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ACM TechNews
Volume 4, Number 364
Date: June 21, 2002
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Top Stories for Friday, June 21, 2002:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html
"Tech Firms Bemoan Bush Talk"
"Study: Equal Security in All Software"
"Fears of Misuse of Encryption System Are Voiced"
"Tech Access Law: Slow Progress"
"Web Thinkers Warn of Culture Clash"
"Hard Lessons in Learning a Common Tongue"
"A Chip That Mimics Neurons, Firing Up the Memory"
"New Method to Make Faster, Smaller Computer Chips"
"Bush Urges Private Sector to Shore up Networks"
"Tiny 'Whiskers' May Advance Nanoelectronics"
"Silicon Quantum Computer"
"Taking Security Concerns Private: U.S. Appeals to IT Firms"
"Scientist Studies Robot Conversation Skills"
"The End of the Revolution"
"Whose Domain Is It Anyway?"
"Schools Turn to Slumping Tech Sector to Recruit Teachers"
"Why the Future Belongs to the Small-Minded"
"Living on the Grid"
"Quantum Superbrains"
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"Tech Firms Bemoan Bush Talk"
Leaders in the technology industry are largely disappointed with
President Bush's speech on national broadband rollout. Although
they welcome the high-level attention paid to the topic, they say
the Bush administration is weak on details, shuffling off the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item1
"Study: Equal Security in All Software"
At a technical conference in Toulouse, France, Cambridge
University researcher Ross Anderson presented a paper concluding
that idealized open-source programs have the same level of
security as closed-source programs. Anderson says the key ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item2
"Fears of Misuse of Encryption System Are Voiced"
A prominent European technologist and University of Cambridge
computer scientist has released a paper that points out the
possible misuses of the encryption technology supported by the
Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, a group which includes tech ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item3
"Tech Access Law: Slow Progress"
Significant progress has been made since Section 508 of the
Rehabilitation Act was signed into law a year ago, but the full
impact of the mandate to make government Web sites and major
hardware and software products accessible to disabled users has ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item4
"Web Thinkers Warn of Culture Clash"
Engineers and policymakers met this week at the annual meeting of
the nonprofit Internet Society to discuss how corporate and
government initiatives could curtail the Internet's democratic
aspects. Government efforts, which are motivated by control, and ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item5
"Hard Lessons in Learning a Common Tongue"
Web services, which will allow companies to take full advantage
of the Internet, need a standardized way to communicate industry
jargon and definitions between computer systems. XML, or
extensible markup language, is now the accepted platform for ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item6
"A Chip That Mimics Neurons, Firing Up the Memory"
Dr. Theodore W. Berger, director of UCLA's Center for Neural
Engineering, envisions a computer chip that can be implanted in
people's brains and mirror the functions of neurons. Such a
device could be particularly beneficial for persons whose ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item7
"New Method to Make Faster, Smaller Computer Chips"
Princeton University researchers led by Stephen Chou have hit
upon a technique for printing nanoscale chip patterns faster,
which could lead to more efficient production of computer chips
with a concentration of transistors that is 100 times denser than ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item8
"Bush Urges Private Sector to Shore up Networks"
The federal government is seeking the cooperation of the private
sector to safeguard the nation's critical infrastructure. Of key
importance are the IT networks that facilitate infrastructure
operation, which are managed and protected by business, not the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item9
"Tiny 'Whiskers' May Advance Nanoelectronics"
Boron nanowhiskers produced by a collaboration between Washington
University in St. Louis, Miss., the Semiconductor Research
Corporation, and others may bring the dream of nanoelectronic
circuitry one step closer. Washington University graduate ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item10
"Silicon Quantum Computer"
The architecture for a silicon-based quantum computer that can be
constructed using current methods has been outlined by Thaddeus
Ladd and associates at Stanford University. The microelectronics
industry has an advantage over other quantum computer efforts ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item11
"Taking Security Concerns Private: U.S. Appeals to IT Firms"
Hobbled by a lack of expertise and staff, government
administrators believe that the only way to develop technologies
to help secure federal IT systems and defend the nation's
critical infrastructure is to turn to the private sector. The ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item12
"Scientist Studies Robot Conversation Skills"
Several experiments focus on teaching robots language skills,
which will be an essential capability of machines designed to
function as humanoid aides. SONY Computer Science Laboratory
artificial intelligence expert Luc Steels proclaims that ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item13
"The End of the Revolution"
In Milton L. Mueller's new book "Ruling the Root," Mueller traces
how the DNS and the Internet have evolved from the time when Jon
Postal allocated domain names himself while being funded by the
Defense Department, to a utopia ideal of decentralized free ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item14
"Whose Domain Is It Anyway?"
What is at stake in ICANN reform is who should oversee ICANN: the
Internet community, the U.S. government as Sen. Conrad Burns
(R-Mont.) advocates, or a polyglot of national governments,
writes Esther Dyson. Today ICANN provides a crucial role as the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item15
"Schools Turn to Slumping Tech Sector to Recruit Teachers"
California is bringing in unemployed technology professionals to
fill the void left by a shortage of quality math and science
teachers. "What we are trying to do is take a talent pool that
has dried up and redirect it," says Larry Rios, director of the ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item16
"Why the Future Belongs to the Small-Minded"
Nanotechnology research could lead to significant breakthroughs
in the next two decades, according to advocates. Recent
developments include an Idaho National Engineering and
Environmental Laboratory project that has yielded a "super-hard" ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item17
"Living on the Grid"
Grid computing enables enterprises to harness the raw computing
power of many machines to process data, solve complex problems,
run simulations, and perform other functions too large for single
computers to handle, boosting efficiency and cost savings. For ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item18
"Quantum Superbrains"
The speed and performance of a quantum computer would make
current supercomputer models seem like pocket calculators in
comparison, but the various interests racing to build one face
significant hurdles. One challenge involves solving the problem ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2002-4/0621f.html#item19
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