Thanks to Tom Jones for pointing out this story in the Financial Times on the increasing attention paid to supercomputing in the wake of the Japanese Earth Simulator’s 2 year reign at the top of the Top500. Here’s a bit: Hard drive by lobbyists helps US take supercomputer lead By Simon London An almost audible […]
Thanks to Rodney Peterson of Educause for pointing this out: U.S. cybersecurity chief abruptly resigns, cites frustration By TED BRIDIS, AP Technology Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The government’s cybersecurity chief has abruptly resigned after one year with the Department of Homeland Security, confiding to industry colleagues his frustration over what he considers a lack of attention […]
C-net News.com reports that the Senate committee vote on the Induce Act scheduled for today has been postponed. Additional coverage here.
From the ACM [a CRA affiliate organization] press release: New York, September 27, 2004 — Seeking to bolster the security, accessibility, and public confidence in the voting process, ACM’s elected leadership has approved a public statement on the deployment and use of computer-based electronic voting (e-voting) systems for public elections. ACM’s position is that while […]
Reuters reports that Senate backers of the INDUCE Act — including Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Minority Leader Tom Daschle — may attempt to attach the bill to a must-pass spending bill in an effort to secure passage for the controversial (and ill-conceived) legislation. The Senate Judiciary Committee could take up the bill on […]
CRA Chair Jim Foley sat for an extended interview with CNET News.com on the state of the IT research enterprise in the US. Here’s the intro: James Foley is worried. As chairman of the Computing Research Association–a group made up of academic departments, research centers and professional societies–his job at CRA is to improve computing […]
The U.S. Public Policy Committee of ACM — one of CRA’s affiliate organizations — has joined a broad coalition of groups who have written (pdf) to the members of the US Senate urging them to “slow down” their efforts to pass legislation (called INDUCE) that would create a new form of secondary liability for copyright […]
In an affirmation of fair use rights — at least, as long as they don’t conflict with any other rights — a federal court ruled yesterday that a company that makes interoperable remotes for other companies’ garage door openers isn’t violating federal copyright law. The law in question is the troublesome Digital Millenium Copyright Act […]
Just a quick pointer to two interesting posts on innovation on Ed Felten’s Freedom to Tinker blog. Nurturing Innovation Nurturing Innovation II Here’s a good bit: Internet email was invented in 1971. Back then, could you have found even one single person in Washington who would point to this fledgling technology as one day being […]
Wired covers remarks by DeForest B. Soaries Jr., chairman of the newly formed federal Election Assistance Commission, praising computer scientists for calling attention to security problems with e-voting machines and for helping develop new standards for building machines that might be more secure in the future. CRA’s affiliate organization the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) […]
