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During this year, the IEEE Computer Society will focus on two topics: improving its financial future and developing an outreach to underserved and underrepresented IT communities worldwide.

Since Gordon Moore first formulated his concept concerning the improvements in integrated circuits in 1965, keeping up with Moore's law has required careful, dedicated planning.

Now that Flash has access to Adobe's clout and resources, as well as new technology, proponents hope the process of its expansion into online video will accelerate.

Proponents claim that Ruby on Rails offers a fast, productive programming approach that produces reliable, clean applications more quickly, using less code.

False Domain-Name Database Information Plagues InternetThe lack of success with efforts to correct inaccuracies in the whois database could pose a problem for Internet security.New Worm Chats Up Its VictimsHackers have written what is apparently the ...

Model-driven engineering technologies offer a promising approach to address the inability of third-generation languages to alleviate the complexity of platforms and express domain concepts effectively.

Model-driven development is an emerging paradigm that improves the software development lifecycle, particularly for large software systems, by providing a higher level of abstraction for system design than is possible with third-generation programming ...

The Cadena platform, together with its core modeling concept, the Cadena Architecture Language with Metamodeling (CALM), support product-line development activities by providing a highly adaptive type-centric modeling framework with robust, flexible, ...

The escalating complexity of software and system models is making it difficult to rapidly explore the effects of a design decision. Automating such exploration with model transformation and aspect-oriented techniques can improve both productivity and ...

The Object Management Group initiated the Unified Modeling Language 2.0 effort to address significant problems in earlier versions. While UML 2.0 offers some improvements, its size and complexity can present a problem to users, tool developers, and OMG ...

Current high-performance embedded cameras combine video sensing, video processing, and communication within a single device. These smart cameras are key components for novel surveillance systems.

Biometric authentication is here to stay, and so is the controversy it engenders regarding invasion of privacy.

Without secure and robust data replication, Web-based systems may be headed for disaster.

Broadband, combined with Google's flexible pricing, could doom CDs and DVDs.

Users need a simple, straightforward procedure for creating device ensembles.

The properties of an autonomic or self-managing system provide the basis for future selfware development.

Using a temporary substitution of format, the author offers a fairy tale to demonstrate that we can't expect understanding when computers take the place of humans in our interactions with service providers.

The IEEE Board of Directors conferred the title of Fellow upon 271 Senior members of the IEEE, including 63 Computer Society members.