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The article presents several deadlines related to higher education. The abstracts of papers for possible presentations at the conference on International Congress for Individualized Instruction will end on Sept 20, 1977. The deadline of grants for handicapped will be on October 14, 1977. The deadline for computer science program proposals will be on November 1, 1977.

Discusses opportunities for computer science graduate students from the University of California-Berkeley in the field of research. Benefits of computer science departments' close ties to industry; Criticism of graduates unprepared for the real world; Description of NOW project at the university.

Introduces the pocket-sized World-Wide Web server, created by computer science professor Vaughan Pratt of Stanford University. Embedded systems versus general-purpose computers; The single circuit board.

Profiles professor of computer-science at University of California at Los Angeles, Leonard Kleinrock. Love for teaching and inventing, especially anything having to do with the Internet; Reasons he loves being a professor; First to describe queuing principles used in designing every type of computer network.

Profiles computer scientist Ken Goldberg of the University of California at Berkeley. His development of projects involving both computer science and art; Creation of online artwork, including a virtual garden that users tend with a robotic arm; Development of `Ouija 2000,' an online Ouija board that allows users to act simultaneously; Goldberg's career background.

TWELVE years ago, Keith Uncapher, a computer scientist at the RAND Corporation, was shocked to discover that the Johnniac, a behemoth of a computer he had helped develop in the [...]

Presents information on a course in computer programming and ethics for students who are not majoring in computer science offered by professor Richard Weiss at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Aim of the course; Comments from professor Weiss; Book that must be read for students of the course; View of students on the course.

Reports on the computer forensics courses offered at U.S. universities and colleges as of April 2004. Impact of legal issues on the courses; Overview of the course offered at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Recounts the efforts of Northwestern University students and professors to trace the development of Chicago, Illinois through the use of urban history and computer science. Specific goal of the project; Use of the book "Plan of Chicago" to track Chicago's development; Approaches used in the research; Outcome of the research project; Academic achievements of the research.

The article presents information according to which Ed Brent, a professor of sociology at the University of Missouri in Columbia has developed a computer program that not only grades his students' essays but also gives feedback on how they can improve their work. The program simply runs through the students' papers to see if those elements are thoroughly presented, analyzing the semantics and assessing the writer's understanding of the topic. If a student leaves something out or gets something wrong, the program will flag those mistakes, to help the student improve the next draft.

The article reports that three graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology attracted a flurry of attention in April after an academic conference accepted their randomly generated, nonsensical paper. Now the students are stars of a lighthearted video they made when they went to the conference even though their invitations had been withdrawn. The three, Jeremy A. Stribling, Maxwell Krohn, and Daniel Aguayo, are computer-science students studying parallel and distributed operating systems. The students were nevertheless able to raise enough money online to travel to the meeting, held in July at an Orlando hotel.

The article reports that programs and clubs for women in computer science have recently cropped up at colleges across the U.S. These initiatives have been taken by Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, to provide social support for women in the discipline. A report from the National Center for Education Statistics shows that the proportion of women in computer and information sciences has dwindled in the past 20 years, especially compared with other fields in mathematics and sciences.

Innovative Threads[TM] Curriculum Focuses on Best Preparing Students for Successful and Sustainable Careers in a Competitive Global Economy ATLANTA -- The College of Computing at Georgia Tech, a national leader [...]

Byline: Compiled by Dennis Sim Master of Science/Postgraduate Diploma in Software Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University For IT professionals. Courses include advanced software technology, advanced software engineering, computational technologies, web [...]

The article discusses the use of the Internet by college students for academic purposes. While almost all college students use the Internet on a regular basis, very few distinguish between peer-reviewed, scholarly sources, and any random Internet page. This can cause problems when students use improper sources for their academic research, which has a side effect of lowering the quality of papers as a whole. Accrediting agencies are now considering information-literacy programs as measures of an institution's performance to encourage education in the use of academic resources.

The article reports on the use of social networking technology to help foreign scholars in oppressive governments bypass federal Web filters. Software like Psiphon and Tor allows Internet users from countries like China to reroute their Internet traffic through foreign connections and gain access to blocked content. The software can also be used in more liberal countries, like the United States, where some colleges and businesses block Internet access to prevent users from accessing illegal or inappropriate content.

Byline: Michelle Chan Name: Craig Yu Lap-fai Age: 22 Course: Dual Degree Programme in Technology & Management (Honours), Computer Science and General Business Management School: Hong Kong University of Science [...]

The article profiles Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, an associate professor of public policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government who believes that computers should be trained to forget things in the same way as the human brain. The eternal memory of computers is profoundly influencing how people view the world and behave in it, and could lead people to speak less freely and openly in the future. Mayer-Schoenberger suggests that laws should require software to forget information after some period unless specifically requested by users.

The article discusses Captchas (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart), which are traditionally used to protect Web sites from malevolent programs. The technique, which requires users to translate garbled text to prove that they are humans, is now being used to help preserve the texts of thousands of important books. Luis von Ahn, the scientist who invented Captchas, is taking book words that are hard to capture through scanning and allowing random Internet users to translate the text.

The article reports that Mozilla, maker of the popular Firefox Web browser, released Firefox Campus Edition for free download in September 2007. A key feature of the new browser is the Zotero citation system developed by George Mason University's Center for History and New Media. The system is designed to help students and scholars mark and manage information on the Web that they want to cite in research papers. It also includes a plug-in that allows users to listen to music and manage playlists.

Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) has named Leonidas John Guibas as the recipient of the 2007 ACM/AAAI [...]

NEW YORK, March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Robert A. Walker, who oversaw the growth of ACM's Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) and its portfolio of programs for computing [...]

Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, March 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- David A. Patterson, who led initiatives that have brought more respect and understanding to the computing profession, has [...]

Verification Industry Visionaries Contribute To Jasper's Formal Technology Development MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Jasper Design Automation, the leader in successful deployment of production-proven formal verification solutions, today named Tom Melham [...]

Computer scientists at the UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering have proposed a new way to build datacenters that could save companies money and deliver more computing capability to […]

According to a study from Orsay, France, 'In graph searching, a team of searchers are aiming at capturing a fugitive moving in a graph. In the initial variant, called invisible […]

'The common belief is that localized broadcast algorithms are not able to guarantee both full delivery and a good bound on the number of transmissions. In this paper, we propose […]

'In this paper, we present Chameleon, which is an application-level power management approach for reducing energy consumption in mobile processors. By using application-domain knowledge, as opposed to OS-level or hardware-level […]

'An L(2,1l)-labeling of a graph G is a function f from the vertex set V(G) to the set of all nonnegative integers such that vertical bar f (x) - f […]

According to a study from London, the United Kingdom, 'The longest common subsequence (LCS) problem is one of the classical and well-studied problems in computer science. The computation of the […]

'The advent of various real-time multimedia applications in high-speed networks creates a need for quality of service (QoS) based multicast routing. Two important QoS constraints are the bandwidth constraint and [...]

'A broad spectrum of network measurement applications demand passive multipoint measurements in which data from multiple observation points has to be correlated. Examples are the passive are the passive measurement […]

According to recent research published in the journal Computer Communication Review, 'A key requirement for IETF recognition of new TCP algorithms is having an independent, interoperable implementation. This paper describes […]

According to recent research published in the journal Computer Communication Review, 'Rate control protocols that utilise explicit feedback from routers are able to achieve fast convergence to an equilibrium which […]

'In a dual-radio-dual-mode IEEE 802.11(b) wireless mesh network (WMN), each mesh access point has two IEEE 802.11(b) interfaces. One interface operates in infrastructure mode to serve IEEE 802.11(b) client devices […]

'Security is gaining relevance in the development of embedded devices. Toward a secure system at each level of design, this paper addresses security aspects related to Network-on-Chip (NoC) architectures, foreseen […]

'This paper presents an algebraic testing method for detecting stuck-at faults in the polynomial-basis (PB) bit-parallel (BP) multiplier circuits over GF(2(m)). The proposed technique derives the test vectors from the […]

'In a companion paper (Bastian et al. 2007, this issue) we introduced an abstract definition of a parallel and adaptive hierarchical grid for scientific computing. Based on this definition we […]

Virtualization Leader Unveils GoVirtual.org to Facilitate Global Knowledge Sharing for Virtualization Researchers and Academics LAS VEGAS -- Today at VMworld 2008, VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions [...]

'Rabi and Sherman [M. Rabi, A. Sherman, An observation on associative one-way functions in complexity theory, Information Processing Letters 64 (5) (1997) 239-244; M. Rabi, A. Sherman, Associative one-way functions: […]

According to recent research from Perth, Australia, 'Given a string x = x[1..n], a repetition of period p in x is a substring u(r) = x[i + 1..i + rp], […]

'Phenomenal advances in nano-technology and packaging have made it possible to develop miniaturized low-power devices that integrate sensing, special-purpose computing, and wireless communications capabilities. It is expected that these small […]

'Dependable (i.e. accurate and timely) monitoring is a key aspect of business process management, since it provides information which is crucial for determining the actual Quality of Service (QoS) delivered […]

'In this paper, the indoor wireless localization problem is addressed both from the theoretical and application standpoints. The main result of this paper is on the theoretical side: the topological […]

According to a study from Poznan, Poland, 'In this paper we address a multicriteria scheduling problem for computational Grid systems. We focus on the two-level hierarchical Grid scheduling problem, in […]

ELLEN SPERTUS, a graduate student at M.I.T., wondered why the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergraduates at M.I.T. female? She published a 124-page paper, ''Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?'', that catalogued different cultural biases that discouraged girls and women from pursuing a career in the field. The year was 1991. Computer science has changed considerably since then. Now, there are even fewer women entering the field. Why this is so remains a matter of dispute. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

'This paper presents an automatic method for calculating the path condition for programs with real time constraints. We model concurrent systems using timed transition systems and translate them into extended […]

According to recent research from Seoul, South Korea, 'This paper presents how a multicore system can benefit from the use of a latency-aware memory bus capable of dual-concurrent data transfers […]

According to recent research published in the journal Theoretical Computer Science, 'The concepts of strongly 8-deletable and strongly 4-deletable sets of Is in binary images on the 2D Cartesian grid […]

'The paper studies the problem of reconstructing binary matrices constrained by binary tomographic information,' scientists writing in the journal Theoretical Computer Science report. 'We prove new NP-hardness results that sharpen […]