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Submission + - Punchscan Wins Open Source Voting Competition (wired.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Punchscan emerged victorious at the open source university voting systems competition, VoComp. For their efforts, they will receive the 10,000 USD prize provided by ES&S, which has recently been named in a scandal in florida. The runner up, Prêt à Voter, gave them a good run for the prize:

'Per Ron Rivest, one of the contest's judges, the runner-up team, the Pret-a-Voter team from the University of Surrey in the UK, gave Punchscan a tough run for the first-place money until the Punchscan team dug through Pret-a-Voter's source code and found a significant security flaw in their random number generation. Oops.'

It will be interesting to see if these systems ever make it into the mainstream. Kudos to ES&S for sticking their neck out and showing their forward thinking in this area, as none of the other infamous voting machine vendors (*cough* Diebold *cough*) supported the competition.

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Feed Engadget: Intelligent bookshelf keeps track of your media (engadget.com)

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Two rather clever gentlemen from the Netherlands have created a new system of tagging and tracking books, DVDs, or various other media that will undoubtedly find its way into libraries and businesses in no time at all. The program works by utilizing small RFID tags placed inside of books, and an array of sensors attached to the shelves. The data concerning an item's movement on or off the shelf, as well as the its position when not in use is then communicated to a terminal, providing the means of locating not just whether a piece of media is available, but its exact physical location. No word on when or how this will be made available, but for those of us with large book collections, we wait with baited breath. Check the demonstration video after the break.

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