August 2008 Issue
From IEEE Pervasive Computing: Guest
Editors' Introduction
Hacking
is Pervasive
Joseph A. Paradiso, John Heidemann, and Thomas G.
Zimmerman
The true hacker can achieve miracles by
appropriating, modifying, or "kludging" existing resources to suit
other purposes, often in an ingenious fashion. The articles in this issue paint
a broad picture of hacking from a pervasive computing perspective. Read
more about hacking on Computing Now!
From IEEE Transactions on Parallel and
Distributed Systems
Analysis
of Distributed Random Grouping for Aggregate Computation on Wireless Sensor
Networks with Randomly Changing Graphs
Jen-Yeu Chen and Jianghai Hu
Using stochastic hybrid systems, the authors model
the dynamics and analyze the performance of an epidemic-like algorithm,
Distributed Random Grouping, for average aggregate computation on a wireless
sensor network with dynamical graph changes.
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Education |
Archives
Think Parallel: Teaching Parallel Programming Today
Ami Marowka
An introductory parallel computing course uses
theoretical discussions and practical laboratory sessions to explain that
parallelism calls for a different way of thinking and new programming
skills.
Distributed Wisdom |
Archives
On
the (Un)Reliability of TCP Connections: The Return of the End-to-End
Argument
Vadim Drabkin, Roy Friedman, and Gabriel
Kliot
Learn about the dangers of relying solely on TCP
for reliability without any additional message-recovery mechanism at the
application level (or at least inside a middleware in the same address space as
the application).
From IEEE Pervasive Computing: New
Products
Hacked
Devices, A New Game Experience, and a Wi-Fi Detector Shirt
Maria Ebling and Mark Corner
This issue's New Products department covers
several hacks for devices, new and old, and a couple of things that should
appeal to the hacker tradition: the jDome game and a Wi-Fi detector
shirt.
From IEEE Pervasive Computing: Works
in Progress
The
Hacking Tradition
Bundit Panchaphongsaphak, Robert Riener, Brygg
Ullmer, Rainer Burgkart, and Nishkam Ravi
Learn about a new technology that transforms
existing 3D passive artifacts into contact sensing interface devices and an
approach for dynamically rewriting application binaries to collect contextual
information about how users interact with the application.
News |
Archives
When Web 2.0 Becomes Web Uh-Oh
Greg Goth
Cross-organizational cross-purposes complicate the
Web 2.0 world of social networking and shared resources.
Book Review |
Archives
Parallel Metaheuristics
Griffin Caprio
A review of Parallel Metaheuristics ,
Enrique Alba, ed.
