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The technical standards world is in danger of being broken, hijacked, and exploited by partisan legal and political maneuvering. Today we confront a pivotal moment in the world of technology standards, one that also involves the global economy and ecology. The need to rebuild our financial infrastructure and implement ways to preserve and conserve the environment has given many in the technical community...
The IAB's mission is to help the Computer Society critically examine the organization's business plans and practices and to offer advice and assistance to make the Society a relevant professional association.
Computer-generated imagery (CGI) in films has advanced to the point that it's often difficult for viewers to figure out which scenes have visual effects in them. Two CGI effects that illustrate the state of the art are facial animation and fluid dynamics.
Architecture reviews are an effective way of ensuring design quality and addressing architectural concerns. However, the software engineering community rarely adopts the methods and techniques available to support disciplined architecture review processes.
Spam wastes Internet processing, bandwidth, and storage. Like many other sociotechnical problems computing today faces, it's not solvable by purely technical approaches like filters or social responses like passing laws. Channel e-mail offers a solution that can enable social as well as technical communication efficiency.
The Agile values are ethical values. The author describes four values that form the basis of agility and challenges the computing profession to pursue these values.
The delivery of many diverse computing services over the Internet, with flexible provisioning, has led to much greater efficiency, substantial cost savings, and many ways to enable and empower end users. NCSU's own experience with cloud computing, through its Virtual Computing Lab, indicates that this approach would be beneficial to a much wider audience.ays to enable and empower end users. NCSU's...
Computer game players have already set the agenda for future visual effects and techniques: One group seeks to enjoy movie-quality photorealistic games, while another seeks maximum freedom of interaction in an open, self-evolving, persistent virtual world.
The ability to mix and merge video images with interactive 3D graphics offers the possibility for TV content to evolve in line with the trend for entertainment media to become ever more computer-centric, making it more accessible to the "gaming generation".
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