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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 563
Date: October 27, 2003
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Top Stories for Monday, October 27, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"U.S. May Ease Entry for High-Tech Workers"
"Antispam Methods Aim to Merge"
"Smart Dust Collecting in the Enterprise"
"Iowa State University Ready to Hit Hackers Head-On"
"Issue of Human Writes: Putting All World Languages in Computer Text"
"Drive Safely in a Car With the Gift of the Gab"
"Apple's Latest 0.1 Adds a Lot"
"Write Once, Publish Often"
"Congress Turns Attention to International Piracy"
"New Typeface to Help Dyslexics"
"Google Researcher Lectures on Internet Growth"
"Why Do We Care About Names and Numbers?"
"But What About SCSI?"
"Computing the Gains"
"Issues in Critical Infrastructure Protection"
"Watching the Watchers"
"Open Source in Embedded Products"
"Where Are All the Women IT Leaders?"
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"U.S. May Ease Entry for High-Tech Workers"
Spurred by worries among American multinationals and high-tech
firms that the current H-1B visa cap of 65,000 will prevent
thousands of skilled foreign professionals from entering the
country in 2004, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Orrin ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1027m.html#item1
"Antispam Methods Aim to Merge"
A new subcommittee established in October by the Internet
Research Task Force's Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) seeks to
reconcile and merge competing email sender verification
protocols. Proposed measures include Reverse Mail Exchange, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1027m.html#item2
"Smart Dust Collecting in the Enterprise"
Intel and the University of California, Berkeley, are developing
wireless sensor technology intended to make ubiquitous sensor
networks widespread in the enterprise. Intel-backed researchers
at the Crossbow startup are developing a new operating system for ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1027m.html#item3
"Iowa State University Ready to Hit Hackers Head-On"
Iowa State University researchers plan to build a virtual
Internet to serve as a cyber-defense testbed through a Justice
Department grant of almost $500,000. ISU researcher Doug
Jacobson explains that with the Internet-Scale Event and Attack ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1027m.html#item4
"Issue of Human Writes: Putting All World Languages in Computer Text"
Computerizing all languages in the world is the goal of Unicode
4.0, a massive database of 50 key writing systems established by
the nonprofit Unicode Consortium. Almost 100 alphabets or
"scripts" needed to write obscure languages remain to be encoded, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1027m.html#item5
"Drive Safely in a Car With the Gift of the Gab"
Edinburgh University researchers aim to make motorists capable of
operating their vehicles by vocal commands, and enable cars to
offer advice and even warn drivers when they are driving
recklessly. Dr. Oliver Lemon of the university's Human ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1027m.html#item6
"Apple's Latest 0.1 Adds a Lot"
Apple's latest Mac OS X version, 10.3, adds many features that
make the ultra-secure operating system more useful. Mac users
have taken refuge in the security of the Panther OS in the past
year as Windows users continue to struggle with viruses, spam, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1027m.html#item7
"Write Once, Publish Often"
Researchers at Hewlett-Packard's Bristol, UK, lab are developing
new publishing software that automatically converts a master
document into formats suitable for the Web, print, personal
digital assistants (PDA), or other channels. Called ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1027m.html#item8
"Congress Turns Attention to International Piracy"
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who says digital piracy has caused
enormous losses for the movie and recording industries, is the
co-chair of the newly formed Congressional International
Anti-Piracy Caucus, a bipartisan group of House and Senate ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1027m.html#item9
"New Typeface to Help Dyslexics"
A Dutch designer has developed a new typeface that will make it
easier for dyslexics to read words on the Web. Created by
Natascha Frensch, Read Regular makes each letter considerably
unique so that dyslexics will not confuse one character with ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1027m.html#item10
"Google Researcher Lectures on Internet Growth"
Google.com senior research scientist Mehran Sahami discussed the
progress of Web browsers and future challenges for the technology
with an audience of computer science and engineering students at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Oct. 23. UNL assistant ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1027m.html#item11
"Why Do We Care About Names and Numbers?"
In a CircleID article, Joe McNamee reflects on the findings of a
report McNamee and Tiina Satuli authored for the European
Commission entitled, "Policy Implications of Convergence in the
Field of Naming, Numbering, and Addressing." McNamee describes ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1027m.html#item12
"But What About SCSI?"
Although storage technologies serial ATA and Fibre Channel have
garnered much of the limelight in recent months, the upcoming
serial attached SCSI (SAS) standard will probably prove the most
important for enterprise systems. SAS provides a perfect middle ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1027m.html#item13
"Computing the Gains"
Using internationally comparable data and a new technique of
studying sources of productivity growth, Harvard economist Dale
Jorgenson has concluded that Japan and Europe, not just the
United States, have made productivity gains through IT ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1027m.html#item14
"Issues in Critical Infrastructure Protection"
The U.S. telecommunications infrastructure has been strengthened
in order to make the country's communications backbone more
resilient and secure against natural, accidental, and deliberate
disruptions, but many formidable challenges remain. There is no ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1027m.html#item15
"Watching the Watchers"
MIT graduate student Ryan McKinley predicated his Government
Information Awareness Web site on the supposition that if the
government uses information technology to monitor Americans
through programs such as Terrorism Information Awareness, then ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1027m.html#item16
"Open Source in Embedded Products"
Although more attention has been paid to the growing use of Linux
and related open source offerings in server products, there has
also been comparative penetration of such products in the
embedded market, where they are showing up in telephone switches, ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1027m.html#item17
"Where Are All the Women IT Leaders?"
An October survey from CIO Insight reveals a significant shortage
of women in IT leadership positions--in fact, the number of
female IT executives under 40 is less than 50 percent lower than
the number of female IT executives over 40. Some analysts call ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1027m.html#item18
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