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Current Highlights

IS Innovation: Thinking Beyond the Silo

by Doug Vogel, Michiel van Genuchten, and Carol Saunders

The IS discipline must shift its focus from current platforms, application areas, and comfort zones to societal engagement of technology. More »

The Paradox of Security in Virtual Environments

by Michael Price

Virtualization trims administrative overhead, eases system management, and combats OS-level security vulnerabilities. But it also exposes new vulnerabilities that can be detrimental to securing the system. More »

Guest Editors' Introduction

models@run.time

by Gordon Blair, Nelly Bencomo, and Robert B. France

Runtime adaptation mechanisms that leverage software models extend the applicability of model-driven engineering techniques to the runtime environment. More »

Is Cloud Computing Really Ready for Prime Time?

by Neal Leavitt

Web 3.0 Emerging

by Jim Hendler

Multimedia

Podcasts

In Our Time

The Marketplace of Ideas

Like many of the accomplishments of software engineering, connecting the grid to a virtual machine is a way of hiding information, of allowing programmers to focus on the task they want to complete and ignore details beyond that task.

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IEEE Focus on Computer News

Nanotechnology in Clothes Generates Energy With User Movement

Research has developed a way to weave textile fibers covered with nanowires into garments so that the wearer's body movement generates power.