Open source advocate suggests incentive program
An open-source software advocate is proposing an incentive program to encourage developers to release their source code after it has earned a certain amount of money.<br>
House panel grills Los Alamos managers
Three present and former Los Alamos National Laboratory officials today denied that they tried to thwart investigations into allegations of theft and mismanagement last year.<br>
SCO sues IBM over Unix
The SCO Group of Lindon, Utah, today announced it is suing IBM Corp. for $1 billion over intellectual property rights to the Unix operating system.<br>
Whistleblowers tell Congress: Gut Los Alamos
Los Alamos National Laboratory officials tried to stymie investigators looking into theft and corruption at the New Mexico weapons lab, a House oversight panel heard late last month.
On the Hill, more Web sites making the grade
Congressional Web sites improved dramatically over the past year, but the number of poor sites remained almost the same, the Congress Online Project concluded last week in its second annual study.
Navy gateway fosters career chats, learning
The new Navy Knowledge Online portal, at <a href= "http://www.nko.navy.mil">www.nko.navy.mil</a>, em-phasizes career learning and collaboration skills.
Grid models drug effects on smallpox
The Defense Department will soon learn whether grid computing can enlist enough idle desktop computing cycles to help in the development of a drug to treat smallpox.
Informatica tool lets noncoders warehouse data
The Informatica PowerAnalyzer business intelligence application has a dashboard-style browser interface with buttons, tabs and pull-down menus to convert tabular data into analytical graphics.
Army is first customer for brand-new Cray X1
After four years of federally subsidized development by Cray Inc. of Seattle, the new Cray X1 supercomputer weds the vector architecture of its Cray ancestors to modern massively parallel designs.
Capitol Content: Architect's offices benefit from common site management system
When James Graham started work for the Architect of the Capitol in the spring of 2001, there was no system for updating materials on the office's Web and intranet sites.
Hill Web sites improve their grades in latest review
Many Web sites for individual members of Congress have improved their services since last year, but the number of poor sites remained almost the same, the Congress Online Project noted today. <br>
Los Alamos whistleblowers blast mismanagement at lab
Top managers at Los Alamos National Laboratory tried to stop investigations into rampant theft and corruption at the weapons lab, two whistleblowers told a House oversight panel yesterday.
XACML standard controls Web services access
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards has approved the Extensible Access Control Markup Language specification for Web services and documents.<br>
AIX 5L dynamically reallocates CPUs
IBM Corp.'s Version 5.2 of AIX 5L can handle multiple tasks by separating large systems onto smaller virtual servers.
Visual area networking lets users collaborate
SGI's new OpenGL Vizserver 3.0 software works with high-performance computers and fast networks to let collaborators engage in something SGI calls visual area networking.
Two-way Dell server ready for Gigabit Ethernet
The two-way PowerEdge 1600SC server from Dell Computer Corp. can handle Gigabit Ethernet connections and almost half a terabyte of storage.
Energy awards $409m for seat management
The Energy Department has awarded a five-year, $409 million task order for seat management and IT and telecommunications support.
Feds model bomb blasts to stabilize large buildings
High-performance government computers are testing retrofitting schemes to make large buildings resist terrorist bombs.<br>
Bush pushes $1b for enterprise architectures
The president's fiscal 2004 budget request earmarks $1 billion of the government's IT spending for enterprise architecture projects. The year-old Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office is slated to get $2.5 million to carry on its interagency work, the Office of Management and Budget's chief technology officer, Norman Lorentz, said last week.
Energy IG finds 'dysfunction' at Los Alamos lab
Los Alamos National Laboratory needs better controls over procurement and property systems, the Energy Department's inspector general said in a Jan. 30 report.
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