A rabbinical story tells about an angry reader who stormed into a newspaper office waving the day's paper, asking to see the editor of the obituary column.

Climate researchers have no shortage of scientific issues on which to expend computer power. The biggest problem is choosing which one to tackle first.

Two virtual astronomical telescopes promise to transform the way people view and study the cosmos.

Future generations of smartphones will be context aware, tracking your behavior, providing information about the immediate environment, and anticipating your intentions.

Programmer Jean Bartik is inducted into the Computer History Museum's Hall of Fellows.

Exploring the expectations and implications for version 2.0 of the Net's new gated communities.

Architecture astronauts habitually speak at extremely high levels of abstraction to avoid engaging in tangible discussions that might lead to disclosing that they really have no idea of what they are talking about. 

The next generation of software engineering will involve designing systems without using paper-based formats, instead using software to develop software.

Assessing the pluses and minuses of the helmsmanship of Microsoft Corporation since its inception.

A proposal to remedy problems in the reviewing process.

Building reliable distributed systems at a worldwide scale demands trade-offs between consistency and availability.

The sometimes contentious development of 64-bit systems shows how technology decisions can have unexpected, enduring consequences.

Information systems enable rural development by increasing the accountability of nongovernmental organizations.

The wisePad system is envisioned as a full-service computing platform capable of delivering personalized image, audio, and text services to millions of individuals worldwide with impaired vision or hearing problems.

Economic and social sciences will drive Internet protocols and services into the future.

A mind-boggling array of displays differ greatly in resolutions and aspect ratios. But  images and videos are captured at fixed resolutions and aspect ratios, and viewing them properly in a display can be a challenge.

Traditional image resizing techniques are oblivious to the content of the image when changing its width or height. In contrast, media (i.e., image and video) retargeting takes content into account.

Visual analysis, a powerful method for finding and telling stories with data, is moving from research into widespread use.

This article describes mechanisms for asynchronous collaboration in the context of information visualization, recasting visualizations as not just analytic tools, but social spaces. 

Jeannette Wing talks about clusters, creativity, and the power of computational thinking.

How Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) electronic-commerce platforms in China compete and how buyers are stimulated to be both aware and trustful of sellers through buyer-seller communication channels.