» Sonification of Surface Tapping Changes Behavior, Surface Perception, and Emotion
13/05/15 12:14 from What's New in Computing Now
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 experi...

» A Little Ingenuity Solves an Elephant-Sized Problem
13/05/15 12:13 from What's New in Computing Now
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
13/05/15 12:12 from What's New in Computing Now
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?
13/05/15 12:11 from What's New in Computing Now
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
13/05/15 12:10 from What's New in Computing Now
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
13/05/15 12:09 from What's New in Computing Now
Pervasive technology can support human memory augmentation, but there are privacy and security implications that need to be addressed and understood moving forward. More

» Toward Scalable Systems for Big Data Analytics: A Technology Tutorial
13/05/15 12:08 from CN Theme Articles
A literature survey and system tutorial on big data analytics platforms provides an overview for nonexpert readers and inspiration for advanced audiences to customize big-data solutions. More

» Titan Takes on the Universe: Large-Scale Cosmology Simulation of Universe Mines for Halos Where Galaxies are Born
13/05/15 12:08 from What's New in Computing Now
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

» Second-Generation Big Data Systems
13/05/15 12:07 from CN Theme Articles
More varied data channels, increasingly diverse analytic methods, new deployment models, and fundamental technology shifts will significantly impact the next generation of big data systems. More

» Cloud Standards News and Updates
13/05/15 12:07 from What's New in Computing Now
This column covers recent news on standards-related activities, including products of standards-developing organizations and other recent developments. More

» Survey of Research on Big Data Storage
13/05/15 12:06 from CN Theme Articles
With the development of cloud computing and mobile Internet, both industry and academics have worked to solve the issues related to big data. More

» Big Data and IT-Enabled Services: Ecosystem and Coevolution
13/05/15 12:06 from What's New in Computing Now
Take a look at Big Data's evolution and application as a service-oriented resource and the disruptive IT-enabled innovation it creates. More

» The Growing Pains of Cloud Storage
13/05/15 12:05 from CN Theme Articles
The rapid growth of cloud storage has created challenges for storage architects to meet diverse performance and reliability requirements while controlling costs at a minimum. More

» Visual Computing as a Key Enabling Technology for Industrie 4.0 and Industrial Internet
13/05/15 12:05 from What's New in Computing Now
Visual computing plays an intrinsic role for Industrie 4.0 both at present and in various scenarios for future research. More

» Storage Challenge: Where Will All That Big Data Go?
13/05/15 12:04 from CN Theme Articles
Big data creates numerous exciting possibilities for organizations, but first they must figure out where they're going to store all that information. More

» Chinese Overview of A Deadline-Floor Inheritance Protocol for EDF Scheduled Embedded Real-Time Systems with Resource Sharing
13/05/15 12:04 from What's New in Computing Now
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 o...

» A Survey of Cloud Database Systems
13/05/15 12:03 from CN Theme Articles
This survey of 15 popular cloud databases provides an overview of each system and its storage platform, license type, and programming language used for writing the source code of the NoSQLs. It also considers important features such as d...

» From the Internet of Things to the Internet of People
13/05/15 12:03 from What's New in Computing Now
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

» Big Data in the Public Cloud
13/05/15 12:02 from CN Theme Articles
Although public cloud companies have been developing big data infrastructure since their inception, only recently have big data workloads been running in the public cloud. More

» Augmentative, Alternative, and Assistive: Reimagining the History of Mobile Computing and Disability
13/05/15 12:02 from What's New in Computing Now
Electronic communication support tools for nonspeaking people and mobile computing have always been closely connected, each providing requirements and inspiration to drive advancement. More

» May Theme: Is the Application Layer Fueling Innovation in Storage Infrastructure?
13/05/15 12:01 from CN Theme Articles
With large-scale, globally distributed application architectures, storage infrastructure must enable transactional continuity and nondisruptive operation. These days, it’s becoming both application-driven and application-optimized. More

» Continuous Delivery: Huge Benefits, but Challenges Too
13/05/15 12:01 from What's New in Computing Now
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
09/04/15 12:14 from What's New in Computing Now
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
09/04/15 12:13 from What's New in Computing Now
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
09/04/15 12:12 from What's New in Computing Now
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...

» The Role of the CPU in Energy-Efficient Mobile Web Browsing
09/04/15 12:10 from What's New in Computing Now
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
09/04/15 12:09 from What's New in Computing Now
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

» Bridging Software Communities through Social Networking
09/04/15 12:08 from CN Theme Articles
Over the past decade, the advent of social networking has fundamentally altered the landscape of how software is used, designed, and developed. It has expanded how communities of software stakeholders communicate, collaborate, learn from...

» What Got Done in One Year at NSF's Stampede Supercomputer
09/04/15 12:08 from What's New in Computing Now
Aaron Dubrow describes the National Science Foundation's Stampede supercomputer and how scientists are using it to tackle seven important research topics. More

» Understanding How Companies Interact with Free Software Communities
09/04/15 12:07 from CN Theme Articles
When free, open source software development communities work with companies that use their output, it's especially important for both parties to understand how this collaboration is performing. The use of data analytics techniques on sof...

» Code Inflation
09/04/15 12:07 from What's New in Computing Now
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

» Water Science Software Institute: Agile and Open Source Scientific Software Development
09/04/15 12:06 from CN Theme Articles
An Open Community Engagement Process (OCEP) applies open source mechanics and software engineering to water science research. This article describes the OCEP open source community amplification principle as well as the authors' experienc...

» Keeping Up with Intelligent Technology
09/04/15 12:06 from What's New in Computing Now
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 ch...

» Crowdsourcing Scientific Software Documentation: A Case Study of the NumPy Documentation Project
09/04/15 12:05 from CN Theme Articles
Without good documentation, even the most sophisticated and efficient scientific software is difficult to use and maintain. However, due to lack of time, resources, and incentives, scientists who develop software for other scientists are...

» Democratizing Digital Content Creation Using Mobile Devices with Inbuilt Sensors
09/04/15 12:05 from What's New in Computing Now
This article considers major challenges and future directions of using mobile devices with inbuilt sensors for digital content creation are presented as well. More

» Python: An Ecosystem for Scientific Computing
09/04/15 12:04 from CN Theme Articles
As the relationship between research and computing evolves, new tools are required. Python can help develop these computational research tools by providing a balance of clarity and flexibility without sacrificing performance. More

» The Nuances of Cloud Economics
09/04/15 12:04 from What's New in Computing Now
The theory and the practice of cloud economics encompass numerous challenges, ranging from the practical to the theoretical. This article explores these challenges. More

» Analyzing Implicit Social Networks in Multiplayer Online Games
09/04/15 12:03 from CN Theme Articles
Understanding the social structures that people implicitly form when playing networked games helps developers create innovative gaming services to benefit both players and operators. But how can we extract and analyze this implicit socia...

» Mobile Videos: Where are We Headed?
09/04/15 12:03 from What's New in Computing Now
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

» Forge++: The Changing Landscape of FLOSS Development
09/04/15 12:02 from CN Theme Articles
There are three newer tools at the center of FLOSS development today: distributed version control based forges (like Github), programmer question-and-answer communities (like Stack Overflow), and paste bin tools (like Gist or Pastebin.co...

» Science Fiction Prototyping: Virtual Dystopia
09/04/15 12:02 from What's New in Computing Now
Alongside skepticism about the viability of virtual reality technology are concerns about the implications of its success. More

» April Theme: Software-Mediated Community Building
09/04/15 12:01 from CN Theme Articles
Virtual communities take on many different forms — from the explicit, by-design communities that form discussion groups and forums to the implicit groups that develop organically in software development, online games, and the like. The i...

» Red Clones: The Soviet Computer Hobby Movement of the 1980s
09/04/15 12:01 from What's New in Computing Now
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