa Limits Reached
for '06
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service announced on
Aug. 12 that all 65,000 H-1B visas for fiscal year 2006 have
been depleted in record time, whereas the H-1B cap was not
reached in fiscal 2005 until October. The announcement spurred
business interests to push for expansions to the H-1B ...
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NIST Creates Online
Treasure Trove of Security Woes
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST)
National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is a comprehensive
repository of cybersecurity data culled from all publicly
available vulnerability resources that also supplies
references to industry resources. NVD creator and NIST
computer ...
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Long Live
AI
Ray Kurzweil, author of the forthcoming book, "The
Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology," envisions
advancements in artificial intelligence that will lead to
better health, a cleaner environment, and other innovations
that promise to radically change commerce, business, and ...
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IQ Test for AI Devices Gets
Experts Thinking
Researchers Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter with the Swiss
Institute for Artificial Intelligence have devised a concept
for an IQ test for artificially intelligent machines. The test
is envisioned as an alternative to traditional measures of
human intelligence, which would ...
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Exploring the Life
Robotic
Wellesley College physics professor Robbie Berg combines
learning and excitement in initiatives such as his Math and
Science Camp for Girls and the 16th Annual Young Science
Program sponsored by the Committee for the Branch Libraries.
Berg discussed and demonstrated robotics before an ...
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Kept Alive by Open
Source
Although the continuous influx of new software often
renders older programs commercially obsolete, the open-source
movement has extended the lifespan of many otherwise archaic
applications, such as Gopher and DecNet. Software developers
look to breathe new life into old programs for a ...
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Speech Verification
Secures More Enterprise Apps
Voice prints are quickly replacing typed passwords and PIN
numbers for user-friendly and more effective user
authentication, according to a recent panel at SpeechTEK 2005.
However, Diaphonics CEO Andy Osburn explains that voice prints
are suitable for only certain situations. The technology is
...
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A Conversation with David
Anderson
David Anderson of the U.C. Berkeley Space Sciences
Laboratory directs grassroots supercomputing efforts such as
SETI@home and the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network
Computing (BOINC), in which volunteers donate their PCs'
unused computing cycles for scientific research. "Volunteer
...
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Driving IT Initiatives and
Network Innovation
Duke University CIO and National LambdaRail Chairman (NLR)
Tracy Futhey reports that the campus networked environment is
expanding in terms of access as well as the kinds of users
exploring new avenues of application. "The more you've got
broad access and experimentation through this ...
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Extra-Preneurship
Traditional hierarchical business-management systems are
being transformed by information technologies into
extra-preneurships, or integrated virtual networks based on
collaboration and self-actualization. Outsourcing is forcing
organizational changes on the large enterprise so it can
sustain ...
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From Conception to
Adolescence, the Speech Industry Is Developing a New Breed of
Designers/Developers
Speech technology standards such as VoiceXML and SALT are
allowing skills to be transferred between the previously
separate fields of design and development, and individuals who
combine such expertise will become increasingly desirable in
the speech industry as market innovation and ...
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Reinventing the Smart
Phone
In a roundtable discussion, members of Forum Nokia PRO
concur that the personal digital assistant (PDA) has been or
will be supplanted by the smart phone in their local markets;
but the majority foresee the emergence of a converged device.
Consilient director of product management Steve ...
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Social
Machines
Technologies that deliver uninterrupted connectivity are
evolving into an infrastructure that supports continuous
computing. Continuous-computing technologies follow us
throughout our lives because they are more readily adaptable
to our locations, schedules, and preferences, and they enable
us ...
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Instant Messaging: A New
Target For Hackers
The growing popularity of instant messaging (IM),
especially among businesses, has made it an increasingly
attractive target to phishers, malware authors, and other
attackers. IMlogic CTO Jon Sakoda says IM attacks can
propagate rapidly thanks to IM's real-time capabilities. Other
...
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