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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 560
Date: October 20, 2003
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Top Stories for Monday, October 20, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Researchers Take Debugging to the Masses"
"Tech Layoffs Fading, But No Hiring Boom"
"Scientists Explain and Improve Upon 'Enigmatic' Probability Formula"
"Trouble Grows at the Internet's Root"
"E-Vote Firms Seek Voter Approval"
"The Future of Data Storage"
"New Internet Speed Record Set by Euro-U.S. Labs"
"Magnetic Memory Makes Logic"
"Juniper Spearheads Effort to Fortify Internet"
"Progress, Innovation Coming to Cell Phones"
"A Connection in Every Spot"
"Parsing Hype From Hope: Will ENUM Spark Changes in Telecom?"
"University Students in Mexico Promote Free Software"
"Feds Take Up Arms as Computer Crime Becomes Multibillion-Dollar
Problem"
"Let the Games Converge!"
"Aiming for Fast, Universal Access, Researchers Will Rethink the
Architecture of the Internet"
"Rebel Network"
"Thwarting Piracy"
"Ready to Ware"
******************* News Stories ***********************
"Researchers Take Debugging to the Masses"
The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project is a joint effort between
Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley
designed to improve the tracking down and correction of software
glitches by developing and releasing modified open-source ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1020m.html#item1
"Tech Layoffs Fading, But No Hiring Boom"
The technology employment landscape in the United States is
looking different as numbers begin to flatten out and some
sectors are actually adding workers: Notably, IBM announced
plans to hire up to 10,000 new employees next year in "key skill ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1020m.html#item2
"Scientists Explain and Improve Upon 'Enigmatic' Probability Formula"
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego's Jacobs
School of Engineering report in the Oct. 17 issue of the journal
Science that automatic speech recognition, natural language
processing, and other machine learning software could be enhanced ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1020m.html#item3
"Trouble Grows at the Internet's Root"
VeriSign and other organizations responsible for the 13 DNS root
servers are voicing increasingly divergent views of how the
Internet system should be managed: VeriSign CEO Stratton Sclavos
recently said to the media that the system needed to be ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1020m.html#item4
"E-Vote Firms Seek Voter Approval"
Electronic voting machine makers are working to quiet criticism
from computer scientists and security specialists by
acknowledging the need for a paper trail to verify results.
Meanwhile, the Information Technology Association of America ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1020m.html#item5
"The Future of Data Storage"
Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) drive technology is taking
off thanks to the emergence of serial ATA (SATA), which Meta
Group program manager Rob Schafer describes as "the wave of the
future" in data storage. Although solid-state and fibre-channel ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1020m.html#item6
"New Internet Speed Record Set by Euro-U.S. Labs"
Olivier Martin of the European Organization for Nuclear Research,
CERN, touts its transmission of data across the Internet to the
California Institute of Technology in early October as a
milestone. CERN reports that it sent 1.1 TB of data at 5.44 Gbps ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1020m.html#item7
"Magnetic Memory Makes Logic"
Harnessing the logic capabilities of magnetic random access
memory (MRAM) technology, researchers at the Paul Drude Institute
for Solid-State Electronics in Germany have created a new
reconfigurable processor scheme. The proposed device would have ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1020m.html#item8
"Juniper Spearheads Effort to Fortify 'Net"
Juniper Networks last week revealed its Infranet Initiative, a
project that aims to devise a user-to-network interface for
client/service provider interaction and an inter-carrier
interface between service providers that will enable customers ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1020m.html#item9
"Progress, Innovation Coming to Cell Phones"
Signs that smarter, more intuitive cell phones are staring to
move out of theory and into practice were in evidence at the
European Technology Roundtable in Berlin, where several products
were unveiled by Orange CEO Solomon Trujillo. The phones ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1020m.html#item10
"A Connection in Every Spot"
The UbiComp 2003 ubiquitous-computing conference played host to
engineers who advocate that technology should be used to
establish real-world links between human beings rather than
separating people within virtual environments. The UbiComp ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1020m.html#item11
"Parsing Hype From Hope: Will ENUM Spark Changes in Telecom?"
Rod Dixon writes that ENUM may be the next large development in
communications technology, following the development of the
Internet. With ENUM, any person could use his or her telephone
number to represent one contact point, as the ENUM protocol would ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1020m.html#item12
"University Students in Mexico Promote Free Software"
A recent free software conference was held in Mexico's Southern
oil town of Villahermosa, organized by university students who
are also members of the local Linux Users Group, which claims a
membership of about 400 people. The gathering, while disrupted ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1020m.html#item13
"Feds Take Up Arms as Computer Crime Becomes Multibillion-Dollar
Problem"
Fighting computer crime is the FBI's third-highest priority,
following terrorism prevention and counter-espionage. The
Minnesota Cyber Crimes Task Force--the first of its kind in the
United States--will pool the resources of the FBI, the Secret ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1020m.html#item14
"Let the Games Converge!"
Sweden's Zero-Game Studio and Nokia are pursuing the integration
of two major computer gaming trends--massively multiplayer games
and portability--to develop new gaming paradigms. Nokia's N-Gage
device combines a high-end mobile phone with a game deck boasting ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1020m.html#item15
"Aiming for Fast, Universal Access, Researchers Will Rethink the
Architecture of the Internet"
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University will lead a group of
universities and research laboratories across the country in
studying the feasibility of using a glass-fiber
telecommunications network for the Internet. As part of the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1020m.html#item16
"Rebel Network"
By combining mesh networking and Wi-Fi, British programmer John
Anderson envisions a wireless network with practically no
boundaries that provides people with cheap broadband Internet
access on demand. Mesh networks are comprised of nodes, with ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1020m.html#item17
"Thwarting Piracy"
Owners of commercial databases expect to secure copyright
protection for databases with the proposed Database and
Collections of Information Misappropriation Act. Advocates of
extending copyright protection to databases have been in a battle ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1020m.html#item18
"Ready to Ware"
E-textiles--electronics woven into apparel--promise to enhance
the performance of battlefield commanders, firefighters, and
athletes, as well as boost functionality and stylishness for
average consumers. A SmartShirt or Wearable Motherboard is a ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1020m.html#item19
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