Computer Magazine Multimedia

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.

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.

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.