Dear ACM TechNews Subscriber: Welcome to the January 31, 2003 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 the latest on ACM activities, member benefits, and industry issues, 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 5, Number 452 Date: January 31, 2003 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Site Sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company ( ) HP is the premier source for computing services, products and solutions. Responding to customers' requirements for quality and reliability at aggressive prices, HP offers performance-packed products and comprehensive services. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Top Stories for Friday, January 31, 2003: http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html "Consortium Pushes for Cybersecurity R&D" "In Net Attacks, Defining the Right to Know" "Bush Proposes Antiterror Database Plan" "A Big Test for Linux" "Dispute Could Silence VoiceXML" "Total Information Awareness: Down, But Not Out" "The Lord of the Webs" "Project Seeks to Balance Power, Performance in Embedded Computers" "Standard May Boost Chip Bandwidth" "The Apache of the Future" "Security Clearinghouse Under the Gun" "Uniting with Only a Few Random Links" "Red Light, Green Light: A 2-Tone L.E.D. to Simplify Screens" "IEEE 802.16 Spec Could Disrupt Wireless Landscape" "Why Voice over IP Is on Hold" "No Hiding Place" "Intelligent Storage" "Recycling Tax Plan for PCs Due for Debate" "Building the Nanofuture with Carbon Tubes" ******************* News Stories *********************** "Consortium Pushes for Cybersecurity R&D" The Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P), a consortium of 23 security research institutions funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, released a report Thursday in which it recommended that the U.S. government and ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0131f.html#item1 "In Net Attacks, Defining the Right to Know" Last weekend's Slammer worm attack and the network slowdowns its caused rekindled a number of controversial issues among security experts, most notably the responsibility of companies to publicly disclose hacker intrusions to consumers. Few security breaches ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0131f.html#item2 "Bush Proposes Antiterror Database Plan" In the latest move by the White House to boost data-sharing between U.S. police and spy agencies, President Bush used Tuesday's State of the Union Address to announce the Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC), a government database that ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0131f.html#item3 "A Big Test for Linux" SCO Group's Jan. 22 announcement that it will create a licensing division and recruit lawyer David Boies to investigate and protect its intellectual property has stirred up worry within the Linux and open-source communities. At stake are SCO-owned Unix ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0131f.html#item4 "Dispute Could Silence VoiceXML" The VoiceXML 2.0 specification is nearly ready, as evidenced by the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) candidate recommendation issued on Wednesday. However, the standard's implementation could be hindered because of an intellectual property dispute. ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0131f.html#item5 "Total Information Awareness: Down, But Not Out" The development of the Total Information Awareness (TIA) system may have hit a snag with the Senate's unanimous decision that the Defense Department conduct a cost-benefit analysis in order to study the project's potential impact on Americans' privacy and ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0131f.html#item6 "The Lord of the Webs" World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has been working on a new schema for the Internet called the Semantic Web for the past four years. As head of the World Wide Web Consortium based at MIT, he coordinates scientific research and standards-setting for the ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0131f.html#item7 "Project Seeks to Balance Power, Performance in Embedded Computers" Virginia Tech computer and engineering professor Sandeep Shukla intends to develop strategies for optimizing performance and power usage in embedded computers. He says embedded computers already are pervasive in our everyday lives and that they will ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0131f.html#item8 "Standard May Boost Chip Bandwidth" The HyperTransport 2.0 specification, which will be incorporated into Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) upcoming Opteron and Athlon 64 processors, is expected to be released by the HyperTransport Consortium in late 2003 or early 2004, according to consortium ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0131f.html#item9 "The Apache of the Future" Groups using the Apache Web Server to run their Web sites are unlikely to move quickly toward the new 2.0 version because the 1.3 version works fine and has more robust module support. Dirk Elmendorf of Rackspace Managed Hosting says version 1.3 has all ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0131f.html#item10 "Security Clearinghouse Under the Gun" NGS Software managing director David Litchfield fired off an email this week sharply criticizing Carnegie Mellon's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center for what he terms "a betrayal of trust" in its disclosure of security ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0131f.html#item11 "Uniting with Only a Few Random Links" Gyorgy Korniss of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is conducting research that could yield significantly improved parallel-computing simulation methods by employing "small-world" networking. Scientists often use large-scale computer networks ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0131f.html#item12 "Red Light, Green Light: A 2-Tone L.E.D. to Simplify Screens" A surprise discovery by University of Amsterdam graduate student Steve Welter may lead to simpler and more flexible displays. While testing experimental organic light-emitting polymers (OLEDs) created at Philips Research under the direction of ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0131f.html#item13 "IEEE 802.16 Spec Could Disrupt Wireless Landscape" An IEEE committee researching the 802.16 wireless metropolitan-area network (MAN) specification has approved that technology for use in the 2- to 11-GHz range. Committee chairman and National Institute of Standards and Technology wireless ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0131f.html#item14 "Why Voice over IP Is on Hold" The slow adoption of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology in the enterprise can be attributed to various factors, according to experts. One of them is the economic slump, while another is little awareness of the technology's ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0131f.html#item15 "No Hiding Place" A surveillance-based society is emerging, thanks to people's increasing access to the Internet and the proliferation and advancement of technologies that can be monitored or are used for monitoring, including digital cameras, face-recognition software, ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0131f.html#item16 "Intelligent Storage" Storage devices imbued with intelligence, also known as object-based storage devices (OSDs), allow for limitless system scalability since they assume the low-level storage management duties previously completed by the storage server. Because those ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0131f.html#item17 "Recycling Tax Plan for PCs Due for Debate" In an effort to promote the recycling of electronic waste, Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) will likely introduce a bill next month that adds a maximum recycling tax of $10 to the purchase price of PCs, laptops, and monitors, according to aides. The EPA would ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0131f.html#item18 "Building the Nanofuture with Carbon Tubes" Carbon nanotubes offer many potential applications that run the gamut from flat-panel displays to super-strong fabrics to fuel cells to synthetic muscles, but the emergence and growth of the nanotube industry will depend on the development of a simple and ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0131f.html#item19 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To review Wednesday's issue, please please visit http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0129w.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 Hewlett Packard Company.