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 …read more

Source: https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/09/mco2017090038-abs.html

Several technologies—some new, some familiar—are being used to identify, authenticate, and track people on the go. Human tagging offers many novel benefits but also raises serious privacy concerns, and the …read more

Source: https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/10/mco2017100078-abs.html

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 …read more

Source: https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/09/mco2017090050-abs.html

Rather than continue the expensive and time-consuming quest for transistor replacement, the authors argue that 3D chips coupled with new computer architectures can keep Moore’s law on its traditional scaling …read more

Source: https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/08/mco2017080069-abs.html

Several potential avenues exist for redefining the frontiers of computing through nontraditional paradigms. Although none of these paradigms is currently competitive with CMOS-based technology, they have the potential for cheaper, …read more

Source: https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/08/mco2017080052-abs.html

A new energy-proportional computing model extends Barroso and Hölzle’s original definition for fixed-resource systems to aid in the design of more efficient modern systems with reconfigurable resources that can be …read more

Source: https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/08/mco2017080026-abs.html

The Internet of Things (IoT) would benefit from a shaping strategy, which mobilizes global ecosystems of third-party participants to create or reshape an industry or market, bringing more value to …read more

Source: https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/08/mco2017080064-abs.html

Instead of scaling an application and data around the computer, programmers can use a software-defined server—an inverse hypervisor—in which multiple physical machines run a single virtual machine. Memory can be …read more

Source: https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/08/mco2017080046-abs.html

To enable autonomous driving, a computing stack must simultaneously ensure high performance, consume minimal power, and have low thermal dissipation—all at an acceptable cost. An architecture that matches workload to …read more

Source: https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/08/mco2017080018-abs.html

The Mirai botnet and its variants and imitators are a wake-up call to the industry to better secure Internet of Things devices or risk exposing the Internet infrastructure to increasingly …read more

Source: https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/07/mco2017070080-abs.html