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MS security patch opens new hole. ZDNet Jan 4 2002 9:06AM ET [Computer security news]

GOVERNOR, INDUSTRY ANNOUNCE BUFFALO CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

Buffalo Center in Bioinformatics will be Foundation for New Economy in Western NY

Governor George E. Pataki was joined today by Bill Blake, Compaq’s VP of Worldwide High Performance Technical Computing and business and academic leaders to announce up to $150 million in private sector support for a Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics in Buffalo a key component of the Governor’s $1 billion high-tech and biotech Centers of Excellence proposal.

Industry partners in the endeavor include major computing, software and communications networking companies such as Compaq, Veridian, InforMax and Stryker and others such as Dell, Sun, SGI and Q-Chem. Academic and research partners include the University of Buffalo, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute.

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The Center will be located in downtown Buffalo, near the medical campus. Plans call for a 150,000 square foot building to house drug design research space, computational and three dimensional visualization facilities, product commercialization space and workforce training facilities. Academic and industry researchers will work side-by-side in a collaborative effort to identify key research areas, and will translate that research into commercial realities and opportunities to attract high tech and biotech firms of all sizes to Western New York.

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In addition to academic and research partners such as the University of Buffalo, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, the Center of Excellence will also involve academic collaborations with the New York State Structural Biology Consortium, Cornell, Syracuse Health Science Center, the University of Rochester and Columbia University.

New hole in AOL Instant Messenger lets hackers take over. San Francisco Chronicle Jan 3 2002 2:34AM ET [Computer security news]

P2P Apps Share Spyware. File-sharing programs LimeWire, BearShare, Grokster and Kazaa recently included software that tracks users online. The companies plead ignorance, blaming bundled advertising software. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]

Charlie Kaufman, Iris Associates:
Active Content: Really Neat Technology or Impending Disaster (AUDIO):
an amusing one-hour talk about how bad it is

Gartner: Creating the Next-Generation IS Organization
(Goodhue, Chris)
[Requires direct access to Gartner web site.
Within UR, contact me for a copy of this presentation.]

Dave Winer, Scripting News:

BTW, I promise you, OPML is going to be as big or bigger as anything we’ve done at UserLand, including SOAP, XML-RPC and RSS. It’s a source of cold water and it’s killer. We have the hot water to balance it, I hope, if not, Omni might be a good bet, or JOE. See how it works? Users who have choice move. Users who are locked in wait. I don’t care how big you are, you’re still in the same ecosystem. 

TechRepublic:
Troubleshooting L2TP/IPSec VPN connections in Win2K

Working with Windows 2000’s L2TP/IPSec VPN connections is a whole different ball game from managing PPTP. Take a look at these valuable tips for troubleshooting L2TP/IPSec issues.

TechRepublic:
Red Hat suite makes e-commerce easy

Red Hat’s E-Commerce Suite includes all the tools necessary to quickly and easily allow small to medium-size organizations to open an online store for their products or services. See what it can do and how it stacks up.

Universities in NY, Netherlands Targeted in Warez Raids
[CNET article] [CNET article]

The US Justice Department and international law enforcement agencies
last week seized over 130 computers belonging to suspected software
pirates around the world. Many of the people targeted in the raids
have been providing law enforcement officials with information that
has resulted in additional search warrants. The Rochester Institute of
Technology and the University of Twente in Hilversum, the Netherlands
were both targets in the raids.