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Invention and discovery are both creative acts, and both require us to place new ideas within a context or infrastructure.The article is clearly evident on the children's faces. They couldn't grasp what was happening to their parents.In this article authors have altered the framework that they use to evaluate the invention of computing. Education involves much more than technical information or the...
In this paper, the invisibility of today's technology is often a blessing. Should invisibility be the guiding design goal for ubiquitous computing? The author mentions that invisibility is a narrow design goal. It's not necessarily a bad one, but it doesn't capture the full range of technological or creative possibilities. If the computer scientists and engineers only strive to build invisible systems,...
The cloud heralds a new era of computing where application services are provided through the Internet. Cloud computing can enhance the computing capability of mobile systems, but is it the ultimate solution for extending such systems' battery lifetimes?
The paper mentions that coupled with the expected growth in bandwidth through the next decade, cloud computing will change the face of TV. The Internet brought the potential to completely reinvent TV. First, it let users see what they wanted, when they wanted, while suppressing the need for additional hardware. Second, and more importantly, the Net removes the barrier that separates producers, distributors,...
In this paper, storage clouds are online services for leasing disk storage. A new modeling tool, formulated from empirical data spanning many years, lets organizations rationally evaluate the benefit of using storage clouds versus purchasing hard disk drives. The business of selling infrastructure as a service through the Internet is growing. This technology trend, also known as cloud computing, lets...
Topics include a new technology for fast personal-area networks; an innovative antiphishing approach; a wireless system for powering and charging devices; and a wall that users could touch to control lights, appliances, and other items in a room.
The World Wide Web Consortium is developing HTML 5 as a standard that provides Web users and developers with enhanced functionality without using the proprietary technologies that have become popular in recent years.
In the absence of other published standards of care, it is reasonable for contractual parties to rely on an applicable, widely available code of conduct to guide expectations. The authors illustrate the current application of CoCs with a fictional enterprise resource planning (ERP) system implementation failure that is a compilation of real-life cases. Subject to binding panel arbitration, the plaintiff...
In this paper, the author mentions that all new fields of scientific endeavor will go through periods of utter chaos before they settle into a regular discipline with well-defined terms, stable categories, and general methods. The task of any researcher is to work through the early literature and find that key moment when ideas begin to solidify.The case of researches on X-rays and cold fusion were...
To attract, motivate, and retain students and increase their mathematical awareness and problem-solving skills, universities are introducing courses or seminars that explore puzzle-based learning. We introduce and define this learning approach with a sample syllabus and course material, describe course variations, and highlight early student feedback.
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