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Internet
Voting is no "Magic Ballot," Distinguished Committee Reports
Trials should proceed in which Internet terminals are used at traditional
polling places, but remote voting from home or the workplace is
not viable in the near future. So says a new report, commissioned
by the National Science Foundation (NSF), in which a committee of
experts calls for further research into complex security and reliability
obstacles that for now impede the Internet's use in public elections.
In December 1999, the White House directed NSF to lead a study of
Internet voting. With a grant from NSF, the Internet Policy Institute
(IPI, a nonprofit, nonpartisan institute) and the University of
Maryland organized an October 2000 workshop whose results are summarized
in the report. More...
(posted Mar 6 2001)
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Virtual
Tutor Helps Hearing-Impaired Children to Learn Speech
Information technology
(IT) research has created a 3D computerized tutor that helps profoundly
deaf children to develop their conversational skills. "Baldi," the
animated instructor, converses via the latest technologies for speech
recognition and generation, showing students how to understand and
produce spoken language. The conversational agent for language training
was developed through a three-year, $1.8 million National Science
Foundation (NSF) grant. More...
(posted Mar 6 2001)
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