Interactive Digital Signage
May 2012
Digital signage will soon appear in every aspect of daily life, offering a third foundational platform that, along with smart- phones and tablets, will support communication in the 21st century. Read full article »
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CAP Twelve Years Later: How the "Rules" Have Changed
The CAP theorem asserts that any networked shared-data system can have only two of three desirable properties. Yet, by explicitly handling partitions, designers can optimize consistency and availability, thereby achieving some trade-off of all three. Read full article »
Codesign Challenges for Exascale Systems: Performance, Power, and Reliability
The complexity of large-scale parallel systems necessitates the simultaneous optimization of multiple hardware and software components to meet performance, efficiency, and fault-tolerance goals. A codesign methodology using modeling can benefit systems on the path to exascale computing. Read full article »
Interaction Beyond the Keyboard
Consumers are seeking alternatives to the keyboard and mouse that offer easier-to-use and more intuitive ways to explore online communications and information access. Read full article »
Bots and Cyborgs: Wikipedia's Immune System
Bots and cyborgs are more than tools to better manage content quality on Wikipedia — through their interaction with humans, they're fundamentally changing its culture. Read full article »
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Van Jacobson—Getting NSFnet off the Ground
Author Charles Severance provides an audio recording of his Computing Conversations column, discussing his interview with Van Jacobson on the creation of the National Science Foundation network in the 1980s. From Computer's May 2012 issue.