Building Large-Scale ZigBee
Systems With Web Services
C++ Gets a Multicore
Tune-Up
University of Waterloo computer science professor Peter
Buhr is offering a new set of extensions for the C++
programming language that aims to help software developers
take advantage of multicore and multi-threading processors.
Buhr has released the micro-C++ project under an open-source
...
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ACM Joins World Community
Grid
The ACM joined IBM's World Community Grid on May 24, and
will encourage its 80,000 members to join the legions of
participants contributing idle computing time to conduct
humanitarian scientific research. "[ACM] has the potential to
double our membership and ...
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'Future' Reviews
Human-Machine Connection
The Future in Review (FIRE) conference featured views from
leading technologists who offered predictions about lifetime
storage, the impact of multiprocessing on software
applications, the increasing importance of statistical
analysis, and other issues. A CTO roundtable with AMD's Fred
...
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Software Antagonists Square
Off in EU Parliament
Technology companies and open-source advocates are clashing
over a broader patent protection scheme from the European
Union. Supporters of open source contend that Linux and other
freely distributed software would be threatened by the current
draft, which extends patent protection to ...
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'Sound the Alarm'--Congress
Gets Candid
Prior to a hearing before the House Science Committee last
week, Reps. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), Vern Ehlers (R-Mich.),
Sherwood Boehlert (R-N.Y.) and Don Manzullo (R-Il.) announced
plans to hold a national "Innovation Summit" later this year.
Wolf said he recently met with a prominent group of ...
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Database Hackers Reveal
Tactics
Three young hackers suspected of breaking into the
LexisNexis database claim the intrusion was done to make a
name for themselves rather than to commit identity theft. One
of the suspects is also a member of the Defonic Crew hacking
group, and says his hack of America Online encouraged him and
...
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Enron Offers an Unlikely
Boost to E-Mail Surveillance
The public disclosure of reams of email messages
investigated in the Enron probe gave scientists the
opportunity to test their theory that a group's intentions
could be inferred by tracking emailing and word usage patterns
without actually reading the messages. After just a few months
of ...
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Survey: Little U.S.
Interest in Next Generation Internet
The implementation of next-generation Internet Protocol
(IPv6) is a low priority for IT decision-makers in U.S.
industry and government, according to a recent Juniper
Networks survey, despite warnings that without wide IPv6
adoption the United States could lose its global technology
...
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The Valley in a World Gone
'Flat'
Silicon Valley will face competition from all over the
world in the near future as other regions gain access to the
same knowledge and other crucial resources needed to innovate,
says New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman an interview.
Friedman's new book, "The World Is Flat," argues that a ...
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Scientist Blames Web
Security Issues on Repeated Mistakes
BBN Technologies researcher Peiter Zatko believes the
Internet's vulnerability to catastrophic failure is rooted in
scientists and engineers repeatedly committing the same
mistakes, but he does think this situation can be remedied and
is heartened by industry's growing awareness of the ...
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Debating the Safety of a
Tiny Technology
Critics of a State Department initiative to embed radio
frequency identification (RFID) tags in passports warn that
such measures will make U.S. citizens easy targets, while
advocates claim the technology will ensure tighter security
and more efficient confirmation of travelers' IDs ...
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Hardware Today: Grid
Computing Means Business
Dr. Carl Kesselman with the USC/Information Sciences
Institute believes grid technology use is poised to explode.
"Increased deployment of grid technologies in the commercial
sector will break the traditional silos that characterize
current infrastructure deployments," he says. Major hardware
...
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Complexity, Chemistry,
Commuting and Computing
The programming language wars are likely never to go away
because they represent different people's opinions about how
to manage inherent complexity, writes XML expert and Propylon
CTO Sean McGrath. Tesler's law states that for every business
process, there is a base level of complexity ...
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Cyberinfrastructure for
E-Science
Participants in Britain's e-Science program are developing
an infrastructure for a new generation of multidisciplinary
and collaborative science software applications capable of
searching, accessing, moving, manipulating, and mining data
contained in massive, distributed ...
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The Robot Army That Thinks
for Itself
Robots such as "Grunts" from Frontline Robotics could
patrol areas in teams using Wi-Fi to share input, but their
usability is limited by cost and size issues; moreover, such
machines are not fully autonomous and cannot function without
centralized control. Researchers such as MIT postgraduate ...
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Fiber
Wars
U.S. phone companies are pouring investment into
fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) service after federal regulations
pulled back line-sharing requirements, but companies still
face challenges from municipalities that have gone ahead with
their own fiber initiatives. Verizon, SBC, and BellSouth have
...
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Taking on the
Cheats
The incidence of plagiarism by academics--particularly
self-plagiarism--is increasing, but evaluating the scope of
the problem is difficult. Academic publishers and editors hope
to use software designed to identify plagiarism in student
essays to uncover academic plagiarism. Student anti-plagiarism
...
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Coming: Sensors and Pixels
Everywhere
Anatole Gershman, Accenture Technology Laboratories' global
director of research, foresees the advent of three
technologies that will drive business applications over the
next three to five years: Intelligent sensor networks,
scalable intelligence methods, and pixel-driven technology ...
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Building Large-Scale
ZigBee Systems With Web Services
Large-scale ZigBee systems can be enabled for network
discovery, extraction, commissioning, configuration,
management, security, event/rule logic, and data management
applications via Web service "brokers," write Tendril Networks
CEO Tim Enwall and Ember's Venkat Bahl. Application ...
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