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Entertainment industries propel technologies that engage our seven senses and blur the barriers of work and play.

This installment of From the Archives reflects on a 1978 Computer article and the impact of the US Department of Defense’s effort to standardize software development projects around a single programming language.

A summary of articles published in Computer 50 and 25 years ago.

The banking and financial-services industry has taken notice of blockchain technology’s many advantages. This special issue explores its unlikely origins, tremendous impact, implementation challenges, and enormous potential. The web extra at https:/...

The authors describe blockchain’s fundamental concepts, provide perspectives on its challenges and opportunities, and trace its origins from the Bitcoin digital cash system to recent applications.

R3 has built a global consortium to focus on the application of distributed-ledger technology (DLT), which can help banks combat low return on equity and alleviate pressure on their operating costs. The authors explain the conditions that led to interest ...

The financial technology (FinTech) sector sees high potential value in cryptocurrency blockchain protocols, or distributed-ledger technology (DLT). However, the requirements and guarantees of blockchains for cryptocurrencies do not match those of FinTech&#...

Smart contracts might encode legal contracts written in natural language to represent the contracting parties’ shared understandings and intentions. The issues and research challenges involved in the validation and verification of smart contracts, ...

Since its deployment in 2009, Bitcoin has achieved remarkable success and spawned hundreds of other cryptocurrencies. The author traces the evolution of the hardware underlying the system, from early GPU-based homebrew machines to today’s ...

Studying the decisions of 25,646 domain name registrants reveals that behavioral economics models more accurately predict name choice than models based on expected utility theory. These findings have implications for Internet governance, and organizations ...

A hybrid learning framework uses a collective anomaly to analyze patterns in denial-of-service attacks along with data clustering to distinguish an attack from normal network traffic. In two evaluation datasets, the framework achieved higher hit rates ...

With automation and globalization come a variety of issues that affect manufacturing decisions concerning standardization, certification, and regulatory validation. The biopharmaceutical industry faces challenges related to the automation process’s ...

The real story behind alleged foreign interference in our election isn’t that it occurred—any impact on the outcome from Russian hacking and trolling was minimal—but that we set the standard for such activity and have no one but ...

Fog computing can help with some of the Internet of Things’ limitations but also faces challenges of its own. The Indie Fog infrastructure could be a flexible, cost-effective way to cope with these challenges.

Several recent incidents highlight significant security and privacy risks associated with intelligent virtual assistants (IVAs). Better diagnostic testing of IVA ecosystems can reveal such vulnerabilities and lead to more trustworthy systems.

Although Silicon Valley has been remarkably successful in developing new technologies, it might not be the ideal model for all communities. The web extra at https://youtu.be/1R3yZaWtXwo is an audio recording of author David Alan Grier reading his Global ...

Each year, the Marine Advanced Technology Education Center holds a remotely operated underwater-vehicle competition, with students from around the world undertaking tasks that simulate real-world implementations. A Purdue University team took home two ...

In the future, we’ll share meanings with computers, AIs, and robots. And that makes meanings matter even more.