Dear ACM TechNews Subscriber: Welcome to the June 24, 2002 edition of ACM TechNews, providing timely information for IT professionals three times a week. For instructions on how to unsubscribe from this service, please see below. ACM's MemberNet is now online. For discussion (and voting) forums on current industry issues and the latest on ACM activities, visit http://www.acm.org/membernet Remember to check out our hot new online essay and opinion magazine, Ubiquity, at http://www.acm.org/ubiquity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ACM TechNews Volume 4, Number 365 Date: June 24, 2002 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Site Sponsored by Compaq (http://www.compaq.com/smbcatalog) Compaq is the premier source for computing services, products and solutions. Responding to customers' requirements for quality and reliability at aggressive prices, Compaq offers performance-packed products and comprehensive services. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Top Stories for Monday, June 24, 2002: http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html "Microsoft, Chip Makers Work To Create Built-In Web Security" "Breadth of Content on Web Could Improve Translation Technology" "AI to Assist Alzheimer's Patients" "Panel Boosting Cyber-Safety" "New Chip Speeds HP Unix Servers" "Danish Deep-Link Decision Due" "High-Tech Security on Display" "ICANN, Dotted With Doubts" "USB, FireWire Head to Battle" "Excuse Me, Is Your Tooth Ringing?" "China Wrestles Online Dragon" "Web-to-Phone Patent 'Infringed'" "Back to the Future" "Untangling the Future" "Looking Ahead" "Patently Absurd" "U.S., Russian Nanotechnology Finally Come In From the Cold" "Silicon Is Slow" ******************* News Stories *********************** "Microsoft, Chip Makers Work To Create Built-In Web Security" Microsoft has teamed up with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Intel to develop Palladium, a technology that would give PCs built-in Internet security and online content safeguards. Although Geoffrey Strongin of AMD admits that security technology ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0624m.html#item1 "Breadth of Content on Web Could Improve Translation Technology" Computer translation software, which is based on dictionaries of words and phrases likely to occur in documents, as well as standards to help determine unfamiliar phrases, is limited: A lack of common sense often renders a computer unable to deal with ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0624m.html#item2 "AI to Assist Alzheimer's Patients" Human caregivers for people suffering from Alzheimer's Disease could one day be replaced by assisted cognition systems that use artificial intelligence software, global positioning system (GPS) technology, sensor networks, and infrared ID badges. One system ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0624m.html#item3 "Panel Boosting Cyber-Safety" The President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board is working on a "national strategy for defending cyberspace" that it will issue in September, and the panel is hoping to convince the private sector to bolster computer security on a voluntary basis, ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0624m.html#item4 "New Chip Speeds HP Unix Servers" On Monday, Hewlett-Packard will announce a new model of its Superdome Unix server that features PA-RISC 8700+ processors, a step up in speed from its 8700 chips; the old processors run at 750 MHz, while the new processors run at 875 MHz. This product ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0624m.html#item5 "Danish Deep-Link Decision Due" Danish online news service Newsbooster may possibly be kept from linking to articles deep within newspaper Web sites this week, depending on a court ruling in that country. The Danish Newspaper Publishers' Association has filed suit against ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0624m.html#item6 "High-Tech Security on Display" According to Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), small- and medium-sized high-tech companies from his state need some help in marketing their homeland security products to government. Smith invited more than a dozen such firms to Capitol Hill last week for a ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0624m.html#item7 "ICANN, Dotted With Doubts" ICANN will decide whether or not to permanently cancel direct elections of ICANN board members at ICANN's upcoming June meeting, while at the same time many ICANN observers are also beginning to doubt whether ICANN reform can succeed. U.S. Rep. ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0624m.html#item8 "USB, FireWire Head to Battle" Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 and FireWire will compete for consumers who want high-speed peripherals for their PCs. USB 2.0 can transmit data at 480 Mbps, compared to FireWire's data transfer rate of 400 Mbps. International Data (IDC) analyst ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0624m.html#item9 "Excuse Me, Is Your Tooth Ringing?" On display at London's Science Museum is a tooth implant that can receive signals from radios and mobile phones. The technology, designed by MIT research associates Jimmy Loizeau and James Auger, explores the "endless" possibilities of biotechnology, ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0624m.html#item10 "China Wrestles Online Dragon" The Chinese government is moving to close unregistered Internet cafes in Beijing after a cafe fire incinerated 24 people, but some Beijing Web users believe China simply wants to limit the flow of online information in China. Beijing itself is believed ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0624m.html#item11 "Web-to-Phone Patent 'Infringed'" Brisbane, Australia-based company ProjectE has two Australian patents and a pending U.S. patent application for a method of reaching Web pages by phone numbers that is similar to the Enum standard in development, says ProjectE CEO Doreen Acworth. ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0624m.html#item12 "Back to the Future" Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) director Anthony Tether aims to make his organization the technology research and development leader it was 25 years ago, when it was responsible for creating the underlying architecture of the ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0624m.html#item13 "Untangling the Future" Research in disciplines such as infotech, materials science, bioscience, and energy could intersect in the future, spawning a host of new trends and technologies. The convergence of materials science research efforts such as nanotechnology and ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0624m.html#item14 "Looking Ahead" Vinton Cerf, writing for CRN magazine, predicts that the number of Internet-enabled devices will swell dramatically between 2006 and 2010, and notes as examples initiatives in the Netherlands and Japan to develop Internet-enabled cars that use the Internet ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0624m.html#item15 "Patently Absurd" Patents are no longer invention stimulants, but have become widely abused revenue-generating vehicles. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has aided those who abuse the system by allowing anyone to get a patent for almost anything, especially ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0624m.html#item16 "U.S., Russian Nanotechnology Finally Come In From the Cold" Warmer relations between the United States and Russia could lead to a new era of technology sharing, particularly in the field of nanotechnology. For example, a Russian Technology Investment Showcase will be held in Silicon Valley on June 18, with Siberian ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0624m.html#item17 "Silicon Is Slow" Researchers seeking to significantly boost computer speed are looking into other materials and technologies that operate on a much smaller scale than silicon, and promise to avoid power-limiting factors such as the sequential nature of silicon ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0624m.html#item18 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To review Friday's issue, please visit http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html -- To visit the TechNews home page, point your browser to: http://www.acm.org/technews/ -- To unsubscribe from the ACM TechNews Early Alert Service: Please send a separate email to listserv@listserv2.acm.org with the line signoff technews in the body of your message. -- Please note that replying directly to this message does not automatically unsubscribe you from the TechNews list. -- To submit feedback about ACM TechNews, contact: technews@hq.acm.org -- ACM may have a different email address on file for you, so if you're unable to "unsubscribe" yourself, please direct your request to: technews-request@acm.org We will remove your name from the TechNews list on your behalf. -- For help with technical problems, including problems with leaving the list, please write to: technews-request@acm.org ---- ACM TechNews is sponsored by Compaq.