CN Theme Articles

February 2012: Innovation, Tech Transfer, and Entrepreneurship

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:00:00 -0400

Though it's under discussion throughout industry and academia, about the only thing everyone agrees on is that tech transfer from the lab to global availability is nontrivial. More

Technology Transfer: A Software Security Marketplace Case Study

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:00:00 -0400

HP's acquisition of source code analysis tool vendor Fortify in September 2010 marks an important milestone in a decade-long technology transfer story that begins with a federal research grant and ends with a worldwide technology provider with global reach. More

Software as a Business

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:00:00 -0400

The authors describe the kinds of innovation that software engenders in the modern world. More

Discovery, Innovation, and Creativity: The Core of Computing

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:00:00 -0400

Computing programs should infuse the principles of entrepreneurship in computing curricula to equip students with the tools and skills necessary for them to succeed — and for the economy to thrive. More

Engineering and Innovation: An Immersive Start-up Experience

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:00:00 -0400

This article describe efforts to teach innovation and entrepreneurship to computer scientists and engineers in college. More

Entrepreneurial Innovation at Google

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:00:00 -0400

Two Googlers describe the company's now famous approach to harnessing employee innovation through the 20 percent time experiment and other internal activities. More

January 2012: Pervasive Sensing

Wed, 4 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0400

Our environments and mobile devices are increasingly equipped with sensors, a trend that's opening the door to a wealth of new applications and capabilities. More

Deploying a Wireless Sensor Network on an Active Volcano

Wed, 4 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0400

A sensor-network application for volcanic data collection relies on triggered event detection and reliable data retrieval to meet bandwidth and data-quality demands. More

The Rise of People-Centric Sensing

Wed, 4 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0400

People-centric sensing enables a different way to sense, learn, visualize, and share information. In the MetroSense Project, users are the key architectural system component. More

The Mobile Sensing Platform: An Embedded Activity Recognition System

Wed, 4 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0400

Activity-aware systems have already inspired novel user interfaces and new applications, and systems that recognize activities from body-worn sensors can further open the door to a world of healthcare applications. More

Disaggregated End-Use Energy Sensing for the Smart Grid

Wed, 4 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0400

This survey of disaggregation techniques for energy-consumption data highlights signal features that might be used to sense disaggregated data in an easily installed and cost-effective manner. More

From Context Awareness to Socially Aware Computing

Wed, 4 Jan 2012 09:00:00 -0400

Smartphones have realized the vision of context awareness. The next step is to move toward next-generation opportunistic recognition configurations and large-scale ensembles of networked subsystems interacting with communities of users. More