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In literature, the classics have long been a staple of summer reading lists. Computer security has its own share of classics, too -- reference points that serve as a foundation for understanding the field’s ever-changing chessboard of attack and defense. This list can be enjoyed the next time you're lounging on the beach.
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 Larry Alton
Professionals have been relying on VPNs to provide their computers with improved security when working away from their typical network connection, but until recently VPN technology was restricted to traditional computers. However, with the rise of mobile computing, a greater number of people are working remotely than ever before, and…
By Lori Cameron
A wealth of information on VR innovations awaits industry professionals at ISMAR 2019, the leading international academic conference in augmented and mixed reality.
By Dr. Jon Peddie
A four-year tortuous journey that turned the company around By Jon Peddie It wasn’t an April fool’s joke in 1997 when Nvidia released the RIVA 128, based on the NV3 media accelerator. However, it was almost the company’s last gasp. The story begins in 1993 when Nvidia (which has gone…
By Lori Cameron
University of California San Diego’s Rajesh Gupta was recently selected to receive the IEEE Computer Society 2019 W. Wallace McDowell Award. We caught up with Gupta to find out more about the future of cyber-physical systems, what he reads, and what invention inspires him the most.
By Anna Johansson
Every business owner wants a well-designed website, but what does that phrase even mean? Design is partially in the eye of the beholder, but there are also some objective qualities that can make a site “better” than another. For example, if you see a site utilizing fonts and colors straight…
By Larry Alton
Most software developers love their craft, and spend hours not just writing code and solving problems, but actively engaging with the community and trying to learn new things. Software developers want to constantly get better, improving their abilities, staying up-to-date with the latest trends, and hopefully making more money. But…
By Dan Murphy
[Sponsored Content] Shakespeare. Brontë. Dickens. In literature, the classics have long been a staple of summer reading lists. Computer security has its own share of classics – reference points that serve as a foundation for understanding the field’s ever-changing chessboard of attack and defense. This list of computer security summer…
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.
2 August, 2019 Clarivate Analytics has released the 2018 Journal Citation Reports (JCR), and several IEEE Computer Society titles’ impact factors have increased significantly. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)’s impact factor jumped by 87.5 percent from 9.455 in 2017 to 17.73 in 2018, making it the highest impact…
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
In the past, trade show displays looked a lot like 9th grade science fair dioramas. Today, if you waltz through an exhibit hall at a major conference, you’ll find audio, visuals, impressive graphics, and interactive environments that are tailored to the wants and needs of visitors. A major shift is…
By Anthony Coggine
IoT, or the Internet of Things, is a grand ambition of the most influential kind. It is a unified goal that seeks to create an internet age of unity and equality that we may not ever see in any other industry. In this article, we will explain why cybersecurity will…
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
Barbara has painful osteoarthritis in her 71-year-old knees, and it’s time to replace the left one. On the day of surgery, her husband drives her to the sprawling complex that is the hospital. On reaching the hospital’s main intersection, the couple has a choice of several paths to different parking…
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
Source: Pixabay Startup business owners often don’t know where to exactly start from, when it comes to the complex and delicate chapter of data security. It is no secret that these business entities need to be a lot more aware of the fraudulent scandals that severely impacts personal and…
By Richard van Hooijdonk
Thanks to the limitless possibilities that artificial intelligence (AI) has to offer, our lives have never been easier. From smartphones and personal assistants to home automation systems, AI is everywhere. The ability of machines to mimic human intelligence may seem frightening, but the truth is that AI is already transforming…
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