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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 360
Date: June 12, 2002
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Top Stories for Wednesday, June 12, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Summit Addresses Threats to Cyberspace"
"Software Programmers Hit the Law Books"
"A New System for Storing Data: Think Punch Cards, But Tiny"
"Super-Secure Linux, Inch by Inch"
"Computer Grid Will Simulate Terror Scenarios"
"Chip Designers Voyage to Voltage Island"
"Nearly 200 Tech Companies Sign on for Latest Bid at Wireless
Compatibility"
"Microsoft, States Sum Up Cases for Judge"
"Drowning In a Deluge of Data"
"Broadband Talks to Address New Strategies"
"Uncle Sam's Info-Tech Crisis"
"U.S. Should Control Internet Body, Senator Says"
"Tech Advances Nudge Smart Vehicle Sensors Closer to Reality"
"Locals Look Good in Software"
"Rust Belt States Try High-Tech"
"Massachusetts, Washington Top High-Tech Survey"
"High Tech Evolves"
"Designed For Life"
"Six Sigma Goes Corporate"
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"Summit Addresses Threats to Cyberspace"
Speaking at the third Networked Economy Summit in Reston, Va.,
the president's special adviser for cyberspace security Richard
A. Clarke urged that government, industry, and academia cooperate
to safeguard the country's information networks from cyberattacks ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0612w.html#item1
"Software Programmers Hit the Law Books"
A new computer science class at Stanford University is teaching
students the political aspect of their field, and is indicative
of a growing awareness among programmers about the effect of law
on their work. The new class is taught by Barbara Simons, IBM ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0612w.html#item2
"A New System for Storing Data: Think Punch Cards, But Tiny"
Researchers at IBM's Zurich laboratory report in the current
issue of IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology that they have
devised a punch card-like technology capable of storing 1
trillion bits of data per square inch, effectively enabling the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0612w.html#item3
"Super-Secure Linux, Inch by Inch"
The National Security Agency (NSA) is working with open source
developers on a Linux module that provides extra security
features, such as mandatory access controls. Linux systems
equipped with the Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) can, for ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0612w.html#item4
"Computer Grid Will Simulate Terror Scenarios"
Experts say that grid computing, in which complicated
applications are split up and distributed across a network of
processors, will help government agencies run homeland security
scenarios such as terrorist attacks through simulation. A ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0612w.html#item5
"Chip Designers Voyage to Voltage Island"
Finding ways to reduce the amount of power consumed and heat
generated by computer chips will be a major focus of the VLSI
Symposia on Technology and Circuits. IBM Microelectronics' Bijan
Davari says that power consumption will likely "become the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0612w.html#item6
"Nearly 200 Tech Companies Sign on for Latest Bid at Wireless
Compatibility"
A number of leading technology companies involved in the
development of new wireless operating systems have formed the
Open Mobile Alliance to develop a universal wireless standard.
The alliance will write new code that will serve as the building ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0612w.html#item7
"Microsoft, States Sum Up Cases for Judge"
Both Microsoft and the holdout states presented their
recommendations to resolve the antitrust case against the
software giant to U.S. District Court Judge Colleen
Kollar-Kotelly on Monday. Microsoft's Jim Desler reiterated the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0612w.html#item8
"Drowning In a Deluge of Data"
About 24 exabytes of unique information has been produced by the
human race, according to a two-year-old study from the School of
Information Management and Systems at the University of
California, Berkeley, while study leader Hal Varian has noted the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0612w.html#item9
"Broadband Talks to Address New Strategies"
Industry officials, politicians, and local government leaders
this week will gathered at a "Massachusetts broadband summit" to
discuss the rollout of high-speed Internet infrastructure. Rep.
Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) is expected in his keynote address to ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0612w.html#item10
"Uncle Sam's Info-Tech Crisis"
The federal government's technology infrastructure--particularly
its ability to search and transmit data--is in poor shape and
could be putting the country at risk. Communications between the
FBI and other agencies is severely limited because they rely on ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0612w.html#item11
"U.S. Should Control Internet Body, Senator Says"
Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) says he is likely to introduce
legislation forcing ICANN to allow U.S. government influence in
ICANN decisions, and says that if ICANN does not comply, ICANN's
contract to manage the DNS may be cancelled when it comes up for ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0612w.html#item12
"Tech Advances Nudge Smart Vehicle Sensors Closer to Reality"
Vanderbilt University's assistant professor of mechanical
engineering Kenneth Frampton is using micro-electromechanical
systems (MEMS) and distributed computing to overcome the
technical limitations of smart sensor networks that have the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0612w.html#item13
"Locals Look Good in Software"
Russia is making rapid gains in the software outsourcing sector,
according to attendees of the Second Software Outsourcing Summit
in St. Petersburg last week. Brunswick Warburg estimates that
Russian software exports this year will almost double from last ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0612w.html#item14
"Rust Belt States Try High-Tech"
State capitols along the U.S. Rust Belt are competing in a race
to build the next major high-tech research hub, snapping up top
tech talent and making heavy investments in such technologies as
bioinformatics and optoelectronics. New York plans to create ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0612w.html#item15
"Massachusetts, Washington Top High-Tech Survey"
The Progressive Policy Institute says Massachusetts, Washington,
California, and Colorado top the list of states most ready to
succeed in the new economy. In a new survey, those states had
the best mix of tech skills, entrepreneurship, and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0612w.html#item16
"High Tech Evolves"
A five-member Board of Technologists consisting of inventor and
futurist Ray Kurzweil, Melanie Mitchell of the Santa Fe Institute
in New Mexico, Ardesta VP for nanotechnology Sandeep Malhotra,
director of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's Center for Business ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0612w.html#item17
"Designed For Life"
Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks of MIT's Artificial Intelligence
Lab argues in his new book, "Robot: The Future of Flesh and
Machines," that there is a critical ingredient missing from
robotics and AI that hampers their evolution--"something in all ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0612w.html#item18
"Six Sigma Goes Corporate"
The Six Sigma quality approach focuses on companies aiming to
develop products and services that have zero defects at the
outset in order to stop time and money from being wasted in
fixing flawed products, and to prevent the inevitable refunds and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0612w.html#item19
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