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Virtual machines are a technology that was invented in one era, overlooked in a second, and rediscovered in a third.

As they face challenging times, networking-service providers are looking to save money by studying the use of relatively new wavelength-division-multiplexing-based passive optical networks to create more efficient systems that increase data rates.

As microprocessors have become more complex, on-chip communications, traditionally handled by buses, have become a performance bottleneck. Chip makers are looking into network-on-chip systems to address this issue.

Topics include a new type of lithography that would make chips faster by reducing their feature sizes, malware that uses a creative two-stage attack, software that lets devices conduct ad hoc negotiations to share content and resources, and a pocket-...

University faculty have designed an engaging puzzle-based freshman seminar intended to motivate and retain computer engineering students.

Seeking information for learning, decision making, and other complex mental activities that take place over time requires tools and support services that aid people in managing, analyzing, and sharing retrieved information.

New models of information-seeking support systems offer two advantages: They move us from prescientific conceptual frameworks about information seeking to more rigorous scientific theories and predictive models while, at the same time, expanding the ...

For reasons ranging from obligation to curiosity, users have a strong inclination to seek information from others during the search process. Search systems using statistical analytics over traces left behind by others can help support the search ...

An examination of the roles and dimensions of collaborative search reveals new opportunities for information-seeking support tools.

The success of the search engine may be our Newtonian paradigm for the Web. It enables us to do so much information discovery that it is difficult to imagine what we cannot do with it.

ISSSs provide an exciting opportunity to extend previous information-seeking and interactive information retrieval evaluation models and create a research community that embraces diverse methods and broader participation.

Without question, university research has played a critical role in the exploration of ideas in indexing, crawling, and user-interface design.

Topics covered include prizes awarded at the Intel science fair, the 2009 IEEE Medal of Honor award winner, and the announcement of 2009 undergraduate research programs.

IEEE Std 1599 allows interaction with music content such as notes and sounds in video applications and in any interactive device.

Sophisticated control-computing codesign provides unprecedented performance and efficiency levels for cyber-physical systems.

Creating an artificial general intelligence roadmap could help researchers realize AI's original goal.

Watermarking-based applications can help content owners balance business requirements with consumer choice.

To drive energy efficiency initiatives, SPEC established SPECpower_ssj2008, the first industry-standard benchmark for measuring power and performance characteristics of computer systems.

When originality is automated, what becomes of personality?