E-Gad!
A Techie, Absolutely, And
More
Computer majors are finding that technical skills alone
will not ensure steady, well-paying work as the offshoring of
tech jobs to lower-wage countries increases due to advances in
the Internet and low-cost computing. They are therefore
boosting their chances of landing secure and ...
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Sun Unveils Plans for
Open-Source DRM Project
Speaking at the Progress and Freedom Foundation Aspen
Summit, Sun Microsystems President Jonathan Schwartz revealed
the Open Media Commons, an open-source project to develop a
royalty-free standard for digital rights management (DRM). He
cited explosive growth in demand for new ...
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Professor Studies
Electronic Voting
University of Iowa computer science professor Douglas
Jones' five-year, $800,000 National Science Foundation grant
to study the use of electronic voting systems is seen by his
peers as an acknowledgement of his accomplishments in the area
of secure elections and voting systems. Jones ...
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CMU's Brad
Myers
In a recent interview on the current state and future of
technology, Carnegie Mellon computer science professor Brad
Myers immediately identified the problem of information
overload, noting that the proliferation of informative Web
sites and email as well as the growing ...
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IBM, Users Work to Attract
Young Mainframers
IBM has entered into a partnership with the Share user
group to offer support for IT students eyeing mainframe
computing as a career through the zNextGen project. The
potential market for mainframe-savvy people is growing as
mainframe experts approach retirement age, while companies in
...
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The Struggle Over
Science
Just as Great Britain witnessed a chill in government
interest in science after World War II, the United States
appears to be in a similar state of decline, writes Harold
Evans. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Vinton Cerf, the
former Defense Department scientist who is often credited as
one ...
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Technology to Mimic Mother
Nature
Thanks to an influx of new technologies and increased
collaboration among biologists, computer scientists, and
chemists, biomimetics, or the imitation of biological
processes, is shrinking down to the micro and nano levels,
ushering in a host of new applications. The biomimetics
formula ...
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Hacker Underground Erupts
in Virtual Turf Wars
Hacker turf wars sparked by the increasing strategic and
monetary value of compromised computers have usually simmered
out of the public eye, but such skirmishes were in plain view
last week when the Zotob worm infected computers at a major
airport, media outlets, and industrial companies, and ...
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Open-Source Mambo Project
Faces Rift
The content management system Mambo could be headed for a
fissure, as developers of the open source application are
dissenting from the Mambo Foundation and Miro International,
which oversee the project. The split comes as the two sides
vie for control of the project's direction, and the ...
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Wireless
Wiretapping
The FCC's recent proposal to expand the Communications
Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) to certain
broadband and voice-over-Internet (VoIP) providers has sparked
protest from civil rights advocates as well as allied
broadband suppliers and Internet associations concerned that
such a ...
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What Price Homeland
Security??
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a
study earlier this year concluding that the nation is
ill-prepared to deal with threats to its critical Internet
infrastructure, and increasing numbers of computer-security
experts believe a catastrophic cyber-infrastructure ...
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DHS Looks at Bigger
Picture for Infrastructure Protection
R&D
The recently released National Plan for Research and
Development in Support of Critical Infrastructure Protection
creates nine sector-wide themes that include both physical and
cybersecurity concerns. The nine themes, which will be
integrated with other national security strategies and focused
on ...
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Enterprise Service Bus
Effort Under Apache Incubation
Synapse is an effort to create an open-source
implementation of a Web services broker/enterprise service bus
(ESB) as an alternative to existing commercial
ESB/broker/gateways founded on proprietary protocols. The
project is being incubated by the Apache Software Foundation
with support ...
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Technology's Human
Need
The IT industry's resurgence has been slow in coming partly
due to offshoring and productivity trends, as well as the IT
job market's precipitous decline following the dot-com
implosion. But fewer college students enrolling in
computer-science courses means that companies may ...
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I See What You're
Signing
A gesture interface is being developed by Georgia Institute
of Technology researchers as a tool for communication between
the hearing and the hearing-impaired. The Georgia Tech team is
collaborating with cognitive scientists at the University of
Rochester and engineers at George ...
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The Net's Next 10
Years
Just as the Internet has had a major impact on everyday
life over the last 10 years, the next 10 are also likely to be
equally transformative. Internet2, currently the exclusive
province of research and educational institutions, offers
unparalleled speed; though Internet2 CEO Doug Van ...
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Congress Faces Renewed
Fight Over H-1B Visa Limits
The U.S. government's declaration that the H-1B visa cap
for fiscal year 2006 has already been reached--the first time
the application process has been closed before the start of a
fiscal year--is likely to prompt high-tech trade organizations
to lobby for additional visas beyond the ...
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Will the Build Bottleneck
Put the Brakes on Agile?
Some software vendors and consultants foresee agile
software development getting waylaid by a bottleneck in the
build management process as sophisticated development
organizations strive to make integration automated and
continuous. "Teams that want to be more agile are headed for
...
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E-Gad!
Electronic waste is a growing problem, and action is being
taken--and not being taken--to address the issue. E-waste is
comprised of electronic devices (TVs, PCs, etc.) rife with
hazardous materials that are being discarded in vast
quantities, oftentimes for being obsolete rather than ...
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