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VOLUME 4 NUMBER 5 MAY 2003

CONTENTS:
1. Google Me This: IEEE Micro Examines Search Engine's Architecture
2. Honeynet Project Traps Hackers
3. Three Million Monthly Downloads: IEEE Online Usage Reaches New Milestone
4. International Multimedia Conference Comes to Baltimore
5. Copyright Wars: IEEE Spectrum Reports
6. Proceedings of First IEEE Pervasive Computer Conference Published
7. IEEE-SA Launches Web Site for European Standards Community
8. New Mortgage Services Offered Through IEEE Financial Advantage Program
9. Backscatter: Meetings Madness
10. New Book Taps the Experts in Computational Intelligence
11. Online IEEE Publication Calls for Papers
12. Why Secure Applications Are Difficult to Write

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1. GOOGLE ME THIS: IEEE MICRO EXAMINES SEARCH ENGINE'S ARCHITECTURE
How does Google.com search millions of Web sites and respond to queries so quickly? The search engine's infrastructure combines more than 15,000 standard PCs with fault-tolerant software in a system more cost-effective than one built out of high-end servers. IEEE Micro magazine looks at the cluster architecture behind the system and discusses the most important factors that influence its design: energy efficiency and price-performance ratio. Read more (Adobe Acrobat Reader required): www.computer.org/micro/mi2003/m2022.pdf

2. HONEYNET PROJECT TRAPS HACKERS
What specific threats do computer networks face from hackers? Who are perpetrating these threats and how? The Honeynet Project, featured in the current issue of IEEE Security & Privacy magazine, is dedicated to answering these questions. The organization gathers information on hackers by deploying networks (called "honeynets") that are designed to be compromised. Read all about the Project, including the four phases of its research and the different kind of honeynets, and learn the legal ramifications of honeypots, at: www.computer.org/security/v1n2/j2spi.htm

3. THREE MILLION MONTHLY DOWNLOADS: IEEE ONLINE USAGE REACHES NEW MILESTONE
Usage of IEEE online technical information reached another new milestone when more than 3.2 million article PDFs were downloaded by researchers during the both of the first two months of this year. Users downloaded 3.238 million papers in January 2003, and 3.208 million papers in February (statistics for March and April are not yet available). This is more than double the number of downloads during the same two-month period in 2002. The increase has been driven by new IEEE customers and greater use of online articles by IEEE members. For information on accessing IEEE papers online, visit: ieeexplore.ieee.org

4. INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE COMES TO BALTIMORE
Four IEEE societies will sponsor the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) when it comes to Baltimore, Maryland, USA from 6 to 9 July. ICME aims to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas in multimedia. The conference is co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and the IEEE Communications Society. For more information, or to register, visit: www.icme2003.org

Don't miss the next conference you need for your career. IEEE sponsors more than 300 technical conferences and workshops each year, highlighting the latest technological advances. Find events through the IEEE ConferenceSearch Web site at: www.ieee.org/conferencesearch/

5. COPYRIGHT WARS: IEEE SPECTRUM REPORTS
A brave new world of digital entertainment awaits, but as IEEE Spectrum magazine reports, this future risks being stalled by the lack of consensus on digital copyright control. The consumer electronics industry wants abundant content to be readily and cheaply available to drive the sale of new products. The entertainment industry, meanwhile, wants fair remuneration for the use of that content. These potentially contradictory goals are leading to heated battles. Read more about the war: www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/may03/intro.html

Now here's one way to combat piracy. The huge success of massive multi-player online role-playing games (Mmorpgs) in South Korea has actually helped protect game developers from copyright theft: it is virtually impossible to copy online communities with millions of gamers, writes IEEE MultiMedia magazine. Read more about Mmorpgs (Adobe Acrobat Reader required): www.computer.org/multimedia/mu2003/u2012.pdf

6. PROCEEDINGS OF FIRST IEEE PERVASIVE COMPUTER CONFERENCE PUBLISHED
The proceedings of the first IEEE Annual Conference on Pervasive Computer and Communications have been published and are now available from the IEEE Online Catalog & Store. The 2003 event focused on intelligent environments and mobile agents, among other topics. For more information, or to purchase, visit: shop.ieee.org/store/product.asp?prodno=PR1893
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7. IEEE-SA LAUNCHES WEB SITE FOR EUROPEAN STANDARDS COMMUNITY
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) has launched StandardsEurope™, a Web portal for its European standards community. The portal supports those who want to learn about, participate in and access technical standards, especially in the fields of IT, telecommunications, and power and energy. It also serves the needs of IEEE-SA volunteers who help create standards, as well as IEEE-SA members, customers and international partners. Visit: www.standardseurope.net

9. BACKSCATTER: MEETINGS MADNESS
It seems there are more reasons than ever to hold more meetings. Is there a way to have fewer meetings? Could it make us more productive? In the latest edition of IEEE-USA Today's Engineer: www.todaysengineer.org/April03/backscatter.asp

10. NEW BOOK TAPS THE EXPERTS IN COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
If you still use the term "Artificial Intelligence," then you may not be an expert in the field more appropriately known as Computational Intelligence. Want to know more on the subject? Check out the new Wiley-IEEE Press book "Computational Intelligence: The Experts Speak," edited by David B. Fogel and Charles J. Robinson. The book includes past, present, and even future examples of applications developed from computational intelligence studies. For more information, visit: www.wiley.com/remtitleinternational.cgi?isbn=0471274542
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11. ONLINE IEEE PUBLICATION CALLS FOR PAPERS
The IEEE Electron Devices Society and the IEEE Reliability Society are seeking papers for IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability (T-DMR), a peer-reviewed archival journal that is free to all IEEE members through IEEE Xplore®. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts on the following topics: reliability of electronic, optical and magnetic devices and microsystems; the materials and processes used in the manufacture of these devices; and the interfaces and surfaces of these materials. For more information, visit the T-DMR Web page at: www.ieee.org/organizations/society/eds/tdmr.html

T-DMR can be found online in IEEE Xplore at: ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?puNumber=7298

12. WHY SECURE APPLICATIONS ARE DIFFICULT TO WRITE
Can software be both good and secure? James Whittaker writes in IEEE Security & Privacy that the computer science community is just now learning how to handle the complexity that arises when balancing these two software development needs. "Only by being aware of potential threats," writes Whittaker, "and using vigilant defensive countermeasures can we hope to write secure applications, and we can only achieve security through awareness and understanding of these issues." Read more: www.computer.org/security/v1n2/j2app.htm

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