July 2009 | On the Cover Visual Effects and Beyond Oliver Bimber Visual effects are becoming increasingly realistic, with advancing processing power, computer graphics methods, and display technology that in some cases even go beyond a pure visual experience. This special issue presents four articles that describe the state of the art in visual effects in theatrical movies, TV broadcasts, computer games, and theme parks. An additional article reviews the state of practice in software architectures and another offers a sociotechnical solution to the problem of controlling spam to improve communication efficiency. Read More>> Related Videos>> | |  | Mission Statement: Computer, the flagship publication of the IEEE Computer Society, publishes peer-reviewed technical content that covers all aspects of computer science, computer engineering, technology, and applications. Computer is a resource that practitioners, researchers, and managers can rely on to provide timely information about current research developments, trends, best practices, and changes in the profession. |
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Highlights | The Known World July 2009 The Character of Play David Alan Grier
In computer science education, we tend to emphasize the knowledge that we need to impart to our students and the skills they need to develop, but we generally fail to talk about the emotional and cultural aspects of their growth. Read More>> Invisible Computing June 2009 Designing for Behavior Change in Everyday Life Sunny Consolvo, James A. Landay andDavid W. McDonald
UbiFit uses on-body sensing, real-time activity inference, and a personal, mobile display to encourage people to incorporate regular and varied physical activity into everyday life. Read More>> | | | Web Technologies July 2009 Mining Online Opinions V.S. Subrahmanian
Emerging opinion-mining technology makes it possible to aggregate and financially leverage the opinions of vast numbers of people. Read More>> IT Systems Perspectives July 2009 NCSU’s Virtual Computing Lab: A Cloud Computing Solution North Carolina State University’s Virtual Computing Lab cost-effectively and efficiently delivers diverse computing resources over the Internet to more than 30,000 students and faculty. Read More>> | | |
News - Industry Trends : June 2009, David Geer. Mobile VoIP offers many potential benefits but has not yet become widely popular for corporate use. However, technological advances may change this Read More>>
- News Briefs: July 2009, Linda Dailey Paulson. Topics include a decrease in applications for the US’s controversial H-1B visa; a new IBM technology for the real-time analysis of large, unstructured data streams; software that could help Internet researchers; and a professor using technology for the historical analysis of paintings. Read More>>
- Technology News: July 2009, Sixto Ortiz Jr. Even though the standard hasn’t been finalized, vendors have released products based on the IEEE 802.11n version of Wi-Fi. Questions remain about how popular the technology will be when the final release occurs. Read More>>
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