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opportunities to listen to the voice of the market as articulated<br />
by a vast number of business constituents. An<br />
overview in this issue of IS includes five short articles by<br />
distinguished experts on today’s trends in business and<br />
market intelligence. Each article presents a unique, innovative<br />
research framework, computational methods, and<br />
selected results and examples.<br />
In the world of Web 2.0, Internet 2, and open systems,<br />
most learning is still done in traditional classrooms. As<br />
education costs continue to far outpace inflation, what is<br />
e-learning’s role? In the March/April issue of Internet Computing,<br />
Stephen Ruth of George Mason University addresses<br />
these questions in “Is E-Learning Really Working? The<br />
Trillion Dollar Question.”<br />
Spectacles is a hardware/software platform developed<br />
from off-the-shelf components and ready for market. It<br />
includes local computation and communication facilities,<br />
an integrated power supply, and modular system building<br />
blocks such as sensors, voice-to-text and text-to-speech<br />
components, localization and positioning units, and microdisplay<br />
units. Its see-through display components are<br />
integrated into eyeglass frames. “Wearable Displays—for<br />
Everyone!” by Alois Ferscha and Simon Vogl appears in the<br />
January-March issue of PvC.<br />
The January/February issue of Micro continues a<br />
seven-year tradition of featuring top picks from computer<br />
architecture conferences. Guest editor Trevor Mudge of<br />
the University of Michigan participated in a program committee<br />
of 31 computer architects from both industry and<br />
academia. The committee reviewed 91 submissions, selecting<br />
13 papers for abridgment in the magazine. Topics range<br />
from practical prefetching to application-domain-specific<br />
<strong>computing</strong> and nonvolatile memory.<br />
Current media-synchronization techniques range from<br />
the very theoretical to the very practical. In “Modeling<br />
Media Synchronization with Semiotic Agents,” researchers<br />
from the City University of Hong Kong and the University of<br />
Reading describe a modeling technique for mapping theoretical<br />
models to system implementations. The technique<br />
combines agent technology with semiotics to offer a sound<br />
theoretical framework for expressing and manipulating<br />
media-synchronization attributes in real-world applications.<br />
Read more in the January-March issue of Multimedia.<br />
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As CMOS technology scales down to the nanometer<br />
range, variation control in semiconductor manufacturing<br />
becomes ever more challenging. Introducing D&T’s March/<br />
April special issue in “Compact Variability Modeling in<br />
Scaled CMOS Design,” guest editors Yu Cao of Arizona State<br />
University and Frank Liu of IBM Austin Research Laboratory<br />
preview five articles that address these challenges.<br />
An article by Fred Brooks, renowned computer scientist<br />
and author of The Mythical Man-Month, opens the first issue<br />
of Annals in 2010. In “Stretch-ing Is Great Exercise—It Gets<br />
You in Shape to Win,” Brooks recounts the history of the<br />
IBM Stretch Project (1955-1961). Although the company lost<br />
$35 million on the project in 1960, Brooks describes how<br />
Stretch drove technologies that enabled the rapid development<br />
of IBM’s successful 7000-series computers and the<br />
architectural innovations of its System/360 product family.<br />
Editor: Bob Ward, Computer; bnward@computer.org<br />
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