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Math readiness presents a real challenge for both K-12 and college-level education. It affects mathematically intensive science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields of endeavor and threatens our readiness to invent and adapt.

Cloud computing is no longer on the horizon; it has become the next logical step for the IT industry. It's the new strategic weapon in enterprise computing and the new norm in every sector of society. Businesses, educational institutions, governments, ...

Although clouds don't freely interact with fellow or competitor clouds today, this is likely to change, leading to larger networks of collaborative, autonomously operating clouds, each optimized for specific services. As this happens, we'll need a ...

Clearly, there are several important advantages for employees and employers when employees bring their own devices to work. But there are also significant concerns about security privacy. Companies and individuals involved, or thinking about getting ...

Today, a new Internet player is rowing more important: things—that is, inanimate objects that can be programmed to communicate, sense, and interact with other things. But will an increasingly fragile ecosystem be able to sustain the amount of power ...

Many beneficial technologies in computing and information processing have emerged over the more than 60 years since the creation of NASA. These technologies have profoundly affected civilian and military computing and IT applications. This issue ...

Giving individuals this kind of information processing power, along with unprecedented connectivity, might be the single most impressive technical achievement of the 21st century. Nobody knows what the full impact of this transformation will be, but it'...

Pictorial histories on cave walls constitute the earliest forms of preserved prehuman and early-human communications, representing the essence of the storyteller's art. As civilizations grew, so did the iconic nature of storytelling, yet we're no ...

Billions of copies of apps for mobile devices have been purchased in recent years. With this growth, however, comes an increase in the spread of potentially dangerous security vulnerabilities. Because of an app's low cost and high proliferation, the ...

This article reviews the history of computing, discussing important theories that have evolved alongside computers. From this historical backdrop, an outlook for fifth-generation computers emerges.

Historically, free and open source software (FOSS) has been a movement widely thought to be outside the mainstream of commercial software. But now, corporate entities are big players in FOSS. This introduction looks at how FOSS got to where it is today ...

Job titles and functions shift quickly in the IT world, but some broad classifications can be useful for identifying what people do and how they view themselves. In some ways, the category of "IT professional" is the most broadly encompassing, but many ...