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Stable habitat connections that wildlife can safely traverse are essential to biodiversity conservation and healthy ecosystems. We developed high‐resolution landscape connectivity models to predict resistance to movement by a threatened wetland‐obligate amphibian, the four‐toed salamander (Hemidactylium scutatum), and identified priority management areas on the 13,000‐ha Department of Energy Oak Ridge...
Challenges and competitions offer a compelling platform for engaging students and lifelong learners in new technologies and skill development. This special issue explores a sampling of challenge-based approaches to education and community outreach.
Students at North Carolina State University enhanced Polymer Braille's multiline braille display by adding new interactive features, additional rows of characters, and a mobile-device interface.
To help teach object-oriented programming, students at King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia created a self-paced, interactive program that associates code with visual cues to reinforce the concepts of inheritance and polymorphism.
Clemson University students designed an inexpensive sensor node and cloud computing infrastructure to collect real-time, localized solar irradiation data. This data can be used by consumers and utilities to predict the availability of solar-generated electricity and to manage its use.
From social networks to autonomous robotics, computing technologies improve our ability to quickly and effectively respond to emergencies. This article includes a sidebar entitled, "Supporting Disaster Volunteers from the Internet," by Dai Sato, which describes the development and use of large-scale online volunteer activities in Japan.
The Miface project is using crowdsourcing to build an extensive database of semantically tagged facial expressions. Developed by students at NYU, the Web application uses IBM Watson's Tone Analyzer module to refine user labels for each expression. The end result will be to enrich the ability of computational agents to understand and generate meaningful nonverbal cues for human interaction. The Web...
Cornell University students built a system that tracks a Ping-Pong ball in real time and keeps score. The Web extra at https://youtu.be/r7VtgzPPYy4 is a video demonstration in which Cornell students Pol Rosello (CS), Taylor Pritchard (ECE), and Frank Xie (ECE), describe and demonstrate their Table Tennis Tracker system. The system analyzes a video stream to track the location of the ball and to automatically...
Students at the University of Brasília set out to build a better exercise bike. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/NCSb_sDJL7c is a video demonstration of the Bike-X simulator, a virtual cycling experience designed by engineering students at the University of Brasília's Gama Campus.
A student team from NC State has designed a collar to help control wild elephants that threaten human property and life in Africa and Asia. The Web extra at https://youtu.be/aQV_BkOL4vA is a video showing how students from North Carolina State University designed a collar to keep elephants away from farms and villages. In this field test in South Africa, a buzzing sound from the collar causes an elephant...
On behalf of the organizing and program committees, we welcome you to the 31st IEEE International Conference on Computer Design. ICCD is co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. It covers a broad range of topics at all levels of computer system design, from logic and circuits to architecture and applications, including the tools and processes used for design,...
On behalf of the organizing and program committee, we would like to welcome you to the 29th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design 2011. The International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) encompasses a wide range of technical topics and provides an ideal environment to discuss practical and theoretical work that enables cross-pollination. The ICCD venue and program reflect this goal...
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