It’s an extraordinary time to be a part of the information technology field. Advances in wireless and embedded technologies are making more of our work invisible; while Wall Street’s roller-coastering, amazing returns in worldwide e-commerce, and government debate over technology policy keep IT firmly in the spotlight. Where’s it all headed? ACM certainly took some […]
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Recently enacted U.S. counterterrorism legislation makes it easier for the federal government to track suspected terrorists by extending its reach into citizens’ private lives. The measure, called the Uniting and Strengthening America Act, allows investigators easy permission to look at parts of an email application that show recipient and sender fields. It also allows the […]
ACM filed a declaration in federal court regarding the legal challenge to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the Felten v. RIAA case. In the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey by a number of computing researchers led by Princeton University computer scientist Edward Felten, the plaintiffs are asking the […]
Studies and new research show employees who telecommute believe the arrangements actually hurt family life and career advancement. In fact, a number of supervisors are revoking these arrangements due to telecommuting-related problems, reports USA Today. Telecommuting hasn’t grown at the clip many experts first predicted in the 1970s; there were 21 million workers in 1997 […]
A global network of sensors initially designed to listen for clandestine nuclear blasts is now being used to detect violent winds, volcanic eruptions, and the crash of meteoroids from outer space, reports the New York Times. Though still under construction and primarily backed by the U.S., the International Monitoring System (part of the Comprehensive Test […]
The ACM Nominating Committee is preparing to nominate candidates for the officers of ACM: President, Vice-President, Secretary/Treasurer; and two Members at Large. Suggestions for candidates are solicited. Names should be sent by November 5, 2001 to the Nominating Committee Chairman, c/o the Office of Policy and Administration, ACM, 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036, USA. […]
Approximately 379 million people in 21 countries connected to the Internet from their homes in March, an increase of 6.8 million from February, according to Nielson/NetRatings. The latest figure is based on real-time monitoring of Internet users in countries such as Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and the […]
Works published by ACM since its inception have been built into a special online collection known as the ACM Digital Library. Nearly half a century of pioneering concepts and fundamental research have been digitized and indexed in a variety of ways in this resource. The retrospective capture for all ACM journals, magazines, and proceedings is […]
A report finds that in the first quarter of 2001, a number of computer security issues, including incident and vulnerability reports, will top 2000 figures. The Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT), a government-funded R&D center based at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, reported receiving 7,047 incident reports, from Jan. 1Mar. 31, putting 2001 […]
The number of European households connected to the Internet increased by 55% between March and October of 2000, and Europe now has more users than the U.S., the European Commission reported. The findings, published in "Impact and Priorities of the eEurope 2002 Initiative," cite the increasingly liberalized European telecom market for the sharp rise in […]
Appearing before a congressional panel, the head of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers defended the process ICANN used to select new suffixes to compete with the popular established generic top-level domain—.com. With the number of Web addresses dwindling, ICANN chose seven new domains last fall, along with the companies and groups authorized […]
An ongoing effort involving dozens of people and pilot programs with hundreds of employees at Sun Microsystems could be the next model for large high-tech companies worldwide in molding the workplace to information-age realities, reports the San Jose Mercury News. Whereas the setup of traditional high-tech companies was established in the industrial era, when people […]
NASA, Carnegie Mellon, and a dozen leading technology firms have formed the High Dependability Computing Consortium with the goal of creating crash-free software. The group signed a three-year agreement to attack the problem of unstable systems by building tools “of such a magnitude that no single company could afford to build them alone,” explains James […]
The U.S. Copyright Office endorsed a new federal law, a provision of the 1998 Digital Millenium Copyright Act, that makes it illegal to break the technological safeguards for books, movies, and music distributed in digital form. The ruling was a defeat for several constituencies—including universities, libraries, and computer programmers—that had argued the law should preserve […]
A new study claims exposure in early education to computers can harm children’s ability to reason, imagine, and play, and calls for legislators to refocus early education toward a program that supports strong bonds with adults, time for spontaneous play, a curriculum rich in the arts, and hands-on interaction. The Alliance for Childhood, Washington, DC, […]
Most federal Web sites do not meet the commercial standards for Internet privacy set by the Federal Trade Commission, including the FTC’s own site, a study by the General Accounting Office has found. The GAO measured the sites against four federal standards for Internet privacy: that they disclose their information practices before personal data is […]
Computer science departments at U.S. colleges and universities are facing a depleted teaching staff as more professors test the entrepreneurial waters, reports the New York Times. While the hot economy has created a fair amount of turnover, observers say the current brain drain has not reached a crisis point. Many institutions are feeling the pinch […]
An increasing number of companies are creating a new position—”chief privacy officer”—to prevent legal or marketing disasters and help gain the trust of online customers, reports the San Jose Mercury News. Government scrutiny is a major factor in companies creating the post—the Federal Trade Commission recently filed a lawsuit to block the bankrupt Toysmart.com from […]
A human-image animation system that manipulates stored images of a person’s facial movements in response to phonemes (the smallest units of speech) and can then replicate voice and image in a realistic video duplicate has been developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology. The technology, called Digital Personnel, is voice-driven […]
The U.S. agriculture industry has been one of the slowest to embrace the Internet age, with farmers, who tend to be fiercely loyal to local merchants and banks, wary of e-commerce, reports BusinessWeek. But such a link is as inevitable as spring planting: of 2.1 million farmers in the U.S., the 380,000 largest ones produce […]
The tradition-bound institution may be late to the e-vironment, but many legal scholars are still stunned to learn the highest court in the U.S. opened its own Web site in mid-April (www.supremecourstus.gov). Many of the court’s written decisions will be posted online, as well as upcoming cases, opinions, orders, and arguments. The site makes it […]
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