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Highlights new technologies being written about in Computer Magazine in 1975 and 1991, for some of the following technologies: design automation, automated inspection, printers, backup memory, robotics, object-oriented databases, pen-based computing, and intellectual property.
Open source software has enabled large system integrators to increase their profits through cost savings and reach more customers due to flexible pricing. This has upset existing ecosystems and shuffled structural relationships, resulting in the emergence of firms providing consulting services to open source projects. This new breed of service firm in turn lives or dies by its ability to recruit and...
Nature-inspired intelligent swarm technologies deals with complex problems that might be impossible to solve using traditional technologies and approaches. Swarm intelligence techniques (note the difference from intelligent swarms) are population-based stochastic methods used in combinatorial optimization problems in which the collective behavior of relatively simple individuals arises from their...
We can visualize present day IT education as an information sea in which all the natural maritime phenomena form and grow. The Internet and mobile technologies represent virtual hurricanes and storms. Object-oriented programming represents a steady rainfall, and aspect-oriented programming provides the thunderstorms. In this environment, old "sailing" practices like memorization and reciting...
Topics include Tadashi Watanabe's receipt of the 2006 Seymour Cray Award, honoring Edward Seidel with the Sidney Fernbach Award, the presentation of the joint IEEE ACM Award to James Pomerene, and recipients of IEEE Computer Society scholarships and chapter awards.
A vector case study shows how new functionality can be added to extend the 80times86 and PowerPC architectures to support a full vector architecture, primarily by enhancing their multimedia extensions to provide a better model for compilers and an easier-to-understand model for programmers
MIT scientists have developed a tiny device that promises to overcome a significant problem in photonics and yield less expensive, higher-performance, more useful optical networks. The researchers have developed an optical add/drop multiplexer (OADM). Wavelengths within a light beam passing through optical fiber typically become polarized horizontally in some cases and vertically in others, making...
The world has witnessed explosive growth in the use of personal storage devices such as USB flash drives. Until recently, no standard authentication method existed for these devices. To meet this need, the IEEE Computer Society's standards committees on information assurance and storage systems have developed the IEEE 1667 standard protocol for authentication in host attachments of transient storage...
Artificial intelligence has been a part of videogames since their early days. For game developers, Al has come to mean the broad range of techniques used to generate the behavior of these opponents, battlefield units, team mates, NPCs, or anything else that acts in the game with simulated intelligence. A few of these techniques, such as finite state machines and the heuristic A* search algorithm,...
At one time, supercomputing, a term that was synonymous with the Cray-1, was considered to be the best deal in town. However, by the 1990s, manufacturers began to question the need to continue the development of high-speed computers, turning their attention instead to the potential for developing a "high-capacity and high-speed national research and education computer network."
Although successful in many applications, data mining poses special concerns for private data. An integrated architecture takes a systemic view of the problem, implementing established protocols for data collection, inference control, and information sharing. Our goal in investigating privacy preservation issues was to take a systemic view of architectural requirements and design principles and explore...
Advanced on-chip debug support can help overcome the challenges of developing real-time embedded systems driven by complex SoCs, making development support a decisive selection factor. One novel approach supports the on-time development of high-quality complex systems without greatly increasing the required design and production resources
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