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06-11-13-USACM-OutlookFortechPolicyInTheNextCongress.txt 06-11-20-AP-StudyDaysInternetOnlyBehindTVForScienceNews.txt 06-11-22-EETimes-IsOffshoringARiskToUSInnovation.txt 06-11-28-AP-TaiwanConcernedLackOfUSHelpOnCyberCrime.txt 06-12-06-USACM-TechPolicy-110thCongress-TechIndustryOffshoringAndGlobalization.txt 07-01-11-InfoWorld-SoftwareInformationIndustryAssociationSaysOffshoringDoesNotCostUSJobs.txt 07-01-18-BusWeek-LeadersCommentOnKeepingResearcgAndLeadershipInUS.txt 07-01-25-AP-ChinasPresidentCallsForInternetRegulationToPromoteHealthyOnlineCulture.txt 07-01-27-AP-IntelCEOSaysTechnologyReadyToAdvanceHealthCare.txt 07-02-00-CACM-OffshoringPresntsChallegingOpportunitiesForIT.txt 07-02-12-SJMerc-BrookingsReportPredictsJobLossesToOffshoring.txt 07-03-06-USACM-MoreReportsIssuedOnOffshoringIssuesAndPolicies.txt 07-04-23-McClatchyTrib-CalifBillWouldTeamStateAndMySpaceToFightInternetPredators.txt 07-04-24-BusWeek-TheMythOfHighTechOutsourcing.txt 07-05-23-CompWorldAus-GlobalNatureOfSoftwareDevelopmentRaisesSecurityIssues.txt 07-05-24-CarnegieMellonUniv-CompScientistsUsesCAPTCHATechnologyToImproveSecurityAndScannedTextSearchability.txt 07-05-31-InfoWeek-NewImmigrationBillAmmendmentCouldHelpKeepForiegnTechWorlersInUS.txt 07-06-12-CompWorld-USHouseCommitteeBeginsExaminationOfOffshoring.txt 07-06-18-AP-MissAmericaPartnersWithSymantecToPromoteInternetSafety.txt 07-06-25-NYT-HighTechEmployersNotSuccessfulInGettingMoreTemporaryWorkVisas.txt 07-06-27-SJMerc-OneInThreeKidsIsVictimOfCyberbullying.txt 07-07-06-SJMerc-OutsourcingsPresentsPoliticalChallenges.txt 07-07-07-SJMerc-ClintonTellsExecutivesAboutOutsourcingConcerns.txt 07-07-19-SJMerc-YouTubeVideosToBeUsedToQuestionPresidentialCandidates.txt 07-07-21-InfoWeek-TheMythsAndFactsDrivingH-1BVisaDebate.txt 07-07-24-AP-NCAGSaysMySpaceFound29KSexOffendersOnItsSite.txt 07-07-24-CNET-CongressSaysP2PFileSharingCouldHarmUSSecurity.txt 07-07-24-USHouse-CommitteeHearingOnInadvertentFileSharingOnP2PNetworks.txt 07-07-25-TechDirt-PoliticiansBlameP2PForHarmingUSSecurity.txt 07-08-01-CompWorld-USCongressAgreesToSpendingIncreaseForResearch.txt ==========> 03-08-06-SJMerc-OYEZProvidesSupremeCourtOral.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/6472326.htm Posted on Wed, Aug. 06, 2003 story:PUB_DESC Supreme Court oral arguments now available for file-swapping CHICAGO (AP) - Getting audio recordings of landmark legal arguments is becoming as easy as downloading the latest Snoop Dogg single. For the first time, Internet users can download, edit and swap many of the U.S. Supreme Court's greatest hits. ==========> 03-08-20-ACMUbiquity-ChangingRoleOfUnivLibraries.txt========== http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v4i25_henry.html Redefining the Role of the Library Chuck Henry on how academic libraries can survive and have purpose in a fluid environment. Chuck Henry is Vice President and CIO at Rice University, and also University Librarian, in charge of academic technology, university library and digital library initiatives. ==========> 04-01-00-CACM-TrustBuildingAndConsumerHealthPortals.txt========== Trust-building measures: a review of consumer health portals Wenhong Luo, Mohammad Najdawi January 2004 Communications of the ACM, Volume 47 Issue 1 Health Web sites are employ a medley of trust-building approaches. But does a definitive formula exist for winning consumer trust? A common reason consumers use the Internet is to search for health-related information. A survey found that 52 million Americans sought health information ==========> 04-03-24-SJMerc-CSEnrollmentDropsAsStudentsSeeOffshoringThreat.txt========== http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/8263034.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 24, 2004 U.S. students shun computer sciences OFFSHORING MAKES TECH CAREER LOOK RISKY By Karl Schoenberger Mercury News Undergraduates in U.S. universities are starting to abandon their studies in computer technology and engineering amid widespread worries about the ==========> 04-04-01-NYT-SurroundSoundForDigitalMerdiaFiles.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/01/technology/circuits/01next.html April 1, 2004 WHAT'S NEXT All the World's a Soundstage as Audio Formats Evolve By SEÁN CAPTAIN New York Times DESPITE the ultramodern aura of devices that play compressed digital music files, from the Apple iPod player to the Rio Karma, they all share one ==========> 04-04-02-TechRev-AugmentedRealitySystemsCouldHaveManyUses.txt========== http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_jenkins040204.asp Look, Listen, Walk "Augmented reality" researchers are using location-aware handhelds to change the way we experience the world around us. By Henry Jenkins Digital Renaissance April 2, 2004 You've seen them. Maybe you're one of them. They're the zombies of the New ==========> 04-04-06-UPI-TechGradsConcernedAboutGlobalization.txt========== http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040412-121243-1539r Faces of Globalization:Jobs for tech grads By Phil Magers UPI Correspondent Published 5/6/2004 3:46 PM DALLAS, May 6 (UPI) -- Brad Pitman is confident he will find a high tech job when he graduates from college this spring despite the industry's downturn and the constant chatter about outsourcing. ==========> 04-04-10-NewSci-PhotoRecognitionSWGivesLocation.txt========== http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994857 Photo recognition software gives location 10:00 10 April 04 Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition. You are lost in a foreign city, you don't speak the language and you are late for your meeting. What do you do? Take out your cellphone, photograph the nearest building and press send. ==========> 04-04-15-SydneyMornHerald-SurroundSoundAddedToMP3.txt========== http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/14/1081838778429.html Surround sound walking By Sean Captain April 15, 2004 Sydney Morning Herald Despite the ultra-modern aura of devices that play compressed digital music files, from the Apple iPod player to the Rio Karma, they all share one anachronistic trait - they only have two audio channels. The basic stereo ==========> 04-04-26-CompWorld-CompetingStatndardsForNextGenerationDVD.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,92587,00.html Optical storage sings the blues Blue-laser technology will dramatically boost storage densities of optical media Emerging Technology by Gary H. Anthes APRIL 26, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Even IT managers can get the blues. Or at least that's what a gaggle of vendors are hoping as they prepare ultradense optical storage products based on blue-laser technology. ==========> 04-04-27-USAToday-IntelCEOSaysBetterEduandRandDNeededInUS.txt========== http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-04-27-forum_x.htm Posted 4/27/2004 11:17 PM USA Today Intel CEO: Let's end political games and compete Q: Intel is at the center of two trends people blame, perhaps unfairly, for slow U.S. job growth — outsourcing and high productivity. Are politicians pandering to voters on this issue, or do you see any troubling trends? ==========> 04-04-28-NYT-LimitsToMovingProgrammingJobsOffshore.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/28/technology/28SOUR.html April 28, 2004 Send Jobs to India? Some Find It's Not Always Best By EDUARDO PORTER New York Times Even as the prospect of high-skilled American jobs moving to low-wage countries like India ignites hot political debate, some entrepreneurs are finding that India's vaunted high-technology work force is not always as effective as ==========> 04-04-30-USACM-EPICToHostITPolicyConference.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol 8.4, April 30, 2004 ******************************* [1] USACM Offers to Assist Federal Commission in Assessing Evoting Systems [2] USACM and CRA Urge Congressional Support for IT Research at NIST [3] USACM Joins Diverse Coalition in Seeking Changes to the DMCA [4] Legislation Introduced to Reauthorize the High Performance Computing Act [5] EPIC to Host IT Policy Conference in Washington ******************************* ==========> 04-05-04-CNETNews-ReformsNeededToKeepJobsInUS.txt========== http://news.com.com/2009-1070_3-5198156.html Reforms, not rhetoric, needed to keep jobs on U.S. soil By Ed Frauenheim and Mike Yamamoto May 4, 2004, 4:00AM PT As a senior Silicon Valley executive, Bob Denis hears a lot of talk about the exportation of jobs overseas--but little that addresses the real problem. Instead of blaming black-hearted CEOs or predatory foreign countries, he ==========> 04-05-14-SJMerc-FedsArrest65InP2PChildPornographyProbe.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8669106.htm Posted on Fri, May. 14, 2004 Feds announce 65 arrests, 1,000 cases in Internet child porn file-sharing probe WASHINGTON (AP) - A nationwide probe into child pornography trafficking using Internet file-sharing networks has resulted in 1,000 investigations and at least 65 arrests, federal officials announced Friday. The broader investigation centers on the growing use of ``peer-to-peer,'' or ==========> 04-05-14-TechNewsWorld-DesktopSearchesChallengeMS.txt========== http://www.technewsworld.com/story/ptech/33786.html Searching Data: Browsers, Toolbars and the Desktop By Jack M. Germain TechNewsWorld 05/14/04 4:00 AM PT "There is little value-added service derived from desktop searching," Leslie Grandy, vice president of product management for InfoSpace's Search & Directory division, told TechNewsWorld. "It remains a challenge figuring out how to drive ==========> 04-05-30-LATimes-OverseasOutsourcingHitsTechWorkers.txt========== http://www.latimes.com/la-na-programmer30may30,1,404586.story May 30, 2004 Outsourcing Ax Falls Hard on Tech Workers As the slump persists, some train their low-cost replacements before being shown the door. By Warren Vieth, Times Staff Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The global economy finally caught up with Cliff Cotterill. ==========> 04-06-10-SJMerc-USLaborDeptReportSaysOffshoringAMinorFactor.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8891993.htm Posted on Thu, Jun. 10, 2004 Report: Offshoring is minor factor in job loss By Ken Moritsugu Knight Ridder WASHINGTON - Shifting jobs overseas accounted for only a tiny fraction of U.S. job losses in the first three months of the year, according to a first-ever report released Thursday by the Labor Department. ==========> 04-06-22-SJMerc-StudiesSupportBothSidesOfOffshoringDebate.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8982080.htm Posted on Tue, Jun. 22, 2004 Dueling studies support both sides of offshoring debate By Mike Cassidy Mercury News The beautiful thing about the offshoring debate is that you can pick your side and then you can pick your study. ==========> 04-07-00-ACMInteractions-InsightsnOutsourcing.txt========== Fast forward: Insights on outsourcing Aaron Marcus July 2004 interactions, Volume 11 Issue 4 What's in it for us? For them? Where are we headed? We are living in historic times. Some might say we are living in interesting times, as in the well-known curse, "May you live in interesting times," but I'd like to think that the rapid international changes of the past decades and ==========> 04-09-00-ACM-ACMFormsOutsourcingTaskForce.txt========== http://campus.acm.org/public/membernet/storypage_2.cfm?ci=September_2004&story=2 &CFID=28812759&CFTOKEN=42019328 ACM to Assess Global Impacts of IT Outsourcing September 2004 "We see the work of the task force as discovery study by experts who share ACM's commitment to advancing broad understanding of... outsourcing and offshoring of IT employment opportunities." ==========> 04-09-30-WashPost-OffshoringForcesTechWorkersToShiftStrategy.txt========== http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61078-2004Sep29.html Offshoring Forces Tech-Job Seekers To Shift Strategy By Ellen McCarthy Thursday, September 30, 2004; Page E01 Washington Post At a conference more than 10 years ago, Carol L. Covin predicted that technology jobs would never be moved offshore. "It's hard enough to explain what you want to a programmer down the hall, much less overseas," she recalls ==========> 04-11-00-CACM-ExportingITJobsAndImportingITWorkersIsHarmfulToAll.txt========== Viewpoint: Globalization and the American IT worker Norman Matloff November 2004 Communications of the ACM, Volume 47 Issue 11 Exporting IT jobs and importing IT workers not only harms U.S. IT workers, it also harms U.S. firms and the broader economy. No matter what kind of globalization of IT one considers—whether offshoring the work or importing foreign workers to the U.S. under the H-1B and L-1 work visa ==========> 04-12-31-USACM-ACMJobMigrationTaskForceMeets.txt========== =================================================== ACM Washington Update Vol. 8.12 (December 31, 2004) =================================================== [1] ACM JOB MIGRATION TASK FORCE MEETS IN D.C. ACM's Job Migration Task Force held a meeting earlier this month in Washington, D.C. The task force heard presentations from, among others, representatives of the Institute for International Economics, the Cato Institute, the Economic Policy Institute, and the U.S. ==========> 05-02-00-ACMQueue-ThePitfallsOfOutsourcing.txt========== Features: A passage to India Mark Kobayashi-Hillary February 2005 Queue, Volume 3 Issue 1 Pitfalls that the outsourcing vendor forgot to mention Most American IT employees take a dim view of offshore outsourcing. It’s considered unpatriotic and it drains valuable intellectual capital and jobs from the United States to destinations such as India or China. Online ==========> 05-03-02-SJMerc-HonestDebateNeededOnOutsourcingTechJobs.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11032590.htm Posted on Wed, Mar. 02, 2005 As jobs are outsourced, honest debate is needed By Miguel Helft San Jose Mercury News It's time to ask whether the rise of tech powerhouses in Asia and the movement of tech jobs there will do to Silicon Valley what the rise of the Japanese car industry did to places like Flint, Mich. ==========> 05-03-03-WashMonthly-USLoosingEdgeInElectronicsProducts.txt========== http://www.alternet.org/story/21400/ Dearth of a Nation By Benjamin Wallace-Wells, Washington Monthly Posted on March 3, 2005, Printed on March 28, 2005 There is a moment in the lifespan of every cool new gadget – two years after Bill Gates buys one, a year and a half after the popular press gets wind of it – that its price drops enough to show up in significant numbers on the shelves at Best Buy, the electronic superstore. At this instant, the product becomes ==========> 05-03-28-USGovt-ProposedRulemakingOnSensitiveTechnologyTransfer.txt========== http://www.regulations.gov/freddocs/05-06057.htm [Federal Register: March 28, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 58)] [Proposed Rules] [Page 15607-15609] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr28mr05-24] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ==========> 05-07-25-SJMerc-HighTechExecutivesComplainAboutUnmetNeeds.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12217418.htm Posted on Mon, Jul. 25, 2005 Bush's high-tech report card DOES THE PRESIDENT `GET IT'? EXECUTIVES COMPLAIN TOO MANY NEEDS REMAIN UNMET By Jim Puzzanghera San Jose Mercury News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Early in his first run for the White House, George W. Bush traveled to Palo Alto and told high-tech executives that he understood their ==========> 05-07-31-USACM-CngressMovesToBolsterMathAndSciencePrograms.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 9.7 31 July 2005 ============================================================= [6] CONGRESS MOVES TO BOLSTER MATH AND SCIENCE PROGRAMS The House Education and Workforce Committee recently passed two new math and science education programs as part of the "College Access and Opportunity Act" ==========> 05-10-17-BusWeek-USDOCReleasesReportOnOffshoringWhiteCollarJobs.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_42/c3955025.htm OCTOBER 17, 2005 Just The Bright Side, Thanks By Nanette Byrnes Business Week After holding off for more than a year, the Commerce Dept. has quietly released a study of offshoringothe movement of white-collar jobs to low-wage countries. But it's not the even-handed assessment completed by staff analysts in June, ==========> 06-01-04-SJMerc-ManAccusedOfMolestingTeenFromOnlineMeeting.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13549535.htm Posted on Wed, Jan. 04, 2006 Man accused of molesting teen he met through Xbox Live Mercury News SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) - A 26-year-old man was arrested on charges he molested a teenage boy he met through Microsoft Corp.'s popular Xbox Live online video game community, authorities said. ==========> 06-01-13-SJMerc-SenBaucusSaysUSMustLiveWithWhiteCollarOutsourcing.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/13619762.htm Posted on Fri, Jan. 13, 2006 Senator calls outsourcing of white-collar jobs a fact of life Mercury News BANGALORE, India (AP) - Sen. Max Baucus, the top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, said Friday that outsourcing white-collar jobs to low-wage countries such as India has become a global fact of life -- and that America must learn to live with it. ==========> 06-02-23-ACM-JobMigrationTaskForce.txt========== http://www.acm.org/globalizationreport/ Job Migration Task Force ACM Globalization and Offshoring of Software A Report of the ACM Job Migration Task Force William Aspray, Frank Mayadas, Moshe Y. Vardi, Editors [Accessed Feb. 23, 2006] This study reports on the findings of the Job Migration Task Force established ==========> 06-02-28-USACM-ReportOnGlobalizationOfSoftwarerReleased.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.2 28 February 2006 ============================================================= [2] ACM RELEASES MAJOR REPORT ON THE GLOBALIZATION OF SOFTWARE After more than year of study, ACM released its report examining issues surrounding the migration of jobs within the computing and information ==========> 06-03-03-AP-CyberStalkingAndHumiliationGrowingProblemInSKorea.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14010430.htm Posted on Fri, Mar. 03, 2006 Internet harassment roils world's most-wired country SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Kim Hyo-bi doesn't want her picture taken any more. Not after the 22-year-old student's portrait wound up on a photo-sharing Web site last summer with her face colored and distorted to make her look silly, titled alongside the original as ``Before and After.'' ==========> 06-03-13-SciAm-ConcernsAboutOffshoringDODSoftware.txt========== http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=00003B8B-9E76-13F3-9E768 3414B7F0000 March 13, 2006 Software Insecurity Outsourcing and defense fear of "foreign influence" By Daniel G. Dupont, Scientific American JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER, an international project, contains software code written outside the U.S. ==========> 06-03-21-CNETNews-IsAGlobalHighTechWorkforceBadForTheUS.txt========== http://news.com.com/Is+a+global+high-tech+work+force+bad+for+U.S./2100-1022_3-60 51686.html Is a global high-tech work force bad for U.S.? By Anne Broache CNET Networks Story last modified Tue Mar 21 07:04:34 PST 2006 WASHINGTON--Could the much-discussed globalization of the high-tech work force mean gloom and doom for historical U.S. dominance in the industry? ==========> 06-03-26-CompWorld-OutsourcingCitedInFloridaDataLeak.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,109938,00.htm l Offshore outsourcing cited in Florida data leak State employees are being warned that their personal data may have been compromised News Story by Robert McMillan MARCH 26, 2006 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Florida state employees are being warned that their personal information may have been compromised after work on the ==========> 06-04-07-SJMerc-H-1BVisaLawCriticized.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14288276.htm Posted on Fri, Apr. 07, 2006 H-1B visa law criticized ANALYSIS: PROGRAM GIVES AMERICANS NO PROTECTION, `NEEDS TO BE FIXED' By K. Oanh Ha Mercury News When a Sunnyvale tech company laid off the manager and most of his colleagues in its reliability testing group a year and a half ago, the manager said a few ==========> 06-04-12-SJmerc-StanfordLaunchesFirstOnlineSchoolForGiftedYouth.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14325928.htm Posted on Wed, Apr. 12, 2006 First virtual high school for the gifted STANFORD PROGRAM AIMS TO NURTURE TALENT By Becky Bartindale Mercury News Stanford University's Education Program for Gifted Youth is taking the next logical step: launching what is believed to be the nation's first online high ==========> 06-04-18-SJMerc-DanGilmorCitizenJournalismWebsiteSold.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14367547.htm Posted on Tue, Apr. 18, 2006 'Citizen journalism' in Palo Alto D.C. START-UP TO BUY BAYOSPHERE WEB SITE By Therese Poletti Mercury News Backfence, a Washington D.C.-area start-up building a network of local community Web sites, said it plans a Web site for Palo Alto over the next two ==========> 06-05-02-ITMgmt-DissentingOpinionsAboutOutsourcing.txt========== http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/bizalign/article.php/3603116 Dissenting Opinions About Outsourcing May 2, 2006 By Steve Andriole, IT Management There have been lots of “studies” on job migration and outsourcing over the past five years that try to position outsourcing as something political: outsourcing creates jobs … outsourcing is the inevitable consequence of globalization … outsourcing will destroy the U.S. labor force. But what’s ==========> 06-05-12-ALA-OppseDOPAAct-WouldBlockAccessToContentSharingSites.txt========== ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 15, Number 53 May 12, 2006 =20 In This Issue: Bill would extend reach of CIPA by blocking access to collaborative networking sites =20 ==========> 06-05-22-NAS-CSTBToHoldSessionOnEvotingAndOnlineCommunities.txt========== http://cstb.org/events/opensession.html Computer Science and Telecommunications Board Open Session May 2006 Monday, May 22, 2006 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. The Keck Center of the National Academies Room 100 500 Fifth Street, NW ==========> 06-06-29-SJMerc-CongressConsidersRequireingSafeguardsOnSocialNetworkingSites.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14930139.htm Posted on Thu, Jun. 29, 2006 Congress takes aim at social networking sites' safeguards By Frank Davies, Mercury News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Booming social networking sites such as MySpace.com, which alone has 85 million members and is adding 250,000 per day, are trying to screen out sexual predators and vulnerable underage users, their representatives told Congress Wednesday. But now they're facing growing pressure to do more. ==========> 06-09-05-USACM-TechAdministrationReportOnOffshoring.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.8 September 5, 2006 ============================================================= Technology Administration Report on Offshoring Released At the end of July, Democrats on the House Science Committee released portions of a previously unreleased official report on globalization by the ==========> 06-10-06-USACM-OffshoringResearchSupportsACMGobalizationReport.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.9, October 6, 2006 ADDITIONAL OFFSHORING RESEARCH MIRRORS ACM GLOBALIZATION REPORT We wrote in last month's edition of the newsletter about the House Democrats forcing the release of parts of a Technology Administration report on offshoring. In the first part of September, the General Accounting Office (GAO) released a report on offshoring as well, focusing on the semiconductor and software industries. The National Bureau of Economic Research also released a paper on offshoring, but it is written more generally, and ==========> 06-11-06-USACM-EngineeringOffshoringExaminedByNationalAcademyOfEngineering.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.10 November 6, 2006 ============================================================= [4] ENGINEERING OFFSHORING EXAMINED BY NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING On October 24th and 25th, The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) hosted a workshop on the offshoring of engineering intended to help develop or ==========> 06-11-13-USACM-OutlookFortechPolicyInTheNextCongress.txt========== http://www.acm.org/usacm/weblog/index.php?p=435 USACM, November 13, 2006 Meet the New Boss: Outlook for Technology Policy in the Next Congress The outcome of last week’s election is now clear with the Democrats taking over the legislative branch. The dust, however, is far from settled. Democrats have the opportunity to make a profound and lasting impact on technology policy. What shape this will take is unclear, because much of it will be dictated by the new House and Senate Chairpersons who have not organized or set any agendas ==========> 06-11-20-AP-StudyDaysInternetOnlyBehindTVForScienceNews.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16060921.htm Posted on Mon, Nov. 20, 2006 Study: Internet ranks behind only TV for science news NEW YORK (AP) - The Internet ranks behind only television as the leading source for science news and information, but most users won't blindly trust what they read online, a new study finds. The Pew Internet and American Life Project said in a report Monday that 20 ==========> 06-11-22-EETimes-IsOffshoringARiskToUSInnovation.txt========== http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=P2IYMAEJD2W4EQSN DLSCKHA?articleID=195900181 Offshoring: risk to U.S. innovation? George Leopold, EE Times, (11/22/2006 5:02 PM EST) WASHINGTON — The U.S. engineering community is wrestling with the quickening pace of offshoring—and what, if anything, should be done about it. As they work to document the extent of offshoring in areas such as chip design, experts are trying to get their arms around globalization's implications for the ==========> 06-11-28-AP-TaiwanConcernedLackOfUSHelpOnCyberCrime.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16117527.htm Posted on Tue, Nov. 28, 2006 Taiwan official bemoans lack of U.S. cooperation against cyber crime TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - A senior Taiwanese law enforcement official said Tuesday he could not get American authorities to help the island fight cyber crime -- even in cases that directly affected the United States. Lee Hsiang-chen, director of the High-tech Criminal Center of the National ==========> 06-12-06-USACM-TechPolicy-110thCongress-TechIndustryOffshoringAndGlobalization.txt========== ============================================================= ACM Washington Update Vol. 10.11 December 6, 2006 ============================================================= TECHNOLOGY POLICY IN THE 110TH CONGRESS - MEET THE NEW BOSS The 110th Congress will have a new Democratic majority in both Houses. Democrats have the opportunity to make a profound and lasting impact on ==========> 07-01-11-InfoWorld-SoftwareInformationIndustryAssociationSaysOffshoringDoesNotCostUSJobs.txt========== http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/11/HNsiaa_1.html Survey: Offshoring does not cost developer jobs Lack of engineers in U.S. is cited by software companies as reason for increasing offshore work By Paul Krill, InfoWorld, January 11, 2007 Offshoring of software development by software companies is not costing Americans jobs, according to a report being announced Thursday by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). ==========> 07-01-18-BusWeek-LeadersCommentOnKeepingResearcgAndLeadershipInUS.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jan2007/sb20070118_135378.htm Business Week, January 18, 2007 Keeping Research and Leadership at Home, by Vivek Wadhwa Nine leaders offer their opinions on what the U.S. should do to hold onto its braintrust and stay on the cutting edge of innovation Globalization is reality. U.S. businesses see tremendous opportunities abroad and will increasingly locate their operations closer to growth markets. They will also outsource engineering jobs to reduce costs and move their research ==========> 07-01-25-AP-ChinasPresidentCallsForInternetRegulationToPromoteHealthyOnlineCulture.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16544824.htm Posted on Thu, Jan. 25, 2007 China's Hu calls for tighter Internet regulation BEIJING (AP) - President Hu Jintao has ordered Chinese Internet regulators to promote a ``healthy online culture'' to protect the government's stability, state media said Thursday. Hu told officials at a meeting Tuesday of the Communist Party's ruling ==========> 07-01-27-AP-IntelCEOSaysTechnologyReadyToAdvanceHealthCare.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/16562616.htm Posted on Sat, Jan. 27, 2007 Intel head links technology, health care MATT MOORE, Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland - New technologies are ready to be used to advance health care, while a plan to bring computers and fast Internet access to the developing world is being undertaken, the chairman of Intel Corp. said in an interview Saturday. ==========> 07-02-00-CACM-OffshoringPresntsChallegingOpportunitiesForIT.txt========== Communications of the ACM Volume 50, Number 2 (2007), Pages 89-94 The impact of offshore outsourcing on IT workers in developed countries Benjamin B. M. Shao, Julie Smith David Examining the global implications of outsourcing for IT workers. Offshore outsourcing has been featured in recent headlines and is said to create scores of challenges, controversies, and worries for businesses, government agencies, and IT workers in developed countries like Germany, the ==========> 07-02-12-SJMerc-BrookingsReportPredictsJobLossesToOffshoring.txt========== http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/16680139.htm Posted on Mon, Feb. 12, 2007 Report predicts job losses to offshoring By Nicole C. Wong, Mercury News Silicon Valley is likely to lose at least one out of every five computer programming, software engineering and data-entry jobs that existed in 2004 due to offshoring over the next decade, according to a first-of-its-kind report being released today by the Brookings Institution. ==========> 07-03-06-USACM-MoreReportsIssuedOnOffshoringIssuesAndPolicies.txt========== ACM Washington Update Vol. 11.2 March 6, 2007 ============================================================= OFFSHORING RESULTS IN MORE OFFSHORING REPORTS The Brookings Institution released a report in February exploring how offshoring impacts local economies in the U.S. and how public policy should respond. It isn't a mystery that offshoring and globalization cause major upheaval in job markets, particularly technology jobs that are fairly ==========> 07-04-23-McClatchyTrib-CalifBillWouldTeamStateAndMySpaceToFightInternetPredators.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/personaltech/ci_5730701 New legislation aiming to fight Internet predators STATE, MYSPACE WOULD TEAM UP By Jim Sanders, McClatchy-Tribune, 04/23/2007 01:40:40 AM PDT SACRAMENTO - New legislation could team California and MySpace in an innovative but controversial way to fight sex offenders who prowl chat rooms for child victims. ==========> 07-04-24-BusWeek-TheMythOfHighTechOutsourcing.txt========== http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2007/tc20070424_967747.htm?cha n=top+news_top+news+index_top+story Business Week, April 24, 2007, 12:01AM EST The Myth of High-Tech Outsourcing A new report finds that U.S. demand for IT professionals in 2006 reached levels not seen since before the dot-com bust, by Catherine Holahan High-tech employees are back in demand. The U.S. technology industry added almost 150,000 jobs in 2006, according to an Apr. 24 report by the American ==========> 07-05-23-CompWorldAus-GlobalNatureOfSoftwareDevelopmentRaisesSecurityIssues.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1888189123 Globalization has made software development a national security issue Expert says the global nature of software development is a concern Sandra Rossi, Computer World Australia, 23/05/2007 14:05:50 Former US cyber security tsar Andy Purdy this week warned that globalization, which is driving companies to pursue talent and lower costs around the world, has turned software development into a national security issue. ==========> 07-05-24-CarnegieMellonUniv-CompScientistsUsesCAPTCHATechnologyToImproveSecurityAndScannedTextSearchability.txt========== http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2007/May/may24_recaptcha.shtml Carnegie Mellon Project Boosts Book Digitization Efforts System Improves Internet Security and Book Searchability, CMU, May 24, 2007 PITTSBURGH—A Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist is enlisting the unwitting help of thousands, if not millions, of Web users each day to eliminate a technical bottleneck that has slowed efforts to transform books, newspapers and other printed materials into digitized text that is computer searchable. ==========> 07-05-31-InfoWeek-NewImmigrationBillAmmendmentCouldHelpKeepForiegnTechWorlersInUS.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199800102 New Immigration Bill Amendment Could Help Keep Foreign Tech Workers In U.S. A proposal to create a dual green-card system that favors high tech talent has bi-partisan support in the Senate. By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek, May 31, 2007 04:50 PM A bi-partisan group of U.S. senators next week is expected to introduce to the immigration reform bill an amendment that proposes to retain a pool of 140,000 employer-sponsored green cards for foreign workers seeking permanent residence ==========> 07-06-12-CompWorld-USHouseCommitteeBeginsExaminationOfOffshoring.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomy Id=14&articleId=9024518&intsrc=hm_topic House committee begins examination of offshore outsourcing's impact Hearing, first in a planned series, focuses on shift of research work overseas Patrick Thibodeau June 12, 2007 (Computerworld) -- WASHINGTON – A congressional committee hearing held Tuesday on the impact of IT offshoring began with a stark warning from the panel's chairman, U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.), that "the best jobs may soon ==========> 07-06-18-AP-MissAmericaPartnersWithSymantecToPromoteInternetSafety.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6169208 Miss America partners with Symantec to promote Internet safety Associated Press, 06/18/2007 07:13:51 AM PDT OKLAHOMA CITY - Having already helped police target sexual predators online, Miss America Lauren Nelson now is teaming with a security software company to help educate parents and children about dangers on the Internet. Nelson, 20, will join officials from Symantec Corp. as a tractor-trailer with ==========> 07-06-25-NYT-HighTechEmployersNotSuccessfulInGettingMoreTemporaryWorkVisas.txt========== http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/25/technology/25tech.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The New York Times, June 25, 2007 High-Tech Titans Strike Out on Immigration Bill, By ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON, June 24 — Bill Gates and Steven A. Ballmer of Microsoft have led a parade of high-tech executives to Capitol Hill, urging lawmakers to provide more visas for temporary foreign workers and permanent immigrants who can fill critical jobs. ==========> 07-06-27-SJMerc-OneInThreeKidsIsVictimOfCyberbullying.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6242998?nclick_check=1 Study: One in three kids is victim of cyberbullying By S.L. Wykes, Mercury News, Article Launched: 06/27/2007 01:16:38 PM PDT Teenager Austin Stewart did something a friend didn't like and the next thing she knew "a non-stop flood of hurtfulness" was posted about her on Facebook and other networking Web sites. "It was all about how stupid I was - and a lot of stuff about my appearance," ==========> 07-07-06-SJMerc-OutsourcingsPresentsPoliticalChallenges.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6310946?nclick_check=1 Outsourcing's challenge PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES PRESSURED ON BOTH SIDES OF COMPLICATED LABOR ISSUE By Mary Anne Ostrom, Mercury News, Article Launched: 07/06/2007 01:34:36 AM PDT It may not be as big a campaign issue as the war in Iraq or universal health insurance, but outsourcing of U.S. jobs is becoming one of the hottest topics of the 2008 presidential race, with Silicon Valley leaders playing key roles. ==========> 07-07-07-SJMerc-ClintonTellsExecutivesAboutOutsourcingConcerns.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6320636 Clinton gives voice to outsourcing fears By Mary Anne Ostrom, Mercury News, Article Launched: 07/07/2007 01:35:29 AM PDT Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., addresses the Indian Institute of Technology convention via video feed from New Orleans, in Santa Clara, Calif., Friday, July 6, 2007. Clinton addressed 4,000 businesspeople attending the annual alumni conference of the IIT, one of the world's most elite universities. Clinton was the only Republican or Democratic ==========> 07-07-19-SJMerc-YouTubeVideosToBeUsedToQuestionPresidentialCandidates.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6411665 YouTube presidential debate breaks the rules By Mary Anne Ostrom, Mercury News, 07/19/2007 05:04:51 AM PDT Yes, this is still the YouTube you know and love: The guys from redstateupdate.com want the male Democratic candidates to take off their shirts for an abs contest. The odds are CNN will not choose that video to air at Monday's ==========> 07-07-21-InfoWeek-TheMythsAndFactsDrivingH-1BVisaDebate.txt========== http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=40JCJXL5LMLJIQSNDLPC KH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=201200100 The Myths And Facts Driving The H-1B Debate The debate's not easing up. All the more reason to be armed with data to consider the topic. By Alice LaPlante, Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek, July 21, 2007 The emotion around the H-1B debate is as intense as ever. The facts and concerns about the U.S. guest worker program are changing, however, as demand ==========> 07-07-24-AP-NCAGSaysMySpaceFound29KSexOffendersOnItsSite.txt========== http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6451988 NC AG: MySpace finds 29,000 sex offenders on its site, 4 times the figure previously disclosed Associated Press, 07/24/2007 11:18:48 AM PDT RALEIGH, N.C. - MySpace.com has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders with profiles on the popular social networking Web site - more than four times the number cited by the company two months ago, North Carolina officials said Tuesday. ==========> 07-07-24-CNET-CongressSaysP2PFileSharingCouldHarmUSSecurity.txt========== http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-6198585.html Congress: P2P networks harm national security By Anne Broache, CNET Networks, Story last modified Tue Jul 24 16:22:23 PDT 2007 WASHINGTON--Politicians charged on Tuesday that peer-to-peer networks can pose a "national security threat" because they enable federal employees to share sensitive or classified documents accidentally from their computers. At a hearing on the topic, Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman ==========> 07-07-24-USHouse-CommitteeHearingOnInadvertentFileSharingOnP2PNetworks.txt========== http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1424 US House, Tuesday, July 24, 2007,Information Technology Committee Holds Hearing on Inadvertent File Sharing over Peer-to-Peer Networks Table of Contents Overview Chairman Waxman's Opening Statement On Tuesday, July 24, 2007, the Committee held a hearing to examine recent ==========> 07-07-25-TechDirt-PoliticiansBlameP2PForHarmingUSSecurity.txt========== http://techdirt.com/articles/20070724/204401.shtml TechDirt, by Mike Masnick, Wed, Jul 25th 2007 6:37am Politicians Blame P2P Software For Not Stopping Gov't Employee Stupidity from the no,-seriously dept Would you elect as your Congressional representative someone who blamed automakers because a bad driver crashed a car through his or her own negligence? Would you elect as your Congressional representative someone who claimed that email was a threat to national security because it can (and has) ==========> 07-08-01-CompWorld-USCongressAgreesToSpendingIncreaseForResearch.txt========== http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleI d=9028683 Congress eyes R&D spending to counter offshoring of jobs House, Senate deal would also create a DARPA clone, increase federal venture funding Patrick Thibodeau August 01, 2007 (Computerworld) -- WASHINGTON -- The high-tech community owes much to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for some of its