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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 561
Date: October 22, 2003
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Top Stories for Wednesday, October 22, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Congress Looks for Ways to Slow Offshore Hiring"
"Balancing Utility With Privacy"
"The Web: Search Engines Still Evolving"
"Open-Source Audio in a Proprietary World"
"Are IT Salaries Stuck in Neutral?"
"Students Network at Computer Conference"
"A New Tech Battle Brews in D.C."
"China's Technological Ambitions Take Flight"
"Low-Cost Supercomputer Put Together From 1,100 PC's"
"A Tech Veteran's Security Warning"
"The Stuff of Dreams"
"German Chatty Bot Is 'Most Human'"
"Task Force Deploys IPv6 Pilot Network"
"Experts Say New Biotech Age Looms"
"Beyond the VeriSign vs. ICANN Battle"
"CMU Team Tackles the Nuances of Building a Robot That
'Understands' It Is in a Race Over Rough Country"
"Save a Packet With Internet Telephony"
"Submerging Technologies: Five That Are Sinking Fast"
"TR100: Computing"
******************* News Stories ***********************
"Congress Looks for Ways to Slow Offshore Hiring"
Rep. Don Manzullo (R-Ill.), chairman of the House Small Business
Committee, argued at a Oct. 20 congressional hearing that the
U.S. government's continued purchase of foreign products will
only perpetuate the offshoring of American jobs. "If the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1022w.html#item1
"Balancing Utility With Privacy"
Privacy proponents are concerned that technologies that are being
more and more deeply embedded in people's everyday
lives--ostensibly to improve the quality of life--could be
employed by governments and enterprises as tools to monitor ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1022w.html#item2
"The Web: Search Engines Still Evolving"
The biggest problem with search engines is that they are not
context-aware, which is why sometimes a search for a relatively
simple subject can yield a massive volume of information on many
unrelated topics. Solving this problem is the focus of computer ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1022w.html#item3
"Open-Source Audio in a Proprietary World"
Open-source audio standards face a list of entrenched standards
such as MP3 and Windows Media Audio (WMA); new standards continue
to emerge as well, such as the MPEG-4 standard, which is used by
Apple's iTunes music store and includes Dolby-developed Advanced ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1022w.html#item4
"Are IT Salaries Stuck in Neutral?"
The soft economy has discouraged many IT professionals looking
forward to an early retirement or higher salaries to leave or
pursue other work, as job security currently has greater priority
than more compensation; Janco Associates CEO Victor Janulaitus ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1022w.html#item5
"Students Network at ACM Conference"
The University of Illinois hosted the ninth annual
Reflections/Projections Student Computing Conference last
weekend. Sponsored by the ACM, the computer conference
featured guest lectures, a job fair for computer science students, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1022w.html#item6
"A New Tech Battle Brews in D.C."
Reps. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), Howard Berman (D-Calif.), and John
Conyers (D-Mich.) have drafted legislation that would impose
harsh criminal penalties on companies or individuals who offer
software for download that fails to include a warning that such ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1022w.html#item7
"China's Technological Ambitions Take Flight"
China is fast becoming a world leader in technology, not just in
low-cost manufacturing: As evidence, experts point to a rapidly
growing economy, strengthened political will, and growing numbers
of skilled workers in China. Milken Institute scholar Rob Koepp ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1022w.html#item8
"Low-Cost Supercomputer Put Together From 1,100 PC's"
Virginia Polytechnic Institute has constructed a supercomputer
from 1,100 dual-processor Apple Macintosh PCs in under a month at
a cost of approximately $5 million. This achievement is all the
more impressive in light of the fact that the machine is poised ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1022w.html#item9
"A Tech Veteran's Security Warning"
At the 2003 meeting of the International Information Systems
Security Certification Consortium, Rep. Adam Putnam (R-Fla.)
warned in a keynote speech that the security of the United States
could be severely compromised because less attention is being ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1022w.html#item10
"The Stuff of Dreams"
Carbon nanotubes, whose advantages include superior strength and
conductivity, promise to revolutionize many industries, including
medicine, automobile production, and defense. But before that
promise can be fulfilled, cost and manufacturing issues must be ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1022w.html#item11
"German Chatty Bot Is 'Most Human'"
The Jabberwock chatbot earned German programmer Juergen Pirner
first place in the Loebner Prize competition when judges ranked
it "most human." The Loebner competition pitted eight
international finalists against each other to see which program ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1022w.html#item12
"Task Force Deploys IPv6 Pilot Network"
The North American Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Task Force
(NAv6TF) officially launched a collaborative IPv6 network pilot
for the North American market, Moonv6, on Oct. 20. IPv6 is
designed to improve on its predecessor, IPv4, through the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1022w.html#item13
"Experts Say New Biotech Age Looms"
Biotechnology and its technological and bioethical ramifications
was the running theme at the recent PoP!Tech conference in Maine,
where about 500 experts convened. A new era of biotech is
expected to debut with the convergence of nanotechnology, IT, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1022w.html#item14
"Beyond the VeriSign vs. ICANN Battle"
Alex Salkever articulates frustration with VeriSign's SiteFinder
service, given the company's obligation to oversee the .com and
.net databases, and wonders about VeriSign CEO Stratton Sclavos'
characterization of the Internet. Salkever says Sclavos and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1022w.html#item15
"CMU Team Tackles the Nuances of Building a Robot That 'Understands'
It Is in a Race Over Rough Country"
Among the research teams approved by the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to build robotic vehicles
designed to race roughly 200 miles across the Mohave Desert for a
$1 million prize is a team from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1022w.html#item16
"Save a Packet With Internet Telephony"
Wireless Internet telephony has the potential to significantly
cut costs for telecoms companies, but the technology, if made
widely available, could also take a hefty bite out of phone
companies' business. Conventional telephony establishes a direct ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1022w.html#item17
"Submerging Technologies: Five That Are Sinking Fast"
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young technologist John Parkinson claims that
few companies regularly review their technology to determine the
best time to replace obsolete systems, while a Computerworld
survey of corporate IT managers and analysts has uncovered five ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1022w.html#item18
"TR100: Computing"
Among 2003's 100 most brilliant young innovators selected by
Technology Review are computing researchers whose work often
demonstrates the increasing convergence of infomatics and
biology: Examples include genome-deciphering software developed ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1022w.html#item19
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