Will We All Be Wearing Wearables?
If wearable computing products are really needed, what are the biggest practical and research challenges to mainstream adoption?
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Pondering Variables and Direct Instruction
Robin K. Hill considers the nature of variables, while Mark Guzdial reflects on renewed interest in the "direct instruction model."
Research into next-generation storage techniques marches forward, yet tape remains the most viable, dependable medium.
Soft Robots Look to New Environments
These non-standard automatons appear best suited for applications under water and in space.
Neural Algorithms and Computing Beyond Moore’s Law
Advances in neurotechnologies are reigniting opportunities to bring neural computation insights into broader computing applications.
Cyber Security in the Quantum Era
Quantum systems will significantly affect the field of cyber security research.
In 1980, the National Science Foundation sponsored the development of CSNET to connect a number of computer science departments together that had not already been connected to the ARPANET. NSF continues its vigorous support for network research to this day.
Toward a European Exascale Ecosystem: The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
European supercomputing infrastructures represent a strategic resource for understanding and responding to the increasing challenges European citizens will face in the years to come.
Connected Things Connecting Europe
Modern embedded system microcontroller and transceiver technology advancements have brought forth the kinds of systems we have defined for some time in Europe as "embedded intelligence."
The Web Is Missing an Essential Part of Infrastructure: An Open Web Index
A proposal for building an index of the Web that separates the infrastructure part of the search engine—the index—from the services part that will form the basis for myriad search engines and other services utilizing Web data on top of a public infrastructure open to everyone.
Critical but oft-neglected service metrics that every SRE and product owner should care about.
Research for Practice: Edge Computing
Scaling resources within multiple administrative domains.
Work in finance, marketing, human resources, and operations increasingly relies on analytics—with more to come.
Fully Device Independent Quantum Key Distribution
We rigorously provide the device-independent security of an entanglement-based protocol building on Ekert's original proposal for quantum key distribution.
Technical Perspective: Was Edgar Allan Poe Wrong After All?
Umesh Vazirani and Thomas Vidick's "Fully Device Independent Quantum Key Distribution" provides an unexpectedly simple and elegant secure protocol solution, indeed one that is almost within reach of current technology.
An Agile Approach to Learning Programming
The Super Simple Programming Book is one example to teach programming in an Agile way. In general, Agile concepts can lead to highly effective learning.
Painting On Perovskites at Room Temperature
Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite semiconductors are suited to many electro-optical applications.
The Fine Line Between Coercion and Care
Employers monitoring their workforce must balance productivity and security considerations with employee privacy and welfare concerns.
Calculating With Roman Numerals is Not So Difficult
How to deal with Roman numerals and without a sign for zero in an additive number system, if no hand abacus is available?
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