Microsoft takes wraps off XML data-gathering app
Microsoft Corp. today unveiled its Extensible Markup Language collector application, InfoPath, which until now was called XDocs. <br>
What are the rules of cyberwar?
How well can the Bush administration's rules of cyberwar, widely rumored this week to be in the drafting stage, correspond to Geneva Convention principles?<br>
Bat and pigeon teach NASA visitors
'Even adults don't understand satellite imagery,' said Ginger Butcher, a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center education specialist who's trying to change that with two award-winning, interactive multimedia Web sites.
How NIMA sends intelligence to the field
Military operation planners are now demanding video fly-throughs in minutes instead of weeks. So the National Imagery and Mapping Agency has begun posting Neopacks of intelligence data on secure Web sites. <br>
NIMA maps out its homeland role
For the first time, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency provided support to domestic security agencies during preparations for Sunday's Super Bowl. <br>
NIMA boosts reliance on contractors
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency is increasingly relying on contractors to supply both employees and technology, its director said today.<br>
Gates: 'Think like attackers'
Microsoft is designing an entirely new PC hardware and software architecture, code-named Palladium, which will have so-called sealed storage and curtained memory'pages of memory that are walled off by default from even the operating system.
SSA pioneers voice print app for W-2 system
By testing voice print biometrics to give users access to its online wage reporting system, the Social Security Administration again will push the limits of IT.
Census will count lines online
Under a Census Bureau contract, the Open GIS Consortium Inc. is working out ways for local and tribal jurisdictions to report boundary changes electronically.
'Hello, SSA, it's me'
The Social Security Administration made 'a huge leap' in efficiency by letting employers file W-2 wage reports online at <i>www.ssa.gov/employer</i>, and now the agency is testing voiceprint authentication of filers by telephone, SSA project manager Chuck Liptz said today. <br>
Census will count county lines via Web
Under a Census Bureau contract, the Open GIS Consortium Inc. is working out ways for local and tribal jurisdictions to begin reporting their boundary changes electronically. <br>
GSA replumbs its Web portal
The General Services Administration is reworking the back-end linkage and programming of all components on its <i>gsa.gov</i> portal. <br>
FBI sets up a cybercrime center in South Carolina
The FBI, the Secret Service and state law enforcement agencies last week opened a joint South Carolina Computer Crime Center, which will analyze electronic evidence of high-tech crimes and train forensic specialists. <br>
How hot was it? NOAA knows
Working from a 1.4-petabyte database of weather readings, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climatic Data Center has reported the weather highlights of 2002: widespread drought, a return of El Nino and global high temperatures.
Geospatial One-Stop will have first trial in May
Proposals are due Jan. 22 from vendors that want to build the Geospatial One-Stop Portal, one of the 25 e-government initiatives.<br>
GAO: Air Force should cut up credit cards
Using data mining and statistical methods, the General Accounting Office dug through Air Force purchase card records for fiscal 2001 and found a number of internal control weaknesses.<br>
Upson: Y2K was just a warmup exercise
Former Virginia CIO Don Upson says the job of securing government systems 'dwarfs Y2K.' <br>
OpenGIS tool pools data pulls
An OpenGIS Consortium Inc. team has created a quick Web mapping interface to merge information from multiple sources.
New GoBook sheds water but not weight
The new 1.7-GHz GoBook II is one of the first rugged notebook PCs to sport a mobile Pentium 4 processor.
Small bureau is big on data
Jeff Butler likes to compare the 10 months the Bureau of Transportation Statistics spent building the TranStats database portal to NASA's work on the Hubble space telescope. It was equally complex, he says, but unlike NASA, BTS suffered no last-minute hitches.
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