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A summary of articles published in Computer 32 and 16 years ago.

IEEE Computer Society celebrates its 70th anniversary by looking back at the accomplishments of its members and volunteers. This issue celebrates IEEE Computer Society awards.

The articles in this special issue report on user interface design on the frontiers of computing. They investigate topics with significant potential or risk, showing the maturity of new concepts and evidence of usefulness. Each article summarizes ...

Cuddly User Interfaces employ soft objects as interfaces between people and smart systems. They can contribute to the realization of ubiquitous computing because soft objects are familiar to us and induce a low psychological burden.

Three projects--a cooking robot, a garment-folding robot, and an integrated household task-management interface for managing multiple robots--demonstrate proof-of-concept prototypes showcasing the future of home robots and their interaction design.

Service coproductions are reciprocal activities with no sharp boundary between providers and recipients; instead, all participants collaborate to enact the service. User participation is validated by recognition instead of extrinsic economic exchange. ...

The programming-with-examples workflow lets developers create interactive applications with the help of example data. It takes a general programming environment and adds dedicated user interfaces for visualizing and managing the data. This lets both ...

Human-centered methods can help researchers better understand and meet programmers' needs. Because programming is a human activity, many of these methods can be used without change. However, some programmer needs require new methods, which can also be ...

Results of a five-year research project and several industrial collaborations have produced tools that model the individual effects and complex dynamic interactions between an IT system's application workload and resource contention at multiple levels in ...

Increasingly complex Android OS applications demand additional software initialization and configuration during startup, which slows system boot time and inconveniences users. The authors propose an approach based on existing snapshot-imaging techniques ...

Microscopes can now cover large spatial areas and capture stem cell behavior over time. However, without discovering statistically reliable quantitative stem cell quality measures, products cannot be released to market. A Web-based measurement system ...

The Obama administration recently made three major announcements about a proposal to make community college tuition free. This shift offers the tech community an opportunity to share its unique viewpoint on the cost and structure of community colleges. ...

One of the more persistent Cold War memes, the so-called dictator's dilemma refers to a worldview in which technology is a threat to dictatorships and a beacon of prosperity to free societies. But is this a valid dichotomy?

The H-1B visa and other foreign-worker programs, as currently structured, aren't in the US national interest. Fortunately, there are simple, easily implementable solutions, should the government find the political will to take action.

Clemson University students designed an inexpensive sensor node and cloud computing infrastructure to collect real-time, localized solar irradiation data. This data can be used by consumers and utilities to predict the availability of solar-generated ...

Given that no system is completely immune from attack, cybersecurity advances, while important, should take a backseat to improving human awareness of security risks. An objective, consensus-based rating system is one means to achieve this end.

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Situational awareness draws upon ideas and applications that have permeated computing technology from its very inception. The Web extra at https://youtu.be/6j9QmxSvw44 is an audio recording of author David Alan Grier expanding on his Errant Hashtag column,...