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opportunities to listen to the voice of the market as articulated
by a vast number of business constituents. An
overview in this issue of IS includes five short articles by
distinguished experts on today’s trends in business and
market intelligence. Each article presents a unique, innovative
research framework, computational methods, and
selected results and examples.
In the world of Web 2.0, Internet 2, and open systems,
most learning is still done in traditional classrooms. As
education costs continue to far outpace inflation, what is
e-learning’s role? In the March/April issue of Internet Computing,
Stephen Ruth of George Mason University addresses
these questions in “Is E-Learning Really Working? The
Trillion Dollar Question.”
Spectacles is a hardware/software platform developed
from off-the-shelf components and ready for market. It
includes local computation and communication facilities,
an integrated power supply, and modular system building
blocks such as sensors, voice-to-text and text-to-speech
components, localization and positioning units, and microdisplay
units. Its see-through display components are
integrated into eyeglass frames. “Wearable Displays—for
Everyone!” by Alois Ferscha and Simon Vogl appears in the
January-March issue of PvC.
The January/February issue of Micro continues a
seven-year tradition of featuring top picks from computer
architecture conferences. Guest editor Trevor Mudge of
the University of Michigan participated in a program committee
of 31 computer architects from both industry and
academia. The committee reviewed 91 submissions, selecting
13 papers for abridgment in the magazine. Topics range
from practical prefetching to application-domain-specific
computing and nonvolatile memory.
Current media-synchronization techniques range from
the very theoretical to the very practical. In “Modeling
Media Synchronization with Semiotic Agents,” researchers
from the City University of Hong Kong and the University of
Reading describe a modeling technique for mapping theoretical
models to system implementations. The technique
combines agent technology with semiotics to offer a sound
theoretical framework for expressing and manipulating
media-synchronization attributes in real-world applications.
Read more in the January-March issue of Multimedia.
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As CMOS technology scales down to the nanometer
range, variation control in semiconductor manufacturing
becomes ever more challenging. Introducing D&T’s March/
April special issue in “Compact Variability Modeling in
Scaled CMOS Design,” guest editors Yu Cao of Arizona State
University and Frank Liu of IBM Austin Research Laboratory
preview five articles that address these challenges.
An article by Fred Brooks, renowned computer scientist
and author of The Mythical Man-Month, opens the first issue
of Annals in 2010. In “Stretch-ing Is Great Exercise—It Gets
You in Shape to Win,” Brooks recounts the history of the
IBM Stretch Project (1955-1961). Although the company lost
$35 million on the project in 1960, Brooks describes how
Stretch drove technologies that enabled the rapid development
of IBM’s successful 7000-series computers and the
architectural innovations of its System/360 product family.
Editor: Bob Ward, Computer; bnward@computer.org
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