EDUPAGE> Edupage, May 14, 2004
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Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 16:10:02 -0600
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TOP STORIES FOR FRIDAY, MAY 14, 2004
Feds Revamp Supercomputing Project, Oversight
Associations Call for Easing of Student Visa Restrictions
Feds No Longer Recognizing Bogus Degrees
Apple Offers Hardware for Bioinformatics Research
Congress Works to Restrict Camera Phones
FEDS REVAMP SUPERCOMPUTING PROJECT, OVERSIGHT
The Bush administration this week announced its support of the
High-Performance Computing Revitalization Act of 2004, which would
coordinate national supercomputing resources and expand access to them
for various research programs. Currently, oversight of supercomputing
efforts is spread among the Energy Department, the National Science
Foundation, and eight other federal agencies. Under the proposed
legislation, the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy
would have authority to manage all federal supercomputing systems,
implementing a plan that would "provide for sustained access by the
research community ... to high-performance computing systems that are
among the most advanced in the world." The measure would also provide
support for federal efforts to develop associated software technology
and to promote graduate and undergraduate studies in several areas,
including engineering, computer science, library and information
science, and applied mathematics.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 May 2004 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2004/05/2004051404n.htm
ASSOCIATIONS CALL FOR EASING OF STUDENT VISA RESTRICTIONS
A group of 25 organizations has called on the federal government to
modify security rules put in place after the September 11 attacks,
saying that the new procedures are hurting U.S. research efforts.
Because many international students are looking elsewhere for academic
training, especially in the sciences, the United States risks becoming
"isolated," according to Alan Leshner of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, one of the organizations that signed the
statement. A study by the Association of American Universities, which
also signed the statement, found that 50 percent of students affected
by visa delays are from China, which, with India, sends the most
students to the Unites States. A separate study by the Council of
Graduate Schools found that international applications to U.S. graduate
schools were down by 32 percent from 2003 to 2004. The groups called on
the federal government to streamline the visa application process,
which currently takes an average of more than four months, and to grant
security clearance to foreign students for the duration of their time
in the United States.
Wall Street Journal, 13 May 2004 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB108440195338910027,00.html
FEDS NO LONGER RECOGNIZING BOGUS DEGREES
Following an investigation by the General Accounting Office (GAO), the
federal government's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has
announced a new policy of not recognizing degrees from diploma mills.
The GAO report identified several hundred federal employees, including
some high-level officials, who had reported earning degrees from
unaccredited institutions. Kay Coles James, director of OPM, sent a
memo to all federal managers stating that diplomas from degree mills
cannot be used in applying for any federal job, obtaining salary
increases, or receiving tuition reimbursement. The memo stated, in
part, "You may not send employees to diploma mills for degree training
or any other form of education.... You may not use your authority to
repay student loans if the degree is from a diploma mill." According to
the OPM, diploma mills are institutions that are unaccredited or that
award degrees with little or no coursework.
Federal Computer Week, 14 May 2004
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0510/web-creds-05-14-04.asp
APPLE OFFERS HARDWARE FOR BIOINFORMATICS RESEARCH
In an effort to get more researchers to use Macintosh technology, Apple
Computer is offering workgroup clusters to five bioinformatics research
projects in the United States. According to the company's Web site,
Apple will choose five projects based on "the applicant's scientific
record, the likelihood that this project will discover something novel
using the award, and the likelihood that this research focus would
yield methods or discoveries applicable to the broader life science
community." Each winner will receive an Apple Workgroup Cluster for
Bioinformatics, including server hardware, bioinformatics applications,
and three years of service and support. Apple has been working with
researchers to encourage wider use of its products in scientific
pursuits, such as an initiative at Virginia Tech to combine 1,100 Apple
computers in a cluster configuration. That project resulted in one of
the fastest computing systems in the world.
Internet News, 14 May 2004
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3354081
CONGRESS WORKS TO RESTRICT CAMERA PHONES
The Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives has voted to
support a Senate bill restricting the use of camera phones. The Video
Voyeurism Prevention Act, which passed the Senate last fall, would make
it a crime to take secret pictures of people in places such as locker
rooms or bedrooms. Those found guilty could face fines and one year in
prison. The bill now moves to the full House, which is expected to
approve the legislation. A number of other countries are also sorting
through privacy issues surrounding camera phones, which are getting
smaller and increasingly sophisticated. Rules against camera phones in
locker rooms have been implemented in some fitness centers in Japan,
and government officials in Italy have issued guidelines for acceptable
uses of camera phones.
BBC, 13 May 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3711415.stm
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