What's New in Computing Now

Sonification of Surface Tapping Changes Behavior, Surface Perception, and Emotion

Wed, 13 May 2015 08:14:00 -0400

Interactive sonification techniques can be applied to the audio feedback from touching and interacting with both real and virtual surfaces, and the different audio feedback can affect a user's emotional, behavioral, and perceptual experience with the surface. More

A Little Ingenuity Solves an Elephant-Sized Problem

Wed, 13 May 2015 08:13:00 -0400

A student team from North Carolina State has designed a collar to help control wild elephants that threaten human property and life in Africa and Asia. More

Thinking Backward with Professor Zermelo

Wed, 13 May 2015 08:12:00 -0400

This column discusses extensive form games and shows how backward induction can be used to analyze such games. More

Never Mind Pearl Harbor--What about a Cyber Love Canal?

Wed, 13 May 2015 08:11:00 -0400

Focusing on malicious attacks on the current infrastructure might be distracting us from another looming challenge: the risk to emerging infrastructure due to carelessness. More

Accelerating Application Start-up with Nonvolatile Memory in Android Systems

Wed, 13 May 2015 08:10:00 -0400

In the critical race to minimize application launch time, this article looks at possible hardware solutions, especially the proven benefits of using nonvolatile memory. More

Security and Privacy Implications of Pervasive Memory Augmentation

Wed, 13 May 2015 08:09:00 -0400

Pervasive technology can support human memory augmentation, but there are privacy and security implications that need to be addressed and understood moving forward. More

Titan Takes on the Universe: Large-Scale Cosmology Simulation of Universe Mines for Halos Where Galaxies are Born

Wed, 13 May 2015 08:08:00 -0400

This article takes a closer look at a recent Titan run and the team that's currently pushing the state of the art in precision cosmology with the goal of better understanding cosmic acceleration. More

Cloud Standards News and Updates

Wed, 13 May 2015 08:07:00 -0400

This column covers recent news on standards-related activities, including products of standards-developing organizations and other recent developments. More

Big Data and IT-Enabled Services: Ecosystem and Coevolution

Wed, 13 May 2015 08:06:00 -0400

Take a look at Big Data's evolution and application as a service-oriented resource and the disruptive IT-enabled innovation it creates. More

Visual Computing as a Key Enabling Technology for Industrie 4.0 and Industrial Internet

Wed, 13 May 2015 08:05:00 -0400

Visual computing plays an intrinsic role for Industrie 4.0 both at present and in various scenarios for future research. More

Chinese Overview of A Deadline-Floor Inheritance Protocol for EDF Scheduled Embedded Real-Time Systems with Resource Sharing

Wed, 13 May 2015 08:04:00 -0400

Presented by Weiqiang Liu, an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computers, this video provides a Chinese overview of the May 2015 Spotlight Article. The paper discusses Earliest Deadline First (EDF), the most widely studied optimal dynamic scheduling algorithm for uniprocessor real-time systems. More

From the Internet of Things to the Internet of People

Wed, 13 May 2015 08:03:00 -0400

A reference architecture integrates people with the Internet of Things via smartphones to create scenarios that support the evolution of the Internet of People. More

Augmentative, Alternative, and Assistive: Reimagining the History of Mobile Computing and Disability

Wed, 13 May 2015 08:02:00 -0400

Electronic communication support tools for nonspeaking people and mobile computing have always been closely connected, each providing requirements and inspiration to drive advancement. More

Continuous Delivery: Huge Benefits, but Challenges Too

Wed, 13 May 2015 08:01:00 -0400

Paddy Power began implementing continuous delivery (CD) two years ago, reaping both huge benefits and challenges that can inform practitioners also considering CD. More

Teaching Privacy: Multimedia Making a Difference

Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:14:00 -0400

The Teaching Privacy project brings researchers and teachers together to develop learning tools to teach children about online privacy, especially in their interaction with multimedia technology. More

Societal Discussion Required? Ubicomp Products beyond Weiser's Vision

Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:13:00 -0400

As a community, we need to be more aware of the impact and inspiration our research creates. At the same time, these new computing technologies often require open discussions on what we can and should do. More

Understanding Cybercrime from Its Stakeholders' Perspectives: Part 1--Attackers

Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:12:00 -0400

Although cybercrime is rampant, there is no authoritative definition of the term and all that it implies. A comprehensive model and taxonomy of cybercrime, including all of its stakeholders, would contribute to better cybersecurity. Part one of this two-part series explores attackers and their motives in detail. More

The Role of the CPU in Energy-Efficient Mobile Web Browsing

Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:10:00 -0400

In an area that has primarily focused on performance, this article turns our attention to energy efficiency in mobile Web browsing, which requires a close look at how the network and CPU interact. More

Securing Health Information

Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:09:00 -0400

With such widespread adoption of the use of electronic health records, this article addresses the job of securing those records in a world where data access is increasingly mobile. More

What Got Done in One Year at NSF's Stampede Supercomputer

Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:08:00 -0400

Aaron Dubrow describes the National Science Foundation's Stampede supercomputer and how scientists are using it to tackle seven important research topics. More

Code Inflation

Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:07:00 -0400

Much of the increase in the size of software applications is unnecessary. The history of the tiny Unix /bin/true command illustrates this growth. More

Keeping Up with Intelligent Technology

Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:06:00 -0400

This column explores a challenge to human-centered computing: namely, that the time frame for both proving the usefulness of a new technology and publishing reports on research and development activities are outstripped by the pace of change in the technology. More

Democratizing Digital Content Creation Using Mobile Devices with Inbuilt Sensors

Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:05:00 -0400

This article considers major challenges and future directions of using mobile devices with inbuilt sensors for digital content creation are presented as well. More

The Nuances of Cloud Economics

Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:04:00 -0400

The theory and the practice of cloud economics encompass numerous challenges, ranging from the practical to the theoretical. This article explores these challenges. More

Mobile Videos: Where are We Headed?

Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:03:00 -0400

This article looks at the challenges of enabling more advanced video processing capabilities and conceives future opportunities regarding the videos smart mobile devices generate. More

Science Fiction Prototyping: Virtual Dystopia

Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:02:00 -0400

Alongside skepticism about the viability of virtual reality technology are concerns about the implications of its success. More

Red Clones: The Soviet Computer Hobby Movement of the 1980s

Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:01:00 -0400

Like the microcomputer hobby movement in the U.S., Russia had its own avid hobby movement. Zbigniew Stachniak guides us through that time and evaluates its impact on the development of the computing industry in the USSR. More