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How the blind point a smartphone at everyday control panels and hear prompts on which microwave buttons to push.
Push-button interfaces are everywhere—microwaves, toasters, coffee makers, thermostats, printers, copiers, checkout terminals, kiosks, and remote controls. And while they afford most of us great convenience, they are largely inaccessible to people who are visually impaired.
Innovations in services applications are transforming industry in profound ways, enabling information and computing tech to perform business services more efficiently. It also involves building autonomous infrastructures that require minimal human involvement.
How a woman named "Steve" became one of Britain’s most celebrated IT pioneers, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists
In the realm of computing pioneers, Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley is one of the most celebrated, not only for building a $3 billion tech empire in 1960s England, but for doing it with an all-female, work-from-home staff of professionally qualified women who had left the work force.
To kick off our 2019 career features, we interviewed Christine Miyachi, who has almost 30 years of experience working for startups and large corporations. She also writes a blog about software architecture.
A new report from the IEK Consulting of Industrial Technology Research Institute assesses the 2030 market perspectives and policy plans of major Asian countries and lists the 10 most crucial advanced technologies that will affect the Asian region by 2030.
IEEE Computer Society President Cecilia Metra welcomes readers to a newly designed website at Computer.Org.
As smart cities are fast becoming the norm, computing experts search for even better ways to fight big-city problems like reducing traffic and pollution.
At first, they laughed at her. Back then, there was mechanical & aerospace engineering. But in the 60s, software engineering was unheard of. That's when Margaret Hamilton trailblazed.
Today it eats our world. Pioneers recall its origins: "No school existed for learning how to build software. You were on your own....Little did we know that what we were doing then would become known years later as 'software engineering.'"
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By Lori Cameron
Susan Landau has an impressive resume. She is Bridge Professor of Cyber Security and Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Tufts University and senior fellow at the Fletcher School Center for International Law and Governance. We asked Landau to give us her insights about computing careers.
Clarivate Analytics has released the 2018 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), and several IEEE Computer Society titles have increased impact factors. Some highlights are listed here: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI): 17.73, up from 9.455 in 2017 IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC): 6.404, up from…
By Lori Cameron
Fernando Corbató, whose work on computer time-sharing in the 1960s helped pave the way for the personal computer, as well as the computer password, died July 12 at a nursing home in Newburyport, Massachusetts. He was 93.
By Lori Cameron
After he won the 2019 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, we caught up with Zhi-Hua Zhou for a quick interview about his win and professional contributions to the fields of machine learning and data mining.
By Lori Cameron
Carnegie Mellon’s Radu Marculescu was recently selected to receive the 2019 Edward J. McClusky Technical Achievement Award for his “seminal contributions to the science of network on chip design, analysis, and optimization.” We caught up with Marculescu to find out more about his career, who inspires him the most, and what is about to turn AI on its head.
By Anna Johansson
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By Anthony Coggine
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By Pekka Jääskeläinen and Kati Tervo, Customized Parallel Computing group, Tampere University, Finland
Diverse heterogeneous platforms that utilize various types of resources such as general purpose processors, customized co-processors, hardware accelerators and FPGAs have been in the core of Customized Parallel Computing (CPC) group’s research interests for almost two decades. The group’s mission is to research and develop technologies that make customized heterogeneous…
By Kulmeet Singh, Chief Executive Officer, Founder, Twistle
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By Gilad Maayan
https://pixabay.com/photos/startup-business-people-students-849804/ The jobs market in computer and information technology continues to flourish. According to research by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there’ll be a 13 percent rise in employment in computer-related roles between 2016 and 2026. That figure is a considerable rise for an industry that already has high…
By Jessica Fender
In the mind’s eye, job interviews are where you walk in, smile broadly and wow the interviewer with your wit, knowledge, good looks and snappy dressings. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to work out like that, most of the time. Mainly that’s down to what falls outside that daydream. Thomas Edison…
By Emma Megan
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By Richard van Hooijdonk
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By Gilad Maayan
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By Michael Martinez
Walter Scheirer, CVPR 2019 Conference finance co-chair and a Notre Dame professor, says self-driving vehicles and social media apps energized the computer vision event.
By Brian Stone
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By Dr.-Ing. Marc Reichenbach and Philipp Holzinger (M.Sc.), Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU), Chair of Computer Architecture
Recently emerging applications like deep learning, ultra-high definition image/video processing or virtual reality require a vast amount of processing power in increasingly smaller devices never seen before. Heterogeneous architectures are seen as a solution to this problem by both, industry and academia since they provide a significantly better performance per…
By Lori Cameron
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The IEEE member grade of Senior Member is the highest for which application may be made. For admission or transfer to the grade of Senior Member, a candidate shall be an engineer, scientist, educator, technical executive, or originator in IEEE-designated fields for a total of 10 years andhave demonstrated 5…
By Michael Martinez
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