Society Online

Editors' Introduction
Daniel Zeng and Hsinchun Chen • IEEE Intelligent Systems

Social computing plays a central role in next-generation software, community-based decision making, and analyzing how technology affects politics, society, and culture. More »

Selected articles on Society Online:

Social Meaning on the Web: From Wittgenstein to Search Engines
Relevance feedback from hypertext Web searches considerably improves the performance of a Semantic Web search engine. More »

Friends Forever: How Young Adolescents Use Social-Networking Sites
Children use social networking sites to establish identity and to find support and comfort as they go through the many transitions of early adolescence. More »

The Use of Mobile Social Presence
Five studies explore how automated context sharing via mobile phones can affect communication, creating rich, new experiences and increasing feelings of social presence. More »

The Evolution of Online Identity
When we can send and receive proven identity claims over the Web, we’ll be better able to engage safely in personal and commercial transactions. More »

A Visual Interface for Social Information Filtering
Visualization offers openness to recommender systems, enhancing overall user trust. More »

Featured Article

Managing the Security Wall of Data
Mike Howard of Microsoft shows he manages his time and how you can be more effective as a security person. More »

Also featured:

Virtual Senses
Take a look at new products that explore different facets of our senses. More »

Continuous Model-Driven Engineering
Agility at the customer, user, and application levels will prove key to aligning and linking business and IT. More »

Opportunities and Challenges for 3D Systems and Their Design
Learn about the system design opportunities offered by 3D integration and the design and test challenges for 3D integrated circuits. More »

Building Many-Core Processor-to-DRAM Networks with Monolithic CMOS Silicon Photonics
Silicon photonics could address memory bandwidth limitations in future many-core processors. A new monolithic silicon-photonic technology uses a standard bulk CMOS process to reduce costs and improve energy efficiency. More »

Perci: Pervasive Service Interaction with the Internet of Things
The advancement of ubiquitous computing technologies has greatly improved the availability of digital resources, including for the Internet of Things and its technologies. More »

Computing Then
By 1960, Compagnie des Machines Bull had become the second-largest electronic business machine company worldwide. Learn about how the French firm rose and fell (and rose again). More »

Events

Editors' Picks: Conferences

International Test Conference, 1–6 November, Austin, Texas, US

International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing (M-MPAC 2009), a workshop of Middleware 2009, 30 November, Urbana Champaign, Illinois, US

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Calls for Papers

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications magazine is accepting submissions for a special issue on Digital Human Faces: From Creation to Emotion (submissions due 23 November).

IT Professional magazine is accepting submissions for a special issue on IT Asset Management (submissions due 1 January 2010).