GSA to sponsor Section 508 seminar Monday
OCT. 12'On Monday, the National Science Foundation and the General Services Administration will sponsor a three-hour seminar on ways to make online information systems more accessible to users with vision, motor or other impairments.
Agency tests ways to clean up data exchange with states
The Environmental Protection Agency and its state partners are engaged in several pilots to explore the use of Extensible Markup Language, electronic data interchange and a public-key infrastructure to improve the way EPA and states exchange information.
Initiatives aim to reduce paper
The Environmental Protection Agency is attempting to increase electronic reporting, as well as boost Internet accessibility of environmental data from government and private sources.
INTERVIEW: EPA focuses on integration
Edwin A. Levine, acting chief information officer and deputy assistant administrator for the Office of Environmental Information at the Environmental Protection Agency, joined EPA in April after 20 years in the state government information technology trenches.
INTERVIEW: Kathleen Adams, SRA's e-government champion
Moving from the public sector to the private sector hasn't stopped Kathleen Adams from pursuing her interest in electronic government.
Army Medical Command will deploy e-signature technology
OCT. 11—The Army Medical Command has signed a $1.5 million enterprisewide license agreement with Silanis Technology Inc. of Montreal for software that will allow the command's 40,000 workers to sign forms electronically.
Latest version of WinZip comes in handy when your OS compression programs fail
Pesky .zip archive files pop up all the time. Although newer versions of Microsoft Windows can deal with ZIP archives, there's still a need for dedicated compression-decompression utilities.
LAB NOTES
WinMe, lose me. Once might be a coincidence, but getting a fatal exception error two or more times indicates a problem.
Earthmate and Street Atlas USA get you going in the right direction without hassle
Getting where you need to go isn't necessarily easier now that mapping tools are online. Yahoo Maps, for example, always tells me to go around the block just to leave my house.
Nextel phones get the signal through
The rugged i700plus wireless phone and the stylishly small i1000plus, both from Nextel Communications Inc., aim at business rather than consumer communication. They can function as pagers, radios and Web devices.
Foundry's cache switch speeds access to Web links
A caching switch from Foundry Networks Inc. can intelligently route traffic based on content.
Energy links supercomputers
The Energy Department is putting a lot of energy into its Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative supercomputers, 'trying to reach 100 trillion floating-point operations per second by 2004,' said John Naegle, a top member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M.
INTERNAUT
One advantage of writing a column is that you discover so much information while looking up other stuff. Here are a few of my recent discoveries.
State consolidates treaty data
Arms control negotiators can quickly search extensive text and image databases at a secure portal recently opened by a State Department bureau.
POWER USER
My most recent column was about the best computer inventions of the last 1,000 years, and so is this one. As I look back, I see a lot more great ideas than terrible ones.
THE BELTWAY AND BEYOND
How will information technology impact democracy? That question was pondered by a group convened recently by the Aspen Institute of Washington.
THE VIEW FROM INSIDE
The upcoming presidential election has professional pundits and civil servants alike speculating about what is in store for the coming four years. It seems safe to say that either candidate, if elected, will want agencies to keep pursuing online government.
CERT will publicize all new security vulnerabilities within 45 days
OCT. 10—The CERT Coordination Center has announced a new policy of disclosing all newly discovered computer security vulnerabilities within 45 days.
DOD begins rolling out smart card program
OCT. 10—The Defense Department today officially unveiled its common access card, a smart card that will replace the uniformed services ID card.
CLIENT SIDE
As a computer geek, I hear at least once a month: 'Hey, what PC should I buy?'
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