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Computer's digital offerings will change in 2016, and this Outlook issue offers a glimpse into the future of computing technologies. Some of the brightest spots are ubiquitous computing, human-centered software engineering, cyber-physical systems, OS ...

Computer Society celebrates its 70th anniversary by looking back at the accomplishments of its members and volunteers. This issue celebrates the volunteers who helped create the 802 Standards.

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Considering the technological changes across computing's first three generations, how might the next serve humanity? Three critical technologies--the cloud, the crowd, and the shroud of devices connecting the physical and digital worlds--define the fourth ...

Advances in cognitive science along with modern-day smart technologies and software services that take into account our mental state will enable a software industry that is poised to meet customers' needs on the fly in new and truly individualized ways.

Bringing new safety-critical medical devices to market faces several major challenges, but modeling and formal methods can facilitate this process from early system requirements verification to platform-level testing to late-stage clinical trials.

Will OSs in 2025 still resemble the Unix-like consensus of today, or will a very different design achieve widespread adoption?

Existing methods to predict software reliability using the Markov chain are based on assumed state-transition probabilities. A new prediction approach applied to a nuclear plant's feed-water system yielded results that were 96.9 percent accurate relative ...

An algorithm that projects image intensity along a radial line oriented at a specific angle enables the recognition of vehicular license plates at odd angles. The algorithm determines orientation angle, rotates the image to a horizontal perspective, and ...

A population model shows that distrust in e-government services--the belief that the service deliberately sabotages the user's intent--spreads rapidly even when problems affect only a few users. Strategies such as user-focused development and the use of ...

I first wrote about digital politics 20 years ago. What little has changed has been for the worse.

Machine-learning-based analytics are an effective tool to help assess student teamwork skills and predict learning outcomes in software engineering courses.

Analyzing data from 78 firms using the Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) revealed four truths about software security that will help firms protect and secure their assets.

In the wake of several high-profile embedded-software failures and scandals, we have a responsibility to ensure that the software artifacts we design meet high standards and to reassure users that embedded systems are reliable, safe, and secure.

Science fiction gives us a language for talking about the future. But how do we empower those who are turned off by science fiction to imagine a different future? Futurist Brian David Johnson leaves Intel to discover the future of the American dream. The ...

As the number of displays we interact with rapidly increases, managing user attention has emerged as a critical challenge for next-generation human-computer interfaces.

The recent proliferation of information and communications technology standards and their accompanying ad hoc standards bodies could lead to a decentralization of standardization, which will affect privacy and security in the Internet of Things.

The Miface project is using crowdsourcing to build an extensive database of semantically tagged facial expressions. Developed by students at NYU, the Web application uses IBM Watson's Tone Analyzer module to refine user labels for each expression. The end ...

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The Consumer Electronics Show allows us to appraise the gifts technology has given us over the past year and prepare for a new season of innovation. The Web extra at https://youtu.be/iu5p7ToMH6c is an audio recording of author David Alan Grier expanding ...