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Sensor nodes are becoming small and light enough for athletes to wear imperceptibly, yielding new types of data that can be used to enhance performance.
Topics include a huge cyberattack targeting gas-pipeline operators, tiny cell units that could replace the tall cell towers that service providers currently use, a US court decision that Facebook “Likes” are not constitutionally protected speech, computer technology based on crabs' swarming behavior, displays that could enable self-charging mobile devices, and MIT students who hacked a building so...
To meet the needs of computing in the Internet environment, the Internetware software paradigm provides a set of technologies that support the development of applications with characteristics that are autonomous, cooperative, situational, evolvable, emergent, and trustworthy.
In pushing more activity to the self-driven cloud, are we creating another way for the rising generation of engineers and entrepreneurs to break with the past? The featured Web extra at http://youtu.be/zDZn3Ad74E0 is an audio recording of the Forward Slash column “Controlling Share,” in which David Alan Grier and Erin Dian Dumbacher discuss the transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next.
The sixth in a series of articles providing basic information on legal issues facing people and businesses that operate in computing-related markets focuses on open source software. The featured Web extra at http://youtu.be/8fCFrSv9cjE is an audio recording of the Computing and the Law column connected to the sixth in a series of articles providing basic information on legal issues facing people and...
To make computer and communications technology easier to work with, vendors are beginning to release products utilizing tangible user interfaces, in which users interact with physical objects that both represent and control digital information.
This month marks the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth. His ground-breaking work in the 1940s continues to have an impact on computer science as we know it. The first featured Web extra at http://youtu.be/5nK_ft0Lf1s is a video interview with Paul Kellar, Kevin Murrell, and Joel Greenberg of the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park celebrating the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's...
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