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Doris L. Carver reflects on her four-year tenure as Computer's EIC.

The Society's 2006 president reports on this year's accomplishments.

The music industry's story is a vivid reminder that entire industries can fail to see shifts in the market.

Several businesses are exploring the use of artificial intelligence approaches such as natural-language processing and statistical machine learning in Web searches.

Disk-drive manufacturers are transitioning to perpendicular storage techniques, which provide modestly improved capacity with relatively slight changes to current production processes.

Topics covered include using chaotic lasers to encrypt data, a DNA computer that is a tic-tac-toe champ, a musical robot, and Nokia's new wireless approach.

While the DARPA Grand Challenge has revitalized interest in intelligent highway systems, autonomous vehicles, and sensing technology, a host of other novel issues afford interesting design and computer-engineering challenges for the future.

Unmanned ground vehicles will shape our future by providing enhanced safety and improved mobility. Four decades after researchers first developed the concept, they are still building prototypes, but they are now moving toward demonstrations, indicating ...

By combining smart sensors and traversability grids with a JAUS-based component and messaging architecture, DARPA Grand Challenge finalist Team CIMAR quickly developed a robust autonomous ground vehicle platform with advanced sensing and planning ...

Carnegie Mellon University's Red Team developed innovative tests that were effective tools for measuring the driving skill of autonomous ground vehicles competing in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge.

Cornell University researchers offer an insider's perspective on the issues the DARPA Grand Challenge competitors faced in creating a humanlike driver--without the human.

Multimodal awareness is the key to improved unmanned vehicle control performance across a broad spectrum of future mission spaces.

Researchers are using a sensor-input-based metric to develop a team of robots that would have the capability to learn their roles and improve strategies so that they can meet their overall goals in dynamic unstructured environments such as underwater or ...

The mobile sensor network for autonomous navigation systems can support autonomous modern vehicles equipped with actuators for steering, throttle, and brake. The system can support older vehicles as well if they are equipped with basic sensors and an ...

Nearly 250 professionals contributed their time and expertise as Computer reviewers in 2006.

IEEE Computer Society members recently selected Rangachar Kasturi to serve as the Society's president-elect for 2007.