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

To save resources for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, a proposed approach segments operands and corresponding basic arithmetic operations that can be carried out by approximate function units for almost …read more

Source: https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/06/mco2017060027-abs.html

As the importance of software in our world increases, so do the duties, skills, and knowledge required of software engineers. …read more

Source: https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/07/mco2017070010-abs.html

Industry’s inability to reduce logic gates’ energy consumption is slowing growth in an important part of the worldwide economy. Some scientists argue that alternative approaches could greatly reduce energy consumption. …read more

Source: https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/06/mco2017060076-abs.html

UNESCO proved unequal to the computing era’s forces. The web extra at https://youtu.be/F6ycuTJzZxo is an audio recording of author David Alan Grier reading his Global Code column, in which he …read more

Source: https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/06/mco2017060104-abs.html

A panel of seven experts discuss the past 40 years of software metrics, with a focus on evidence-based methods. …read more

Source: https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/05/mco2017050088-abs.html

To combat security threats to integrated circuit (IC) fabrication outsourcing, 2.5D integration can obfuscate the outsourced design by lifting a portion of the wires into an interposer layer. A security-aware …read more

Source: https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2017/05/mco2017050062-abs.html