Dear ACM TechNews Subscriber: Welcome to the March 17, 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 470 Date: March 17, 2003 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Site Sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company ( ) HP is the premier source for computing services, products and solutions. 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"PCI-X Marks the Spot for IBM, HP" "Lilith Stirs Interest in Technology Among Girls" "Sustainable Computing Consortium Hosts Workshop on Trust and Dependability in Wireless Environments" "Green Plans for Tiny Tech" "Homeland Cybersecurity Efforts Doubted" "Turning Out Quality" "Spambusters" "Presence Technology" "2003 and Beyond" "Can Sensemaking Keep Us Safe?" ******************* News Stories *********************** "Internet, Wireless to Play Key Role In an Iraq War" The U.S. military will showcase a number of digital war-fighting technologies in the event of an Iraqi war. Analyst Steve Sigmond says, for example, that systems will be melded to give carrier battle groups a consolidated, real-time view of the action, ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item1 "Network Guardians Face Thorny Job" A gathering of communications industry officials under the auspices of the Federal Communications Commission is discussing how the sector can improve reliability and security--and avoid government regulation. Representatives at the Network ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item2 "Does Cyberterrorism Pose a True Threat?" A cybersecurity panel at the CeBIT technology show in Germany said the threat of cyberterrorism was overblown, and that terrorists would more likely use bombs than initiate an Internet attack. The representatives gathered from IT security firms, the ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item3 "Tech Firms Tackle Spam" In an effort to tackle the growing problem of spam, various technology firms on Friday gathered at the JamSpam forum to discuss the development of an "open, interoperable antispam specification" that would curtail what ePrivacy Group President ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item4 "Paper Speeds Video Access" Ricoh Innovations and the University of California-Berkeley teamed up in a research project to augment digital video with traditional book interfaces. "While historians consider the primary research artifacts to be audio or...video recordings, the ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item5 "U.S. Nanotech Funding Expected to Hit $1 Billion" U.S. nanotechnology research is ramping up as government, commercial, and academic forces line up and gather steam. Government spending dedicated to nanotechnology has increased to $849 million approved by Congress, and Richard Russell of the ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item6 "Grid Computing Shows Mettle, ROI In Research-Focused IT Organizations" Early adopters of grid computing and virtualization architectures say that not only are the technologies working, but they are also reducing costs and boosting IT options. Phil Emer, chief architect of the North Carolina BioGrid Project, says grid ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item7 "Programmers to Compete in Calif." Some 70 student teams from around the world will meet in Beverly Hills, Calif., next week (March 22-26) to compete in the 27th Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest sponsored by IBM. The competition requires students to find solutions ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item8 "PCI-X Marks the Spot for IBM, HP" IBM and Hewlett-Packard have lined up behind the backwards-compatible PCI-X technology for new chipsets that connect network cards and other devices into servers. The PCI-X 2.0 technology will first appear next year in a PCI-X 266 ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item9 "Lilith Stirs Interest in Technology Among Girls" The Lilith Computer Group is a local program in Madison, Wisconsin, that is working to encourage females to study information technology. Women hold just 20 percent of IT jobs, and groups such as Lilith have formed in an effort to get more ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item10 "Sustainable Computing Consortium Hosts Workshop on Trust and Dependability in Wireless Environments" Carnegie Mellon University's Sustainable Computing Consortium (SCC) will host a two-day seminar beginning March 31 to discuss issues related to mobile, wireless, grid, and other "always-on" computing systems. The SCC seminar, to be held in Tempe, ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item11 "Green Plans for Tiny Tech" Environmentally safe nanotechnology is the goal of Rice University's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology, according to statements by executive director Kevin Ausman at this week's meeting of the American Physical ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item12 "Homeland Cybersecurity Efforts Doubted" Experts worry that cybersecurity is taking a backseat at the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which has engulfed most of the government's computer protection centers. Of the five directorates built into the DHS, the Directorate of Information ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item13 "Turning Out Quality" Carnegie Mellon University fellow Watts Humphrey is espousing his Team Software Process (TSP) and Personal Software Process (PSP) as new software development methodologies that can help improve the quality of code while getting projects out quickly. Often, ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item14 "Spambusters" Hackers despise junk email, or spam, with a vengeance, and programmer Paul Graham explains that this hatred stems from bruised egos. In the hopes of mobilizing hackers to combat spam, Graham issued "A Plan for Spam," an outline for a spam filter ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item15 "Presence Technology" Instant messaging (IM) is a form of presence technology that offers a better alternative for communicating with colleagues and customers than email because it lets users know if the other party is available first. With IM technology, users have a ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item16 "2003 and Beyond" Technological developments that should emerge in the next several years and become widespread by 2010 include smaller PCs, pervasive Internet, intuitive handhelds, consumer devices capable of automatic wireless communication, and improved processing and ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item17 "Can Sensemaking Keep Us Safe?" The Sept. 11 attacks created a demand to leverage the United States' strength in analytical technology and networking to build what the Markle Foundation's Task Force on National Security in the Information Age calls a virtual analytic community threaded ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0317m.html#item18 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To review Friday's issue, please visit http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0314f.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.