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May 2013

2013-05-21T16:45:56Z

The cover features in the May 2013 issue of Computer examine major research challenges in computer-generated visualization, a field in which researchers use visual representations to gain insight from scientific data. In addition to the articles in this special issue, we also provide multimedia content associated with “Large Area Displays: The Changing Face of Visualization,” “Reimagining the Scientific Visualization Interaction Paradigm,” “Improving Healthcare with Interactive Visualization,” and “Visual Analysis of Social Media Data.” In addition, guest editors Theresa-Marie Rhyne and Min Chen discuss how visualization has become a formidable intellectual powerhouse that is delivering solutions to the problem of managing the data deluge.

An additional multimedia highlight includes an interview with Bob Metcalfe about the creation of the first Ethernet local area network.

Podcasts related to the issue’s popular columns include "Twin Forces" by IEEE Computer Society President David Alan Grier; "Bob Metcalfe: Ethernet at Forty" by Charles Severance for Computing Conversations; "Who Invents What" by Brian M. Gaff for Computing and the Law; "Secret Science Fiction" by Brian David Johnson for Science Fiction Prototyping; and "Working in Conference" by David Alan Grier for Errant Hashtag.

The complete multimedia list for Computer's May 2013 issue is available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHJB2bhmgB7fwFUhxqgmvuyXySkwb8Q45.

April 2013

2013-04-24T17:20:27Z

The cover features in the April 2013 issue of Computer examine the latest advances in cybersecurity. Multimedia highlights include a slide show that introduces a new perspective on scan detection under sampling, an interview with Larry Smarr about the birth and evolution of Mosaic at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and Jason Pace, the director of the Center for Serious Play at the University of Washington Bothell, discussing mobile game changers.

Podcasts related to the issue’s popular columns include “Meet and Greet" by IEEE Computer Society President David Alan Grier; "Larry Smarr: Building Mosaic" by Charles Severance for Computing Conversations; "Patent Monetization" by Brian M. Gaff and Ralph A. Loren for Computing and the Law; "Mobile Game Changers" by Jason Pace for Entertainment Computing; and "Equal before the Bar" by David Alan Grier for Errant Hashtag.

The complete multimedia list for Computer's April 2013 issue is available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHJB2bhmgB7ctukpYxD9dBsn8w0U0bWd1.

March 2013

2013-04-24T17:11:49Z

The cover features in the March 2013 issue of Computer examine gender diversity in computing. Multimedia highlights include an interview with Pooja Sankar about the Piazza online collaboration system, a recording of opportunistic sensor configurations in a highly rich sensor environment, and interviews by guest editor Alfred C. (Alf) Weaver on gender diversity in computing with Wendy DuBow, Deepak Kumar, Robert B. Schnabel, Kate Starbird, Annie Antón, Alice Bonhomme-Biais, and Raquel Romano.

Podcasts related to the issue’s popular columns include “Educating Ourselves" by IEEE Computer Society President David Alan Grier; "Pooja Sankar: Building the Piazza Collaboration System," by Charles Severance for Computing Conversations; "Design Patents" by Brian M. Gaff and Peter J. Cuomo for Computing and the Law; and "Attention to Context" by David Alan Grier for Errant Hashtag.

The complete multimedia list for Computer's March 2013 issue is available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHJB2bhmgB7din0Wi7LHd-5ZMLds_mDlX.

February 2013

2013-02-25T20:46:09Z

The cover features in the February 2013 issue of Computer examine the Internet of Things. Multimedia highlights include an interview with Mitchell Baker about the Mozilla Foundation, the Firefox and Netscape browsers, and open source software; a recording of opportunistic sensor configurations in a highly rich sensor environment; an explanation of how embedded, interconnected devices have grown to affect our lives; and a discussion of Sense, a newly developed visual programming language and programming environment.

Podcasts related to the issue’s popular columns include "How Things Appear" by IEEE Computer Society President David Alan Grier; "The Mozilla Foundation, with Mitchell Baker," by Charles Severance for Computing Conversations; "Paying Bribes Abroad Will Get You in Hot Water in the US" by Brian M. Gaff, Stephen G. Huggard, and Gregory W. Carey for Computing and the Law; and "The Ethical Dilemma" by David Alan Grier for Errant Hashtag.

The complete multimedia list for Computer's February 2013 issue is available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHJB2bhmgB7eHH8Hv2Er_nPwDNLVymklP.

January 2013

2013-02-25T20:50:17Z

The cover features in the January 2013 issue of Computer examine the outlook for future uses of computer technology. Multimedia highlights include an interview with Van Jacobson on content-centric networking; a discussion with Santosh Kumar, Wendy Nilsen, and Mani Srivastava about the path toward realizing mobile health systems; a video segment in which students at Arizona State University's School of Arts, Media, and Engineering discuss adaptive mixed reality rehabilitation research and extending interactive stroke rehabilitation from the clinic to the home; and a video segment in which students from the Herberger Young Scholars Academy describe their experience in the digital culture creative classroom.

Podcasts related to the issue’s popular columns include "The Unseen and the Seen" by IEEE Computer Society President David Alan Grier; "Van Jacobson: Content-Centric Networking," by Charles Severance for Computing Conversations; "Protecting Bioinformatics as Intellectual Property" by Brian M. Gaff, Ralph A. Loren, and Gareth Dickson for Computing and the Law; and "The Here and Now" by David Alan Grier for Errant Hashtag.

The complete multimedia list for Computer's January 2013 issue is available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHJB2bhmgB7ccVTIY-Ju3wt8Fx2GdGaP4.

December 2012

2012-12-14T17:14:29Z

The cover features in the December 2012 issue of Computer examine digital forensics. Multimedia highlights include an interview with Vint Cerf about how TCP/IP evolved from ARPANET, an earlier small-scale research network, and a discussion with Irfan Ahmed about SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems.

Podcasts related to the issue's popular columns include "Work/Play" by David Alan Grier and Erin Dian Dumbacher for Forward Slash; "Employment Issues Confronting Start-Up Companies" by Brian M. Gaff, Timothy P. Van Dyck, and Elizabeth A. Peters for Computing and the Law; and "Vint Cerf: A Brief History of Packets" by Charles Severance for Computing Conversations ().

The complete multimedia list for Computer's December 2012 issue is available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHJB2bhmgB7d89HoNVyImEcCzLDnJwJEU

November 2012

2012-12-14T16:56:14Z

The cover features in the November 2012 issue of Computer examine electronic health records. Multimedia highlights include multimedia editor Charles Severance interviewing Rasmus Lerdorf about the creation of PHP. Podcasts related to the issue's popular columns include "Love the Show!" by David Alan Grier and Erin Dian Dumbacher for Forward Slash; "A Brief Overview of the America Invents Act" by Brian M. Gaff, Ralph A. Loren, and Amy M. DeCloux for Computing and the Law; and "Inventing PHP: Rasmus Lerdorf" by Charles Severance for Computing Conversations.

The complete multimedia list for Computer's November 2012 issue is available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHJB2bhmgB7edmJlB9ViwC9b1IQkSnFOI

October 2012

2012-10-01T21:54:05Z

The cover features in the October 2012 issue of Computer examine dynamic software product lines. Multimedia highlights include "Robot Demonstrates Adaptive Behavior," in which a robot developed by Sogang University in South Korea demonstrates adaptive behavior; "Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre," in which guest editor Mike Hinchey and his colleagues discuss ongoing research at Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre; "Software Product Line Engineering," in which David Weiss discusses the benefits of using software product line engineering to produce software families; and "GridStix Sensors Provide Early Flood Warning," in which a slide show demonstrates the deployment of GridStix sensor nodes in wireless sensor network to provide flood warning on the rivers Ribble and Dee in England and Wales, respectively.

In addition, "Scalable Ensemble-Based Oil-Reservoir Simulations Using Blue Gene/P as a Service" shows an award-winning prototype framework that transforms the Blue Gene/P system into an elastic cloud to run a representative high-performance computing application, and multimedia editor Charles Severance interviews Brian Behlendorf about the Apache Software Foundation and its key role in the open source movement.

Podcasts related to the issue's popular columns include "The Computer in the Mirror" by David Alan Grier and Erin Dian Dumbacher for Forward Slash; "Starting a Business: Which Entity Structure Is Best for You?" by Brian M. Gaff and Karl P. Fryzel for Computing and the Law; and "The Apache Software Foundation: Brian Behlendorf" by Charles Severance for Computing Conversations.

September 2012

2012-09-11T19:33:52Z

The cover features in the September 2012 issue of Computer examine "Modeling and Simulation of Smart and Green Computing Systems." Multimedia highlights include “SimWare: A Holistic Warehouse-Scale Computer Simulator," in which author Sungcap Yeo discusses how SimWare can simulate various aspects of a datacenter to analyze power consumption and heat efficiency.

In addition, multimedia editor Charles Severance interviews Bertrand and Annie Meyer about the Eiffel programming language, Karl Ricanek Jr. discusses author guidelines for the Identity Sciences column, and John Riedl discusses author guidelines for the Social Computing column.

Podcasts related to the issue’s popular columns include “It's Complicated” by David Alan Grier and Erin Dian Dumbacher for Forward Slash, "Patent Reform: New Tools for Challenging Patent Validity," by Brian M. Gaff, Christine A. Dudzik, and Ralph A. Loren for Computing and the Law, and "Bertrand Meyer: Software Engineering and the Eiffel Programming Language" by Charles Severance for Computing Conversations.

The complete multimedia list for Computer's September 2012 issue is available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/ieeeComputerSociety.

August 2012

2012-08-01T17:03:52Z

The cover features in the August 2012 issue of Computer examine massively multithreaded computer systems. Multimedia highlights include "A GPU Task-Parallel Model with Dependency Resolution," in which Stanley Tzeng and his colleagues demonstrate how they use their model’s dependency structure to map parallel work units to a problem, "Designing Next-Generation Massively Multithreaded Architectures for Irregular Applications,” in which Center for Adaptive Supercomputing Software-Multithreaded Architectures (CASS-MT) Project Director John Feo discusses irregular applications and research on massively multithreaded architectures, and in “Algorithm and Data Optimization Techniques for Scaling to Massively Threaded Systems,” John Stratton discusses how implementation patterns among massively threaded applications can improve scalability. In addition, Education column editor Ann Sobel talks with Hal Abelson about computer science education.

Podcasts related to the issue’s popular columns include “The Winner Takes It All” by David Alan Grier and Erin Dian Dumbacher for Forward Slash, "Doing Business in China," by Brian M. Gaff, Kenneth Choy, and Jamie Chan for Computing and the Law, and "Daphne Koller and Coursera" by Charles Severance for Computing Conversations (http://youtu.be/BW44KXIu7Q8 and http://youtu.be/fpAX2Hfvf8k).

The complete multimedia list for Computer's August 2012 issue is available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ieeeComputerSociety.

July 2012

2012-07-10T15:18:19Z

The cover features in the July 2012 issue of Computer examine "What's Real About Augmented Reality?" View an augmented reality version of the July 2012 issue on your Android by downloading an app in Google play the Apple App Store.

Multimedia highlights include "Anywhere Interfaces Using Handheld Augmented Reality," in which Michael Gervautz and his colleagues offer several real-world examples that illustrate the vast potential and important applications of augmented reality; "Projection-Based Augmented Reality in Disney Theme Parks," in which Mark Mine and his colleagues show examples of projection-based augmented reality techniques being employed in Disney theme parks; "Augmented Reality in a Public Space: The Natural History Museum, London," in which Ailsa Barry and her colleagues show how augmented reality systems in museums provide viewing interfaces that are flexible and robust enough for thousands of people to use; "First Deployments of Augmented Reality in Operating Rooms," in which Nassir Navab and his colleagues demonstrate how augmented reality visualization systems can provide accessible and user-friendly interfaces for medical intervention and patient information systems; and "Augmented Reality in the Classroom," in which Mark Billinghurst and Andreas Dünser show examples of augmented reality experiences in an educational setting.

In addition, Patrizio Campisi and his colleagues demonstrate "Dynamic Brain Activity Distribution on Scalp" and "Spectral Brain Activity Distribution on Scalp", and Charles Severance interviews Niklaus Wirth, creator of some of the field's integral programming languages, including Modula, Pascal, and Oberon, on the art of teaching computer science.

Podcasts related to the issue's popular columns include “A Generation of Recyclers” by David Alan Grier and Erin Dian Dumbacher for Forward Slash, "Raising Capital: Where to Find It, How to Secure It, and Tips on What to Avoid," by Brian M. Gaff, Richard N. Kimball, and Jill M. Hanson for Computing and the Law, and "Niklaus Wirth" by Charles Severance for Computing Conversations.

The complete multimedia list for Computer's July 2012 issue is available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL101840607232D875.

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June 2012

2012-06-12T21:15:52Z

The cover features in the June 2012 issue of Computer examine computing in Asia, which covers a wide spectrum of research and development activities that stem from regional economic concerns and priorities. Multimedia highlights include “Computer-Assisted Audiovisual Language Learning,” in which Lijuan Wang and her colleagues from Microsoft Research Asia discuss the technologies underlying Engkoo, a Web-based computer-assisted audiovisual language-learning service that combines two emerging speech processing technologies — talking head and phonetic similarity search. In addition, Charles Severance celebrates the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth in video interviews with Paul Kellar, Kevin Murrell, and Joel Greenberg of the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. Podcasts related to the issue's popular columns include "Controlling Share" by David Alan Grier and Erin Dian Dumbacher for Forward Slash, "Open Source Software" by Brian M. Gaff and Gregory J. Ploussios for Computing and the Law, and "Alan Turing and Bletchley Park" by Charles Severance for Computing Conversations.

May 2012

2012-06-12T21:18:28Z

The cover features in the May 2012 issue of Computer examine digital signage, which might soon appear in every aspect of daily life outside the home. Multimedia highlights include "Supporting Community Awareness and History with Interactive Displays," in which Nick Taylor and Keith Cheverst discuss a Newcastle University program that explores the use of interactive displays in rural areas. In addition, Charles Severance captures a video interview with Van Jacobson on the creation of the National Science Foundation network in the 1980s. Podcasts related to the issue's popular columns include "Teaching the Intangible" by David Alan Grier and Erin Dian Dumbacher for Forward Slash, "Do I Need A Lawyer? If You Have to Ask, You Probably Do" by Brian M. Gaff, Stephen G. Huggard, and Gregory W. Carey for Computing and the Law, and "Van Jacobson: Getting NSFnet off the Ground" by Charles Severance for Computing Conversations.

April 2012

2012-04-17T22:26:15Z

The cover features in the April 2012 issue of Computer examine the ambitious projects that are developing input options beyond the keyboard and mouse. Highlights include an overview of recent technology's evolution, the novel uses of a device that combines a conventional keyboard with touch sensing and dynamic graphics output, the WILD (wall-sized interaction with large datasets) room, which lets users view, explore, and manipulate large amounts of digital content, and a video interview with Douglas Crockford on the creation of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). In addition, one of the issue's research feature articles looks at the design guidelines for invisible passwords, and we have the latest installments of multimedia related to our Forward Slash, Computing Conversations, Invisible Computing, Entertainment Computing, and Computing and the Law columns.

March 2012

2012-04-17T22:25:09Z

The March 2012 issue of Computer offers interviews with Mehmet Koyutürk of Case Western Reserve University (about how biotechnology can track genetic markers to advance cancer research) and Judy Sheard and Chris Avram of Monash University on the history and future of computing in Australia. It also features the latest installments of multimedia related to our Forward Slash, Computing Conversations, Identity Sciences, and Computing and the Law columns.

Addtional multimedia includes Alan Stillwell, Deputy Chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology for the Federal Communications Commission, and Rod Dir, CEO of Spectrum Bridge, discussing the first commercial network deployment of whitespace technology in New Hanover County, North Carolina. Taking advantage of unused television channels, whitespace technology can boost the bandwidth of wireless devices by up to 500 percent.

February 2012

2012-04-17T22:23:56Z

The February 2012 issue of Computer offers interviews with Yahoo's Raghu Ramakrishnan (the CAP theorem and cloud computing) and Mozilla's Brendan Eich (about the birth of JavaScript), and Dwight Merriman on NoSQL and Mongo DB. It also features the latest installment of our Forward Slash, Computing Conversations, and Computing and the Law podcasts.

January 2012

2012-01-25T18:15:36Z

To provide a glimpse of emerging technologies that promise to have a major impact on computing in both the near and distant future, this annual outlook issue features articles from leading researchers in the fields of extreme computing, human dynamics, computer security and privacy, and programming languages.

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November 2011

2011-10-20T21:03:46Z

The issues that researchers will encounter on the path to exascale high-performance computing are equally critical for all computing architectures and facilities, not just the largest ones or only those related to scientific computing. The guest editors of the November 2011 issue of Computer have selected a variety of articles to cover a cross-section of the codesign space and of the relevant concerns and challenges.

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August 2011

2011-08-08T15:00:37Z

It's been 30 years since the first IBM PC changed computing history. We in the computer industry have a notoriously short collective memory, but now and again it’s wise to take a look back, to honor the pioneers for their contributions, and also to see where decisions made a long time ago still resonate today. In this issue, IBMers Dave Bradley and Mark Dean give the inside story of the creation of the IBM PC, Edward Bride discusses early PC software, and Intel’s Gurbir Singh talks about the chips inside.

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July 2011

2011-07-20T16:20:24Z

The cover features included in this special issue are representative of ongoing work in the emerging field of computational archaeology — the interface where archaeology meets computer science. All over the world, much of our history — in the form of architecture, artifacts, and other cultural relics — is still buried below ground or under water. New computational tools support both the discovery and understanding of this hidden information. As the articles in this special issue describe, rather than a whip and machete, the modern-day Indiana Jones uses microfocus X-ray computed tomography (CT), magnetometers, 3D and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) scanners, geographic information systems (GISs), immersive visualization, image analysis, and computer graphics.

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