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Students can join the IEEE Computer Society for US$20 and receive free access to the Computer Society Digital Library, development software from Microsoft, and a wealth of learning resources for the remainder of 2010.

 

Why Women Are Leaving Computing

Edited by Thomas Misa and featuring a Foreword by Linda Shafer, CSDP, Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Press, this insightful collection of essays explores the persisting gender imbalance in computing and presents a clear course of action for turning things around.

 

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Save 17 percent over 2010 rates with our new 2011 OnlinePlus subscription. Pay only US $38 for TVCG and US $30 for TDSC and receive full archival online access plus a periodic printed book of article abstracts and a searchable interactive disk.

 

Software Agility and Architecture

Enhancing your knowledge about this current topic is easy. Simply order a half-year subscription of IEEE Software or IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and you'll receive 8 free bonus articles from experts in the field. Deadline: 10 August 2010

 

Visit the Computer Society at Siggraph

Stop by Booth 541 at Siggraph, running at the Los Angeles Convention Center from 25-29 July, to learn more about the Computer Society's computer graphics technology and applications publications.

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Computing Lives

This podcast aims to tell a more interesting and complex story by examining the historical context in which the 4004 was developed, both outside and inside Intel.

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This invaluable reference lays out road maps for improving software maintenance organizations. Complete with case studies, figures, tables, and graphs, it describes maintenance maturity models that allow for benchmarking and continuous improvement paths.

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Green Computing

The First International Green Computing Conference, 15-18 August in Chicago, addresses key issues and topics related to energy efficiency in computing, and promoting environmentally friendly computer technologies and systems.

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Learn more about Jonathan Gratch, inaugural EIC of our new IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, and the field of Affective Computing in our new "Volunteer Spotlight".

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Video of Award Winners Posted

29 July, 2010

Video presentations of computing professionals who were honored at a recent awards dinner are now available on the IEEE Computer Society website. Read more

SC10 Poster Deadline Extended

20 July, 2010

SC10, the premier international conference on high-performance computing (HPC), networking, storage, and analysis, has extended its deadline for posters, including entries for the ACM Student Research Competition, until Monday, 26 July. Read more

CS Election Kicks Off 9 August

12 July, 2010

The IEEE Computer Society election will kick off on Monday, 9 August, with the mailing of ballots and the opening of the election website with links to candidate bios and position statements. Read more

Winners of Student Design Competition Announced

12 July, 2010

Students from Colombia, Egypt, Russia, and South Korea were top winners in the 2010 Computer Society Student Design Competition, which asked undergraduates to design a CPU architecture. Read more

IAB Lends Support to SWEBOK Guide

12 July, 2010

The IEEE Computer Society Industry Advisory Board has agreed to support and help update the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK). Read more

ReadyNote on Agile Becomes First CS Press Kindle Edition

12 July, 2010

To broaden the reach of its practical and portable ReadyNotes line of electronic guidebooks, the IEEE Computer Society Press has just launched its first edition designed for Amazon.com’s Kindle e-reader: "The Concise Executive Guide to Agile" by Israel Gat. Read more

SC10 Technical Program and Registration Open

9 July, 2010

Registration for SC10 is now open on the SC10 registration website. Read more

IEEE P802.23 Emergency Services Working Group Debuts

9 July, 2010

The IEEE P802.23 Emergency Services Working Group will host its first meeting during the IEEE 802 Local and Metropolitan Standards Committee Plenary Week in San Diego from 11-16 July. Read more 

TPAMI to offer OnlinePlus Subscription Option

9 July, 2010

Beginning in 2011, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence will offer two subscription options: the traditional print plus online or OnlinePlus. Read more

Sella Servizi Bancari Adopts CSDA

8 July, 2010

IT services provider Sella Servizi Bancari has added the IEEE Computer Society’s Certified Software Development Associate certification to its new recruit training program, facilitated by Purna Career Solutions, a Computer Society Registered Education Provider. Read more

OnlinePlus Subscription Prices Approved

7 July, 2010

Subscribers to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and IEEE Transactions for Dependable and Secure Computing will pay 17 percent less than in 2010 and receive nearly double the pages under recently approved 2011 OnlinePlus subscription prices. Read more

Editors Picked for SWEBOK Guide Update

6 July, 2010

Volunteer editors have been selected to oversee the updating of specific knowledge areas for the IEEE Computer Society’s Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge. Read more

James Moore Receives IEEE's Top Standards Award

1 July, 2010

James W. Moore, the IEEE Computer Society’s Vice President of Professional Activities, has been named the recipient of the IEEE Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award. The Steinmetz Award, established in 1979, is the IEEE's top standards honor. Read more

Register for Free Webinar on Improving Product Quality

1 July, 2010

The IEEE Computer Society and MKS will sponsor a free webinar on improving product quality on Wednesday, 21 July. Click here to register. Read more

IEEE Computer Society Exhibiting at SIGGRAPH

30 June, 2010

The IEEE Computer Society will be exhibiting at SIGGRAPH 2010, held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from 25-29 July. Read more

Barry Boehm Receives 2010 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal

29 June, 2010

Barry Boehm, an engineer whose integration of systems engineering principles with software development has helped enhance the quality, cost-effectiveness and competitiveness of how software and other complex systems are developed, was honored with the 2010 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal at the IEEE’s Honors Ceremony in Montreal, Canada on 26 June. Read more

Editors in Chief Confirmed

22 June, 2010

IEEE Computer Society President Jim Isaak has confirmed the appointment of 10 magazine and transactions editors in chief. Read more

Revanalytics to Offer CSDA and CSDP Certifications

17 June, 2010

The IEEE Computer Society has signed a partnership agreement with Revanalytics, part of a Sri Lanka-based training consortium, to offer the Certified Software Development Associate (CSDA) and Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP) training and certifications. Read more

Board Approves 2011 Slate of Candidates

15 June, 2010

Roger Fujii, vice president of the Standards Activities Board, and John Walz, vice president of the Technical and Conference Activities Board and a Board of Governors member, will run for 2011 president-elect/2012 president. Read more

Computing Professionals Honored at Awards Dinner

15 June, 2010

Computing professionals who made their marks on the industry were honored at a recent awards dinner in Denver, Colorado. The awards presentation took place in conjunction with the Computer Society’s annual meeting. Read more

SC10 Announces Opportunities to Participate

3 June, 2010

In keeping with the theme for this year’s conference, “The Future of Discovery,” SC10 is now offering opportunities to students, faculty, and emerging leaders from groups traditionally underrepresented in computing to discover the international conference for high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. Read more

Assessment Courses Introduced for Certifications

1 June, 2010

The IEEE Computer Society is expanding its line of career-assistance offerings for software developers with the introduction of assessment courses for its Certified Software Development Associate and Certified Software Development Professional examinations. Read more

 

New Magazine Articles | New Journal Articles | Computing Now July Theme: Digital Human Faces

New Magazine Articles:

The World According to Bing

Bing Maps combines route information with aerial and street-level photography to provide a seamless, interactive canvas for visualizing location information.

Picture Context Capturing for Mobile Databases

A software environment uses the information from mobile-device sensors to provide rich picture-management functionality, including semantic map personalization.

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New Journal Articles:

Time-Predictable Out-of-Order Execution for Hard Real-Time Systems

From the September 2010 issue of IEEE Transactions on Computers

Robust Load Delegation in Service Grid Environments

From the September 2010 issue of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Review of Designs for Haptic Data Visualization

From the April-June 2010 issue of IEEE Transactions on Haptics

Computing Now July Theme: Digital Human Faces

Facial expression is a complex and important communication vector. Take a look at the broad field of 3D faces and how they're created, rendered, and animated.

The Digital Emily Project: Achieving a Photoreal Digital Actor

To create and animate a photorealistic digital character, the shape and reflectance of an actress's face was digitized in 33 different poses.

Real-Time Realistic Skin Translucency

A new algorithm renders real-time, photorealistic skin by simulating both reflectance and transmittance of light through a multilayered skin model.

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Calls For Papers | EIC Searches & Reappointments | Conference Calendar

Calls for Papers

  • 2010 Computing Professionals Conference Call for Participation
    CP2010 conference seeks to create an interactive forum for computing-related practitioners, educators, standards developers, regulatory organizations, industrial users, and researchers to share their expertise and knowledge in discussions of professional strength strategies for succeeding in a rapidly changing technical, economic, and social environment.
    The Conference provides an opportunity for Computing Professionals to engage and interact to stretch their professional perspectives, learn what works now, and bring added value to themselves as professionals and their organizations.
    The Conference format will consist of invited keynote presentations, presentations by leading experts, workshops, panels, open mike sessions, surveys and special interest round tables to allow exchange of innovative concepts, ideas, applications, feedback and lessons learned.
    For more information, visit http://computingprofessionals.org or call for papers.
  • IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies seeks submissions of original research. For more information, please see the official call for papers.
  • IEEE Transactions on Haptics seeks submissions of original research. For more information, see the official call for papers.
  • IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing seeks submissions of original research. For more information, see the official call for papers.

EIC Searches & Reappointments

The IEEE Computer Society seeks applicants for the position of editor in chief, serving two-year terms starting 1 January 2011. Prospective candidates are asked to provide (as PDF files), by 1 March, a complete curriculum vitae, a plan for the publication’s future, and a letter of support from their institution or employer. Read more

Conference Calendar

July 19-31, 2010

COMPSAC : 34th Annual IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference, Seoul, Korea

July 25-31, 2010

ISSSC 2010: Summer School on Semantic Computing, Berkeley, California, USA

July 28-31, 2010

CGAMES 2010: International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Interactive Multimedia, Educational & Serious Games, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

August 9-11, 2010

ASONAM 2010: International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, Odense, Denmark.

August 13-14, 2010

BIFE 2010: The Third International Conference on Business Intelligence and Financial Engineering, Hong Kong, China.

August 14-16, 2010

GrC 2010: IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, San Jose, California, USA.

August 15-18, 2010

Green Computing 2010: International Green Computing Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

August 17-19, 2010

PST 2010: Eighth International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust, Ottawa, Canada.

August 17-19, 2010

MASCOTS 2010: International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, Miami, Florida, USA.

August 18-20, 2010

ICIS 2010: 9th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Science, Kaminoyama. Japan.

August 20-22, 2010

PASSAT 2010: IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust, Bloomington, Minnesota, USA.

August 20-22, 2010

SocialCom 2010: IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, Bloomington, Minnesota, USA.

August 20-22, 2010

SocialCom 2010: IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, Bloomington, Minnesota, USA.

August 22-24, 2010

HotChips 2010: IEEE Hot Chips Symposium, Stanford, California, USA.

August 23-26, 2010

ICGSE 2010: IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

August 23-26, 2010

ICPR 2010: 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Istanbul, Turkey.

August 25-27, 2010

TASE 2010: International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan.

August 29 to September 1, 2010

AVSS 2010: International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

September 1-3, 2010

NSS 2010: 4th International Conference on Network and System Security, Southbank, VIC, Australia.

September 6-8, 2010

HISB 2010: 4th International Conference on Network and System Security, Southbank, VIC, Australia.

September 11-15, 2010

Pact 2010: Nineteenth International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, Vienna, Austria.

September 12-18, 2010

ICSM 2010: International Conference on Software Maintenance, Timisoara, Romania.

September 13-16, 2010

MCSoC 2010: 5th International symposium on Multicore systems on Chip, San Diego, California, USA.

September 13-17, 2010

SEFM 2010: IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, Pisa, Italy.

September 17-18, 2010

WSE 2010: The 12th IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution, Timisoara, Romania.

September 20-24, 2010

ASE 2010: IEEE/ACM 23rd International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Antwerp, Belgium.

September 20-24, 2010

CLUSTER 2010: IEEE International Conference On Cluster Computing, Heraklion, Greece

September 22-24, 2010

ICSC 2010: IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

September 21-25, 2010

VL/HCC 2010: IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, Leganes, Madrid, Spain.

September 27-October 1, 2010

RE 2010: IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering, Syndey, Australia.

September 27-October 1, 2010

SASO 2010: IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Budapest, Hungry

September 17-October 1, 2010

Allerton Conference 2010: Forty-Eighth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton Retreat Center, Monticello, Illinois

October 3-8, 2010

MODELS 2010: IEEE Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, Oslo, Norway.

October 5-8, 2010

ICNP 2010: IEEE International Conference on Network Protocol, Kyoto, Japan.

October 6-8, 2010

DFT 2010: IEEE International Symposium on Defect and fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems, Kyoto, Japan.

October 10-12, 2010

CyberC 2010: The International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, Huangshau, China

October 10-13, 2010

CRISIS 2010: 5th International Conference on Risk and Security of Internet and Systems, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

October 10-13, 2010

ISWC 2010: IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Seoul, Korea.

October 10-14, 2010

LCN 2010: IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, Denver, Colorado, USA.

October 11-13, 2010

WiMOB 2010: Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, Niagara Falls, Canada.

October 13-15, 2010

AIPR 2010: IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.

October 13-16, 2010

ISMAR 2010: International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Seoul, Korea.

October 20-22, 2010

CW 2010: International Conference On Cyberworlds, Singapore

October 20-22, 2010

CEC 2010: IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing, Shanghai, China.

October 20-22, 2010

ICEBE 2010: IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering, Shanghai, China.

October 23-26, 2010

FOCS 2010: 51st Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

October 24-29, 2010

VisWeek 2010: IEEE VisWeek 2010, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

October 25-26, 2010

ANCS 2010: ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems, La Jolla, California, USA.

October 25-28, 2010

MOBICASE 2010: International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services, Santa Clara, California, USA.

October 25-29, 2010

EDOC 2010: Fourteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference, Vitoria, Brazil.

October 27-30, 2010

FIE 2010: Frontiers in Education, Arlington, Virginia, USA.

October 27-30, 2010

SBAC-PAD 2010: International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

 

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