Changes afoot for mobile computing's Achilles' heel
The more things change in mobile computing, it seems, the more batteries have stayed the same.With rapid gains in microprocessor technology, the variety of mobile devices offered in the past 15 years has expanded dramatically, to everything from cell phones that take pictures to personal digital assistants that rival last year's notebook PCs.
Experts want supercomputing resources pooled
Following the Energy De-partment's announcement of a new supercomputer designed to be the world's fastest, the White House and Congress are demanding better coordination of federal supercomputing resources.
Navy: No more proprietary XML extensions
Department's CIO office will advise program managers to stay clear of proprietary XML extensions.
OMB splits the difference on open source
The Office of Management and Budget evidently exercised good diplomatic skills in a new memorandum on federal software acquisition.
NSF puts bite into forensic research
To help forensic experts identify missing individuals, National Science Foundation researchers are developing a system to automate matching of dental records.
The lost, found
To make sure its records aren't missing in action, a Defense Department command that tracks down lost military personnel is using archive management software.
Linux now a corporate beast
Most Linux improvements now come from corporations, not a large cadre of lone hackers working in isolation.
Tools for data-driven management
James Taylor, the Commerce Department's deputy chief financial officer, didn't know his boss was unhappy until he read it in a magazine article. Then-deputy secretary Sam Bodman, a veteran executive of several large corporations, bemoaned the lack of financial tools at his government post.
New standard helps sort out large systems
The Defense Department and several other nations' defense organizations have settled on a standard for documenting large-system configurations.The Product Life Cycle Support Technical Committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards developed the standard. Military services and contractors can use the PLCS ISO standard to maintain up-to-date descriptions of large systems such as those for weapons.
System X designers beat the odds
Srinidhi Varadarajan, an assistant professor of computer science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, helped make supercomputing history last year.
Feds grapple with computer timesharing
New survey shows that corporations are interested in using high performance computers, many can't afford the latest models.
Cybsecurity research underfunded, executives say
Proposals for technology R&D projects, including security, outpace available funds, experts testify.
AKO deploys Autonomy for search
Army Knowledge Online search engine designed to mine material in the portal's Knowledge Collaborative Center.
Science.gov's party project
How do you get 17 organizations to collaborate on a single search engine? Run the project like a potluck party, according to Eleanor Frierson.
Would a governmentwide XML schema registry cut duplication?
The Federal CIO Council wants to keep agencies from reinventing the wheel as they adopt Extensible Markup Language.
Sun's JDS gets mostly thumbs up
The Sun Java Desktop System isn't built from the ground up with Java, as you might expect, but is another Linux distribution based heavily on Novell Inc.'s SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0.
DISA buys DigitalNet vulnerability testing software
Applications that will scan United States Strategic Command systems for potential vulnerabilities.
NIH to start biomedical computational centers in fall
In September, the National Institutes of Health will award the first set of grants to establish biomedical computational centers.
Deep Web
Scientists at federal agencies have filled billions of database fields and millions of Web pages with their research results. Until recently, much of it was inaccessible to commercial search engines.
AKO adds collaboration, other features
Army Knowledge Online users will soon be able to share information and collaborate through the portal.
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